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May 3, 2009

Bailout plan...for dogs

One dog food company wants anyone who's recently lost their job to know that their pet doesn't have to suffer.

Dogswell, a California-based pet food company, is offering free food to unemployed pet owners.

The company created the program after realizing that during the recession, an increasing number of families have found themselves struggling to care for their pets -- and some are even giving them up for adoption or abandoning them.

From now through May 15, Dogswell is giving away one free bag of dry dog food to the first 10,000 unemployed American pet owners. The company has set a goal of giving away a total of 10,000 bags of its dog food, or $200,000 worth.

To take advantage of this offer, eligible pet-owners must submit a "Bow-Wow Bailout" redemption form, available here.

Photo courtesy of Dogswell

Posted by Jill Rosen at 10:15 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
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Thank you for this tremendous offer. I will see that it gets wide area distribution among the unemployed pet owners. Another service of our local Neighborhood Watch organization.

Posted by: igojim | May 5, 2009 4:43 PM

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About Jill Rosen

Jill Rosen is a reporter at The Baltimore Sun. During her nearly 20 years in journalism, she has covered news and features — including a surprising number of stories that involved animals. There were the dog Christmas carolers in State College, Pa. There were the hounds who toured with a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The story of a preschool teacher at Baltimore’s Father Kolbe School who had to replace her class guinea pig, who died over the winter holiday. A harrowing tale of what it was like to make homemade pet food ...

Though her clean freak of a mother refused to allow her to get a dog, she has had a number of pets through the years, including goldfish named Bob and Fingle, a betta fish named Ichabod, a wild rat terrier named Wendel, who she shared with a roommate, and, currently, sweet, sweet kitties named Leo Sesame and Milo Pumpkin and a little rescued pup named Teddy Bean. She, Leo, Pumpkin and Teddy Bean live in Baltimore.

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