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OPPORTUNITY
TO Serve

NEW PROGRAM OF MOW OF AMARILLO

by Susie Akers

Meals on Wheels of Amarillo is so they are sharing their meals with MOW has established a partnership
excited to announce a new program, their pets, which is good neither for with the Texas Tech University
in addition to our home-delivered the clients nor their pets. School of Veterinary Medicine, also.
meals for seniors. AniMeals on In the spring of 2022, the TTUSVM
Wheels pet feeding program Pets provide so much companionship students will begin taking care of
launched on the first of November to our homebound clients; in many the veterinary needs of our clients,
2021. Volunteers will be delivering ways, they are like family, helping free of charge. This is made possible
dog and cat food once a month to to combat isolation and depression. in collaboration with the Texas
clients who need help with pet food AniMeals is a natural add-on to our Veterinary Medical Foundation in
for their cherished pets. The pet food program. We are already feeding Austin. MOW is extremely grateful
is being donated by Garth Merrick, seniors who cannot get out, so taking to both TVMF for providing funding
so it is provided free of charge to our food to their beloved pets is another and to TTUSVM for providing vet
clients. way we can help them remain in care to our clients’ pets – truly a win-
their own homes, with their pets, win.
Currently, MOW is helping provide where they are the happiest.
pet food to almost 100 animals each Oftentimes, when someone loses a
month. Volunteers help package Some volunteers reported that, after cherished pet, friends and family
the pet food at the MOW office into they delivered the pet food to the don’t know what to do to help
smaller bags, then another group of clients, they were so grateful that memorialize and console pet owners.
volunteers delivers it to clients who it brought them to tears. Now they MOW has established a Pet Memorial
need help feeding their pets. We won’t have to spend money on pet fund for this purpose. Donors can
discovered that many of our clients food when they need it for other make a gift in memory of a pet that
don’t have money to buy pet food, necessities. has passed, and MOW will send an

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