FreeKibble.com Donates Food to Hungry Pets
Play Pet Trivia and the Website Will Donate Kibble to Shelter Dogs
Jan 28, 2009
With the difficult economic situation, more and more cats and dogs are landing in animal shelters, but many animal welfare organizations are in trouble. With more homeless pets to care for, the bad economy has put animal shelters and animal rescue organizations in a difficult position, as they've seen fewer donations due to the economic downturn - all at a time when the animal shelters must care for more homeless pets.
This has many dog lovers and other pet lovers wondering "How can I help homeless pets?"
For these animal lovers looking for a way to help hungry dogs and cats in need, there's a solution: FreeKibble.com.
What is FreeKibble.com?
FreeKibble.com is a website designed to gather food for homeless dogs living in animal shelters.
The site is the brainchild of 12-year-old Mimi Ausland, of Bend, Oregon. Ausland came up with the idea for the website as a way to help the homeless animals at her local animal shelter, and the site is now benefiting animals in shelters from Oregon all the way to Florida.
The website works like this: Visitors to this pet-friendly website answer a dog-related trivia question. Regardless of whether the FreeKibble.com visitor gets the pet trivia question right or wrong, the website donates 10 pieces of dog kibble to an animal shelter to help feed hungry homeless dogs.
FreeKibble.com makes one donation for each website visitor who plays the pet trivia game, called Bow Wow Trivia.
Freekibble.com's primary mission is this: "To provide good, healthy food to dogs and cats to those shelters who are working so hard to see that none of them go hungry - they need our help. In addition to providing free kibble to the Humane Society of Central Oregon, we've added 10 new shelters to the program (from Oregon to Florida!) and plan to expand the program to many more!...every piece of kibble counts!"
How Will I Remember to Visit FreeKibble.com Every Day?
Can't remember to visit FreeKibble.com every day? Dog lovers can sign up for an e-mail reminder to answer the daily dog trivia question, which means 10 more pieces of kibble will be donated to a hungry dog.
It does not cost website visitors any money to donate pet food to homeless pets. The website is supported by an array of pet-related businesses, so FreeKibble.com visitors are urged to support the pet companies and websites that make it possible for the website to donate food to help homeless animals.
From April, 2008 to January 2009, more than 680,000 meals of Castor and Pollux pet food were provided to homeless animals.
Is there a Website to Help Hungry Homeless Cats Too?
FreeKibble.com helps provide dog food to animal shelters, but this has many friends of felines wondering "What about the cats?"
FreeKibbleKat.com is the solution; this cat version of FreeKibble.com works in the same way. Website visitors play the cat trivia game - Meow Trivia, as it's called - once a day. And for each person who plays the cat trivia game, FreeKibbleKat.com donates 10 pieces of kibble (for cats) to an animal shelter.
More Websites to Help Homeless Dogs and Cats
FreeKibble.com and FreeKibbleKat.com are not the only websites out there dedicated to gathering pet food donations for animals in need.
A similar website is The Animal Hunger Site, which donates 6/10 of a bowl of pet food to an animal shelter for each click of its purple "Click to Give" button. For each click, sponsors make donations, making the entire pet food donation process possible.
The Animal Hunger Site also makes donations to animal shelters and animal rescue organizations that help cover other costs associated with caring for homeless pets.
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