SPCA Helping Struggling Pet Owners In Tampa
The SPCA helping struggling pet owners in Tampa by offering up solutions to keep their pets at home. The shelters in the Tampa area are getting full again. Pet owners are surrendering their animals because they can no longer afford to take care of them. The cost of pet food, supplies and vet care has sky rocketed.
Years ago, most veterinarians owned their own clinics and could keep the costs down. With technology and pets care health changing to more closely resemble our own, the prices have gone way up. The price of veterinary care has soared more than 60 percent over the past decade. And now, private firms have snapped up hundreds of independent clinics and Veterinarians are forced to push costly treatments and order more tests that result in higher costs to you.
The SPCA Tampa Bay is introducing a new way that pet owners can access pet food banks, vaccine centers and grooming clinics to help cut down on costs. The SPCA is helping struggling pet owners in Tampa. Instead of dropping your dog at a shelter, owners can keep their pets at home and out of shelters. A complete list of locations for clinics, food, and vaccines can be found at spcatampabay.org.
For Food:
Dedicated to Pebbles and the thousands of other animals served by SPCA Tampa Bay each year, the food bank provides free pet food to the cats and dogs.
Pebbles Pet Food Bank
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. on Tuesdays
Pasadena Pet Food Bank
9:30 a.m. -11:30 a.m. Every second and fourth Thursday of the month
Paul Balle Memorial Pet Food Bank
12:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. First and second Tuesday of the month
A complete list of locations for clinics, food, and vaccines can be found at spcatampabay.org.
Donate Food To Help Others
The food bank relies on donations. . If you’d like to help, please drop off canned and unopened dry dog and cat food. They accept most cat and dog food brands for this program except Ol Roy.
