Rocky’s helps pets with food drive

Launching its third annual Holiday Pet Food Drive, Rocky’s Ace Hardware of Springfield/Massachusetts has teamed with Nutro Pet Foods to help homeless and abandoned pets. The drive runs now up to 23 December. Each of the 32 Rocky’s Ace Hardware stores has partnered with an area humane society or shelter to collect food during the festive season for the forgotten and unfortunate animals in their own community. In the drive, customers make donations of much-needed pet food at their local store. The stores will then in turn collect all donations and drive them to their locally chosen charity. Nutro Pet Foods has partnered Rocky’s in donating more than $1 500 worth of premium dog and cat food to kick-start the programme. Last year, the second annual pet food drive resulted in more than 6 500 pounds of food and many toys, pet beds and other needed accessories.