GOOD NEWS: Petco Love invests in Dog Rescue R Us

$11,000 grant will be used to save and improve the lives of pets in West Texas

Dog Rescue R Us, a foster based Animal Rescue located in Gardendale, is set to receive a $11,000 grant investment from national nonprofit Petco Love during a special celebration at Petco, 6209 Highway 191, at 4 p.m. today in support of their lifesaving work for animals in West Texas area.

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 Dog Rescue R Us is part of more than $15M in investments recently announced by Petco Love to power local organizations across the countr/as part of our commitment to create a future in which no pet is unnecessarily euthanized,” Susanne Kogut, president of Petco Love, said. “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.”

“We witness hundreds of dogs being abandoned, abused and often left for dead. The investment Petco Love has given our rescue allows us to continue providing medical care, vaccinations, fostering and transporting of these dogs to their new homes. With PetcoLove’s support, we have been able to also work with “Dog Is My Co-Pilot” in conjunction with the local animal shelter to save even more animals,” Shawn Blair, President, said.

Dog Rescue R Us is a nonprofit organization that seeks to help homeless, neglected and abused dogs in West Texas find forever homes, Since 2019, Dog Rescue R Us has transported over 10,000 dogs to states that give the dogs a better chance at adoption The dogs get the chance to live their best lives ever.

For more information about Dog Rescue R Us, visit drru.org. To sponsor a dog or to donate go to https://donorbox.org/DogRescueRUs-non-profit.

Learn more about Petco Love at petcolove.org.

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.