Help Feed Hungry Cats and Dogs With The PetSmart® Buy A Bag, Give a Meal™ Program
This post is sponsored by PetSmart® and the BlogPaws™ Pet Influencer Network™. PetSmart is not responsible for the content of this article.
Whenever I take Teddy the dog or Garfield the cat to PetSmart®, they know three things are going to happen:
- They’re going to get a treat (and attention)
- Mom will be buying some goodies and
- A donation will be made to PetSmart Charities®.
PetSmart Charities® is a nonprofit animal welfare organization that saves the lives of homeless pets and it’s one of my favorite charities to donate to. I’ve met a few of the people behind PetSmart Charities® and I’m always impressed by their dedication and passion towards helping animals.
As amazing as PetSmart Charities® is, they would not exist had it not been for the founders of PetSmart. When they learned that an estimated 7 million pets enter U.S. shelters but approximately 3 million never find homes, they took action and voila, PetSmart Charities® was born.
GRACIE
To further their commitment to helping animals in need, and to help celebrate their 30th anniversary, PetSmart just announced their Buy A Bag Give A Meal™ program. For every bag of dog or cat food purchased online and at its stores across the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico, PetSmart® will donate a meal to a pet in need served by pet shelters, animal welfare organizations and food banks. This means you and I can help feed hungry cats and dogs in need!
Photo courtesy of PetSmart
The program will run from March 1st to December 31, 2017, and PetSmart estimates it will donate at least 60 million meals to cats and dogs in need. I can’t tell you how happy this program makes me. I’ve witnessed the financial difficulties that shelters go through and the Buy A Bag, Give A Meal™ program is going to make a HUGE difference. I think David Haworth, DVM, Ph.D., president of PetSmart Charities, sums it up best,
“These food donations are key to helping animal welfare organizations free up precious resources so they can continue their life-saving work, as well as deliver pet food as an option at food banks and pantries. We look forward to seeing the impact this significant pet food donation will make to close the gap on this critical and essential need in animal welfare.”
You can read PetSmart’s Buy A Bag, Give A Meal™ press release in full by clicking here.
You can also find PetSmart on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
P.S. If you’re ever in the Richmond area, stop by PetSmart. You just might spot Garfield and I cruising the aisles, soaking up attention, and helping pets in need.
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of PetSmart. The opinions and text are all mine.
What a fantastic program! I’ll forward this to my friends, since our two fur babies passed away. Thanks for putting good in the world!
Thanks, Jacqui! Sorry to hear about your fur babies. Hugs, Kim
I did not know about this, what a great program! We shop at Petsmart a lot for our two dogs, I love knowing they are focusing on doing good too!
What a great program! I wasn’t aware Petsmart did so much.
PetSmart is very generous 🙂
My dog loves car rides because she knows we are on our way to somewhere fun (most of the time). Need to head to Petsmart & nab some more treats & make a donation.
This is awesome. I donate to animals all the time because I like them more than I like people haha I wish I could give them all homes, too.
I can totally relate Nicole 😉
Love PetSmart and how easy they make it to give back to help animals in need. We always add on to our total at checkout and the kids love to drop in their coins.
I love this initiative!!! What a great way to give back! Thank you for sharing it!
What a great program, I love that Petsmart is doing this! It is so sad to see any pets suffer!! PS- I am in Richmond! 🙂
Yay for Richmond =) PetSmart knows how to give back in style, that’s for sure!
I definitely like this program. I feel bad that we aren’t able to adopt more pets so I’d like to give back when I can!
Such a great idea. Giving back is an easy thing to do for many companies but it is often overlooked. Glad to see this type of promotion
What a great program! We have five cats who all raised their paws in agreement. They want to help, too!
Glad your cats concur 😉
I LOVE this initiative!!! What a great way to give back to the community! I will be sure to pick up dog food at PetSmart during this program!
I had no idea that Petsmart has been around for 30 years! ANd what a great campaign to celebrate their success!!
We shop at Petsmart all the time. Son even volunteers there. I like that they help pets so much. It is sad that people treat animals so badly.