Asheville, NC (September 19, 2025) – Asheville Humane Society (AHS) is set to receive a $15,000 grant investment from national nonprofit Petco Love in support of their lifesaving work for pets in Buncombe County.
Petco Love is a national nonprofit leading change for pets by harnessing the power of love to make communities and pet families closer, stronger, and healthier. Since its founding in 1999, Petco Love has invested nearly $425 million in adoption and other lifesaving efforts. And Petco Love helps find loving homes for pets in partnership with Petco and more than 4,000 organizations — like ours — across North America, with more than 7 million pets adopted and counting.
“Our investment in AHS is part of more than $12 million in investments recently announced by Petco Love to power local organizations across the country as part of our commitment to create a future in which no pet is unnecessarily euthanized,” said Susanne Kogut, president of Petco Love. “Our local investments are only part of our strategy to empower animal lovers to drive lifesaving change right alongside us. We launched Petco Love Lost, a free national lost and found database that uses photo-matching technology to simplify the search for lost pets.”
“We are grateful to Petco Love for supporting us and for the incalculable impact they have in helping shelters save pets across the country. As we struggle with higher-than-normal numbers of pets in our care we depend upon the generosity of our neighbors in the region and the support of compassionate national nonprofit organizations like Petco Love to save lives and build a more humane community,” said Tracy Elliott, executive director of AHS.
For over 40 years, AHS has served as a lifeline for Buncombe County — facilitating countless pet adoptions, community assistance clinics, and life-saving surgeries — strengthening the entire community. In 2024 alone, AHS provided life-saving care to more than 14,800 pets and distributed over 165,000 pounds of pet food to households in need.
For more information about Asheville Humane Society, visit ashevillehumane.org. Learn more about Petco Love here: petcolove.org.
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About Asheville Humane Society
Since 1984, Asheville Humane Society has dedicated itself to ensuring every animal has the quality of life they deserve—a life worth living. Now, we go beyond our walls to help create a more humane community for pets and the people who love them. We’re more than an animal shelter, we’re a lifeline. Through personalized adoptions, education opportunities, volunteering, fostering, emergency resources, and cutting-edge care innovations, we are working to go above and beyond an animal shelter. Our commitment to this mission is apparent in everything we do. Asheville Humane Society is a local, independent nonprofit not affiliated with the Humane Society of the United States.
About Petco Love
Petco Love is a life-changing nonprofit organization that makes communities and pet families closer, stronger, and healthier. Since our founding in 1999, we’ve empowered animal welfare organizations by investing nearly $425 million in adoption and other lifesaving efforts. We’ve helped find loving homes for more than 7 million pets in partnership with Petco and organizations nationwide. 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? Join us. Visit PetcoLove.org or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, X, Threads, and LinkedIn to be part of the lifesaving work we lead every day.
