Mitchell County Animal Rescue has received a $15,000 grant investment from national nonprofit Petco Love in support of their lifesaving work for animals in Mitchell 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 $330 million in adoption and other lifesaving efforts.
Petco Love also helps find loving homes for pets in partnership with Petco and more than 4,000 organizations — like MCAR — across North America, with 6.5 million pets adopted and counting.
“Our investment in Mitchell County Animal Rescue is part of more than $15 million 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.”
MCAR executive director Amber Lowery said her organization is thrilled to get the funds, adding that $10,000 of it will go toward adoption preparation (vaccines, medicines, microchips, etc.) and the other $5,000 will help fund the Community Cares Spay/Neuter Fund for free spay/neuter, vaccines and microchipping of qualifying family pets in Mitchell.
Lowery said those are MCAR’s biggest needs.
“Spay/ Neuter is the only solution to pet overpopulation in our county,” Lowery said. “We have partnered with Petco Love in the past and are excited to witness the impact this grant will have on our community.”
MCAR is a not-for-profit humane organization contracted by the county to operate the animal shelter. Its mission is to protect, rescue and care for abandoned and unwanted animals, promote the importance of spay/neuter in reduce the population of stray animals, place animals in loving homes and educate young people in humane treatment of animals.
For the past 38 years, MCAR has served the citizens (both human and animal) of Mitchell County. For more information about MCAR, visit mitchellcountyanimalrescue.org. Learn more about Petco Love at petcolove.org.