Welcome to Arizona Pet Pantry

Arizona Pet Pantry was founded as a way to help limited-resource individuals who are 62 years of age or older fulfill the basic nutritional needs of their companion animals. In addition to providing pet food, our organization will make every effort to help Southern Arizona seniors with other critical areas of pet care, based on need and on availability of resources.

There are a number of life events that can alter our circumstances and leave us unable to thoroughly care for our pets. Reasons may be as varied as economic hardships arising from retirement or lost jobs, divorce, medical costs, medication expenses, insurance fees or a change in living situation. For seniors in particular, a variety of life changes can disrupt our lives, leaving us unable to provide for our beloved animal companions.

Arizona Pet Pantry was created to help seniors who have fallen through the cracks of government assistance programs and who still desperately need help feeding and otherwise caring for their pets. Our objective is to prevent seniors from reaching that devastating, agonizing place where they cannot afford to care for their pets and have no other option but to relinquish them to a shelter. Understandably, seniors are often reluctant to give up their companion animals—not only due to emotional bonds but also because of fears that their pets are unlikely to be adopted due to age and/or health issues and concerns that their pets may not integrate well with the people and other animals in a new home. Our goal is to help keep pets in their loving homes by providing food assistance and other resources.

Arizona Pet Pantry will also assist and work with other non-profits in helping to contribute to our community in other critical areas of need as the situation arises.

We gladly accept pet food, litter, and financial donations, no matter what the size. We are a 501 (c) (3) organization, so all donations are tax deductible.