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Mid-Arizona Shetland Sheepdog Club, Inc. to Give Thanks to PETCO Two Organizations Focus on Adoption Events, Placing Pets in Homes 4 the Holidays, Throughout Year Who: Wendy Retzer, President of the Mid-Arizona Shetland Sheepdog Club, Inc., will recognize PETCO (NASDAQ:PETC) for their support of ongoing adoption efforts that help the rescue group place homeless pets in lifelong loving homes. The Mid-Arizona Shetland Sheepdog Club supports an active sheltie rescue program that rescues and cares for Shetland Sheepdogs that have been abandoned, neglected, or abused and then places them in permanent, quality, and loving homes. Shelties in the program are evaluated for health and behavior and then matched to qualified homes that have previously submitted adoption applications. Persons interested in obtaining more information about the Mid-Arizona Shetland Sheepdog Club rescue program or assisting this program should contact Bill Ferrell at 480-507-7996 or emailing . Where: The Ahwatukee PETCO Store at 5011 East Ray Road in Phoenix. The store phone number is (480) 893-3383. David Bargholz is the Store Manager. For detailed instructions on how to get to the store, log onto http://www.petco.com/ and click on "Locate a Store." When: Saturday, December 13, 2003, at 1 p.m. Why: Mid-Arizona Shetland Sheepdog Club, Inc., and PETCO are successful partners in educating customers about the need to place adoptable animals in homes. The Club wants to say thank you for PETCO's help. This 'recognition' provides an opportunity to also highlight the international "Home 4 the Holidays" adoption campaign that runs through the first part of January 2004. The campaign, that involves more than 1,200 shelters from around the world, hopes to find homes for more than 200,000 homeless companion animals so those animals can be "Home 4 the Holidays." If this goal is met, the campaign will be the single largest adoption event of its kind. Story Idea: This could make a nice feature about the importance of animal adoption and would make a nice visual with people and pets. Contacts: Heather Archer PETCO Animal Supplies, Inc. (858) 453-7845, ext. 4040 Bill Ferrell Mid-Arizona Shetland Sheepdog Club, Inc. (602) 525-3313 (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030603/PETCOLOGO ) PRNewswire -- Dec.11 http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030603/PETCOLOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: PETCO Animal Supplies, Inc. Web site: http://www.petco.com/

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