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It's Time to Spring A Pet

Each year, in celebration of the season of hope and renewal (and winter finally coming to an end!), the PETCO Foundation launches its annual “Spring A Pet” fundraiser to help give pets in need a new beginning.

The fundraiser, running this year from March 4 – April 6, celebrates our Think Adoption First philosophy and encourages pet lovers [...]

Mr. January

2010 PETCO Foundation Calendar Photo for January

This story comes from Chris Garcia. The picture of his adopted greyhound Harvey was selected for the month of January in the PETCO Foundation’s 2010 calendar.

I adopted Harvey on Dec. 23, 2008. After my fiancé,  Andrea, came back from a trip telling me all about this couple who had [...]

Pocket’s Life is the Gift Beyond Money

I remember when I saw Pocket’s photo on a mailing that went around from the shelter to local rescues asking if someone could take the tiny being.  All of about 5 pounds and unknown medical conditions swirling about her, my heart skipped a beat.  Could Pit Bull Rescue San Diego afford to take on the [...]

Tiny Little Pawprints on my Soul

“RIP Winter. She was a good little rat. Loved her bananas and was the more brave and adventurous of my last two babies. She chattered contentedly in my hands and was calm when the vet took her from me.”  This was the simple obituary that I wrote for Winter on my Facebook page this past [...]

Guide Dogs Heroes Brunch

Jimmy Van Patten, of Natural Balance speaks, as Charlie Piscitello, SVP, Chief People Officer at PETCO listens

Last Saturday, a group of us from PETCO, the PETCO Foundation and Natural Balance Pet Foods attended the 3rd Annual Guide Dogs Heroes Brunch in Palm Springs, CA. The annual Heroes Brunch is hosted by Guide Dogs of the Desert to [...]

Journey to Rescue – Looking to the Future

They say that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but don’t tell Nico that.  Nico is 6 years old and, by shelter standards, is already considered a senior.  However, he is constantly learning new things these days.   As you may recall, his life in rescue began a couple of months ago when we [...]

Pocket Pit

Legitimate breeders do not dump their liabilities in the shelter.  So infer what you will about the couple who dumped little Miss Pocket at the shelter, but kept the rest of their litter at home, advertising them on Craigslist even as they dumped Pocket to be killed.

Pocket is a 6 month old blue nose pit [...]

Journey to Rescue – the trip to Indiana

If you’re anything like me, you may have been aware that something called Rescue Transport Networks existed but that’s about it. I’ve always pictured some furtive Underground Railroad sort of set up where folks in black skull caps and dark coveralls steal into shelters late at night and whisk away at-risk dogs to sequester them [...]

Journey to Rescue – The Stay in San Diego

Nico looked at me with those languid bicolored eyes that held no fear or malice or even a sense of having been wronged. The smile that was on his face as he left the shelter last week now shone through his eyes and his demeanor, even through the dirt and the scars and the open [...]

Breeds in Need

By Paul Jolly – The PETCO Foundation
Not long ago I received a cry for help from a neighbor who had bred her dog and now had a litter of nine purebred puppies. I am wanting to believe that she did this quite innocently. You see, she had listened to some friends who were involved in [...]