Just under 29,000 pounds of donated dog food is headed to regional shelters
The Sioux Falls Humane Society's Pet Food Bank, with Greater Good Charities and the Animal Resource Center, loaded pallets for Brookings, Yankton, Mitchell, and Iowa so families can keep their pets.
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Just under 29,000 pounds of dog food arrived at the Sioux Falls Humane Society's Pet Food Bank and is going out across the region, Dakota News Now reported. On Wednesday morning, volunteers loaded pallets for places including Brookings, Yankton, Mitchell, and shelters in Iowa.
The Animal Resource Center and Greater Good Charities are part of the effort. Heidi Dean of the Hanson Family Foundation said the point is to keep pets with their owners when the cost of food is what would force a surrender, and to stock shelters and rescues that then share food with families. The donation moved food. It did not end the need.
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