Uxbridge Scugog Pet Food Bank

04/01/2025

We are overwhelmed with gratitude for the incredible generosity shown this holiday season and for everyone who supported our mission this year. Your donations have made an immeasurable impact on our community. We wanted to take a moment to recognize some of the organizations and groups who have gone above and beyond this holiday season:

❤ To the incredible Brock Fire Station 82, we can’t thank you enough for sponsoring three families this holiday season and curating beautiful gift bags for the children and their families. Your kindness is truly inspiring, and your actions embody the very best of what this season is all about. You’ve brought joy, hope, and comfort to families who needed it most. Your efforts truly embody the spirit of the season!

❤ Thank you, Full Circle Rescue and The Kibble Project. We are blown away by the 646.4 lbs of donations to help countless furry friends stay nourished and loved this season!

❤ Thank you, Uxbridge Scugog Pet Food Bank, for another year of thoughtful pet gift bags! Your generosity spreads so much joy among our clients and their pets!

❤ Thank you to Trinity United Church - Cannington, Manilla Community Hall, The Thrift Hub, Durham Regional Police Service, MMPS, Brock High School, Cannington Dental Office, Brock Georgina Probus Club, Beacan Presbyterian Church, Ross Memorial Hospital, HY-HopeFarm, Phoenix Farms, Brock Minor Hockey Association, Stingerz Ringette, Two Ponds Farm Beaverton and anyone else who hosted food drives for us. Local businesses and individual community members came through for us in ways we couldn't have anticipated and we appreciate your kindness more than words can express.

From all of us here at TNDF, thank you to everyone who contributed in any way. Your generosity has brightened the holiday season for so many, and we are honoured to work alongside such compassionate individuals and organizations. As we enter the new year, we carry forward the spirit of giving and community that you’ve all helped foster. 🌟

19/12/2024

2024 Christmas Bags

Today we sent out our last previously planned Christmas bags distribution.
(After all distributions - we have some dog bags left which are going to our friends at South Simcoe Pet Food Bank).

Between our partners at Rescue Chow Pet Food Bank - Durham Region - Ontario and ourselves we have handed out almost 1,450 bags!!

Some of the recipients include:
- OACAC / Oshawa Animal Service Center pet wellness days;
- Uxbridge Loaves & Fishes Food Bank;
- Operation Scugog Foodbank;
- Nourish & Develop;
- Brock Community Food Bank (Sunderland and Beaverton locations);
- North House;
- Community Living Durham North;
- Sunrise Pregnancy and Family Support Services;
- Lindsay Pet Food Bank;
- Refuge;
- Doors of Compassion;
- Hub Ajax;
- Duo;
- 504 Bar Christmas toy and food drive;
- Salvation Army Food Bank - Whitby;
- Zion Christian Reformed Church;
- Columbus Church food bank;
- Pickering Food Bank;
- Durham Humane Society; and
- South Simcoe Pet Food Bank.

Thank you to everyone who donated or helped with these!!

Some people to thank:
🐾 Tera, Joanne & Jim from Rescue Chow;
🐾 Our amazing Mars Petcare & Mars, Incorporated volunteers and Corporate Donations Group;
🐾 PetSmart and PetSmart Corporate;
🐾 Pet Valu Port Perry;
🐾 Edward Jones Financial Advisor: Tammy Scuralli;
🐾 Full Circle Rescue & Amber;
🐾 OAS & Kathy PF
🐾 The Kibble Project;
🐾 Cheryl R;
🐾 All our drivers and donors; and
🐾 Cearra H, Linda PV, Nicola M, MJ G, Donna G and my parents Robert Or Janet Diebel.

There are so many others that helped us to do this - I’ll try and remember everyone and add them as I go.

Thanks everyone!!

🌟🌟Time to start collecting for 2025🌟🌟

19/12/2024

💙🐾

13/12/2024

More Christmas bags are going out every day!!

Love helping these great organizations to spread some Christmas cheer to beloved pets.

10/12/2024

AUCTION UPDATE:

All items are now at their pick-up locations - if you did not get a message from this page or me (Mel Diebel) or the pick-up coordinator at your location - please reach out to me.

Thanks all!!

Together we raised over $4.7k before costs.

Hope everyone enjoys their new items - feel free to share pictures and videos of you and your pets playing with all their new Christmas treats!! 💙🐾

10/12/2024

EDIT: ALL FILLED - Thanks Krystyne + hubby!!

