Grant of $16,500 will help save and improve pet lives in East Tennessee
PPAW announced today a $16,500 grant investment from the newly named Petco Love to support their lifesaving work for animals in East Tennessee.
Petco Love is a nonprofit leading change for pets nationally by making communities and pet families closer, stronger, and healthier. Since their founding in 1999 as the Petco Foundation, they’ve empowered organizations with $300 million invested to date in adoption and other lifesaving efforts. And they’ve helped find loving homes for more than 6.5 million pets in partnership with Petco and more than 4,000 organizations nationwide.
“Today Petco Love invests in PPAW and hundreds of other organizations across the nation working to improve animal health and welfare as part of our commitment to creating a future in which no pet is unnecessarily euthanized,” said Susanne Kogut, President of Petco Love. “Our local investments are only one component. This year, we also launched the first of our national tools, Petco Love Lost, which empowers all animal lovers to drive lifesaving change right alongside us.”
“While we offer spay/neuter at low-cost, we also focus on spaying and neutering feral cats to reduce overpopulation. Thanks to the support of generous contributors, like Petco Love, we are able to offer services to pets in our community beyond spay/neuter who would not otherwise receive the care they need. Petco Love has been a major supporter of PPAW to help us continue this lifesaving mission,” said Karen Leonard, Outreach Manager of PPAW.
PPAW is a nonprofit organization located in Greenback, TN within Loudon County. The mission of our organization is to make spays and neuters affordable to everyone, serving East Tennessee and its surrounding areas. Since 1998, PPAW has spayed and neutered over 100,000 companion animals and significantly reduced the number of feral cat births.
For more information about PPAW, visit https://www.ppawspayneuterclinic.com/. To learn more about Petco Love, visit petcolove.org.
