Petco Foundation awards $400,000 grant to Humane Society of South Mississippi

The Petco Foundation is making a big investment in Gulfport to help save the lives of unwanted and orphaned animals.

The Petco Foundation has awarded a $400,000 grant to the Humane Society of South Mississippi, to help save the lives of more animals at the Gulfport shelter.

The Petco Foundation Grant is designed to support its “value the vulnerable to victory” program through providing pop-up animal wellness resource fairs where lower income communities can receive education, wellness, and spay and neuter services for their pets, all free of charge.

Those at the Petco Foundation believe every animal deserves to live its best life.

Since 1999, Petco has invested more than $260 million in life saving animal welfare work to make this happen.

Leaders with the Humane Society of South Mississippi say their non-profit shelter has not received a grant of this size in many years and they are beyond excited to expand their mission and services to the under-served population in the community.

They also said they depend on the community to shelter and care for nearly 8,000 homeless pets, as well as to provide services such as spays and neutering and pet identification to an additional 10,000 community-owned pets each year.