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Kmart Celebrates National Pet Month by Supporting Pets and Their Owners! Kmart Celebrates National Pet Month by Supporting Pets and their Owners! Select Stores will be participating in the following Events: 5/19 - Pet Adoption Parking Lot Event 5/23 - Vet Check Event All Stores will have giveaways on 5/26... Customers can enter for their chance to win one of the following: • SportsPet Cat Tube • Nestle Purina sponsored Build-A-Bear Mini Dog • Nestle Purina sponsored Build-A-Bear Mini Cat • $10 Kmart/Pedigree Gift Card • $10 Kmart/Champion Breed Gift Card AL Fort Smith, AR 72903 Northridge, CA 91324 Morgan County Humane Society Sebastian County Humane Society Pit Bull Rescue Sand Diego 1101 Beltline Rd 7434 Rogers Ave 8730 Rio San Diego Dr Decatur, AL 35601 Fort Smith, AR 72903 San Diego, CA 92108 Humane Society of Etowah County Paragould Animal Welfare Society CO 201 George Wallace Dr 2010 South Caraway Rd Gadsden, AL 35903 Jonesboro, AR 72401 Safe Haven Foundation 9881 W 58th Ave The Humane society of West Alabama CA Arvada, CO 80002 635 Skyland Blvd Tuscaloosa, AL 35405 Woods Humane Society Rocky Mountain Siamese Rescue 1570 W Branch St 5885 Palmer Park Blvd Save a Pet Arroyo Grande, CA 93420 Colorado Springs, CO 80915 2214 Ross Clark Cir Dothan, AL 36301 City of Fowler PAWS Humane Society of Moffat County 1075 Shaw Ave 1198 West Victory Wiregrass Humane Society Clovis, CA 93612 Craig, CO 81625 2214 Ross Clark Cir Dothan, AL 36301 The Jindo Project Pets Plus-The Home of Project Rex 16968 Main St 2535 S College AR Hesperia, CA 92345 Fort Collins, CO 80525 Maumelle Friends of The Animals Wee Bar None Ranch CT State Highway 89 16968 Main St Cabot, AR 72023 Hesperia, CA 92345 FOBAC (Friends of Berlin Animal Control) New Leash on Life Ahimsa Rescue Foundation 45 Shunpike Rd 19600 Plummer St 7434 Rogers Ave Cromwell, CT 6416 Fort Smith, AR 72903 Northridge, CA 91324 Coast To Coast Dachshound Rescue Life 4 Paws Arkoma Animal Control 295 Hartford Turnpike 19600 Plummer St 7434 Rogers Ave Vernon, CT 6066 DE NW Florida Great Dane Rescue Hightower Farm & Animal Sanctuary, 4211 Mobile Hwy Inc. 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