Focus on Felines Campaign specialist Shelly Kotter, along with Shannon Riddle, Four Directions community cat program coordinator, and a handful of volunteers spent half a day collecting pet food—and it was oh so easy.

In fact, their process of collecting food is so easy, they’ve dubbed the program the EZ Food Drive.

Armed with a few chairs, a table, and some preprinted shopping lists, the volunteers were able to collect more than four hundred pounds of pet food in under three hours.

“The response was overwhelming!” says Kotter. “We handed shoppers a list of needed pet food and supplies. When those shoppers left the store, they gave us the items they bought from the list.”

It’s that easy.

Kotter is hoping that rescue groups across the country will follow suit and get permission from local retailers to set up EZ Food Drives in their communities.

Adds Kotter, “With a minimal amount of effort, we were able to collect enough pet food to supply local groups for a few weeks.”

For more information about the EZ Food Drive, please click here.
 

To learn more about Four Directions, e-mail Shannon Riddle at shannonr@bestfriends.org.