Ryan Fish is KGUN 9's Midtown and Downtown Tucson reporter. Send your story ideas to Ryan at [email protected].
Food banks around the country have seen longer lines and more demand dating back to the start of the pandemic. And in the last few years pet food banks have seen the same.At the Hermitage Cat Shelter near 22nd and Craycroft in Midtown Tucson, volunteers are handing out pet food, toys and treats on the third Thursday of every month. It’s part of the ‘Food for People’s Pets’ program that started in 2008.
”Recipients need proof they’re receiving financial assistance and their pets are spayed or neutered.But while demand has surged, supply is harder to come by.“It’s hard to get pet food,” volunteer Teri Bambauer said. “It’s very expensive. Even for us to supply the food that we do, we don’t nearly get the donations that we used to.”The pantry distribution used to happen weekly, but now it only happens monthly.
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