By Vanessa Scott, 17 March 2009
Whilst Cheryl Hardy was busily organising donations for animals, I overheard her speaking to a company located in East Bentleigh who were willing to donate some kitty litter. My ears pricked up as I grew up in that area and it was convenient for me to pick up the donation.
Due to working hours, my mum picked up the kitty litter instead – thanks mum. Initially they were going to donate 10 bags but they ended up completely filling my mum’s Mazda. In the end Equinox Manufacturing Industries generously donated 24 x 34litre bags of kitty litter - thank-you to Jay at Equinox. He even told mum that she should have bought along a bigger car! Their generosity was amazing. In fact we are going back in a couple of weeks to pick up some more.
I collected the 24 bags of kitty litter from mum’s house and transferred them to my little beep-beep Barina. The car looked very funny loaded up with kitty litter.
On Saturday morning, I drove to Animal Aid in Coldstream and delivered the kitty litter. They were very grateful. I was overwhelmed at the amount of donations that Animal Aid were receiving. There were pallets of food, kennels, rabbit hutches, kitty litter trays - everything you could think of. While I was there, some volunteers were loading up a huge truck to take supplies up to Narbethong where it was desperately needed.
Cages and hutches at Animal Aid
It was only a small contribution but I was glad to help in some way. I’ll be driving up to Coldstream in a few more weeks to take up a delivery of towels, blankets and more kitty litter and this time I will have a bigger car!
Donations at Animal Aid
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