Pets

Vision: A lifelong, loving home for every pet.

Mission: To improve the quality of life for all pets by creating and supporting programs that save the lives of homeless pets and promote healthy relationships between people and pets.

We support our vision and mission by:

Funding innovative and collaborative programs that save the lives of homeless pets
Providing adoption rewards funding to animal-welfare Adoption Partners that participate in PetSmart Charities® Adoption Centers
Collaborating with thousands of animal-welfare agencies across the U.S. and Canada to create innovative animal-welfare solutions that we share with other animal-welfare organizations
Providing urgently needed emergency relief, for both natural and man-made disasters
Raising awareness of companion animal-welfare issues
Promoting healthy and happy relationships between people and pets
Conducting customer and associate fundraising programs, such as pin pad donations in PetSmart® stores and P.A.U.S.E. (PetSmart Associates United to Stop Euthanasia)

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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. Josh Billings

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. Robert Benchley

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats. Mason Cooley

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better. Norman Ralph Augustine

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. Agnes Repplier

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden. Robert Southey

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. George Eliot

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind. Cleveland Amory

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. Oliver Herford

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort. James Herriot

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it. Mason Cooley

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. Garrison Keillor

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. Joseph Wood Krutch

Cats don’t like change without their consent. Roger Caras

Cats have it all – admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it. Rod McKuen

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. W. L. George

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. Joseph Wood Krutch

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other. Robert Benchley

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs. Martha Scott

Dogs are my favorite people. Richard Dean Anderson