FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Karen Little, Alley Cat Advocates, 502-634-8777
Jennifer Perez, Petco Love, media@petcolove.org
Petco Love and Alley Cat Advocates Aim to Stop the Spread of Deadly Preventable Diseases Through Vaccinations
As Part of Petco Love’s Initiative to Provide 1 Million Vaccines, Alley Cat Advocates Will Distribute Donated Cat Vaccines as Part of Trap-Neuter-Return in the Louisville Area
Louisville, Kentucky (February 21, 2022) – Alley Cat Advocates will provide donated vaccinations supplied by Petco Love for Louisville area community cats. The donated vaccines are made possible through Petco Love’s new national vaccination initiative, which is providing 1 million vaccines to its existing animal welfare partners, including Alley Cat Advocates, for cats in need.
Parvovirus and distemper in dogs, and panleukopenia in cats, are some of the most prevalent deadly diseases impacting dogs and cats that are preventable with a simple vaccine. To address this critical need, Alley Cat Advocates and Petco Love are partnering to provide vaccines in an effort to ensure the health and wellness of our beloved cats.
Alley Cat Advocates aims to vaccinate 500 community cats through this effort. Alley Cat Advocates will offer these donated vaccines as part of our trap-neuter-return services throughout the next month(s).
Vaccines distributed to Alley Cat Advocates through the Petco Love initiative will be the HCP Feline vaccine.
“Thanks to Petco Love, we offer these important vaccines at no cost to community cat caretakers,” said Karen Little, Executive Director. “We urge community members to take advantage of our no cost spay/neuter and vaccination services to ensure the health and wellness of our community cats.”
“It is heartbreaking when any pet suffers or dies from a disease that could have been prevented. It is further exacerbated when unvaccinated pets come into busy shelter kennels, where these deadly diseases can spread quickly, resulting in multiple deaths, skyrocketing expenses, and hindering saving pet lives,” said Susanne Kogut, Petco Love President. “By creating greater awareness and making this crucial preventative care more accessible to pets not currently receiving these lifesaving vaccines, we can prevent the dangerous spread of disease.”
For more information about vaccine distribution, contact Alley Cat Advocates at 502-634-8777. To learn more about Petco Love’s lifesaving impact, visit PetcoLove.org.
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About Alley Cat Advocates
Alley Cat Advocates is a 501(c)3 organization that relies on grant funding and donations to offer spay/neuter services for cat caretakers in the community. The organization’s mission is to provide for the humane treatment of unowned cats by directing a Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) program in the safest, most efficient, and most cost effective way possible. Alley Cat Advocates schedules 250 spay/neuter appointments each week and will spay/neuter well over 5,000 community cats this year. The organization has altered over 55,000 stray cats in the region since beginning their work in 1999. For more information or to schedule a spay/neuter surgery for a community cat, call 502-634-8777 or visit alleycatadvocates.org.
About Petco Love
Petco Love is a nonprofit changing lives by making 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 $300 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. Today, 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? Visit petcolove.org or follow at Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn to be part of the lifesaving work we’re leading every day.