BTAA awards Petco Love grant

PONDERAY — The Better Together Animal Alliance has received a $5,000 grant from national nonprofit Petco Love to support its lifesaving work for animals in the region. The grant was presented during a special celebration at the Ponderay Petco on April 16.

“This grant directly supports programs that help keep people and their pets together,” said Mandy Evans, executive director of Better Together Animal Alliance. “Petco Love continues to be such an invested partner, and we are honored to accept this grant and use it to serve families in our region.”

Petco Love is a national nonprofit organization leading change for pets by harnessing the power of love to make communities and pet families closer, stronger and healthier, according to group officials. Since its founding in 1999, Petco Love has invested $375 million in adoption and other lifesaving efforts. Petco Love helps find loving homes for pets in partnership with Petco and more than 4,000 organizations, including BTAA, in North America, with 6.75 million adopted pets.

“Our investment in Better Together Animal Alliance 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 creating a future where no only pet is euthanized unnecessarily,” says Susanne Kogut. , chairman of Petco Liefde.

The foundation’s local investments are just part of its strategy to empower animal lovers to work with Petco Love to make life-saving change, Kogut said.

“We launched Petco Love Lost, a national lost and found database that uses patented image recognition technology to simplify the search for lost pets,” she said of those efforts.

BTAA’s mission is to create and support meaningful connections by improving the lives of dogs, cats and the people who love them. The nonprofit serves Bonner, Boundary and Kootenai counties and is known for its progressive owner assistance programs and a helpline.

The Ponderay-based alliance is also known for its Pets for Life and Home To Home programmes. Home To Home helps people rehome their pets without ever taking them to an animal shelter and will have helped 508 pets in the region find new homes by 2023. In North America, the program operates in more than 150 shelters and served 86,500 animals last year.

For more information about BTAA, visit bettertogetheranimalalliance.org online. For more information about Petco Love, visit petcolove.org online.