Preocupa a familias beneficiarias del SNAP no solo alimentarse ellas mismas sino a mascotas – Chicago Tribune

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and STEPHEN SMITH

NUEVA ORLEÁNS (AP) — Sarah Lungwitz is concerned about being able to feed only her two teenage daughters due to the disruption of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), as well as the family cat and dogs.

Help has been announced so far, thanks to a No Fines organization in Illinois that coordinated with volunteers to purchase a food gift card last week, so you can buy food for her and her mascots. This initiative forms part of the energy resources to help mascots who are having economic difficulties earn their money due to income from SNAP pages while it is the longest government steel in history.

“I don’t want it to be enough to pay all my bills, much less for food,” said Lungwitz, an auto shop employee for 46 years who asked them to enter their cat, Bambi, with their two dogs, Spike and Chloe.

Today, the Supreme Court accepted the Trump administration’s emerging appeal to temporarily block a court order that requires full funding of the government’s SNAP program so that residents of most teaching media received the funds.

Uncertainty puts pressure on shelters

While SNAP cannot be used to purchase pet food, this food assistance program helps families eat dry food by providing them with money to purchase dry food. It’s also common for people to supplement food to supplement their pets with human food purchased with the SNAP card, said Stephanie Hicks, executive director of Care for Pets, the organization that has helped Lungwitz others, in Rockford, Illinois. Some volunteers accompany the duels of mascots who have economic difficulties for the pasillos of the supermercados.

The Humane World for Animals (Mundo Humanitario para Animales) – already known as the Humane Society of the United States (Sociedad Humanitaria de Estados Unidos) – estimates that more than 20 million mascots live in the population with their families. Economic pressure is one of the main reasons why animals are housed in shelters, said Kirsten Peek, a spokeswoman for the shelter.

Although this is happening today, several groups collect mascot food because shelters make them a little more concerned about the number of abandoned animals, because the steel of the government is also caused by hundreds of kilometers of employees who can be sent home tasteless. sueldo.

“An increase in animal abandonments is always a concern when many people are facing economic hardship,” Peek added.

Research methods to make pet food last longer

The concern was drawn to a Luisiana shelter to consider seeking funds from veterinarians to purchase food for the mascots. The SNAP deposit returns came at a particularly opportune time for the Companion Animal Alliance (Alianza por los Animales de Compañía) in Baton Rouge: the shelter recently made a donation, forcing it to suspend a mascot food distribution program to a total of 200 families. my.

“People are exceptionally panicked. They don’t know how to best describe it,” reported Paula Shaw, director of assistance access at the shelter, who said it was as common as SNAP recipients having their own food to their pets as the shelter was providing them with information about human foods as well as due. You can add food to your pets to make them last longer.

Offers to donate mascot food and Venmo—a mobile payment app in the United States—were immediate after the Charley’s Angels Pet Initiative (Iniciativa para Mascotas de los Ángeles de Charley), in Massachusetts, was called out on Facebook last week. “We’re hoping, at least out of space, that we’ll have some more repentance” on demand, said Kandi Finch, the dog artist who named her no-profit fines organization in honor of a beloved mascot.

Increased use of mascot food banks

This is precisely what has been successful at New Leash on Life, a shelter in Lebanon, Tennessee, following Nashville. The number of families using their pet food bank increased by 125 in October, compared to 75 to 100 in my class, said Angela Chapman, executive director.

“We prefer to help you with food so that you can keep a mascot,” he added.

In New Orleans, Rescates de Zeus distributed a ton of food for the mascots in October, double the usual, informed its founder, Michelle Cheramie, who added that it was the mayor who requested a visit in 20 years.

“Break your heart,” expressed, and added that some people were so desperate that they abandoned their animals on the shelter’s patio.

Between them, they helped young people meet Katie Saari, who was distraught due to health problems and difficulty attending interviews to qualify for SNAP benefits due to government ironwork. Without money, we need food for our dogs.

“That’s the most important thing for me, for me, and for me to be assured of which comes first,” he said. “Sons, my babies.”

Recognizing the problem, many food banks have also been plying your residents with mascot food, said Kim Buckman of Feeding Missouri, a coalition of state food banks.

“We know that a lot of people feed their mascots before they are themselves,” he said. “In some cases, your pet is treated emotionally.”

This is the case for Lungwitz, who is a victim of post-traumatic stress and severe depression. A psychiatrist recommends getting a dog because it must pass. This is why it ends with your chihuahua. Your American bulldog – 36 kilos of “pure muscle” – is therefore a survivor of domestic violence and safe. Expressed that it was functioning and allowed him to reintegrate into the community and pursue work.

However, the economic situation is very precarious, which means that sometimes the food banks recur, including to obtain donations for the children of his 17-year-old daughter. “It’s me who’s having difficulties,” he said. ___________________________________

Hollingsworth reported from Mission, Kansas.