Your Pet Food Bank

07/07/2025

Thank you to my lovely parents for taking food to help at the Salvation Army food bank 🐾❤️

06/07/2025

Lots of food all off to help support a local food bank ❤️

06/07/2025

We have been running super low on food recently - so grateful to Thornberry for their help! ❤️🐾

29/06/2025

Hiii everyone ❤️

Just filling you in a little bit on why I have been / and will be quiet for a little while. My soul cat Albert is really poorly at the moment. He's just had a stay in intensive care at a vet hospital, and is still not well. We've been allowed to take him home to care for him, because he wouldn't eat in the vets and has lost weight. They thought they'd have to insert a feeding tube but he did eat for me and my partner so we are trying our very best to care for him at home. He has a bad infection in his jaw bone, so he needs a lot of love and care. He is also FIV+ so he isn't as able to fight as another cat ❤️

I'm hoping he pulls through, but at the minute I have little capacity for organising and sourcing extra donations (we have no food at the moment due to increased demand!). It's quite stressful running the food bank voluntarily and trying to work and at the minute Albert needs my attention. I hope you understand.

Please send positive thoughts to Albert and let's hope his little body can fight this ❤️❤️

24/06/2025

Please STOP doing balloon releases. They don’t go to heaven. They fall back to the ground, where animals choke on the pieces or get tangled in the string. Birds, turtles, and other animals often mistake balloon fragments for food, leading to injury or death. There has to be a better way to honor someone without harming other living things. Rescue One

21/06/2025

Another post just to remind people of where they can donate food ❤️🐾

19/06/2025

You're very welcome! ❤️❤️🐾

At Westfield Community Centre and a lovely lady (Nicola) dropped off loads of pet food to give to the local S20 Foodbank. All the donations came from Your Pet Food Bank, thanks so much 😃

19/06/2025

It doesn't matter if there is shade - the air is still hot!! Please, please do not put your pets lives at risk. Even 7pm is still too hot for dogs at the moment.

Try some other enrichment activities with them, play in the house. They won't die from missing a walk 🐾❤️

Our team have been hard at it this morning allowing our pooches to have their outdoor socialising and enrichment nice and early! 🌞🫶 And prepping lots of frozen goodies for everyone until we can get them out again later when it's cooled off! 😁💛💙

We wanted to remind you all to be so very careful out there while we have our little heatwave! 🌞🫶

We say it so many times throughout the summer months but we still see so many posts and hear stories from vets of animals with heat stroke.

Heat stroke is DEADLY. Your dog will not die from missing a midday walk but they may if you walk them. 💔 And your cats! Where possible keep them indoors during the peak heat! With little shade, hot tarmac and not alot of water sources this kind of heat is dangerous for them too! Not alot of people think of cats struggling but with the temperatures predicted we know they will!

- Avoid peak heat times! Walkies early in the morning and late in the evening are best! 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️
- Plenty of cooling measures available to your dogs AND cats! Cooling mats, cooling bandanas - close the curtains in one room to create shade and a cooler room... paddling pools, no unsupervised garden time, frozen kongs or licki mats, plenty of fresh cool water... there's so many fun cooling ideas out there! 🥰
- Where possible, even when avoiding peak heat go for a walk where there's shaded areas and ideally rural - avoid street walking to reduce the risk of burning your dogs pads- concrete can and does hold onto heat very well! 😔
- Absolutely do not leave your dog or cat in a hot car.💔 You can loose them in minutes 💔
- Pop suncream on those light ears and noses! Just like us, especially lighter animals- they can burn without being in direct sunlight. 🌞
- Be the fun police if you have to! 👮‍♂️👮‍♀️ Don't let your pooch play excessively while in the heat - find them something calming to do with their brain instead! (Stuffed kong, treat balls, puzzle feeders, destruction boxes etc) 👌 and keep your cat indoors and entertained.
- Check your gardens and fencing before allowing your dog to have a short toilet break - the LAST thing you want is your dog getting loose and running in the heat!!!! 😭

Here are the common signs of heatstroke (as provided by our wonderful friends down at the PDSA):
⚠️ Excessive panting and salivating
⚠️ Drowsiness/Lethargy
⚠️ Collapsing/Weakness
⚠️ Vomitting/Diarrohea
⚠️ Bright red tongue
⚠️ Pale gums
⚠️ Excessive thirst (Dehydration)

Pets at a higher risk of heat stroke are:
🐾 Puppies/Kittens
🐾 Elderly
🐾 Obese
🐾 Heart/Respiratory conditions
🐾 Short-nosed breeds (Bulldogs, Frenchies, Pugs, Persians etc)

If you are concerned that your pet has heat stroke, please don't delay in getting them to a vet as soon as possible 🚑

We hope you all stay safe and have some fun with your furries while doing so - OUT OF THE HEAT! 😍🥰💙💛👌

16/06/2025

You are so very welcome ❤️🐾

Thank you to ‘yourpetfoodbank ‘, the donation of dog food is most appreciated 🥰.

16/06/2025

I work closely with a lot of rescue centres and honestly, from where I'm standing this is so true. It's heartbreaking watching the reality of rescues struggling.

Don't be part of the problem - spay and neuter your dogs and cats!

While you are intentionally bringing more dogs into an already overpopulated canine world, there are dogs of all breeds sitting in rescues and shelters. Many are dying due to a lack of room, a lack of care, etc. Many came from breeders to begin with.

So, please take a good, hard look at what you are doing and ask yourself, "Do we need more dogs?"

I can assure you from where I am sitting that we have no room for the ones already here.

Help those already here.
Please.

A MESSAGE TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO CONTINUE TO BREED AND SELL DOGS: STOP.

And if anyone gets on here and wants to school us in the "reason" dog breeding is ok, don't. Not from where we are sitting, trying to save lives, giving up sleep doing it, and begging for help. You will lose that argument.

This is one place that will never condone breeding.

07/06/2025

Our donation points if you are wanting to help by donating food ❤️🐾

06/06/2025

Food off to help those hungry tummies ❤️🐾