Give a Dog a Home Rescue partners with Petco Love to ‘Give Pets Their Best Shot’ during National Pet Vaccination Month
Give a Dog a Home Rescue to host free vaccine events, Powered by Petco Love, March 5,, 12, 19, and 26 in Milo, Dexter, Guilford, and Corinth
SEBEC – Give a Dog a Home Rescue is partnering with national nonprofit Petco Love to give pets their best shot for a healthy life by hosting a free pet vaccine event on March 5 and each following Saturday in March.
Petco Love established March as “National Pet Vaccination Month” to encourage pet parents to keep their pets up to date on vaccinations and will provide free pet vaccines to Give a Dog a Home Rescue for family pets in need. As puppy and kitten season approaches, pet exposure to contagious and deadly diseases – parvovirus, distemper, and panleukopenia – increases but is preventable with a simple vaccine.
Give a Dog a Home Rescue aims to vaccinate one thousand pets through this effort. The first free vaccine event will take place on Saturday, March 5 in the carpark of JSI Store Fixtures, 140 Park Street in Milo from 10:30 a.m. to noon. We will set up in our “Ride to Survive” shuttle bus and families will be asked to line up in their vehicles and pull up to the bus when it is their turn. This is a first come, first served event, and pets will be given a basic respiratory, pulse, and temperature check before being vaccinated by our licenced veterinary technician. Only healthy pets will be vaccinated. Vaccines distributed through the Petco Love initiative will be the DAPPv Canine and HCP Feline vaccines.
“Thanks to Petco Love, we can offer these important vaccines at no cost to pet owners,” said Jenny Cope, president/founder. “We urge community members to take advantage of this free resource to help reduce the spread of disease and ensure the health and wellness of our community’s pets.”
The Give Pets Their Best Shot initiative makes crucial pet vaccines accessible to pet parents who may be experiencing financial challenges and assures that cost is not a barrier to protecting pets from preventable diseases.
“Treatment for these deadly diseases can be prohibitively expensive for many pet parents,” said Susanne Kogut, Petco Love president. “By providing free vaccines to those in need, we can help these pets live a healthy life. Through this national effort and our other Petco Love Care initiatives, we continue our 22-year history of strategic investments and innovation to end unnecessary pet euthanasia.”
National Pet Vaccination Month is a continuation of Petco Love’s 1 million free pet vaccine campaign, which has helped 400,000 pets to date. Fifty percent of participating pet parents surveyed reported their pets had never been vaccinated against these diseases. With Bissell Pet Foundation as an additional partner this month, Petco Love’s goal is to increase awareness and accelerate the distribution of vaccines.
For more information about Give a Dog a Home Rescues vaccine event, contact giveadogahome.maine@gmail.com or visit www.giveadogahome-rescue.org. Learn more about Petco Love’s national vaccine effort and lifesaving impact at petcolove.org or freepetvaccines.org
About Give a Dog a Home Rescue – Give a Dog a Home Rescue, established on Feb. 14, 2011 in Texas due to the growing need of saving pets from imminent death in the local high kill shelters. In 2015, the rescue relocated to Maine and has an annual average of 250 dog adoptions to families from all over the east coast and Canada. Most recently helping cats and kittens find homes also. Give a Dog a Home Rescue has saved dogs from the horrendous meat trade in China and South Korea, dogs, and cats from the war zone in Kabul, Afghanistan. We have recently set up a FEED the NEED Pet Pantry to help low income and struggling families with dog and cat food and are working together with the Piscataquis County Emergency Management Agency to set up and run a County Animal Response Team. Jenny Cope, president/founder is an English animal lover and British Army veteran who is passionate about helping animals and families in the community.
About Petco Love – Petco Love is a nonprofit changing lives by making communities and pet families closer, stronger, and healthier. Since our founding in 1999 as the Petco Foundation, we’ve empowered animal welfare organizations by investing $300 million in adoption and other lifesaving efforts. We’ve helped find loving homes for more than 6.5 million pets in partnership with Petco and organizations nationwide. Today, 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? Visit petcolove.org or follow at Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn to be part of the lifesaving work we’re leading every day.