Halo, Purely for Pets, and FreeKibble.com teamed up to deliver 400,000 delicious, nutritious holiday meals of Halo Spot’s Stew to animal shelters, rescues and food banks “Koast-to-Koast”! On Monday, December 12th, TWO full trucks of tasty kibble left Lebanon, TN… one headed West, and the other one headed East, for the BIGGEST Kibble Drop to date.
On Tuesday, December 13th, Cincinnati Pet Food Pantry, Cincinnati, OH was the 1st stop for the FreeKibble truck heading East. There were 40,000 meals of Halo Spot’s Stew for dogs and cats delivered for Recycled Doggies & Cincinnati Pet Food Pantry, Homestretch Hounds, Hillsboro, OH, and The League for Animal Welfare, Batavia, OH. The story about the Kibble Drop appeared on the front page of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The atmosphere was festive at the Cincinnati Pet Food Pantry as twenty volunteers and C.H. Robinson driver, Derek Dorsey (“Double D”) unloaded 8,000 pounds of Halo’s dog and cat food for the three organizations. As Laura Richards of one of the beneficiaries, Homestretch Hounds, said, “I feel like a kid at Christmas!”
Recycled Doggies is a Cincinnati-based animal rescue which focuses primarily on dogs that are on death row at local animal shelters. They are an all-foster rescue formed by former volunteers of a KY shelter; they have taken all that they learned while volunteering and formed this rescue to help shelter dogs, one by one, escape death and find their forever homes.
Homestretch Hounds Rescue and Pet Orphanage is a rescue and shelter that mainly rescue pets from small, rural pounds; with a mission to give these fantastic animals a second chance at life by bringing them to the program when their time is up at other facilities. By adopting a pet, you are truly saving a life.
The League for Animal Welfare is a voluntary, non-profit animal shelter with a mission to better the lives of cats and dogs in the Greater Cincinnati area. They provide animals with loving care and shelter until they match them with loving homes. While promoting responsible pet ownership through public education and spay/neuter programs.
