Pet Food 4 Furever Families
The Pet Food 4 Furever Families program was started directly because of the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, which hit the United States in full force in late March, 2020.
By early April, 2020, GCHS created the Pet Food 4 Furever Families program, to help families feed their pets, so they don’t need to owner surrender to local shelters. With the program, GCHS attends Mobile Food Pantries in conjunction with Community Cooperative and hands out bagged cat or dog food.
The program is dependent on donations by the public and donors have stepped up since early April. GCHS was there, as well, during the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, handing out well over 15 tons of pet food through the months after the storm. Since April, 2020, the GCHS pet food pantry has distributed well over 45 tons of pet food, the vast majority of that were through donated pet food.
Starting in 2022, GCHS has also started a pet food drop-off at six different food pantries, so pet food can get to the people who need it for their pets.
Those pantries on the GCHS Pet Food 4 Furever Families drop-off list include:
Pine Manor:
Phone: (239) 275-5180
Address: 5547 Tenth Ave #2864, Fort Myers, FL 33907
Website link
Sun Coast Community Center:
Phone: (239) 731-9838
Address: 2241 Case Ln, North Fort Myers, FL 33917.
Lehigh Acres United Way House:
Phone: (239) 369-5818
Address: 201 Plaza Dr #3, Lehigh Acres, FL 33936
Website link
Community Cooperative
Phone: 239-332-07687
Address: 3429 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. #4403, Fort Myers, FL. 33916
Website link
R.C.M.A.
Phone: 239-658-3160
Address: 402 W. Main Street, Immokalee, FL 34142
Website link
Hearts & Homes for Veterans
Phone: 239-674-1719
Address: 2230 Alicia St. Fort Myers, FL 33901
Website link
Donations can be dropped off or order/deliver from Amazon, Chewy.com or any delivery service to: 2010 Arcadia Street, Fort Myers, Fla. 33916.
When ordering from Amazon, please select GCHS of Fort Myers as your charity of choice for Amazon Smile!
Dog Food Donations
GCHS accepts all dog food donations, but especially dry food. Suggested donations include three, five or six-pound bags…but any size is acceptable.
Cat Food Donations
GCHS’ cat food donations are very important and come in all sizes of dry food bags. We accept all sizes, but the smaller bag sizes are suggested.