Funds for the Animal Shelter

TYLER – The Smith County Animal Shelter has received a donation to help feed the over 125 animals they have to feed. Brookshires and Pedigree teamed up to donate dog food and more than $8,000. In January when they became a no-kill shelter, The Humane Society lost its funding.

Gayle Helms, the Humane Society Executive Director, told KETK-TV, “A check of this size just secures our future and allows us to continue to pay staff to buy vaccinations, to spay and neuter and then to just buy the dog food that we don’t get donated.” Helms said this is the second year for a donation like this.

Machelle Good with Brookshires added, “It’s hard to see all these dogs out here without homes, so coming out here and helping them makes them feel better and lets them know that there are people out there that care about them.”