KINGWOOD — Houses and More collected between $800 and $1,000 in pet food recently. The pet food was donated to the Catholic Charities Raymond Wolfe Center.
“This is our seventh year collecting and donating pet food,” Jessica Miller Lipscomb, broker/owner of Houses and More, said. “A lot of individuals usually donate. This year people who never donated before dropped off donations. This is our largest donation.”
Alix Evans, director of Catholic Charities Raymond Wolfe Center, said most of the people in Preston County don’t buy pets — they take them in when people drop them off.
“Pets are important,” she said. “For people who are homebound, a pet is company. Having a pet also makes them feel safer.”
Evans said people coming in for pet food do not have to fill out any forms or even give their names.
She said prior to the pandemic, some clients coming to the Catholic Charities Raymond Wolfe Center for help would bring their pets with them so she could see them.
“Now, due to COVID and the need to serve clients at the door instead of letting them come in, I have to go out to their cars to see their pets,” Evans said.
Lipscomb said she she believes providing pet food for pet owners is important. She said people love their pets so much they will split their meal with them. She said if pet owners are able to get pet food, they don’t have to share their meal. This helps the pet owner maintain a healthy diet.
Evans said she was grateful for the donation of pet food. She said she used to get a grant that allowed her to buy pet food for the center, but it is no longer available. She said she also gets some donated pet food from the Preston County Animal Shelter.
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