First, if you are a pet owner and are having trouble paying for food, remember that your pets can live fine on table scraps as long as you eat healthy. In the old days, most pets lived on table scraps.
Actually in these bad times PET food banks have also popped up in many communities so I would check for those as well. The rest of the advice is great and I hope people listen. I have my own 501 (c) 3 cat rescue. I run it all on my own dime but I recently found a pet food bank FOR 501's and that has helped a lot given the number of guys I have and the colonies I maintain.
Table scraps is a million times better than cheap dog food too.
This is so true assuming you're eating real food yourself. It never ceases to amaze me the number of people that will tell you a little piece of meat and veg off your plate is bad for the dog which should only be eating dried processed meat and cereal byproducts with heavy preservatives.
One of my good boys. Had an wheat allergy. For a couple years, he ate what we ate. Meat, Veggies, rice, potatoes. Nothing bad of course. IF we had meat that got frozen burn, we boiled it and used the broth to make rice.
The special dog food was like $50 for like 25#. So it was cheaper to make your own food.
Problem though is people who are having a hard time feeding themselves wont likely HAVE enough scraps but in either case these are two viable options for sure.
True, at that point, if you cant fee them, let them go to feed themselves.
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