DENVER (KDVR) — With rising inflation, budgets for many households are stretched fairly skinny and this impacts the complete household, together with pets.
In accordance with the Foothills Animal Shelter, 5 p.c of pet surrenders at their shelter are attributable to monetary causes. Households are compelled to surrender their pets as a result of they can not afford the price of tools, meals or provides.
With costs growing throughout the board, it could possibly be laborious for individuals to feed their animals and probably result in a rise in pet surrenders.
Canidae, a pet food model, stated its objective is to avoid wasting households cash on pet meals by creating refillable pet food stations.
They stated it can save you as much as 40 p.c on a 4-pound bag of meals utilizing certainly one of their refillable kibble stations over shopping for conventional pet food.
If that does not make a dent within the prices of meals, Colorado Pet Pantry provides free pet meals to households who want an additional hand a number of instances every week.
“We wish to assist individuals to have the ability to feed their animals to allow them to pay their lease, pay their utilities, put meals on the desk. You possibly can’t purchase pet meals with meals stamps, and that is one thing lots of people do not understand. So it occurs, generally it is only a month it is a unhealthy month, generally it is a unhealthy 12 months,” stated Eileen Lambert with Colorado Pet Pantry.
Canidae launched a brand new program the place each pound of kibble offered at a kibble refill station throughout the launch month, Canidae will match it “pound for pound” to feed native pups.
This month, they’re slated to donate 30,000 kilos of kibble nationwide, 3,000 of that can profit Colorado organizations, the Animal Rescue of the Rockies, and Colorado Pet Pantry. That quantity of meals will be capable to serve 7,500 meals to pups in simply September.
“Due to COVID, we at Colorado Pet Pantry, and I am certain the animal rescues as properly, we’re dealing with truly a discount of pet meals being donated to us. The pet meals that we give out at our meals banks is all donated. The manufacturers that donate to us, they created much less meals throughout COVID which implies they’ve much less surplus to donate to us,” stated Lambert.
These refill stations are in 14 Petco places within the metro space. It is also environmentally pleasant since you’re lowering the quantity of plastic pet food baggage. It is estimated that 40,000 pet food baggage shall be diverted from landfills.
When you have the means to assist, Colorado Pet Pantry is internet hosting a fundraiser referred to as Elevate the Woof. Faucet right here to be taught extra.
