Splitting The Difference to Make a Difference

Delilah and I just wanted to tell y'all how proud we are of our Mother.

It started off being about Diet Coke.  That's all Mother wanted when she went into the grocery store, a couple of 12-packs of Diet Coke.  This was last Friday morning, on our way to WOOF...

Once in the grocery store, after she picked up several 12-packs of that precious nectar, she put them down.  Yes, dear reader, she put down the Diet Coke which she was craving.  Instead, she walked over to this tower of brown paper bags.  Big brown grocery bags filled with cans of food and non-perishable items.  Perhaps you have seen them, too, in your local grocery market?  They are for the Souper Bowl of Caring, a promotion for the Tarrant County and North Texas Food Banks.

I know...you are wondering what this has to do with us dogs, but bear with me, dear reader, I am getting there.

It was Friday so maybe she was thinking she could make a weekend with less caffeine, or give up a beer or two on a bar tab, or not have chips while she watched the Pro-Bowl.   All I know is that she came back to the car with just one of those cans to which she is so addicted and a big smile on her face.  The whole ride to WOOF she kept telling Delilah and I how lucky we were and that it felt good to be able to do something so easy that could make such a difference.

We pugs were still a bit confused about all this good cheer so she explained.  Apparently that big brown paper bag of groceries cost $8 - money she had budgeted for her beverage of choice.  And after she paid for it, she handed the filled bag over to the clerk at the store who put it aside for the Food Banks.  Now Delilah and I were still trying to figure out how buying food but not eating it could make anyone so happy when Mother explained that not all families and not all dogs get full meals and that someone else in more need would get to eat the food.  Being from rescues ourselves, her ramblings started to make sense to us pugs.

Here at WOOF...we collect and donate dog food throughout the year for the North Texas Food Bank.  I know this helps many dogs who already have homes get to stay in them, by making sure that their families can continue to feed and keep them.  Well this Souper Bowl event is about human food but it sounded exciting and Delilah and I still wanted to find a way to help.  The nice folks at Kroger or Albertsons or Tom Thumb can't really let us pugs in there to buy the donation bags (stupid rules).  And with our stubby legs, we probably couldn't reach the shelves anyway.

But you can!  You humans are taller and you have opposable thumbs and you have dollars.  I know this past year has been hard on too many of our friends and families.  Everyone has made cuts in our budgets already, so $8 isn't necessarily a lot of money, but it might be money that you can't share right now and I know how that can be.


So Delilah and I talked it over and we came up with a plan.  We are gonna split the cost with you.  If you will be all tall and handy and go to either a Kroger or an Albertson's or a Tom Thumb and purchase/donate one of these bags of food, we will give you a gift card for 50% of your costs - so $4 per donated bag.  All you have to do is bring in your receipt to WOOF,  showing your purchase of a "superbowl food drive" between February 1 and February 7, and we will issue a gift card right then and there.  

For more details, Check Out Our Website.  To learn more about the Souper Bowl of Caring, click here.  For more information about the North Texas Food Bank, click here.  For a list of participating grocery stores, please click here.