Humane Indiana received a $10,000 grant investment from national nonprofit Petco Love during a special celebration at Highland Petco at 10235 Indianapolis Boulevard in Highland, Indiana in support of their lifesaving work for animals throughout Northwest Indiana.
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, the company has invested $350 million in adoption and other lifesaving efforts. And Petco Love helps find loving homes for pets in partnership more than 4,000 organizations across North America, with 6.7 million pets adopted and counting.
“Our investment in Humane Indiana is part of more than $15M 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 launched Petco Love Lost, a national lost and found database that uses patented image-recognition technology to simplify the search for lost pets.”
“We are honored to have Petco Love’s partnership for our mission, helping pets and people live their best lives,” said Jessica Petalas, Humane Indiana Shelter Director.
Humane Indiana provides significantly discounted care to 7,000 animals in its shelter, crisis foster, a pet food/supply pantry, a veterinary clinic, surrender prevention programs, and free care to more than 10,000 injured or orphaned wildlife each year. HI also provides STEM education, with a total person impact of 30,000 people every year throughout all Northwest Indiana.
