National Nonprofit Petco Love Invests in PAWS
To Help Save and Improve the Lives of Pets in Washington State
Lynnwood, WA | October 30, 2024
PAWS is set to receive a $25,000 grant investment from national nonprofit Petco Love in support of their lifesaving work for animals in Washington State.
Petco Love is a national nonprofit leading change for pets by harnessing the power of love to make communities and pet families closer, stronger, and healthier. Since its founding in 1999, Petco Love has invested nearly $400 million in adoption and other lifesaving efforts. And Petco Love helps find loving homes for pets in partnership with Petco and more than 4,000 organizations — like ours — across North America, with more than 6.9 million pets adopted and counting.
“Our investment in PAWS is part of more than $15M in investments recently announced by Petco Love to power local organizations across the country as part of our commitment to create a future in which no pet is unnecessarily euthanized,” said Susanne Kogut, president of Petco Love. “Our local investments are only part of our strategy to empower animal lovers to drive lifesaving change right alongside us. We launched Petco Love Lost, a free national lost and found database that uses photo-matching technology to simplify the search for lost pets.”
“Thanks to the incredible generosity of Petco Love, PAWS is able to provide lifesaving care to pets in need. This generous investment will help cover essential medical expenses, provide nutritious food, and enhance our adoption programs, giving countless cats and dogs a second chance at a happy life,” said PAWS CEO Heidi Wills Yamada.
PAWS is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Lynnwood, Washington. Since 1967, PAWS has united more than 150,000 cats and dogs with loving families; cared for more than 160,000 animals who were sick, injured, or orphaned; and made the world a better place for countless others through outreach, education, and advocacy.
For more information about PAWS, visit paws.org. Learn more about Petco Love here: petcolove.org.
About PAWS
Progressive Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) is helping cats, dogs, and wild animals go home and thrive. We do this by sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, rehabilitating orphaned and injured wildlife, and educating the community to inspire compassionate action for animals. For over five decades, PAWS Companion Animal Shelter has led the way in providing expert, compassionate care for animals in need. PAWS cares for more than 4,000 dogs and cats each year, provides training and education to strengthen the human-animal bond, and works to end animal cruelty and overpopulation.
About Petco Love
Petco Love is a life-changing nonprofit organization that makes communities and pet families closer, stronger, and healthier. Since our founding in 1999 as the Petco Foundation, we’ve empowered animal welfare organizations by investing nearly $400 million in adoption and other lifesaving efforts. We’ve helped find loving homes for more than 6.9 million pets in partnership with Petco and organizations nationwide. Our love for pets drives us to lead with innovation, creating tools animal lovers need to reunite lost pets, and lead with passion, inspiring and mobilizing communities and our more than 4,000 animal welfare partners to drive lifesaving change alongside us. Is love calling you? Join us. Visit PetcoLove.org or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, X, Threads, and LinkedIn to be part of the lifesaving work we lead every day.