Yancey County Humane Society Reopens Saturday, Petco Love Invests

Burnsville -- November 07, 2024: Yancey Humane Society is set to receive a $20,000 grant investment from national nonprofit Petco Love in support of their lifesaving work for pets in Yancey County.

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 nearly $400 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 more than 6.9 million pets adopted and counting. 

“Our investment in Yancey Humane Society 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 launched Petco Love Lost, a free national lost and found database that uses patented photo-matching technology to simplify the search for lost pets.”

“This generous lifesaving investment from Petco Love will help further our efforts to provide services to our community, in the form of fundraising to build the first Spay/Neuter Clinic of its kind in Yancey County. The clinic will provide low-cost spay/neuter options to not only residents of Yancey County and our shelter pets, but also to surrounding county shelters,” said Renee Tomberlin, Executive Director of Yancey Humane.

Yancey Humane is a nonprofit organization that works to take in dogs and cats in-need in Yancey County. They seek to reunite lost dogs and cats with their pet parents, and to rehabilitate and rehome all adoptable pets in their care. Since 1984, Yancey Humane Society has served the pets of Yancey County and their families by conducting vaccine clinics, arranging for spay/neuter services, and consistently maintaining a 90% or better live release rate over the last 10 years.
For more information about Yancey Humane Society, visit yanceyhumanesociety.org/ Learn more about Petco Love here: petcolove.org

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About Yancey Humane Society
Yancey Humane Society is a 501c3 non-profit serving Yancey County residents and animals. We offer low cost spay/neuter arrangements for the public, Tails on Trails hiking programs with volunteers and shelter dogs, Operation Smile assisted living pet visits, low-cost vaccine clinics, and a community food bank for residents who are having trouble feeding their animals. 
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 6.9 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. Is love calling you? Join us. Visit PetcoLove.org or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, X, Threads, and LinkedIn to be part of the lifesaving work we lead every day.