08/22/2025
National Nonprofit Petco Love Invests in Prevent Homeless Pets to Help Increase Access to Veterinary Care for Pets in Southeastern Washington State
Benton City, WA (August 21, 2025) – Prevent Homeless Pets has received a $4,000 grant investment from national nonprofit Petco Love in support of their lifesaving work for pets in Southeastern Washington.
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 nearly $421 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 million pets adopted and counting.
The investment in Prevent Homeless Pets is part of $1.5M in grants recently announced by Petco Love for more than 170 spay/neuter clinics and other low-cost veterinary care providers to help increase access to veterinary care for pets in their communities. The lifesaving investments are also being granted to reduce economic euthanasia, and the surrender of pets to shelters when families are not able to afford needed veterinary treatment.
“Petco Love knows pets are family and we strive to take care of them the best we can, though the reality is not everyone has equal access to veterinary care as many pet parents face difficult financial times,” said Susanne Kogut, President of Petco Love. “That’s why we are proud to support our partner animal welfare organizations in providing helpful services in their communities, so we can keep pets and their families together.”
“This Petco Love lifesaving investment is important as this will allow us to provide support for $10.00 community cat surgeries for individuals who cannot afford to spay/neuter their pets, or have so many pets that they need assistance to supplement the total cost,” said Harriet Johnson, Executive Director of Prevent Homeless Pets.
As part of Petco Love’s mission to make pet families healthier and increase access to veterinary care, through its Vaccinated and Loved campaign, Petco Love reached its goal of distributing three million free pet vaccines for family pets in November 2024! The campaign was launched in August 2021, encouraging Petco Love animal welfare partners to host free vaccine clinics.
Prevent Homeless Pets is a nonprofit organization that provides low cost spay and neuter in the Tri-Cities and surrounding areas. Since 2009, Prevent Homeless Pets has performed over 65,000 spays and neuters for a total of over 54,150 cats and over 10,850 dogs.
For more information about Prevent Homeless Pets, visit preventhomelesspets.org. Learn more about Petco Love here: petcolove.org.
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About Prevent Homeless Pets
Prevent Homeless Pets is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization providing low cost spay and neuter services for cats and dogs. We predominantly serve the Columbia Basin of Washington State from Tri-Cities to
Yakima, as well as outlying areas. Our full-time spay/neuter surgical clinic is located in Benton City,
Washington.
About Petco Love
Petco Love is a life-changing nonprofit organization that makes communities and pet families closer, stronger, and healthier. Since our founding in 1999, we’ve empowered animal welfare organizations by investing nearly $421 million in adoption and other lifesaving efforts. We’ve helped find loving homes for more than 7 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. Is love calling you? Join us. Visit PetcoLove.org or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, X, Threads, and LinkedIn to be part of the lifesaving work we lead every day.
