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This past weekend was our first delivery to seven local food distros. We sent five small bags of dry cat food and five small bags of dry dog food to each disto – 70 bags total. Based on preliminary feedback, Braddock will need an additional 10 bags each month. Each distro is collecting information on […]
Pittsburgh LGBTQ Charities has three major projects right now And we need help. Our current volunteers have taken on the Herculean task of delivering food to all of our pantry caretakers every month, a decision made necessary after someone stole our stuff from our distribution bins. Delivering pet food parcels to 30 households is a […]
This project has operated for over a year without much incident. The few mishaps we had with pet distributions were miscommunication. People were helpful to each other, careful when they had to move bags around, quick to alert us of issues like a bag breaking open. Sadly in the past six weeks, we’ve had at […]
The Pet Food Pantry is helping our colony caretakers prepare for cold weather. We’ve procured 12 shelters BUT we need help ASAP delivering some & dropping kits off to a volunteer to assemble this weekend. Pittsburgh LGBTQ Charities is covering the costs of the kits. A large SUV can accommodate up to six. Here’s the […]
Registered households increased by 16% in four days Late last week, we posted about our commitment to support pet owners who have/will lose their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP benefits in November due to the Republicans shutting down the Federal Government. Mind you, the program is structured so it is funded, but Republicans resist […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
