Do cat shelters/charities take food donations?

[FrozenAteMyDaughter]

Our kitten has taken against the wet food he used to eat and cannot be persuaded to eat it. We have a number of recently purchased and unopened boxes of it - Felix kitten food in pouches. Does anyone know if shelters want and are able to accept donations of food like this? It seems a shame for it to go to waste.

We are in S E London.

TIA

Yes please!! Celia Hammond Animal Trust in Lewisham. www.celiahammond.org/lewisham

Absolutely. Unless they know you real well, it would have to be unopened stuff but they'd usually bite your hand off. (And you have a ready candidate up above I see. )

Some supermarkets also have a 'box' for cat food donations which anyone can use.

Excellent, thanks thecatneuterer. We will get onto that ASAP. So pleased that it won't go to waste.

It is basically a few unopened boxes cozietoesie. We do have some loose sachets as well which DH will take with him, but will quite understand if they can't be accepted.

FrozenCat had to be fed boiled fish only for a day after being neutered and has become very choosy since it seems.

Fab. And while you're at it, if you have any old towels or sheets (not duvets though) we can take those as well:)

Loose sachets also fine. I think Cozie meant already opened sachets/tins.

Or already opened dried food - which we have to be careful with.

Sealed pouches would be fine I should imagine - even if the cardboard box had been broken. They sell singleton pouches in supermarkets after all.

I meant more things like large bags of dried food which had been opened. (TCN, being a volunteer for a rescue and known to them, could probably go along with a bag she'd recently opened and they would use them, knowing that she wasn't an axe-murderer or a hoarder.)

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Cozie - we are taking about CHAT here - so my rescue - different location but same organisation.

I know.

One thing I've sometimes wondered is whether food banks take pet food as well as human food? (There must be people who need to use a food bank who also have animals to feed and if you're going down there anyway.......)

Good point. I don't see why they wouldn't. Various animal charities quite often have food collection boxes in various supermarkets too. CHAT certainly have one or two scattered around.

Thanks both. I think DH intends to visit today so I won't have time to sort old towels and sheets. But I will definitely do it in the next few days and come down maybe at the weekend with some.

Well done, Frozen. There's a great need out there and certainly no-one should ever be throwing pet food away.

Hi

I used to volunteer for the cats protection and we do take food donations. Very gladly accept food donations

Thanks crazycatlady82, we are taking them to CHAT this time but will also remember that the CPL take food donations too.

I donated about 15 loose sachets of (highly expensive!) kidney food that our Dcat totally refused to eat - via our vets to cat's protection who were happy to take it.

cozie - yes, Food Banks will accept pet food (well, the one I help at does), you are quite right, many people have pets who need feeding.

Thank Ragwort. Useful to know.

*Thanks

Done - thanks all for the info.