Animal shelters often ask for donations of food for the animals living there. Donations of food will help to cut their expense and allow the shelters to use money donations for other purposes such as finding an animal a good home. Finding an animal a good home may require advertising in newspapers, television or online.
Feeding animals can cost a lot of money so running out and buying a bag or two of dog food to donate may be too expensive even for those who really want to help. A single can of dog food depending on the brand can run over a dollar and that would only provide one meal to one dog. One meal can add up though. There are ways that you can help bring in food for the animal shelters without spending any money except for the drive to the shelter.
Dog and cat food samples that manufacturers or the store sometimes gives away are good for a meal. Online free sample sites will usually put up offerings of dog or cat food samples. If you are going to get samples to donate asking for them online may give you a better chance of receiving them. Once you ask for an available dog or cat food sample online you will have to wait for it to come in the mail. Receiving the sample then is usually dependent on the postmen and women. When you receive a sample it may come with a coupon. The coupon can be beneficial to the animal shelter as well as the sample. The animal shelter can use the coupon to purchase the brand dog or cat food and get it cheaper than they would if they went in and purchased it without a coupon. An animal shelter is likely to be tax exempt and can save some money this way but by using a coupon they get even further savings.
There may be stores that will not accept a coupon when the non-profit organization is tax exempt. The organization will have to check the stores policy that they usually do business with or stores they are going to do business with.
Free sample dog or cat foods seem to come in bursts. Sometimes you will readily find them and other times you’d be lucky to find one. If you cannot find pet food samples but you can get coupons try to get manufacturers coupons instead of Internet ones that you have to print out. Store policies may not allow them to take printed online coupons. If you are having difficulties finding any samples or coupons you can e-mail or send a letter to the pet brand manufacturers and ask if they have any samples or coupons they could send you.