Donate Supplies to Your Local Shelter With Chewy’s Wish List
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Looking for a way to support your local shelter? Of course you are—shelter and rescue staff and volunteers are heroes for pets and the people who love them. That’s why Chewy makes it easy for you to give shelters and rescues the products they need with one simple feature: Wish List.
With Wish List, you can select the organization you want to support this holiday season, shop from the list of products they need, then check out and let Chewy take it from there, shipping direct to their door at no extra cost to you. What could be better than that?
Key Takeaways
- Chewy Wish List makes it easy to support animal shelters and rescues by sending much-needed pet supplies directly to their doorsteps.
- Any 501(c)(3) rescue or shelter can create a Wish List on Chewy.com, allowing them to request essential items such as food, toys, and cleaning supplies.
- Donors can browse Wish Lists by location or organization name and contribute by purchasing items that are shipped directly to the group in need.
- Creating or donating to a Chewy Wish List helps organizations reduce overhead costs and focus more resources on the animals in their care.
- You can also send a gift card, giving rescues the flexibility to purchase essentials like prescriptions and frozen items that are best ordered directly.
What Is Wish List?
As every pet parent will tell you, pets need stuff. Like, a lot of stuff. From food and treats to toys, beds, and beyond, there’s a whole bunch of gear that goes into helping give pets their best lives.
Shelters and rescues often rely on donations for these items. But one shelter’s needs can vary drastically from another’s. A cat rescue won’t have much use for dog treats, and a shelter in Arizona probably doesn’t need a ton of self-heating beds. So how do you know what to send your local organizations?
Wish List makes it easy. Shelters and rescues now have the ability to curate a list of items from Chewy’s vast assortment that they need—anything from kibble and litter to more specialized things like bottles and formula for newborn kittens. Then, patrons like you can shop from that list, and Chewy will deliver those products right to their front door.
You can also opt to send a Chewy gift card to the shelter, letting them spend your donation on what they need most.
Think of it as a direct line to your local pet-saving superheroes, giving you the chance to make a difference by sending the right supplies at the right time.
Who Can I Help?
Any 501(c)(3)-registered non-profit shelter, rescue, or other animal welfare organization in the U.S. can sign up to make their own Wish List—which means there’s probably one near you.
We’ve made it easy to find shelters and rescues in your area to support:
- Click the “Give Back” tab at the top of the screen, then click the Donate to a Rescue link.
- You’ll be prompted to enter your zip code to search for organizations who are helping pets in your community.
- If your favorite local shelter or rescue doesn’t have a Wish List yet, why not tip them off? Send them this link— www.chewy.com/givesback/—and let them know you’d like to do some shopping on their behalf.
How Do I Get Started?
Once you’ve found a shelter or rescue you’d like to support, click through to their Wish List. There, you can browse all the products that will help the pets they serve.
Can’t decide? Take a deep breath and think about the impact you’d like to have on the shelter and its pets. Want to make sure their animals’ basic needs are met? Send food and litter. Want to add some joy to their lives? Select a toy from the list. If you’d like to help pets with medical issues, send a Chewy gift card—shelters can use those funds toward prescription medications, as well as other items they may need.
Add your selected items to your donation cart, check out, and you’re done! Chewy will send your donation directly to the shelter’s doorstep—so you can skip the part where you have to lug heavy food bags to in-person drop-offs.
When you donate using Chewy’s Wish List, pets get the supplies they need, shelters and rescues get to fulfill their mission, and you get that warm, fuzzy feeling that comes from knowing you’ve made a difference. Think of it as a win-win-win.
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