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SANTA PAULA — National nonprofit Petco Love, in partnership with BOBS® from Skechers®, is thrilled to announce the launch of the 2024-2025 Petco Love Stories campaign. Pet adopters across the nation, including in your area, are invited to share their inspiring stories of how their adopted pets have transformed their lives for the better.
The Petco Love Stories campaign is a celebration of the unique love adopted pets share with us and the profound ways their love changes our lives. By sharing these heartfelt stories, pet parents can not only highlight the joy and companionship their adopted pets bring but also support their local animal welfare organizations like your org. Winning Love Stories will earn significant grants for the shelters and rescues where the pets were adopted, thanks to Petco Love and partner BOBS® from Skechers®. Earlier this year, Petco Love and BOBS® from Skechers® awarded over $500,000 to animal welfare partners across the country in celebration of the 2023-2024 Petco Love Stories winners.
Through this campaign, Petco Love and BOBS® from Skechers® are celebrating the unique ways adopted pets change our lives for the better, inspiring more pet adoptions and empowering animal welfare organizations to save more pet lives. This year’s campaign introduces new submission formats to engage even more pet lovers. Participants can submit their Love Story in written form and/or share a link to a public-facing social media video. This new format allows adopters to creatively express the unique ways their pets have impacted their lives.
“Every pet adoption story highlights the incredible impact of love and companionship,” said Susanne Kogut, President of Petco Love. “Through Petco Love Stories, we aim to honor these exceptional bonds and inspire more individuals to welcome shelter pets into their lives.”
According to Nicky Gore-Jones, Development Director at Santa Paula Animal Rescue Center, “Adopters tell us how much joy the pets they rescue from our shelter bring them. In so many cases, we are told that their new dog gave them the motivation to get out and exercise again or how they find themselves less isolated and chatting with perfect strangers who want to ask about their dog at the local coffee shop. Cats and dogs help so many people through challenging times by bringing humor, affection and contentment to our lives, with their unconditional love, antics and general joie de vivre!”
Petco Love invites you to share how your adopted pet’s unique love has changed your life for the better for a chance to earn up to $100,000 in lifesaving investments for your animal welfare organization, which gives more adopted pets a chance to share their love. Submissions for Petco Love Stories are open to individuals ages 18 and older, or those with parental consent. In 500 words or less, participants can share their Love Story along with photos or videos of their adopted pet. Submissions open at noon (CST) on August 26, 2024, and close at 11:59 p.m. (CST) on September 30, 2024. Your Love Story can be submitted as a written story or a public-facing social media video, or by using both formats. Every adopter is asked to submit their Love Story via the submission form you can find here, whether it’s written or a social media video.
Since 2013, more than 25,000 adopters have shared their stories through the Petco Love Stories campaign, with $8 million in grants awarded to animal welfare organizations across the country. These stories highlight the many ways shelter pets enrich our lives and underscore the importance of pet adoption
Media Contacts:
Nicky Gore-Jones/Development Director, Santa Paula Animal Rescue Center
310-702-8104
Crystal Bugary, Petco Love, media@petcolove.org
About Santa Paula Animal Rescue Center
Santa Paula Animal Rescue Center (SPARC) opened in March 2012 , as the first 501c3 non-profit, open admission, no kill, municipal shelter in Ventura County, CA, providing humane care and treatment for the stray and abandoned animals of the area.
SPARC has remained true to the commitment to be strictly no kill and that NO animal would be euthanized for any reason; age, illness, injury, behavior or space, (unless a veterinarian concludes an animal is irredeemably suffering and cannot be saved.)
SPARC’s mission continues to provide the resources, progressive programs and community support needed to rehabilitate and re-home the abandoned and stray animals of Santa Paula and with care, love and the appropriate medical attention, every animal is eventually adopted and gets their second chance at life!
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 nearly $400 million in adoption and other lifesaving efforts. We’ve helped find loving homes for more than 6.8 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, X, and LinkedIn to be part of the lifesaving work we lead every day.
About SKECHERS U.S.A., Inc.
Skechers (NYSE:SKX), The Comfort Technology Company® based in Southern California, designs, develops and markets a diverse range of lifestyle and performance footwear, apparel and accessories for men, women and children. The Company’s collections are available in 180 countries and territories through department and specialty stores, and direct to consumers through skechers.com and approximately 5,200 Skechers retail stores. A Fortune 500® company, Skechers manages its international business through a network of wholly-owned subsidiaries, joint venture partners, and distributors. For more information, please visit about.skechers.com and follow us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.
About BOBS® from Skechers®
BOBS from Skechers’ charitable collection of shoes, apparel and accessories have improved animals’ lives: over the past eight years, Skechers has contributed more than $11 million to help over 2 million shelter pets, including saving more than 1.6 million rescued animals in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Japan. It all started in 2011, when Skechers launched a movement to support children impacted by natural disasters and poverty—a cause that has helped the Company donate more than 16 million new pairs of shoes to kids in more than 60 countries worldwide. To learn more about BOBS from Skechers’ commitment to making a difference, visit BOBSfromSkechers.com and follow the brand on Facebook and Instagram.