Petco Love and Lucky Dog Animal Rescue Join Forces With A Free Pet Vaccination Event

As Part of Petco Love’s Vaccinated and Loved Initiative to Provide One Million Additional Free Pet Vaccines, Lucky Dog Animal Rescue Hosts Free Vaccine Clinic on Friday, July 26th in Florence, South Carolina

Florence, South Carolina (July 24, 2024) -- Lucky Dog Animal Rescue (“Lucky Dog”) is providing free parvovirus, distemper, and panleukopenia vaccinations, free microchips, and $10 rabies vaccinations for Florence, South Carolina area pets on September 13th, 2024. The free vaccines are made possible through Petco Love's national vaccination initiative Vaccinated and Loved, which is providing one million free pet vaccines to animal welfare partners like Lucky Dog to assist  family pets in need. The microchips and reduced-cost rabies vaccines are made possible with the support of generous Lucky Dog donors.

Parvovirus and distemper in dogs and panleukopenia in cats — the most prevalent deadly diseases affecting pets — are preventable with a simple vaccine. An estimated 30% of pet parents do not take their pet to a veterinarian annually for preventative care. To ensure the health and wellness of our beloved pets and to address this critical need, Lucky Dog and Petco Love have partnered to make DAPPv Canine and HCP Feline pet vaccines free and accessible.  Lucky Dog Animal Rescue vaccinated 54 pets on Friday, June 28th, 2024, and looks forward to vaccinating even more in the future.

“Thanks to Petco Love, Lucky Dog Animal Rescue is excited to offer these important vaccines at low and reduced costs to pet owners,” said Mirah Horowitz, CEO & Founder of Lucky Dog Animal Rescue. “These vaccines are essential to protecting the health and well-being of beloved family members.  We look forward to offering this service more regularly to pet families in Florence.”

“It is heartbreaking when any pet suffers or dies from a disease that could have been prevented. It is further exacerbated when unvaccinated pets come into busy shelter kennels, where these deadly diseases can spread quickly, resulting in multiple deaths, skyrocketing expenses, and hindering saving pet lives,” said Susanne Kogut, Petco Love President. “By creating greater awareness and making this crucial preventative care more accessible to pets not currently receiving these lifesaving vaccines, we can prevent the dangerous spread of disease.” 

In November 2023, Petco Love’s Vaccinated and Loved initiative reached its goal of distributing 2 million free pet vaccines for family pets and committed an additional 1 million vaccines to make pet families healthier. 

For more information about vaccine distribution, contact Lucky Dog Animal Rescue at [email protected]. Learn more about Petco Love’s lifesaving impact at PetcoLove.org. 

Contact: Mirah Horowitz, Lucky Dog Animal Rescue 202-246-3332, Crystal Bugary, Petco Love

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 as the Petco Foundation, we’ve empowered animal welfare organizations by investing $380 million in adoption and other lifesaving efforts. We’ve helped find loving homes for more than 6.8 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.