Woodland Pet Food Pantry helps people who need help feeding pets

Excerpts from the Yolo Sun article "Pet food pantry serves Woodland:"

Pets are increasingly important to us in contemporary society for diverse reasons, yet with common inspiration of a seemingly ancient, primitive nature. We are blessed and reassured by their presence, better understanding ourselves in context with them. They are our special companions sharing with us whatever life’s paths offer.

Sometimes life becomes an intense struggle where balancing of basic interests and needs of ourselves and our pets becomes economically conflicted, especially during persistent and desperate hard-times, upon which the sun lately rises.

Woodland Pet Food Pantry (WPFP) was established in May of 2010, “with an idea of helping people who are having trouble feeding their pets due to financial hardship,” explains Polly Nelson, one of these four women. “With families struggling to pay for the necessities, a consequence of this upheaval is what has happened to the family pet(s).”

Read more at WoodlandRecord.com.