Vermont Business Magazine Today, the Vermont Foodbank received nearly 40,000 pounds of donated pet food from PetSmart, equaling more than 187,000 meals for pets in need. Tom Abbiati, Director/Food Resources at the Vermont Foodbank said, “Over the past couple of years pet food has become a very important item we offer our clients. Many of our clients will feed their pets before themselves so having this product will help every community we serve in the state of Vermont.”
These donations are part of massive pet food donations taking place across North America thanks to PetSmart’s philanthropic Buy a Bag, Give a Meal program. For every bag of dog or cat food purchased online or in-store through Dec. 31, 2017, PetSmart will donate a meal to a pet in need with the goal of donating 60 million meals – nearly 13 million pounds of food.
To get the food to those in need, PetSmart is working with nonprofit partner, PetSmart Charities, which is teaming up with GreaterGood.org’s Rescue Bank program and Feeding America, two renowned national nonprofit organizations, to deliver this massive pet food donation immediately to pets in need across the U.S., as well as animal welfare agencies in Canada. This program will be the largest pet food donation for Feeding America to date.
Source: PetSmart 8.25.2017
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