The Puppy Food Bank will start serving Texas no-kill animal saves from its North San Antonio area in January.
Organizers held a Dec. 15 interview to reveal the start of the Puppy Food Bank, a virtual food bank that will count on contributions and collaborations to protect food deliveries for animal saves and animal shelters statewide.
The food bank’s administrative head office remains in the Northwest Center office complex, 7550 W. I-10, house to marketing company The PM Group and the not-for-profit SA YES.
San Antonio-area company God’s Pet dogs Rescue will be the very first group to take advantage of a Puppy Food Bank delivery, according to food bank Director Danielle Gunter.
” We will strive with companies that think in our objective, which is every animal can be conserved and ought to be conserved and ought to have the ability to discover a good house,” Gunter stated, including an absence of food and resources ought to not discourage animal saves.
It was likewise revealed star and tv character John O’Hurley will be the Puppy Food Bank’s ambassador. O’Hurley, who has actually hosted the Kennel Club of Philadelphia’s National Dog Program for twenty years, stated pets have an unique location in lots of people’s lives.
” They do terrific things yet do not understand what they do,” O’Hurley stated.
O’Hurley stated the start of the COVID-19 pandemic stimulated lots of people who discovered themselves working from house to embrace an animal for friendship.
However as the pandemic has actually subsided and more individuals have actually gone back to work, lots of animal owners have actually surrendered their animals, triggering an increase and even overcrowding at animal shelters.
” This stress [shelters’] spending plan and impacts their capability to work,” O’Hurley stated.
O’Hurley stated the production of the Puppy Food Bank is an “simple option” towards assisting animal shelters and animal rescue groups that have a hard time to discover sufficient food for the animals in their care.
O’Hurley recommended people can contribute about $11 a month to help support the Puppy Food Bank.
” I believe it’s something the majority of people can do, specifically when they understand the terrific good that it does,” he stated.
