Everyone knows there are so many pets in need! Not every pet is as lucky as we are to have a nice home with food, love, and pretty much everything we could ever need. Our kitties were both shelter pets and they understand the importance of getting a good meal better than many pets with homes!
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Today, I received a press release from PetSmart® announcing the launch of their Buy a Bag, Give a Meal™ program in celebration of the their 30th anniversary. According to what I read, for every bag of dog or cat food purchased online and at 1,500-plus PetSmart stores across the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico, they will donate a meal to a pet in need. The program runs March 1-Dec. 31, 2017. How pawsome is that? You can read the press release yourself by clicking here!
David Haworth, DVM, Ph.D., president of PetSmart Charities, estimates that up to 7 million pets enter shelters every year across North America. That’s a lot of pets! As I read further, I found out PetSmart plans to donate some 60 million meals to pets in need with this program! These numbers were enough to blow me right over! Imagine how many pets that will feed! The Buy a Bag, Give a Meal™ program is PetSmart’s largest philanthropic campaign ever!
My sisters were going out to run errands so I sent them to PetSmart to check it out. They sniffed out the dog food aisle. So you don’t forget about the program, there were handy reminder signs by the bags of food in all the aisles! PetSmart will not only be donating meals to shelters, they will also donate to food pantries and food shelves since many folks who shop there also have pets in need at home!
Think of how thrilled this shelter dog is to have a nice meal – all because someone bought a bag of food at PetSmart and one meal was donated. (photo compliments of PetSmart®)
Bailie and Madison checked the cat food aisles too since our kitties were once pets in need. Sure enough, the reminder signs were placed there as well! The Buy a Bag, Give a Meal™ program includes all brands and sizes of dog and cat food bags purchased from PetSmart, either online or in a store. Their nonprofit partner PetSmart Charities will collaborate with national nonprofits to help distribute the pet food donations to pets in need.
If you buy a bag of kitty food, you will help a kitty like this one get a good meal in its little tummy. How simple is that? (photo compliments of PetSmart®)
Watch this short video to see how exactly the PetSmart Buy a Bag, Give a Meal™ program works and how easy it is for you to help pets in need buy purchasing food for your own pet!
Follow the campaign hashtag #fortheloveofpets and visit PetSmart on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for more information! We plan on buying food at PetSmart to help pets in need, do you?
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of PetSmart. The opinions and text are all mine.
and good opinions they are!
Wonderful program!
I would love to buy a bag for the mama… I mean we have easter soon and mothers day is also not far away… it could be THE perfect gift and I’m the one and only number 1 in da house…
What flavor of chow does your mom like?
fishy things lol
Two dew claws up for PetSmart!! How pawsome is that!? My mom just heard of a huge place in South Florida where people literally dump their unwanted animals! Many people donate time and money and dog food to assist these lost souls. How sad is that? XOXO, Sparkle
That is just wrong! Poor animals, but I guess at least they have a place to be. We are so lucky to have good homes.
Let’s spread the word! Did you get tired of reading? BOL
Peace,
Lily & Edward
The excitement of the news knocked me right over!
I’ll have to do this, I would love to help shelter pets too.
They’ve made it pretty darn easy to participate!
That’s a great way to help shelter pets! Unfortunately our kitty eats prescription food and the PetSmart doesn’t carry the food Bar and Rye eat, but we always donate on the keypad at checkout since Soth was adopted through PetSmart Charities 🙂
It isn’t for everyone, but it is a wonderful thing PetSmart is doing and so many pets in need will get a meal.
It’s nice when they make it easy for everyone to help a little, when doing something we do all the time anyway. We will have to start ordering our food from them…I like that this promotion goes on for such a long time too.
There is so much time for this program to get the traction it needs to help so many pets in need!
We love visiting PetSmart and are so proud that they are helping less fortunate pets in this way. We are excited to share the information today too. ♥
We are really happily surprised with the news they had! So many meals coming right up!
That is a wonderful thing to do! The Dad is at PetSmart every week, sometimes twice, and we buy lots of bags of food.
I bet that little Simon eats tons of food with how busy he always is! We know you all are great pets in need supporters!
you two look so cute and those glasses work so well 🙂
I feel so smart with my glasses!
What a pawsome thing to do!
We think it is so great!
What a wonderful thing Petsmart is doing!!
Smileys!
Dory, Jakey, Arty & Bilbo
PetSmart is definitely leading the way to help pets in need with this campaign!
Nice work with the press release! This is such an amazing program and we can’t wait to participate and buy some food!
It’s so easy to participate! Such a wonderful campaign.
Very cool program
Definitely a promotion we can get behind and support!
Pretty simple and straight forward!
I’m glad to see the promotion run for such a long time, it gives folks time to get the word out and really get behind the campaign. Thanks for spreading the word.
It will be running for a long time, so we will have to keep promoting it!
We hope they get a lot of bags.