More people in Windsor are surrendering their pets after struggling to afford them
More people than ever are turning to Feeding Windsor-Essex’s pet food bank as inflation hits grocery bills hard for humans and pet food. And local organizations say the number of people who’ve had to surrender their pets because of rising costs has more than doubled in the last three years.
“Some people come here, [they say] ‘We haven’t got enough money to live on,” said Darlene Druer, a volunteer at the local pet food bank. “‘But our animals have to have food.”
“They don’t care about themselves, they care about the animals.”
The pet food bank first started about five…
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