Community Support Helps Keep Pet Food Pantry Stocked

Bayou Friends Forever was able to help restock the pet food pantry at Bayou Animal Services & Adoption Center today. With carts full of pet food from H-E-B, we were able to provide much-needed resources for pets and families throughout our area.

The pet food pantry serves a vital role in our community, helping not only shelter animals but also pet owners facing financial hardships. By providing food assistance, we can help keep beloved pets in their homes and reduce the number of animals surrendered to shelters due to temporary financial struggles.

We are incredibly grateful for the support that makes efforts like this possible. When we come together as a community, we can make a meaningful difference in the lives of both people and the animals they love.

Thank you to everyone who continues to support Bayou Friends Forever and Bayou Animal Services & Adoption Center. Your kindness helps keep tails wagging and families together.

Pictured are Bayou Animal Services & Adoption Center Shelter Manager Nina Baker, Bayou Friends Forever Board Member Amy Elliott, and Bayou Friends Forever Board Member Alexis Joe-Galvan.

National Nonprofit Petco Love Invests in Bayou Friends Forever, Inc. To Save and Improve the Lives of Pets in Dickinson, Texas

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Contact: Thuy Gottlieb, bayoufriendsforever@gmail.com - Bayou Friends Forever benefiting Bayou Animal Services & Adoption Center

National Nonprofit Petco Love Invests in Bayou Friends Forever, Inc. To Save and Improve the Lives of Pets in Dickinson, Texas

Dickinson, TX (May 12, 2023) – Bayou Friends Forever, Inc. benefiting Bayou Animal Services & Adoption Center is set to receive a $25,000 grant investment from national nonprofit Petco Love in support of their lifesaving work for animals in Dickinson, Texas.

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 $350 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 6.7 million pets adopted and counting.

“Our investment in Bayou Friends Forever, Inc. is part of more than $15M 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 recently launched Petco Love Lost, a national lost and found database that uses pet image technology to simplify the search for lost pets.”

“Petco Love’s generous grant is not only an investment in Bayou Animal Services & Adoption Center but also the City of Dickinson and Galveston County. We are now making plans to expand our community outreach program by including additional on-site veterinary services,” said Thuy Thai, President of Bayou Friends Forever, Inc.

Bayou Animal Services creates happiness by bringing pets and people together. In 2022, BAS rescued 1,007 homeless, lost, sick, injured, abused, or neglected animals – and we sheltered, fed, watered, medically treated, behaviorally rehabilitated, and safely placed 956 (95%) of them into loving homes. 

Together we transformed the City of Dickinson into one of the safest communities for pets in the nation.

For more information about Bayou Animal Services & Adoption Center, visit bayouanimalservices.org/. Learn more about Petco Love here: petcolove.org.

About Bayou Friends Forever, Inc. Bayou Friends Forever, Inc. and Bayou Animal Services & Adoption Center are nonprofit organizations that promote fostering and adoption of homeless animals. BAS is a no-kill facility and has provided treatment, care and rehabilitation of homeless animals in Galveston County since 2016. BFF was formed in 2022 to benefit BAS by financially assisting the needs of this facility and to be a model for the humane treatment and care of homeless animals.

About Petco LovePetco Love is a life-changing nonprofit organization that makes 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 $350 million in adoption and other lifesaving efforts. We’ve helped find loving homes for more than 6.7 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.  Join us. Visit petcolove.org or follow on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn to be part of the lifesaving work we lead every day.