Pet Wants - The Pack Gives Back!

Buy a pound of food for Cincy CARE and Pet Wants will match it!

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Buy a pound of food for Cincy CARE and Pet Wants will match it!

Wanna help feed the dogs?! This is how you can help!

Cincinnati Animal CARE uses approximately 364,000 cups of food each year to feed the more than 8000 stray animals we take into our facility annually! To help offset this massive cost, our friends at Pet Wants chose US as the beneficiary of their The Pack Gives Back Initiative this year, where for every pound of food you purchase for us, they'll match it!

Help us keep our dogs fed with quality food all year long, and please consider contributing to the Pack Gives Back Initiative! You can donate in-store at the Pet Wants Findlay Market or Pet Wants Vine Street locations or donate through this campaign directly!

We're setting our goal for this fundraiser at $12,133. That's exactly half of what it would cost us to feed the dogs Pet Wants Chicken and Rice formula for ONE MONTH, and half the amount because Pet Wants will match this amount Pound for Pound, giving us what we need for a month of food.

How much food does Cincinnati Animal CARE use every year?

To break it down, every day, we feed about 300 dogs onsite between both locations, plus about 100 dogs in foster care! That’s a whopping 400 dogs needing to eat every day!
Our dogs are fed an average of 2.5 cups of dry food per day per dog. More for the big guys, less for the littles!
That breaks down to about 1000 total cups of dog food per day!
Then we take 1000 cups of dog food/day x 7 days/week = 7000 cups of food every week!
Then we take those 7000 cups/week x 52 weeks/year.... And that gives us 364,000 cups consumed annually! 
THAT’S A LOT OF DOG FOOD!
Looking at cups vs pounds, and our needs at 364,000 cups of food per year, with roughly 4 cups in every pound of food, we need a massive 91,000 lbs/year to feed the 400 dogs in our care every day, annually. CAN YOU EVEN BELIEVE THAT!
To put that into perspective further, that’s about 45 TONS of food and the approximate weight of the following things!
  • An Adult Fin Whale!
  • A Crane Barge!
  • An Ancient Pharaoh Statue!
  • Two 8*4 Howo trucks!
  • Two Stonehenge Sarsen stones!
  • Half a 1600-square-foot house!

WOOOOOOF!

A message from Pet Wants Founder and Owner of Pet Wants Kitchen and Findlay Market:

"I like to think that as Americans, we all do what we can to make the world a better place. Thankfully for us, Cincinnati is home to Cincinnati Animal CARE, one of the finest animal shelters and rescue organizations in the nation, leading the way in no-kill animal sheltering and adoption practices. On behalf of Pet Wants at Findlay Market and the Pet Wants Kitchen in Over-the-Rhine, we are proud to introduce the "pound for pound" pet food donation to Cincinnati Animal Care.

With the holidays just around the corner, organizations like Cincinnati Animal CARE are entering a critical time.
As an immediate proposal of support and to kick things off, visit Pet Wants at Findlay Market or The Kitchen in OTR, and for every pound of Pet Wants food donated by the public to Cincinnati Animal CARE, Pet Wants will match that donation, pound for pound.

To make it more fun, we'll culminate the food drive with "Pets. Pumpkins. Bourbon" A Costume Contest and Party on Wednesday, October 23rd at (pet-welcoming) Knox Joseph Distillery and the OTR Stillhouse, near Pet Wants at Findlay Market!"

Michele Hobbs, Owner of Pet Wants Kitchen, Pet Wants Findlay Market, Pet Wants Vine Street, and the Knox Joseph Distillery/OTR Stillhouse.

Thank you for your support!