Pet food bank date, time, and location changes will be described here. Please also watch our calendar and social media pages. We update those locations first.
Due to snow and cold, Colorado Pet Pantry has canceled their pet food pantry that was scheduled January 7th, 2025, at Bruce Randolph School, 3955 Steele St, Denver, in partnership with We Don’t Waste.
This pet food pantry will not be rescheduled and we urge our clients to please take advantage of our other Denver-area locations, listed below.
As we navigate through seasonal holidays and various weather events, we will keep this page updated with the most current reschedules. The following are a list of pet food pantries that have been rescheduled:
NOVEMBER:
Action Center in Lakewood: Ending at 11AM due to weather on November 27th.
Mountain Resource Center in Conifer: Postponed to November 12th, 1-3PM due to incoming weather.
La Puentes Food Bank in Alamosa: Postponed to November 10th, 12-2PM due to snow on La Veta pass.
What started in 2013 as a Denver-based small nonprofit, supplying pet food to 858 pets per year, has grown into a statewide organization, with over 100 locations, distributing food to over 150,000 pets a year.
Over the last 11 years, Colorado Pet Pantry experienced exponential growth. Donations and need grew hand-in-hand, allowing us to maximize our impact.
However, after the Covid shutdown took hold on pet food manufacturing plants, and large-scale emergency donations ceased, the world suddenly faced an extensive, long-term pet food shortage. See video here about how we handled the pet food shortage. Because of this, Colorado Pet Pantry had to switch gears and focus on stabilization, rather than growth. Now, after two years of established commitment to our communities, we are excited to announce that we have had the ability and opportunity to open a new pet food pantry location in Cortez, CO.
For several years, we have been serving the community of Southwest Colorado, helping people feed and keep their pets, including “open to the public” locations in Mancos, Dove Creek, and Bayfield, as well as “mini pet food pantries” in Durango, Pagosa Springs, and the Ute Mountain Reservation of Towoac.
We held our first Cortez monthly pet food pantry in partnership with Good Samaritan’s Food Pantry on May 31, 2024. The opening of the new location in partnership with Good Sam’s was done with financial support from the LOR Foundation.
After years of no expansion, Colorado Pet Pantry wanted to take the first opportunity to open a pantry in Cortez and help the many guests in this area who need assistance.
Thanks to support from a dedicated core group of volunteers, who travel the area to host the pet food pantries, we were able to assist about 54 families and 228 pets on our first day with about 2,000 pounds of pet food.
We were even surprised by a visit from our prior program manager Suzanne (pictured here with another volunteer) who helped develop the assistance program in this area, before passing the torch to our new Program Manager Kim, who joined our team in January. Kim is making significant strides to help more people and pets in the area.
Client Spotlight: Meet Wilder Lee. Wilder was one of the rare kitties to visit us “in-purr-son”. He has a disease called Cerebral Hypoplasia. His mom had Feline Leukemia when he was in utero. This disease will likely mean he can never walk and will continue to be 100% dependent on his person for food, water, nurturing, and urination. See Wilder’s Video here.
Due to the high cost of raising a pet with special needs, his person was grateful to pick up pet food at the pantry to assist with keeping Wilder as healthy as possible.
Additional Services: Many guests at this pantry had questions about spay and neuter options in the area. We offer a resource guide with several options (download Southwest Colorado resource PDF), including a mobile spay/neuter service that will host a clinic in September called Bergen Spay Neuter. More info here.
Thank you to everyone who made this new location possible, and Happy 11 Year Birthday to Colorado Pet Pantry. We are very excited to help pet families in the town of Cortez, and to have the ability to add this new location.
To volunteer with us, please visit this link. Colorado Pet Pantry is always grateful and in need of donations to make this work possible. We are able to feed a dog or cat for a full 30 days with just a $5 donation.
Cortez, CO – Colorado Pet Pantry is hosting a new monthly pet food bank serving the Cortez area. The first pet food distribution event will take place on May 31, 2024 and will continue on the last Friday of every month from 12 – 2 PM.
