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You guys are all just amazing. Always thinking of Bobbi and the Strays. No matter what - there sure is a lot of positive energy out there. We can feel the love! : - )

Hmmmm.... Okay. What if those St. Louis shelters agreed to share their windfall of food with Bobbi and the Strays?

Any supporters from the six St. Louis shelters out there? If so, what do you think of that idea?

Again, I don't know if that's an incredibly terrible or naive idea. What are your thoughts?

Has this idea reached Zootoo yet? Because it needs to.

Speaking of free food, I actually never 'cashed' in on the free samples that I should have received..... as a Zoomaster with over 50,000 points, that's a lot of free samples. I would LOVE if ZooToo donated my samples to Bobbi & the Strays. In fact, I wonder if other ZooTooers are interested in donating their free samples to Bobbi as well?

I'd like to know just how large those lucky shelters are. Even if a million pounds is split (at least) six ways, that's an awful lot of food. I would imagine it was a couple of years' worth of food for each of them.

Every shelter's budget is stretched to the max because of the increasing cost of everything and they could all certainly benefit from some assistance.

I don't know where Pedigree is located. Is it that their plant is in or near St. Louis? Is that why those shelters are the lucky recipients?

Last year I found out that another major dog food producer will only consider requests for donations from shelters in their immediate area. That doesn't help us at all.

What we need are for the dog and cat food companies to distribute free product coupons to the shelters across the country. That eliminates the logistics problem. They can pick up what they need, when they need it, eliminating a major storage problem along the way and guaranteeing that the food will be fresh when needed.

If they were to look at if from a marketing standpoint, they could think about this...

When a person adopts a dog or cat from a shelter, they want to know what it's been eating so that they can give it the same food. Is it your product that you want recommended, or someone else's?

A little generosity today can generate a lot of customer loyalty tomorrow.

I'm in total agreement with both DeeDee and hymcheng... There are many shelters that are in need, but, Bobbi and the Strays are in despaerate need, now! Zootooers are trying desperately to raise money for a new shelter, for them. If we could get someone to donate food and other items that are necessary for daily care and survival, then, 100% of the money raised can go toward the building fund...
Please Keep helping.. GO TEAM ZOOTOO!!!!

I agree with you, Cassie3. It would be fantastic to share this gift with other shelters that are just as needy, if not more so. In fact, I wanted to suggest to ZooToo that they should donate some of that free food to Bobbi & the Strays, which is in dire straits at the moment. They really need to save every penny they have towards purchase of a new shelter by the end of the year, or homelessness it is for them. If they didn't have to spend as much of their budget on food, they can re-direct that money to their building fund. So, what do you say, ZooToo? While every shelter is needy, time is running out for Bobbi & the Strays and that makes them perhaps the neediest of all. Maybe you can help them in this regard???