ATASCADERO — Woods Humane Society is set to receive a $12,500 grant investment from national nonprofit Petco Love in support of their lifesaving work for pets in San Luis Obispo 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 $410 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 Woods — across North America, with nearly 7 million pets adopted and counting.

“Our investment in Woods Humane Society is part of more than $12M 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 so grateful for this crucial investment from Petco Love, which will make a difference for so many local dogs and cats in need of food, shelter, medical care, and adoption services,” said Woods Humane Society CEO Emily L’Heureux. “During this record-breaking season of kittens and puppies and when so many young, fragile pets require lengthy care and critical medical services, this will truly be a lifesaving investment.”

Celebrating 70 years of saving dogs and cats on the Central Coast, and voted once again as the Best Nonprofit in SLO County, Woods Humane Society is a full-service humane society with two adoption facilities and public spay/neuter clinics in SLO and Atascadero. In addition to its adoption program which places up to 3,000 pets for adoption in a typical year, Woods also provides the community with: accessible and affordable spay/neuter services; a Pet Pantry delivering more than 12,000 pounds of free pet food to pet parents in need; affordable dog obedience training classes; a volunteer program; a growing pet foster program; and a humane education program for our area’s children.

Woods is located at 875 Oklahoma Avenue in San Luis Obispo and at 2300 Ramona Road in Atascadero, and is open to the public daily from 12 to 5 p.m., with adoption hours from 12 to 4 p.m. For more information about Woods, visit WoodsHumane.org