PetSmart® Opens New Store in Lafayette

24 Mar 2016, 00:00 AM EDT

Public Invited to Attend Grand Opening Celebration and Ribbon-Cutting
April 2

PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–PetSmart is pleased to announce the opening of a new store in Lafayette,
La., located at 111 Meadow Farm. To celebrate, PetSmart is having a
grand opening event Sat., April 2, starting with a ribbon-cutting
ceremony at 9 a.m. Media and pet parents are encouraged to attend and to
bring their four-legged friends to join in the fun!

The first 50 shoppers will receive a mystery gift card (potential value
from $5 up to $50) and all shoppers will receive free giveaways such as
t-shirts, pet treat samples, pet toys and discount coupons.* The store’s
adoption partners, Wild Cat Foundation, Animal Aid for Vermillion Area
and Acadiana Animal Aid will be onsite with cats and dogs available for
adoption.

What:		PetSmart Grand Opening celebration
When:		Sat., April 2, 2016, 9:00 a.m.
Where:		PetSmart, 111 Meadow Farm (part of the Ambassador Town Center).

The new Lafayette store features more than 12,000 square feet of space,
providing pet parents with a broad range of competitively priced pet
food and a comprehensive line of pet products. The new store includes
useful services such as pet training and adoption services, as well as a
full-service grooming salon where dogs and cats receive hands-on care
from academy-trained, safety-certified stylists dedicated to making pets
look and feel their best.**

PetSmart is a leader in ending pet homelessness through in-store
adoptions that happen every day in its stores, and through National
Adoption Weekends, held four times a year, where more than 20,000 pets
find lifelong, forever homes in a single weekend. Each year, about 7
million pets enter shelters across North America and some 3 million
healthy, adoptable pets are euthanized. To help end pet homelessness and
save lives, PetSmart joins PetSmart Charities, PetSmart Charities of
Canada and nearly 3,000 local animal welfare organizations across North
America on a range of powerful adoption events in PetSmart stores. Last
year, two pets were adopted every minute a PetSmart store was open and
about 1,400 pets’ lives were saved each day.

*All grand opening giveaways available while supplies last.
**Services
are subject to availability. See store for details.

About PetSmart®

PetSmart,
Inc. is the largest specialty pet retailer of services and solutions
for the lifetime needs of pets. At PetSmart, we love pets, and we
believe pets make us better people. Every day with every connection,
PetSmart’s passionate associates help bring pet parents closer to their
pets so they can live more fulfilled lives. This mission impacts
everything we do for our customers, the way we support our associates,
and how we give back to our communities. We employ approximately 53,000
associates, operate approximately 1,444 pet stores in the United States,
Canada and Puerto Rico and approximately 202 in-store PetSmart®
PetsHotel® dog and cat boarding facilities. PetSmart provides a
broad range of competitively priced pet food and pet products and offers
dog training, pet grooming, pet boarding, PetSmart
Doggie Day Camp day care services and pet adoption services
in-store. Our portfolio of digital resources for pet parents—including PetSmart.com,
PetFoodDirect.com,
Pet360.com,
OnlyNaturalPet.com
and petMD.com—offers
the most comprehensive online pet supplies and pet care information in
the U.S. Through our in-store pet adoption partnership with independent
nonprofit organizations, PetSmart
Charities™ and PetSmart Charities™ of Canada, PetSmart helps to save
the lives of more than 500,000 homeless pets each year. In addition,
PetSmart supports organizations that make communities a better place to
call home through our philanthropy program, PetSmart
Gives Back™. By giving back to the communities where we live and
work, PetSmart not only celebrates the power of pets to enrich
people’s lives—we live it.