URGENT DRIVERS NEEDED - as soon as possible today:

Deliver kitten food to Oshawa (from Leaskdale).

Pick up dog food in Whitby (for Leaskdale). Must arrive in Whitby before 3pm.

Tomorrow am:
Deliver pet food to Uxbridge Loaves & Fishes Food Bank (from Leaskdale)

09/12/2024

UPDATE ON OSHAWA AUCTION ITEMS:

Will now be moved tomorrow (Tuesday). We are currently dealing with frozen rain / iced roads and one of my dogs in for emergency surgery. (He will be fine)

EDIT: ALL DELIVERIES / PICK-UPS COMPLETED

ELVES NEEDED

Hi all,

We need some help with driving:

LEASKDALE --> PORT PERRY
WED Dec 4 arriving between 10:30 and 11am: Leaskdale to Operation Scugog Foodbank in Port Perry. Christmas bags and dry food. Mid-size vehicle or bigger needed.

LEASKDALE --> CANNINGTON
To be arranged with Nourish & Develop. Delivery of Christmas bags. Large vehicle needed.

LEASKDALE --> SUNDERLAND OR BEAVERTON
To be arranged with Brock Community Food Bank. Delivery of Christmas bags. Large vehicle needed.

LEASKDALE --> UXBRIDGE
1. To be arranged with Sunrise Pregnancy and Family Support Services. Delivery of Christmas bags. Small vehicle needed.

2. To be arranged with Community Living Durham North. Delivery of Christmas bags. Small vehicle needed.

To be arranged with North House. Delivery of Christmas bags and food. Mid-size vehicle needed.

Christmas bags to Uxbridge Loaves & Fishes Food Bank

pet wellness Christmas bags to Oshawa Animal Service

Oshawa Animal Service Center-> LEASKDALE
Pick-up our bins of supplies from Oshawa Animal Service Center
(from our donations to the recent Pet Wellness days).

BALLANTRAE (by Stouffville) --> LEASKDALE
Pick-up a large order of kitten food that we purchased for local cat rescues.

LEASKDALE --> ZEPHYR
To move auction items to pick-up location. Small vehicle. Preferably this Friday.

LEASKDALE --> OSHAWA
To move auction items to pick-up location. Large vehicle. Preferably this Saturday pm.

LEASKDALE --> PORT PERRY
To move auction items to pick-up location. Large vehicle. Preferably this Saturday am.

LEASKDALE --> UXBRIDGE
To move auction items to pick-up location. Large vehicle. Preferably this Friday evening.

Please let us know if you can help with any of these trips.
Thanks!!

08/12/2024

Anybody headed in Oshawa today?

We have a load of auction winnings to go there.

Pickup: just east of Leaskdale / west of Lakeridge

Drop off: east Oshawa

Contents: 1 heavier box (fish tank stand) and then smaller items that would like take up a back seat of a normal
Car.

When: ideally today

EDIT: ALL DELIVERIES / PICK-UPS COMPLETED

ELVES NEEDED

Hi all,

We need some help with driving:

LEASKDALE --> PORT PERRY
WED Dec 4 arriving between 10:30 and 11am: Leaskdale to Operation Scugog Foodbank in Port Perry. Christmas bags and dry food. Mid-size vehicle or bigger needed.

LEASKDALE --> CANNINGTON
To be arranged with Nourish & Develop. Delivery of Christmas bags. Large vehicle needed.

LEASKDALE --> SUNDERLAND OR BEAVERTON
To be arranged with Brock Community Food Bank. Delivery of Christmas bags. Large vehicle needed.

LEASKDALE --> UXBRIDGE
1. To be arranged with Sunrise Pregnancy and Family Support Services. Delivery of Christmas bags. Small vehicle needed.

2. To be arranged with Community Living Durham North. Delivery of Christmas bags. Small vehicle needed.

To be arranged with North House. Delivery of Christmas bags and food. Mid-size vehicle needed.

Christmas bags to Uxbridge Loaves & Fishes Food Bank

pet wellness Christmas bags to Oshawa Animal Service

Oshawa Animal Service Center-> LEASKDALE
Pick-up our bins of supplies from Oshawa Animal Service Center
(from our donations to the recent Pet Wellness days).

BALLANTRAE (by Stouffville) --> LEASKDALE
Pick-up a large order of kitten food that we purchased for local cat rescues.

