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Saturday is errands day and I needed to head down to a pet supply store in Redwood City to get a certain type of cat food. It's also the only place I can get the chicken feed that I use as cat litter. There's an Arco station at the corner where I turn after getting off the freeway and a homeless woman had set herself up there. She had three bull terriers and held a cardboard sign asking for help for herself and her dogs.
I figured since I was going the pet store, I'd pick up a bag of cheap dog food. Unfortunately, this store only stocks the high end, expensive, organic special kinds of food. I asked the woman who usually helps me if they had affordable dog food and explained that it was for a donation. She kindly ran off to the back room and came back with two boxes packed with sample packets of good quality dog food.
I transferred the dozens of packets into a couple of spare Whole Foods shopping bags, pulled into the Arco, and gave them to the woman, who was highly appreciative. I just caught her because she was packing up her shopping cart-home to move on, prodded I suspect by the cops who were there. I gave her some money, too, because hey, if I can help the dogs, I can certainly help the person.
I figured since I was going the pet store, I'd pick up a bag of cheap dog food. Unfortunately, this store only stocks the high end, expensive, organic special kinds of food. I asked the woman who usually helps me if they had affordable dog food and explained that it was for a donation. She kindly ran off to the back room and came back with two boxes packed with sample packets of good quality dog food.
I transferred the dozens of packets into a couple of spare Whole Foods shopping bags, pulled into the Arco, and gave them to the woman, who was highly appreciative. I just caught her because she was packing up her shopping cart-home to move on, prodded I suspect by the cops who were there. I gave her some money, too, because hey, if I can help the dogs, I can certainly help the person.