Miami-Dade County Animal Services and Petco Love prevent life-threatening diseases in pets by providing FREE pet vaccines

Miami-Dade County Animal Services (Animal Services) today announced it is partnering with Petco Love in efforts to prevent life-threatening diseases in pets by providing FREE parvovirus and distemper vaccines to our community’s pets. The FREE vaccine services are now available to Miami-Dade County owned pets through November 30, 2021 or while supplies last at the Animal Services’ Wellness Clinic in the Pet Adoption and Protection Center at 3599 NW 79 Ave., Doral, FL 33122, and at the WOW (Wellness on Wheels) Mobile veterinary clinic stationed at the Florida City City Hall located at 404 W. Palm Dr., Florida City, FL 33034.

“Thanks to Petco Love’s valued partnership and considerable investment in our community’s pets, we are able to expand support and services for our community’s beloved four-legged family members.” said Lorna Mejia-Lopez, Interim Director at Animal Services. “This program along with our array of life-saving services and initiatives help to ensure that our County’s pet owners are able to care for and enjoy a lifetime of companionship with their happy, healthy pets.”

This grant is part of Petco Love’s commitment to saving as many pet lives as possible. Through this generous initiative, they will donate one million vaccines to animal welfare organizations across the U.S, including our County’s Animal Services Department. Vulnerable pets in our community are not receiving the preventative vaccines they need, and many of them ultimately end up in our Pet Adoption and Protection Agency, putting our shelter population at risk. This program will help make sure pets are healthy and can stay in the care of their loving families.

“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.”

The WOW Mobile is made possible through a generous gift and grant funding from Friends of Miami Animals Foundation Inc, (FoMA). For more information about programs serving Miami-Dade County’s pets and pet owners at Miami-Dade County Animal Services Department visit www.miamidade.gov/animals, call 311, or follow Animal Services on social media @adoptmiamipets.

About Miami-Dade Animal Services Department
Every year Miami-Dade County Animal Services Department (Animal Services) provides care and refuge for 28,000 to 30,000 lost and abandoned dogs and cats. Every day, Animal Services staff works diligently to find life-long homes for these abandoned animals by facilitating onsite adoptions, hosting offsite adoptions at events and locations throughout the community, and working collaboratively with rescue organizations, volunteers, and adoption partners. For more information call 311 or visit www.miamidade.gov/animals.

About Petco Love

Petco Love is a nonprofit changing lives by making 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 $300 million in adoption and other lifesaving efforts. We’ve helped find loving homes for more than 6.5 million pets in partnership with Petco and organizations nationwide. Today, 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? Visit petcolove.org or follow at Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn to be part of the lifesaving work we’re leading every day.