This one lived. She’s a pit bull. But she’s also quite possibly the world’s happiest and sweetest friend. And she’s one of the more than 70,000 beloved family pets that The Pongo Fund has saved. Because our volunteer-driven and award winning organization was there for her, and for all of them, when they needed us most.

During the toughest of times when they were hungry. When they were at risk of being surrendered to area shelters. Because their own families were temporarily unable to keep them fed.

That was it. For lack of a bowl of kibble they were one step away from being euthanized. Not because they were unwanted or unloved. Because they were hungry.

Be they single moms, veterans, seniors, your grandmother, the hard-working but underemployed, proud grandfathers, the disabled, senior citizens, the unemployed, the neighbors next door and anyone else in honest need, we are here for them when they have nowhere else to turn.

Because hungry people have hungry pets.

During the past five years we’ve provided more than 7,000,000 nutritious and high-quality meals for more than 70,000 animals. But not just in Portland, Oregon. We’ve also met the need in dozens of other cities that received food thanks to our volunteer team of Kibble Couriers.

We do this work in a way not done anywhere else. And shelter statistics throughout our community show that what we do is working. Keeping family pets safe at home and out of the shelters.

And that’s why we’ve become a national model for new ways to help both people and their pets simultaneously. Because a shelter is still the wrong place for an animal that already has a safe and loving home.

Best Friends Animals Society, one of America’s most admired organizations, said this about The Pongo Fund: “The best way to reduce shelter populations is to keep animals out of the shelters to begin with. The Pongo Fund has developed that very program. They’re doing something innovative in Portland that’s making a huge difference.”

But that’s not all. We’ve also been instrumental in facilitating the Spay/Neuter for thousands of them.

Quite simply, The Pongo Fund gives a chance to animals that might not otherwise have a chance and gives hope to families that have little else to be hopeful for.

Because sometimes a simple bowl of kibble is the force that both keeps a family together and saves the lives of the animals they love
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And this is why we Pongo.

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