What a Waste!!
@nanette64 (20363)
Fairfield, Texas
January 26, 2019 10:03am CST
As you may know, I ran an animal shelter called New Leash on Life Fund at my property for many years and Walmart helped us with dog and cat food by saving the torn and ripped bags.
Since I was physically unable to continue on as a Director and 24/7 caretaker, the President moved everything over to her 6 acres of land. We were just notified by Walmart that as of April 5th, there would no longer be the donations of the food for the animals. Corporate has decided to take it all back to the factory and then to the nearest dumpsters.
Well ain't that just duckie!!!! So I got on the phone with Family Dollar, Dollar General, Freds, Tractor Supply, Brookshire's for help; and all of them do the same thing. Dumpster!!!!! What a shameful waste; kinda like what all the restaurants do in the US with food at the end of the night instead of taking it to the homeless.
I got on line and found a few food pantry assistance programs for animals and I hope they can help us. And the worst part of all this mess is that our animal shelter is the only one in the entire county but the city and county refuse to grant yearly money to us but still want us to take care of the stray population along with spays and neuters, vet visits, etc. They don't mind though spending $25,000 every year for the one-day fireworks on the 4th of July or the money to dazzle up the main part of town at Thanksgiving and Christmas.
I am very angry at the whole situation.
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@WorDazza (15826)
• Manchester, England
26 Jan 19
@nanette64 I can't believe it even makes financial sense!!
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@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
27 Jan 19
@WorDazza Exactly but then again when do huge corporations every consider that!! They just raise their prices to counteract their stupidity.
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@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
26 Jan 19
There is absolutely no logic or common sense to it @WorDazza .
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@LadyDuck (502478)
• Italy
28 Jan 19
@nanette64 I asked them for the stale bread for the birds, they give me.
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@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
27 Jan 19
See, now that's another reason for me to move to Switzerland @LadyDuck .
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@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
28 Jan 19
@LadyDuck How wonderful is that!
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
28 Jan 19
now i'm more'n a tad miffed myself. i believe the places 'round these parts prolly donate such to the zoo??? but nary've a clue. we're such a wasteful society 's a whole...
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
28 Jan 19
@nanette64 howdy!! i've missed ya, too 's well's many others. jest needed a deep break from't all. i'm with ya, i've avoided human contact best i could this past year. jest dealin' with 'em via phone calls 'n emails nearly done me'n.
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@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
28 Jan 19
OMG @crazyhorseladycx how fantastic to hear from you. I've missed you. It's so bad anymore that I don't even want to be considered part of 'society'.
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@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
29 Jan 19
@crazyhorseladycx Oh I know; it's enough to drive a person 'crazy'. (no pun intended)
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
26 Jan 19
Why dump perfectly good pet food when you desperately need it? I don't understand why they do that. That is a waste and it is not right.
Lots of places do it though. My friend worked in a mall and they took good clothes and ripped them and threw them in the dumpster. They damaged food items and home goods also. They could have donated them to thrift stores or the homeless but they would rather they end up in the landfill.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
28 Jan 19
@nanette64 There are so many people in such desperate need of things that it is bad that perfectly good stuff is trashed and dumped.
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@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
29 Jan 19
@akalinus It makes no sense to me at all.
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@Happy2BeMe (99353)
• Canada
26 Jan 19
That is just terrible. I am so sorry to hear that. I can understand why you are so angry.
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@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
26 Jan 19
I could understand if the bags got contaminated or infiltrated by bugs or something, but seriously @Happy2BeMe ?
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@Happy2BeMe (99353)
• Canada
26 Jan 19
@nanette64 doesn't make sense. They would rather throw it out then put it to good use. Makes no sense.
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@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
27 Jan 19
@Happy2BeMe That's what I think; the idiots.
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@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
28 Jan 19
@amitkokiladitya A lot of it could be stopped too if people would spay and neuter their animals and not get one unless they were really ready to care for one.
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@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
27 Jan 19
And they wonder why so many animals are euthanized every year @amitkokiladitya . Shelters find it hard to keep up with the food bills.
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@amitkokiladitya (171988)
• Agra, India
28 Jan 19
@nanette64 yes...I agree. Cost of raising animals is really high
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@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
20 Feb 19
Yup, I know. That means I'll have to spend more money on my critters as well @jaboUK since I won't be getting any more help from the shelter.
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@amadeo (111937)
• United States
27 Jan 19
@nanette64 Good luck there.I have no luck with them.
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@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
27 Jan 19
Thank you @amadeo . I just wish I could talk some sense into these knuckle-heads.
@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
26 Jan 19
Our president had to go back to work full time as a prison guard so her salary will be buying food. Her husband who owns a lawn service and now takes care of the dogs; all his salary mowing lawns will be doing the same @DianneN .
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@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
27 Jan 19
I did contact our paper about putting in an article, so we'll see @JudyEv .
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
26 Jan 19
It's really wasteful to dump the damaged animal food containers in dumpsters! They have profit in minds instead of giving it to animal shelters!
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@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
27 Jan 19
It definitely makes me want to go on a rampage @acelawrites .
@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
27 Jan 19
That is so frustrating. The work that rescue and shelter professionals do is beyond amazing.
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@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
27 Jan 19
I know when I was full time doing it @DocAndersen , it was 24/7. Feeding, scooping the kennels, giving meds, walking them, playing with them, training them, going out in the middle of the night during a thunder storm (outmaneuvering lightning bolts) to calm the dogs down. And at one time we had 106 dogs.
@ThreeTeddies (2038)
• United Kingdom
2 Feb 19
You are right to be angry but, infortunately, animals are low on many 'to-do' lists
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@Aquitaine24 (12000)
• San Jose, California
28 Jan 19
Maybe they don't care about money
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