HSUS, PETCO Showcase 'Think Adoption First' at 'Animal Care Expo' Event With Leaders of U.S. Animal Welfare Community
April 07 2005 - 1:41PM
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HSUS, PETCO Showcase 'Think Adoption First' at 'Animal Care Expo'
Event With Leaders of U.S. Animal Welfare Community ATLANTA, April
7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Humane Society of the United States
(HSUS) today joined the nation's leading pet specialty retailer
PETCO Animal Supplies, Inc. in announcing the retailer's 'Think
Adoption First' program at the 14th annual 'Animal Care Expo' in
Atlanta. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030603/PETCOLOGO) Through the
'Think Adoption First' program, PETCO, the PETCO Foundation and
Petfinder.com, the company's online partner, will encourage
customers to consider adoption as the first option when thinking
about adding a new companion animal to their homes. PETCO does not
sell dogs or cats, and for nearly 40 years has worked with shelters
to find homes for millions of adoptable animals. As part of the
'Think Adoption First' effort, PETCO, with the help of
Petfinder.com's searchable database, will also reach out to
placement groups and shelters that offer small mammals, reptiles
and birds for adoption, in an effort to help find families for all
homeless animals as well as resources for customers interested in
these species. PETCO will encourage customers to seek adoptable
animals in the community as a first option, providing informational
resource centers and in-store adoption opportunities to a larger
variety of rescue groups. PETCO store associates have received
information on how to promote the 'Think Adoption First' philosophy
so they can properly suggest adoption first when customers express
interest in adding a companion animal to their home. Over 1,300
grassroots animal welfare representatives from the animal care,
control, sheltering and rescue communities from all 50 states and
26 foreign countries are in Atlanta this week attending the annual
educational and product exposition conference sponsored by the
HSUS. The goal of the conference is to provide educational
workshops and training on related animal welfare topics and to
exhibit the latest products and services for the animal welfare
industry. HSUS President and Chief Executive Officer Wayne Pacelle
said, "We're extremely pleased to showcase PETCO's 'Think Adoption
First' program at our annual Animal Care Expo conference. PETCO's
adoption promotion program should directly link people with animals
in need and address the problems associated with homeless animals,
and we congratulate PETCO on developing this innovative idea and
aggressively implementing it." PETCO's Chief Executive Officer
James Myers said, "We have a long history of supporting animal
welfare and adoptions and we're broadening that philosophy with our
'Think Adoption First' program. We will, simply put, recommend
adoption before purchase of any animal at our more than 730 stores
across the county. Think Adoption First is the right thing to do,
and we are absolutely committed to making this work, to the benefit
of adoptable animals and our community animal welfare partners." At
this week's HSUS Animal Care Expo, PETCO, the PETCO Foundation, and
Petfinder.com are encouraging animal welfare groups to join in the
adoption effort. About HSUS The Humane Society of the United States
is the nation's largest animal protection organization with more
than 8.5 million members and constituents. The non-profit HSUS is a
mainstream voice for animals, with active programs in companion
animals and equine protection, wildlife and habitat protection,
animals in research and farm animals and sustainable agriculture.
HSUS opposes keeping all non-domesticated animals as pets. The HSUS
protects all animals through education, investigation, litigation,
legislation, advocacy, and fieldwork. The organization is based in
Washington and has field representatives across the country. It is
on the web at hsus.org. About PETCO (NASDAQ:PETC) PETCO,
established in 1965, is a leading specialty retailer of premium pet
food, supplies and services. PETCO's vision is to best promote,
through its people, the highest level of well being for companion
animals, and to support the human-animal bond. It operates over 730
stores in 47 states and the District of Columbia and is a leading
destination for on-line pet food and supplies at www.petco.com.
PETCO stores also offer for sale small mammal, reptiles and birds
and as well as these species plus dogs and cats for adoption in
cooperation with animal shelters and rescue groups. Since its
inception in 1999, the PETCO Foundation, PETCO's non-profit
organization, has raised more than $22 million in support of more
than 2,600 non-profit grassroots animal welfare organizations
around the nation. About Petfinder.com Petfinder.com is the
nation's largest and oldest online adoption community. Working with
more than 8,500 active animal welfare organizations across the
country, Petfinder.com offers a searchable database of adoptable
companion animals. Last year, Petfinder.com adoption partners found
homes for more than 1.5 million animals, making it the nation's
largest animal adoption organization.
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030603/PETCOLOGO
http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: PETCO Animal Supplies, Inc.
CONTACT: John M. Snyder, +1-301-529-9757, or Martha Armstrong,
+1-301-919-6377, both of Humane Society of the United States; or
Don Cowan of PETCO Animal Supplies, Inc., Cell, +1-619-417-5244 Web
site: http://www.petco.com/ http://hsus.org/ http://petfinder.com/
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