LAFOLLETTE, TN SPECIAL TO WLAF) – Spay Campbell County Tennessee Pets (SpayCC) is set to receive a $2,000 grant investment from national nonprofit Petco Love in support of their lifesaving work for animals in Campbell County, Tennessee.

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 $330 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 6.5 million pets adopted and counting.

“Our investment in Spay Campbell County Tennessee Pets (SpayCC) 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 celebrated the one-year launch anniversary of Petco Love Lost, a national lost and found database that uses pet facial recognition technology to simplify the search for lost pets.”

“Petco Love’s investment in our communities is so important for our lifesaving goals for family pets” Terri Woodward, President of Spay Campbell County Tennessee Pets.

Spay Campbell County Tennessee Pets (SpayCC)is a nonprofit organization that dedicated to reducing the number of abandoned, unwanted cats and dogs in our communities, serving Campbell County, Tennessee. Since 2016, Spay Campbell County Tennessee Pets (SpayCC) has subsidized over 4560 low cost spay/neuter services for owned pets.

For more information about Spay Campbell County Tennessee Pets (SpayCC) visit http://www.SpayCCTNPets.com. Learn more about Petco Love here: petcolove.org.

About Spay Campbell County Tennessee Pets (SpayCC)

Spay Campbell County Tennessee Pets is a 501c3 Organization. Our board members/officers have collaborated with other area groups since 2012, in 2016 we formed our own group and awarded our own 501c3 status in March 2016. We are an all-volunteer organization, with no paid positions and we have no building or facility. SpayCC is dedicated to reducing the number of abandoned, unwanted cats and dogs in our community through affordable spay/neuter options.

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 as the Petco Foundation, we’ve empowered animal welfare organizations by investing $330 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.

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. Join us. Visit petcolove.org or follow on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn to be part of the lifesaving work we lead every day. (WLAF NEWS PUBLISHED – 09/15/2022-6AM)