Footwear Company Has Partnered with Best
Friends Animal Society to Transport Houston’s Hurricane Harvey
Animals to Local Pet Adoption Centers
BOBS from SKECHERS, a division of award-winning lifestyle and
performance footwear company, SKECHERS USA, Inc. (NYSE:SKX),
announced that the Company has partnered with national animal
welfare organization Best Friends Animal Society to transport 25
adoptable dogs from Houston to rescue groups along the East Coast,
ending with yesterday’s final stop at the Best Friends Pet Adoption
Center in New York City. The dogs have been traveling on the BOBS
from SKECHERS Roving Rescue bus, a school bus that the Company
purchased and retrofitted exclusively for lifesaving pet
transport.
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BOBS from SKECHERS Roving Rescue bus
arrived in New York with Hurricane Harvey dogs in search of their
forever homes. (Photo: Business Wire)
New York’s Roving Rescue visitors met 10 Hurricane Harvey
animals who will find homes through Best Friends Pet Adoption
Center, and previewed selects from the BOBS Spring collection,
including the latest BOBS for Dogs styles. The celebration followed
stops in Arlington, Virginia and Waldorf, Maryland, which
transported five dogs to the Animal Welfare League of Arlington and
10 dogs to the Humane Society of Charles County.
“We love finding new ways to make a difference, and the Roving
Rescue bus has given other communities a chance to directly support
Houston by adopting these pets and relieving Houston’s local animal
shelter and pet adoption organizations,” said Robert Greenberg, CEO
of SKECHERS. “We believe this is just the beginning for the
transport and adoption bus. Through this vehicle, we will spread
the word about Best Friends’ movement and our charitable shoe
program, BOBS for Dogs, both of which are helping to save shelter
animals. And given the incredible response, we’re confident that
many of the dogs that survived Hurricane Harvey will find their
forever homes by the year’s end.”
“A big thank you goes to SKECHERS for helping to get these dogs
home,” said Elizabeth Jensen, Northeast Regional Director, Best
Friends Animal Society - New York. “To achieve our mission of
getting the country to no-kill by 2025, we have to work together.
This tour was a great example of the teamwork that will help us
Save Them All!”
The Roving Rescue bus will travel to the West Coast for future
Best Friends transport and adoption needs across the country.
SKECHERS stores in the United States are holding a register roundup
through November 15 to raise money in support of the bus’
lifesaving efforts.
To support Hurricane Harvey’s displaced animals locally,
SKECHERS recently partnered with Best Friends to launch a special
Texas Super Adoption event in Houston; the Company paid adoption
fees for the first 100 animals as part of a $10,000 donation to
Best Friends’ Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. Best Friends Animal
Society has also cared for pets displaced by Hurricane Harvey in
the region since August, opening and managing the Pet Reunion
Pavilion at the NRG Arena to reunite animals with their owners.
In addition to animals, SKECHERS has also donated to Hurricane
Harvey families in the wake of the disaster – donating thousands of
new footwear, socks, apparel, and SKECHERS Kids lunchboxes and
backpacks to serve the immediate needs of those impacted.
The Roving Rescue event is the latest collaboration in a
multi-year partnership between SKECHERS and Best Friends Animal
Society, the only national animal welfare organization dedicated
exclusively to eradicating the deaths of about two million dogs and
cats every year in America’s shelters. For each pair of specially
packaged BOBS from SKECHERS sold in the United States, twenty-five
cents is donated to Best Friends to help save the lives of dogs and
cats in America’s shelters. SKECHERS has committed to donating at
least $3 million dollars to Best Friends for the promotion, Best
Friends’ biggest cause marketing partnership to date.
To learn more, follow BOBS from SKECHERS on Facebook
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About Best Friends Animal
Society
Best Friends Animal Society is the only national animal welfare
organization dedicated to ending the killing of dogs and cats in
America's shelters. A leader in the no-kill movement, Best Friends
runs the nation's largest no-kill sanctuary for companion animals,
as well as lifesaving programs in partnership with rescue groups
and shelters across the country. Founded in 1984, Best Friends has
helped reduce the number of animals killed in shelters nationwide
from 17 million per year to about two million. By continuing to
build effective initiatives that reduce the number of animals
entering shelters and increase the number who find homes, Best
Friends and its nationwide network of members and partners are
working to Save Them All®.
To become a fan of Best Friends Animal Society on Facebook, go
to: http://www.facebook.com/bestfriendsanimalsociety.
Follow Best Friends on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/bestfriends.
About SKECHERS USA.,
Inc.
SKECHERS USA, Inc., based in Manhattan Beach, California,
designs, develops and markets a diverse range of lifestyle footwear
for men, women and children, as well as performance footwear for
men and women. SKECHERS footwear is available in the United States
and over 160 countries and territories worldwide via department and
specialty stores, 2,438 SKECHERS Company-owned and
third-party-owned retail stores, and the Company’s e-commerce
websites. The Company manages its international business through a
network of global distributors, joint venture partners in Asia and
the Middle East, and wholly-owned subsidiaries in Canada, Japan,
throughout Europe and Latin America. For more information, please
visit skechers.com and follow us on Facebook
(facebook.com/SKECHERS) and Twitter (twitter.com/SKECHERSUSA).
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SKECHERS USA, Inc.Jennifer Clay,
310-937-1326jennc@skechers.comorBest Friends Animal SocietyHannah
Stember, 412-537-0632hannahs@bestfriends.org
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