COLORADO PET PANTRY
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Mission Statement
The Colorado Pet Pantry will temporarily feed Colorado pets, allowing families to increase their ability to care for pets with the goal of keeping them out of shelters and with their families.
About This Cause
In times of financial distress, many pet owners and families are faced with the heart-breaking decision to give up their pets because they can't afford the expenses any longer. Colorado Pet Pantry was created to provide pet food for owners facing economic hardship, with the goal of keeping beloved pets out of shelters and with their families. Even when a family has employment, the sudden absence of an income through health problems, death, or change in employment status can take an otherwise stable family into the depths of poverty. Inability to purchase pet food and accessories is one of the main reasons that animal shelters report that people relinquish their pets. In fact the Dumb Friends League in Denver, CO, states that re-homing a pet costs $500 to $2000 due to costs for food, housing, training, and veterinary care. Keeping pets in their homes with families that already love them is in the best interest of the pets themselves, families, communities, and animal shelters. The Colorado Pet Pantry's goal is to help families avoid relinquishing their pets to shelters if the human-animal bond is still strong. The pet food bank helps families to feed their pets and keep these loved pets in their homes. Each family may come to the pet food bank once every two months, covering about 50% of their pet food needs. The goal is to assist with pet food, but not for the family to take pet food off of its budget. In 2024, we distributed a one-month supply of pet food and accessories to 123,000 dogs and cats, for a total of 7.3 million meals. We now have 100+ monthly pet food banks throughout the state. Programs: 1) The Colorado Pet Pantry holds monthly pet food banks throughout the entire state. The pet food banks are held in partnership with human food banks and other organizations that directly help families with low or no income. 2) The Colorado Pet Pantry manages and houses the Animal Welfare Share Program. This program allows the Colorado Pet Pantry pet food bank and 100+ local animal welfare organizations to share supplies which are in surplus. Many times an organization will receive donated supplies in large quantities and this program allows them to share with other like-minded groups so that all groups are more efficient with donor-dollars. (Ex. a large-breed dog rescue will receive cat collars.) 3) The Emergency Pet Food Assistance Program assists families that need help with pet food before the next nearby monthly pet food bank in the Denver/Boulder metro-area of Colorado to help people obtain pet food until the next monthly pet food bank. We work with partners to make this program possible, and these emergency locations can only help one time per year. Here's an example of our goal everyday: German Shepard "Lucien" and her family walked into the Dumb Friends League, a local animal shelter, with tears in their eyes saying they regretfully needed to surrender their beloved dog. The staff at the shelter asked a few questions, ultimately realizing the issue all came down to food. The family was going through hard times. Being as Lucien was not the only pet in the family, and she was the one that needed the most food, the tough decision was made to surrender her so that another family could love and properly care for her. But Lucien already had a loving family. The staff member at DFL handed Lucien's family a Colorado Pet Pantry flyer, and there was a pet food bank the very next day. The family had never heard of the pet food bank, but it was the answer that solved their most heart-breaking problem. They could now keep their family together.