Would You Like To Help Donate Kibble For Cats and Dogs In Shelters For Free?

@pyewacket (43903)
United States
March 13, 2009 8:23pm CST
I heard this story on the World News Now the other night and think it's wonderful. A young girl, aged 12, named Mimi Ausland from Oregon has a great love and compassion for pets all her life and as early as age 9 wanted to work in her local shelter. But, due to her age couldn't, she could only volunteer there. Many of the dogs at this shelter were "foreclosure" dogs...that is dogs that were abandoned by people when their homes went into foreclosure and they left the pet behind. She couldn't help notice that as with all shelters nationwide, keeping shelter pets well fed was something of a task, as most shelters are non-profit and rely on donations. She wanted to help, and out of her own allowance would buy a gigantic bag of kibble dry dog food, usually once a week, but she wanted to do even more. Having been aware of the website where one clicks answers to questions and donates free rice to the world's hungry, Mimi then got the brilliant idea of setting up something similar but for pet food and created a website where by participating in "Bow-Wow" or "Meow" trivia, one is presented the question of the day, and one has to answer it. The good news though one doesn't even have to answer the question right, but with each click on the trivia donates 10 pieces of kibble each for dogs and cats. That may not sound like a lot, but according to the statistics a total of 89,435,590 pieces of kibble has been donated so far since April 1, 2008. At first this donation process only helped her local shelter but has expanded to shelters from Oregon to Florida. You can see a video of this story here: http://www.freekibble.com/press-nightly-news.asp One can sign up for daily reminders to click everyday at http://www.freekibble.com/ [b]{Warning: These are NOT referrals links but links to the FreeKibble Website and story about it} [/b] Way to go Mimi...and who says kids can't make a difference or come up with brilliant ideas?
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17 responses
@polachicago (18716)
• United States
14 Mar 09
Great idea. Such a good heart. I already play today. You know that I am all about pets and I will play on her site everyday. I will also send this link to many people. Thanks.
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@polachicago (18716)
• United States
15 Mar 09
Yes, I like all ideas to help others... I didn't know that you speak French...
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
14 Mar 09
Yup--sure do know how you feel about pets, same as me. I just went to that Free Rice one ...you're the one that did a discussion about that, remember?---For a switch I did the word questions in French...couldn't believed I remembered so much French..LOL
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
15 Mar 09
Je parle un peu français. (only a little)
@TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
14 Mar 09
I've done the rice thing. I find it fun to answer the questions. I like to learn and use my brain.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
15 Mar 09
I was on that rice site late last night...I never realized they had a bunch of categories not just the one, so I switched to the French language one--I studied some French in college, so testing myself in French was good exercise for the old brain..I actually did better in the French and remembered a lot ...LOL
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
15 Mar 09
Yes, that's the website I was talking about
• Canada
15 Mar 09
Is this the rice one you are talking about. If not I would be interested in a link to the one you are using. http://www.freerice.com/
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@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
14 Mar 09
That was a great idea and one of my programs set this up as a weekly hing to do . I think its great what kids can come up with !
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
15 Mar 09
Yes it was great of that little girl coming up with such a great idea
@seabeauty (1480)
• United States
15 Mar 09
I thinks that that girl is an inspiration to all animal lovers. At such a young age she could come up with that idea. That is wonderful :). Anyway, I did take the trivia for both the cat and dog links. Glad I could contribute in some way to helping these animals :).
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
16 Mar 09
It makes you wonder though why the major animal organizations, like the ASPCA don't set up something like this on their websites, doesn't it?
• United States
14 Mar 09
This is the first time I have heard of this, thank you for the information. What a wonderful program!
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
15 Mar 09
With all the doom and gloom most of us hear on the news, it was great to hear something positive like what this girl started with her kibble site
• United States
14 Mar 09
wow thats amazing, there was a girl in my 4th grade class that took a donation from people and seriously used the money to buy bulletproof vests for the police dogs in my city, I thought it was cool because the police dogs didnt have them yet, also if anyone is interested in helping out any charity without actually spending money theres a site i've been using called www.goodsearch.com (I think thats what it is) but you can pick any charity almost (I usually pick the aspca since I'm an animal lover) and for each search you do they donate one cent to your selected charity.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
15 Mar 09
Thanks for mentioning that Goodsearch website. It's nice to know there are websites like this that make donations, isn't it?
@AmbiePam (94107)
• United States
14 Mar 09
I thought you posted about this before (I thought you were the one who had told me). Maybe I'm just confused. It wouldn't the first time! I've seen the little girl in People even, spotlighted for her work helping animals. I think it is really cool. Ever since I heard about it, when I log on, the first thing I do is go to that site. It's really cool what we can do to help that is absolutely free!
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
14 Mar 09
Nope I didn't post this before...maybe it was something similar, you know me an my animal causes...LOL
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@ElicBxn (63643)
• United States
14 Mar 09
I've been doing this for months
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
14 Mar 09
I only found out about it the other night...
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• United States
18 Mar 09
very cool:) this sounds like a good addition to the animal rescue site i do now.
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• United States
16 Mar 09
That's totally awesome! Good for her and the dogs, too. The foreclosure situation has affected everyone. I'm happy that kids are getting involved in civics. Makes me want to do more to help my local community.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
17 Mar 09
I hate when I hear though that people leave their pets behind when a home goes into foreclosure
@littleowl (7157)
14 Mar 09
Oh how lovely Pye, that brings tears to my eyes, what a wonderful little girl to think of doing such a thing to help our furry friends...it is amazing how intelligent and imaginative children can be and so for a good cause..wouldn't it be nice if more adults as well thought that way....hugs and bb littleowl
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
14 Mar 09
Does kind of make you wonder why an adult didn't think of something like this doesn't it? Such a simple concept
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14 Mar 09
Hi pye, Oh how lovely to hear such good news for a change and what a lovely little angel to do thar the animals, now that is a very idea to start one here in the UK or buy some pet food and take round to the nearest shelter. I myself donate money everymonth to the shelter and the money goes direct from my account to the shelter and I get monthley news of all about the shelter. I have been doing that for a long time now. Bless her. Bright Blessings. Tamara xxxx
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
14 Mar 09
Mmmm..hey why not get the ball rolling and see if someone would have the know how to set something up in the UK....
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@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
14 Mar 09
I have the link to that site on my blog and I go on there most days. It's a wonderful idea, thanks for letting everybody know about it.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
15 Mar 09
I was lurking at your blog...LOL...and yes did notice the banner for the kibble one..also saw that virtual black kitty there too. I have that on my profile
• United States
14 Mar 09
I can verify that the links are not referals. I just went and played both for dogs and cats and signed up for the daily reminders. I think that it is great that this girl thought of this and has recieved recognition. Thank you for posting this, I sent the link to all my friends.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
14 Mar 09
Yes, what a brilliant idea for this girl to come up with this
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@GardenGerty (161006)
• United States
16 Mar 09
I learned about this some months ago from another myLot member. I do think motivated kids are terrific.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
17 Mar 09
We need more motivated kids, don't you think?
@Aurone (4755)
• United States
15 Mar 09
Indeed. That is awesome. Its always great to know that there are still some inventive children out there that want to help others.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
16 Mar 09
Yes we often hear about a lot of negative things about kids so it's nice to know for a change there's something positive
@snowcat46 (2322)
• United States
15 Mar 09
What a nice thing to post!! I've already signed up and now I get to feel good every day by doing this. Thanks!
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