Petland’s Adopt-A-Pet programme at an all-time high

The franchise pet retail group Petland with retail pet centres across the United States, Canada, Japan, China, Mexico and South Africa recently released the latest numbers from its national Adopt-A-Pet programme, a community service initiative to help place homeless pets in local communities. According to the new survey, in the last 15 years, Petland has found homes for more than 327 000 unwanted or abandoned pets in their communities. Company-wide, participating Petland stores have placed 75 861 homeless puppies and dogs and 240 097 homeless kittens and cats since 1998. Although Petland stores have always accepted other pets like small animals and reptiles, that particular data has only been recorded since 2010. Since then 11 459 large birds, reptiles and litters of small animals have been accepted into the Adopt-A-Pet programme nationwide.