Thanks to your donations, Lynchburg Humane Society receives $50,000 grant from Petco

Funds come from customers opting to “save a pet’s life” while checking out at the register

Lynchburg Humane Society receives $50,000 grant from Petco

LYNCHBURG, Va. – There’s a chance you made a donation to the Lynchburg Humane Society and didn’t realize it.

The nonprofit received a $50,000 grant from Petco Thursday.

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We’re told those funds come from customers opting to “save a pet’s life” when they check out at the register.

The no-kill shelter is a direct recipient of that money to support their lifesaving efforts for animals in Central Virginia.

“It’s [for] medical care, its vaccines, its food, it’s [for] the staff that care for the pets every single day. It’s everything that you could think that you would need to care for a pet,” said Jill Mollohan, associate director of the Lynchburg Humane Society.

Mollohan said Petco’s donated $680,000 to their humane society since 2014.


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Tim Harfmann joined the 10 News team in September 2020 and works at the station's Lynchburg bureau.

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