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This crisis is not the time for people to relinquish their pets or feel guilty because they can’t feed them. Hi. This is Sue from the Dr. John P. Ruffing VMD Pet Food Pantry, a project of Pittsburgh LGBTQ Charities. Marie and I were talking about the impact of the SNAP crisis on pet owners. […]
Thank you to everyone who donated to our September Pet Food Drive for the Dr. John P. Ruffing VMD Pet Food Pantry. We had to cancel our distribution in September due to low inventory. Marie and I spent the entire month working hard to resupply the pantry. It has been exhausting. But successful to a […]
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sue Kerr (@pghlesbian) Someone in my neighborhood is removing my #ProtectTransKids yard sign. Five days in a row, it was removed from its perch on my vehicle, laid on a table. The other sign, #PghCatFolx, is undisturbed. I have moved them around, used different things to […]
A donor has generously pledged a 100% match on all donations (food and financial) thru Saturday – donations to the Dr. John Ruffing VMD Pet Food Pantry. We are based in Manchester on the Northside. Over 70 households are registered from around Allegheny County. We need 250 pounds of food to reach our goal. GoFundMe […]
Dr. John P. Ruffing VMD Pet Food Pantry Supports 70+ Caretakers and Households Earlier this month, we informed you that the Dr. John P. Ruffing VMD Pet Food Pantry was almost out of supplies for our 70+ caretakers and households. We had to cancel our September distribution. You came through and donated over 400 pounds […]
If you want a big orange pumpkin-like vehicle at your trunk-or-treating event, let us know. Here’s why we are the perfect participant … we can roll out the candy and also store donations of pet food. Contact us at folx@pghlgbtq.org
Update on the Closure of the Pittsburgh Pet Food Pantry Pittsburgh has been responsive – 27 people have ordered items from our wishlists. It is a little hard to know the quantity until they arrive. But 27 is lovely and will help us be prepared for October. I’ll admit I was hoping for an autumn […]
As we announced, the Dr. John P. Ruffing VMD Pet Food Pantry has to close for September because of a lack of donations. I didn’t really get much feedback. Chalked that up to there being so much wrong in the world, so much bad news that this was just more. Did I expect the calvary […]
PET FOOD PANTRY temporarily closed due to lack of donations. We are sorry to inform our neighbors that the Dr. John P. Ruffing VMD Pet Food Pantry will not be distributing in September due to lack of pet food. The pantry has over 70 registered households and caretakers. Based on Pittsburgh’s Northside, they serve families […]
Things are dire with the Dr. John P. Ruffing VMD Pet Food Pantry. I’m out of ideas. We can’t get the shed up. To get started, here’s a sweet video clip of two bonded cats born outside separately in 2019. They’ve lived here ever since. Spencer Cassadine is on the left, Kinzua on the right. […]
