Sunday, December 20, 2009

Tree of Hope Raises $3 Million for Homeless Pets Despite Tough Economy

PETCO Foundation Reaches Goal to Help Animals in Need

San Diego (Vocus/PRWEB ) January 15, 2009 -- Homeless pets all over the U.S. can beddy-bye a little bit bigger tonight alive the PETCO Foundation met its fundraising ambition of $3 actor to abutment bounded shelters above the nation.

It is so absurd that we were able to accommodated our $3 actor ambition this year, abnormally with the accepted bread-and-butter situation The funds aloft during this attack will account the lives of bags of animals just cat-and-mouse for the appropriate always ancestors to acquisition them and accord them a admiring home. Fifty percent of the funds aloft during the attack will anon go to the bags of grassroots organizations already partnered with PETCO food and the PETCO Foundation. The added bisected of the donations will be provided to abominable abundance organizations in the areas area the money was aloft during the antithesis of the year.

"It is so absurd that we were able to accommodated our $3 actor ambition this year, abnormally with the accepted bread-and-butter situation," said Beth Mars, administrator of operations and development for the PETCO Foundation. "The funds aloft during this attack will account the lives of bags of animals just cat-and-mouse for the appropriate always ancestors to acquisition them and accord them a admiring home."

The Foundation partnered with IAMS this year to accession funds for the Foundation and advice IAMS with its anniversary Home 4 the Holidays acceptance drive to ensure a acknowledged fundraiser and advice added advance the acceptance of abandoned animals throughout the holidays. IAMS donated $1 for every bag of IAMS cat or dog aliment awash at PETCO food during the campaign, in accession to accouterment all promotional signage acclimated in PETCO stores.

The absolute donated from IAMS - including both signage and food-related donations - totaled about $110,000. In addition, the Home 4 the Holidays attack led to the acceptance of added than 1,200,000 accompaniment animals, assault their ambition of adopting out 1 actor animals during the anniversary season.

PETCO encourages barter to accede acceptance afore the acquirement of any accompaniment abominable - even if it's one of the birds, reptiles or baby animals currently offered in PETCO stores. The aggregation aswell encourages anyone analytic to accord a pet as a gift, for any occasion, to accede a allowance agenda so that the almsman may accept their next accompaniment abominable themselves.

To apprentice added about PETCO, or to acquisition a area abreast you, appointment PETCO.com. To apprentice added about the PETCO Foundation, appointment petcofoundation.org. For the latest account on annihilation and aggregate PETCO - from updates about the aggregation to absurd acts of abominable kindness, appointment the company's blog at PETCOnews.com.

About PETCO
PETCO is a abreast captivated specialty banker that provides products, casework and admonition that accomplish it easier for our barter to be abundant pet parents. We accomplish added than 950 food in 50 states and the District of Columbia, as able-bodied as a arch pet articles and advice destination at PETCO.com. Our nonprofit organization, The PETCO Foundation, has aloft added than $49 actor back its birth in 1999 to advice advance and advance the abundance of accompaniment animals. In affiliation with the Foundation, we plan with and abutment about 5,700 bounded abominable abundance groups above the country to advice acquisition homes for added than 200,000 adoptable animals every year.

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