PetSmart Charities

Community Guidelines:

We welcome and encourage your participation on the PetSmart Charities Facebook page (www.facebook.com/PetSmartCharities). Our goal is to provide you with the best possible Facebook community to share your love and passion about pets. To do so, please be respectful of the entire community by complying with the terms and policies of Facebook as well as PetSmart Charities’ additional policies below. We ask that you not post comments, pictures, or other content that:

• Attack or discriminate against other users and/or pets or breeds of pets
• Contain expletives, including curse words and foul language;
• Have inflammatory religious or political content;
• Is hateful, tortious, defamatory, slanderous or libelous;
• Promotes bigotry, racism, sexism, hatred or harm against any group or individual or promotes discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age
• Reference or link to a for-profit third party page or website or a 3rd party site that may be harmful or not beneficial to the community
• Violate or infringe upon the copyrights, trademarks, or privacy, property, publicity or other intellectual property rights of any person or entity;
• Include pictures or videos that depict pets in an inappropriate fashion, appear to be jeopardizing the safety of pets or placing them in an uncomfortable position;
• Contain language or pictures that contain nudity, are sexually explicit, lewd, obscene, and/or potentially offensive to the intended community;
• Solicit community members for businesses, organizations or support unrelated and/or not relevant to the celebration and/or welfare of pet and their pet parents or solicits repetitively - i.e. “spam.”
• Hijack a post with unrelated and/or negative content.
• Promote alcohol abuse, illegal drugs, or substances (or the use of any of the foregoing);
• Promote any activities that may appear unsafe or dangerous;
• Is unlawful or in violation of any law;
• Is otherwise, in PetSmart Charities’ sole discretion, inappropriate for the forum.

PetSmart Charities reserves the right to remove comments that do not abide by this policy. If an individual egregiously or repeatedly violates this policy, that user may be blocked from posting to facebook.com/PetSmartCharities in the future. PetSmart Charities claims no liability in any way connected to the use of, access or postings by community members to the PetSmart Charities Facebook page. PetSmart Charities may, in its sole discretion, choose to post in its own name corrections, additional facts or clarifications of inaccurate information contained in posts.

Information individuals share with the community on or through the Facebook platform, including, but not limited to: comments, wall posts, by “Liking” the PetSmart Charities page, or by “Liking” any social object maintained by PetSmart Charities, may be re-posted on or through the Facebook platform by the PetSmart Charities Facebook team in accordance with Facebook’s Terms & Conditions and may be used by PetSmart Charities for promotional purposes.


We're committed to finding lifelong, loving homes for all pets by supporting programs and thought leadership that bring people and pets together.

As the leading funder of animal welfare organizations across North America, we support the following life-saving programs:

PetSmart Charities Adoption Programs:
We’ve helped save over 7 million pets through adoption. Here’s how you can make a difference:

Join us on National Adoption Weekend (https://www.petsmartcharities.org/campaigns/national-adoption-weekend):
A record-breaking 25,027 pets found forever homes at our February 2016 event. Save a pet and adopt at our next event, May 13 – 15, at a PetSmart store near you (https://www.petsmartcharities.org/adopt-a-pet/adoption-centers)

Adopt a pet at our Everyday Adoption Centers(https://www.petsmartcharities.org/adopt-a-pet/adoption-centers/everyday-adoption-centers):
We never sell dogs or cats at PetSmart. PetSmart Charities Adoption Centers—in more than 1,300 PetSmart® stores—provide a clean, quiet and convenient place to get to know your new best friend.

Learn more about our adoption programs at https://www.petsmartcharities.org/adopt-a-pet

Donate and save a life (http://bit.ly/1SdA7XT):
Please donate now to help us end pet homelessness and find lifelong, loving homes for pets. Give with confidence knowing PetSmart Charities has earned 4 stars from Charity Navigator (their highest rating) for the last 13 years. More than 90 cents of every $1 spent goes to help pets in need.

We also support:

PetSmart Charities Spay & Neuter Program (https://www.petsmartcharities.org/what-we-do/spay-neuter):

To reduce pet overpopulation, we have subsidized more than 1.4 million spay or neuter surgeries since 2009 with more than 210,000 surgeries funded in 2015 alone.

PetSmart Charities Grants (https://www.petsmartcharities.org/pro/grants):
We’ve joined forces with over 3,000 animal welfare organizations to help save pet lives. Since 1994, we have granted more than $267 million to help save homeless pets.

PetSmart Charities Emergency Relief (https://www.petsmartcharities.org/pro/contact-us/emergency-relief):
A critical pillar of PetSmart Charities is assisting individual incidents where pets are impacted by man-made or natural causes. More than 230,000 pets have been assisted since 2007.

To view our privacy policy, visit petsmartcharities.org/privacy-policy.


PetSmart Charities is a 501(c)(3) organization and PetSmart Charities of Canada is a registered charity, separate from PetSmart, Inc.