Miami-Dade Animal Services (Animal Services) receives a $100,000 grant investment from national nonprofit Petco Love in support of their lifesaving work for pets in Miami-Dade County.
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 more than $430 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 7.1 million pets adopted and counting.
“Our investment in Animal Services is part of more than $12M 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 Chelsea Staley, 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.”
“Petco Love’s investment is incredibly meaningful for our shelter and for the Miami-Dade community we serve,” said Annette Jose, Director of Miami-Dade Animal Services. “This support helps us provide medical care, enrichment, and expanded adoption and foster opportunities for thousands of pets each year, while continuing to build programs that keep pets with the families who love them. Partnerships like this are essential to sustaining lifesaving progress and improving outcomes for pets across our county.”
Animal Services is a municipal agency dedicated to saving the lives of pets in need, protecting them from cruelty, and ensuring public safety in Miami-Dade County. In 2015, Animal Services first achieved its lifesaving goal of saving greater than 90 percent of pets entering the shelter. This is a testament to the incredible hard work of the shelter team every day and the addition of new lifesaving programs to include partnerships with rescue organizations, improved pet welfare, foster programs, offsite adoption events, surrender prevention and more.
For more information about Animal Services, visit miamidade.gov/animals. Learn more about Petco Love here: petcolove.org.