Pounds for Pounds: Couple uses birthday as time to help pets | Local News

Pounds for Pounds: Couple uses birthday as time to help pets | Local News

Andrea Smith of Citrus Springs was turning 60 final February. About the a long time, she experienced obtained loads of birthday presents. She needed to do a little something a little unconventional to mark the day, anything that would make a distinction.

She and her husband, Pat, who the two are animal lovers, made a decision that as an alternative of concentrating on cake and ice product for themselves, they may well, alternatively, acquire foodstuff for pets and donate it to Citrus County Animal Expert services. Final calendar year, they gathered over 750 lbs of pet food.

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Previous yr, Maeby, the pup, was delighted with the over 750 pounds of pet food, as effectively as pet supplies, that were being donated to the Lbs for Pounds event,








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Tammy Farrell is a single of the business entrepreneurs supporting the Lbs for Pounds occasion. She has a donation box at her Rather Pets grooming store at 2814 W. Dunnellon Highway, Dunnellon, and also is donating a gift for those who take part in the Pounds for Pounds event Feb. 4.