LEASKDALE --> ZEPHYR
To move auction items to pick-up location. Small vehicle. Preferably this Friday.

LEASKDALE --> OSHAWA
To move auction items to pick-up location. Large vehicle. Preferably this Saturday pm.

LEASKDALE --> PORT PERRY
To move auction items to pick-up location. Large vehicle. Preferably this Saturday am.

LEASKDALE --> UXBRIDGE
To move auction items to pick-up location. Large vehicle. Preferably this Friday evening.

Please let us know if you can help with any of these trips.
Thanks!!

08/12/2024

💙🐾

Today seems to be all about the thank you’s…(I have more, stay tuned).

This delivery came yesterday from our dear friends at Uxbridge Scugog Pet Food Bank! ❤️

Kitten food is by far our biggest expense during the year. We spend thousands of dollars every month from late spring to fall just on kitten food (none of which is recouped by adoption fees).

So this generous donation is absolutely incredible.

With many kittens still in our care - I’ve already dropped some of this off today to foster Kari - this couldn’t have come at a better time.

Thank you so much to Colleen for delivering this load to us too! Along with a large bag of homemade catnip toys (our kitties’ favourite!) from Cheryl Reid which I’ll share in another post tomorrow with video.

So thankful for all of this kindness.

(OG EAS kitty Barry White doing quality control, desperately wishing he could still eat kitten food because it’s his FAVOURITE and also he’s STARVING. Barry wrote that last part and fyi - he’s lying).

07/12/2024

Due to the Winter Travel Advisory, our Oshawa items will not be moved to pick up location until tomorrow at the earliest.

Our Uxbridge location has also requested no pick-ups today while they work to clear their long driveway.

I’ll provide further updates as I have them.

Sorry for the inconvenience!!

06/12/2024

An updated post on driving help still needed.

EDIT: ALL DELIVERIES / PICK-UPS COMPLETED

ELVES NEEDED

Hi all,

We need some help with driving:

LEASKDALE --> PORT PERRY
WED Dec 4 arriving between 10:30 and 11am: Leaskdale to Operation Scugog Foodbank in Port Perry. Christmas bags and dry food. Mid-size vehicle or bigger needed.

LEASKDALE --> CANNINGTON
To be arranged with Nourish & Develop. Delivery of Christmas bags. Large vehicle needed.

LEASKDALE --> SUNDERLAND OR BEAVERTON
To be arranged with Brock Community Food Bank. Delivery of Christmas bags. Large vehicle needed.

LEASKDALE --> UXBRIDGE
1. To be arranged with Sunrise Pregnancy and Family Support Services. Delivery of Christmas bags. Small vehicle needed.

2. To be arranged with Community Living Durham North. Delivery of Christmas bags. Small vehicle needed.

To be arranged with North House. Delivery of Christmas bags and food. Mid-size vehicle needed.

Christmas bags to Uxbridge Loaves & Fishes Food Bank

pet wellness Christmas bags to Oshawa Animal Service

Oshawa Animal Service Center-> LEASKDALE
Pick-up our bins of supplies from Oshawa Animal Service Center
(from our donations to the recent Pet Wellness days).

BALLANTRAE (by Stouffville) --> LEASKDALE
Pick-up a large order of kitten food that we purchased for local cat rescues.

LEASKDALE --> ZEPHYR
To move auction items to pick-up location. Small vehicle. Preferably this Friday.

LEASKDALE --> OSHAWA
To move auction items to pick-up location. Large vehicle. Preferably this Saturday pm.

LEASKDALE --> PORT PERRY
To move auction items to pick-up location. Large vehicle. Preferably this Saturday am.

LEASKDALE --> UXBRIDGE
To move auction items to pick-up location. Large vehicle. Preferably this Friday evening.

Please let us know if you can help with any of these trips.
Thanks!!

06/12/2024

PAID HELP NEEDED (ONGOING)

Every 2 months or so we need to move food from our partners in Whitby up to our storage facility near Leaskdale.

We need to find local help from someone who owns or can rent and transport to site a skidsteer or other pallet moving equipment. Capacity of 3,000lbs is likely good.

Operator needs to be able to upload truck without a dock, move and stack pallets, and then load into shipping containers.

Usually takes around 1 to 2 hours to unload approx 10 to 20 pallets (mostly double stacked - so actually 1/2 the moves).

