Emergency Relief FAQs
Thank you for sharing your concern regarding PetSmart Charities' emergency relief efforts. The following information should address your questions:

• What is PetSmart Charities doing to help pet victims?
• How can I support the pet relief efforts?
• Where does my money go?
• How much of my donated dollar actually goes to the pet victims of Hurricane Katrina?
• What agencies receive my funding?
• Where are the evacuated animals going?
• What happened to a pet that I saw on television?
• How can I find my missing pet?
• How can I donate something other than money?

What is PetSmart Charities doing to help pet victims?
Generous contributions made to PetSmart Charities provided more than $3.5 million dollars in pet supplies, transport and funding to more than 135 actively-involved animal welfare agencies since the day after Hurricane Katrina's passing.

PetSmart Charities grants are funding the following needs: food, crates, litter, beds, medical supplies, vaccinations and capital repair costs for shelters. PetSmart Charities also transported lost and abandoned animals from the affected areas to designated evacuation shelters with its specially-designed Rescue Waggin' pet transport vehicles from its Midwest and California programs. The Waggins transported nearly one-thousand animals in the weeks following the hurricane.

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How can I support the pet relief efforts?
The best form of support you can provide for relief efforts is a cash donation. Through our partnership with PetSmart stores, we are already providing much needed supplies to animal welfare agencies in and around the affected areas. You can donate in one of three ways:

• Click here to make a credit card donation or call 1-800-423-PETS ext. 1

• Make a cash donation at the Charity Dog receptacle inside any U.S. PetSmart store between Aug. 30 and Sept. 30, 2005.

• Mail in a check donation directly to:
  PetSmart Charities
  Attn: Disaster Relief
  19601 North 27th Avenue
  Phoenix, AZ 85027

You can also help by being a foster parent to one or more animals as a result of shelter overpopulation due to the Hurricanes. Contact your local animal welfare agency if you are willing and able to be a foster home.

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Where does my money go?
Your donations support animal welfare agencies actively assisting pet victims of Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita, and other disasters each year. Supplies needed at the Hurricane Katrina disaster site include:

• Pet food, bowls, leashes, and collars
• Crates, beds and kitty litter
• Medical supplies used for first aid to injured pets
• Vaccinations for displaced pets to prevent disease outbreak
• Repairs to shelters damaged by flooding, high winds, and fires

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How much of my donated dollar actually goes to the pet victims of Hurricane Katrina?
Donations designated to PetSmart Charities for emergency relief go toward pet victims of this and other disasters each year. One-hundred percent of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita funds will be used to help pet victims. As damage estimates rise each day during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the amount PetSmart Charities can give to the disaster is growing by tens of thousands each day, so the need to give to disaster relief is increasingly greater.

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What agencies receive my funding?
Your donation to the PetSmart Charities emergency relief fund helps various actively- involved local and national animal welfare agencies to meet the critical needs of the pet victims of this and other disasters each year. We are grateful to have already received an overwhelming number of requests and we hope to be able to continue to fulfill the growing need. A partial list of our initial agency partners is below:

Where are the evacuated animals going?
The animals are being evacuated to existing and temporary shelters in surrounding cities and states where space is available.

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What happened to a pet that I saw on television?
PetSmart Charities does not have the capability to track individual pets that appear in any media broadcast. Refer to the following web sites for the status of pet rescue efforts from the Katrina disaster area:

• www.hsus.org  (1-800-Humane-1)
• www.aspca.org  (212-876-7700 x4700)
• www.petfinder.com
• www.Spcahouston.org 
• www.americanhumane.org

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How can I find my missing pet?
PetSmart Charities does not have the capability to track individual pets.  Refer to the website www.petfinder.com/disaster , www.pets911.com  (1-888-PETS911) or the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine http://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/  at (1-888-773-6489) between 8:00 am and 6:00 pm or e-mail Katrina@ldaf.louisiana.gov ) for information on reporting or finding lost pets.

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How can I donate something other than money?
We encourage individuals who would like to donate their time and/or resources, other than money, to contact the Red Cross at www.redcross.org , the Salvation Army at www.salvationarmy.org, the Humane Society of the United States at www.hsus.org, or the ASPCA at http://www.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pagename=hurricane_volunteer.

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