Care Packages for Shelter Cats

GreaterGood has a new way to help cats in shelters across the US—care packages!

Providing food, vaccinations, bedding, and enrichment needs for cats is a costly endeavor for animal shelters across the country. Due to the high cost of these basic necessities, shelters often have to limit the number of cats that they can save and provide homes for. A cat castle and a full belly can go a long way for the well-being of shelter cats and kittens. Through proper vaccination, animals’ risk of disease is cut down or eliminated, leaving shelter volunteers more time to find good homes for these cats. Animals that are healthy, happy, and well fed stand a much better chance of being adopted.

Now, GreaterGood.org is offering a new way to help shelter cats across the country. You can provide healthy meals, cat castles, and the proper vaccines to cats with a care package. We offer 3 sizes of care packages to choose from. When you sponsor a care package, we will transport nutritious, high quality cat food, beds, and vaccinations to shelters and rescue groups nationwide.

You can help. Just $10 provides 100 bowls of cat food, one cat castle, and the vaccination of one shelter cat.

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Central MA Kibble Kitchen

Pet Food Bank Makes Sure Cats And Dogs Don’t Go Hungry In Tough Times

“The main mission of the Central MA Kibble Kitchen is keeping pets with their families so they don’t have to consider relinquishing them to shelters.”

Arin Greenwood

Animal Welfare Editor, The Huffington Post

Posted: 11/30/2015 08:43 AM EST

CENTRAL MA KIBBLE KITCHEN

It’s not just human family members who can go hungry, when times get tough.

That’s why Kim O’Konis founded a food bank for her area’s pets, about a year ago, with the goal of helping struggling families in Massachusetts “get much needed and costly food for their beloved dogs and cats.”

The Central MA Kibble Kitchen is an all-volunteer operation that distributes some 4,000 pounds of pet food every week, to about 200 pets. O’Konis estimates 70,000 pounds of pet food have been given out altogether, since the nonprofit got off the ground in January 2015.

The aim isn’t just to feed these animals, but to help families — including the furry members — stay together, and to keep pets from going into shelters, because of financial hardship.

“The main mission of the Central MA Kibble Kitchen is keeping pets with their families so they don’t have to consider relinquishing them to shelters,” O’Konis told The Huffington Post.

O’Konis says her clients run the gamut. Some are homeless or in tough financial straights because they’re getting divorced or are escaping domestic violence. There are folks who are unemployed and finding it hard to get new sources of income.

The circumstances vary, but what’s shared is a love for their pets and a commitment to doing right by their animals.

One client, whom O’Konis calls Jane, lost her home due to exorbitant medical expenses, and was worried she was going to lose her dog and chief source of comfort, a Boston terrier named Chiquita, as well.

But now, thanks to the Central MA Kibble Kitchen, Chiquita is fed as well as spayed, vaccinated and microchipped.

Most importantly, she and Jane are still together.

“I personally have had people collapse into my arms in tears to find that they could keep their companions and weren’t forced to face make other arrangements,” O’Konis said. “To see the relief on a parent’s face, when they don’t have to consider giving up a beloved family pet, is beyond words.”

 

Please consider making a donation to Central MA Kibble Kitchen by giving $8 to paypal.me/tailsnchills/8USD Helping #pets in need.