Animal sanctuary to be surprised with Petco Love stories grant
The nonprofit organization Petco Love, in partnership with BOBS from Skechers, are celebrating the impact of the Catherine Violet Hubbard Animal Sanctuary, and the love stories that they have helped create between adopted pets and their owners in a surprise celebration at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Petco store in Brookfield.
The story of two dog owners, and pet adopters in, Judy Taylor, her son Lyle, and her adopted pet dog, PeeWee, from the Catherine Violet Hubbard Animal Sanctuary, was recently the winning story, and selected as one of 100 U.S. winners from thousands of story submissions to help organizations earn a $1,000 to $100,000 lifesaving grant award from Petco Love. The grant will go toward Catherine Violet Hubbard Animal Sanctuary.
The winning story is about Lyle, who was previously looking for purpose, and a dog named PeeWee, who was looking for a loving family. Together, the two each found love, care and companionship.
Winning stories generally reflect the many big and small ways that pets make peoples’ lives better in good and in challenging times.
The winning adopters will receive a Petco Love shopping spree and a BOBS from Skechers prize pack for their pet.
Petco Love previously partnered with BOBS from Skechers to invite adopters to share how their pets have changed their lives to give the organizations they adopted from, a chance to receive the grant in the money range from the Petco Love Love Stories campaign this 2021 holiday season.
The Petco Love location in Brookfield is at 169 Federal Road.
The Catherine Violet Hubbard Animal Sanctuary honors the memory of 6year-old Catherine, who was an animal lover, and who lost her life in the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Dec. 14, 2012.
Her mother, Catherine Hubbard, founded the sanctuary in her daughter’s memory. The sanctuary is at 3 Old Farm Road in Newtown.
Animal lovers can now also help the Catherine Violet Hubbard Animal Sanctuary earn more lifesaving funds by voting for their story in the People’s Choice competition at petcolove.org/lovestories. The top five stories with the most votes will earn additional grant funding that ranges from $5,000 to $25,000. Voting closes on Wednesday at noon central time.