Arlington Animal Services is set to receive a $20,000 grant investment from national nonprofit Petco Love during a special celebration at Southwest Arlington Petco at 4001 W. Green Oaks Boulevard on July 26 at 11 a.m. in support of their lifesaving work for animals in Arlington, TX.
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 $330 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 6.5 million pets adopted and counting.
“Our investment in Animal Services 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 recently celebrated the one-year launch anniversary of Petco Love Lost, a national lost and found database that uses pet facial recognition technology to simplify the search for lost pets.”
“Petco Love’s generous $20,000 grant award is greatly appreciated,” said Brian Daugherty, Code Compliance Services Director. “These funds will help support the life-saving efforts of Animal Services’ shelter animals with medical conditions and help with providing community resources.”
Animal Services is a nonprofit organization that encourages responsible pet ownership as it serves Arlington, Texas and the community. The shelter includes a wellness clinic staffed currently with two contract veterinarians and a full-time vet tech who, over the past three fiscal years performed an average of 2,185 surgeries annually for adopted pets.
For more information about Animal Services, visit arlingtontx.gov/animals. Learn more about Petco Love here: petcolove.org.
About Animal Services
Arlington Animal Services (AAS) is the sole animal shelter for the City of Arlington, Texas. Arlington, Texas is 100 square miles in size and is located precisely midway between Dallas and Fort Worth. The 19,950 square foot open-admission shelter services an estimated population of 398,112. Our goal is to encourage responsible pet ownership by offering licensing programs, field enforcement services and educational programs for Arlington residents. AAS has an average intake of 6,212 animals after adjusting for owner requested euthanasia of unhealthy/untreatable animals.
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 $330 million in adoption and other lifesaving efforts. We’ve helped find loving homes for more than 6.5 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. Join us. Visit petcolove.org or follow on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn to be part of the lifesaving work we lead every day.
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