CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — For the sixth time, MCM Business Systems and the Harrison County Humane Society will team up to make sure animals waiting for adoption won’t go hungry next year.
“Any donation that we receive just helps us to be able to put other monies towards the animals with vet care,” Harrison County Humane Society executive director Franki Dennison said on Monday’s “The Mike Queen Show” on the AJR News Network.
The MCM “Pound for Pound Challenge” is a yearly pet-food drive with a simple goal: bring in enough food for the Humane Society for an entire year.
“We have a whole shed where we store it, and that shed gets depleted usually between December and November,” Dennison said. “That’s why this is always a great time period to fill this shed back up.”
MCM Business Systems owner Roger Lehosit said his company will match all donations pound for pound and transport dog food to the shelter.
“We’re willing to make five trips a week down there–six or seven or whatever,” he said.
Lehosit said he participates in the drive because he has great faith in the people at the Harrison County Humane Society.
“You can tell just by talking to Franki how much they care,” he said. “It just can’t be described until you see it.”
Lehosit praised the shelter, which operates a “no kill” policy, and has had more than 800 adoptions in 2016.
“As we have an adoption and as we have space, we go and pull another one from there, which saves them from euthanasia,” Dennison said.
That requires working hand-in-hand with animal control in an effort to save as many animals as possible.
“That’s our main goal,” Dennison said. “To save all the animals in this county that we can. Unfortunately, there are a lot of animals that go there that are loose. Their owners never come to get them or a lot of time people turn their animals in for various reasons. They are all worthy of our love.”
For those interested in donating, the Harrison County Humane Society can be reached by phone at 304-592-1600.