Looking to negotiate a fair flat-rate per hour or per pallet or per instance - whatever makes sense. (With extra money built in for travel, rental, insurance, etc…)

Our next shipment is scheduled to come up in 2 weeks and is desperately needed. (Picture in the comments of how low we are in food up here.)

Please reach out if you know someone reliable who can help.

06/12/2024

UPDATE ON AUCTION & CHRISTMAS BAGS

I am still working through getting all auction items ready to move to pick up locations.

As well as distributing all Christmas bags to the relevant food banks and other community organizations.

Unfortunately, we have been dealing with a lot of head winds this time (late pymts, people cancelling bids, the Facebook glitches due to the “Relevant Comments” setting, weather-related delays, health issues, tons of incoming and outgoing shipments to get everyone filled up before Christmas, etc…).

Auction ESTIMATED timing of items being moved to pick-up locations:
Zephyr - tomorrow (Friday AM) AVAILABLE FOR PICK UP
Uxbridge - Saturday AM AVAILABLE FOR PICK UP
Port Perry - Saturday PM AVAILABLE FOR PICK UP
Leaskdale - Saturday PM AVAILABLE FOR PICK UP

Oshawa - SUNDAY AM

CHRISTMAS BAGS:
OACAC / OAS pet wellness days - picked up
Uxbridge Loaves and Fishes - delivered
Operation Scugog - delivered
North House - picked up
Brock Community FB - to be picked up by BCFB
Nourish & Develop - volunteer to be booked next week
Community Living North Durham - volunteer to be booked next week
Sunrise - volunteer to be booked next week

Sorry for any delays folks - I am doing the best I can during a crazy period.

(Picture of some of our Christmas bags all packed up and ready to go to the food bank in Port Perry. Thank you Joanna for delivering those for me yesterday!!)

03/12/2024

The first set of food bank Christmas bags were dropped off at Uxbridge Loaves & Fishes Food Bank this afternoon. Thank you to Heather for meeting me there to help unload it all.

Combined with the pet wellness bags sent out on the 22nd of November - this represents 200+ / 700+ bags* distributed so far this season.

(*plus similar numbers at Rescue Chow Pet Food Bank which will start to go out on their serve weekend in December).

03/12/2024

EDIT: ALL DELIVERIES / PICK-UPS COMPLETED

ELVES NEEDED

Hi all,

We need some help with driving:

LEASKDALE --> PORT PERRY
WED Dec 4 arriving between 10:30 and 11am: Leaskdale to Operation Scugog Foodbank in Port Perry. Christmas bags and dry food. Mid-size vehicle or bigger needed.

LEASKDALE --> CANNINGTON
To be arranged with Nourish & Develop. Delivery of Christmas bags. Large vehicle needed.

LEASKDALE --> SUNDERLAND OR BEAVERTON
To be arranged with Brock Community Food Bank. Delivery of Christmas bags. Large vehicle needed.

LEASKDALE --> UXBRIDGE
1. To be arranged with Sunrise Pregnancy and Family Support Services. Delivery of Christmas bags. Small vehicle needed.

2. To be arranged with Community Living Durham North. Delivery of Christmas bags. Small vehicle needed.

To be arranged with North House. Delivery of Christmas bags and food. Mid-size vehicle needed.

Christmas bags to Uxbridge Loaves & Fishes Food Bank

pet wellness Christmas bags to Oshawa Animal Service

Oshawa Animal Service Center-> LEASKDALE
Pick-up our bins of supplies from Oshawa Animal Service Center
(from our donations to the recent Pet Wellness days).

BALLANTRAE (by Stouffville) --> LEASKDALE
Pick-up a large order of kitten food that we purchased for local cat rescues.

LEASKDALE --> ZEPHYR
To move auction items to pick-up location. Small vehicle. Preferably this Friday.

LEASKDALE --> OSHAWA
To move auction items to pick-up location. Large vehicle. Preferably this Saturday pm.

LEASKDALE --> PORT PERRY
To move auction items to pick-up location. Large vehicle. Preferably this Saturday am.

LEASKDALE --> UXBRIDGE
To move auction items to pick-up location. Large vehicle. Preferably this Friday evening.

Please let us know if you can help with any of these trips.
Thanks!!

01/12/2024

Last chance to get your bids in - auction ends tonight at 8pm.

30/11/2024

Our annual Christmas fundraising auction ends this SUNDAY DECEMBER 1st at 8pm.

Get your bids in now!!