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Speaker 1: It's like a dog food drive through. Cars pulled up

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Speaker 1: in front of the MSPCA Angel Boston location where a

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Speaker 1: crowd of people were standing alongside more bags of dog

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Speaker 1: and cat food than I could count.

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Speaker 2: And folks are just driving through. So we're checking in

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Speaker 2: with people where they're coming in from. Have they gotten

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Speaker 2: pet food from us before? Have they been impacted by

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Speaker 2: the SNAP benefits? So far, every single person who has

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Speaker 2: come has had a reduction of their SNAP benefits and

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Speaker 2: is in extra need this month.

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Speaker 1: Alyssa Krieger is the director of MSPCA Angel Community Outreach.

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Speaker 1: She says, it's all about getting food into people's homes

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Speaker 1: so their pets stay there with them during a time

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Speaker 1: of uncertainty, during the longest government shutdown in history.

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Speaker 2: So they're looking for a little bit of extra help

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Speaker 2: with pet food this month, and we are step enough

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Speaker 2: to help them.

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Speaker 1: She says. Each month, the MSPCA Angel distributes about two

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Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five thousand pet meals, but in order

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Speaker 1: to meet demand, they need to increase that number by

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Speaker 1: another twenty thousand or so, so they're calling for more

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Speaker 1: pet food donations or money donations so that they can

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Speaker 1: buy some more food. The MSPCA is holding several emergency

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Speaker 1: pop up pet food pantries in Boston, Methuin, Centreville, Springfield,

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Speaker 1: and Salem in Jamaica. Plain Ma Friedman w b Z,

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Speaker 1: Boston's news radio