The addition of the pet food bank in Cortez comes after recent expansion in the Southwest area of Colorado including Dove Creek, Grand Junction, Mancos, and the Towaoc Reservation in the Four Corners region.
“We are thrilled to bring these much-needed services to the Cortez area,” said Eileen Lambert, Executive Director of the Colorado Pet Pantry. “The addition of this pet food bank has been years in the making, and we are grateful to our partners and volunteers who make it all possible. Because of our monthly pet food banks, we’ve been able to keep tens of thousands of pets fed, housed with their loving families, and out of shelters.”
Anyone needing assistance feeding their pets should visit coloradopetpantry.org and click “get help” to learn more.
Volunteers and donations are needed in the area for both the food bank and the warehouse. Interested persons should visit coloradopetpantry.org to learn more about how to support the mission.
About Colorado Pet Pantry
The Colorado Pet Pantry temporarily feeds Colorado pets, allowing families to increase their ability to care for pets with the goal of keeping them out of shelters and with their families. In the past 12 months, the Colorado Pet Pantry has served 9 million meals to hungry pets. The organization has 100 monthly pet food banks. The Colorado Pet Pantry is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. Our EIN is 45-4210185.
LOR works with rural communities in the Mountain West to enhance livability and prosperity while preserving the character that makes each community unique.
The Good Samaritan Center is a food pantry and emerging community food center in Cortez, CO. We provide food assistance to anyone who needs it through market-style shopping for supplementary groceries and opportunities to grow food for personal use. Households can shop for groceries up to twice per month. Our Goals for 2024 include increasing the quantity and variety of locally produced food we distribute and working with members and partners to continue programs that educate, empower and nourish us as a community.
Due to the forecasted storm, the Lafayette pet food bank has been rescheduled to March 21st. We will distribute pet food at Sister Carmen, 655 Aspen Ridge Dr from 9:30-11AM. You are eligible to receive food if you have not received pet food since December.
We are now operating on a “once every three months” policy due to a pet food shortage.
Due to the forecasted storm, the Aurora pet food bank has been rescheduled to March 18th. We will distribute pet food at Aurora Interfaith Community Services, 1553 Clinton St, from 12-1:30PM. You are eligible to receive food if you have not received pet food since December.
We are now operating on a “once every three months” policy due to a pet food shortage.
We’re writing to notify you that the Calvary Baptist Church pet food bank will be changing locations to the Tamarac Salvation Army, at the previous Embassy Suites, 7525 E Hampden Ave, Denver, CO 80231 on the 3rd Friday of the month, from 10AM-11:30AM, starting immediately. This pet food bank will continue to be in partnership with Jewish Family Service.
Location – there is no signage on this building as of right now. You will enter at the Norteast corner of the building, as seen on the map.
This pet food bank will take place on January 23rd, due to weather. We will distribute pet food on the 23rd at OUR Center, 220 Collyer St from 9-11AM. You are eligible to receive food if you have not received pet food since October.
We are now operating on a “once every three months” policy due to a pet food shortage.
This pet food bank will take place on January 16th, due to a snowstorm. We will distribute pet food on the 15th at Alamosa County Fairgrounds, 8784 Old Sanford Road from 12-2PM. You are eligible to receive food if you have not received pet food since October.
We are now operating on a “once every three months” policy due to a pet food shortage.
We are writing to notify you that the new Rocky Ford pet food bank will be on the first Friday of each month at Small Town Project, 805 Chestnut Ave from 12-2PM. This pet food bank has taken the place of the Ordway location.
We are excited to partner with Small Town Project, and look forward to serving this community in the future.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us.
We are writing today to notify you that this pet food bank now has a regular schedule. We will distribute pet food on the second Friday of each month, in partnership with Dove Creek Care & Share Food Bank, at the VFW, 214 US-491 in Dove Creek.
We will be there between 12-2PM. You are eligible to receive pet food one out of every three months. So if you receive pet food this January, you are next eligible in April.
