Kibbles & Bits of Kindness

10/10/2026

❤️🐾 The Thanksgiving hampers are made and heading out soon!

We’re incredibly grateful to our Airdrie community for every donation, share, and helping hand.

A huge thank-you to Airdrie Inclusive for including pets in their Thanksgiving hamper program, and to Pet Planet Sierra Springs for partnering with us to make it happen!

Because of YOUR 🫵 kindness, we filled every bowl on our list, 41 pets in total! 25 cats and 16 dogs! 🐱🐶

These hampers will help local families facing difficult times.

This is what “for the community, by the community” looks like. Thank you for showing up for your neighbours and their furry family members. We hope this is just the beginning!

Happy Thanksgiving from Kibbles & Bits of Kindness! 🧡🐾

🫶If you’d like to help make future community pet initiatives possible, please consider supporting, sharing, or spreading the word. Together, we can continue helping local families and their furry companions.

10/09/2026

For the community, by the community. ❤️

Our Red Kindness Box is all about making sure local pets and their families have a little extra support when they need it most. Every donation, every restock, and every little bit of kindness helps!

🐾 And a quick Thanksgiving reminder! Today and tomorrow are your LAST TWO DAYS to donate a $5 Thanksgiving dinner to a local pet in need!

📍 Pet Planet – Sierra Springs, Airdrie 🐶🐱 Just $5 helps put a little something extra in a local pet’s bowl this Thanksgiving.

Thank you to everyone who continues to show up for our community. You’re helping keep bellies full, tails wagging, and families together!

10/06/2026

Okay… it’s Day.. 3, and we’re back again.

We promise we’re not trying to become that person who won’t stop talking about Thanksgiving dinners…but we REALLY want to fill as many little pet bellies as we can. 🐾

Here’s how you can help:

👣🐾 Go to Pet Planet Sierra Springs
130 Sierra Springs Dr SE #3007, Airdrie, AB T4B 3G6

💰🛒 Purchase a $5 Thanksgiving dinner

❤️ That dinner will go to a pet in need

That’s it. Just $5 and you’ve helped make Thanksgiving a little more special for a pet and their family.

We’re doing this until October 9th, so yes, you’ll probably hear from us again. 🤣

From our little team to the pets in our community: thank you.

Kibbles & Bits of Kindness

10/04/2026

Can we fill some cat & dog bellies this Thanksgiving? 25 cats, and 16 dogs, to be exact.

We’re really excited about this one. ❤️

Kibbles & Bits of Kindness is partnering with Airdrie Inclusive to include Thanksgiving meals for the pets of families receiving their Thanksgiving hampers.

When a family gets a little extra help for Thanksgiving, we don’t want their pets to be forgotten. They’re part of the family, too! 🐾

So, if you’re heading to Pet Planet Sierra Springs in Airdrie, you can add a Thanksgiving meal for a local cat or dog to your purchase. That meal will become part of the pet hampers going out to families in our community.

It’s a really simple way to do a little something extra while you’re already shopping. ❤️

📍 Pet Planet Sierra Springs in Airdrie
🗓️ Until October 9
🛍️ Just let them know you’d like to add a Thanksgiving dinner to your purchase as a donation.

Even one meal helps.

Shop local for local families & local pets.

Thank you for being the kind of community that looks out for both.

❤️

10/03/2026

🚨 Pet wellness clinic, on Oct 14th, there are eligibility requirements!

To qualify for the Wellness Clinics, you must:

Be 65 years of age or older
Have reliable transportation to bring your pet to and from the Wellness Clinic
Receive pre-approval (fill in the form above to apply)

Services Provided: Basic wellness exams & vaccinations

Please note, due to high demand for this program, we are currently only accepting limited clients aged 65+ from Calgary & area. An application is not a guarantee of assistance.

Please check out these other programs available in Alberta:

Tails of Help
Parachutes for Pets
Canadian Animal Task Force
Calgary Humane Society
City of Calgary – No Cost Spay & Neuter Program (for cats only)
Meow Foundation (for cats only)
Edmonton Humane Society
Albertans Helping Animals Society
Medicine Hat SPCA Spay Neuter Program
Central Alberta Humane Spay Neuter Program
Bow Valley SPCA Spay Neuter Program

The Alberta Animal Rescue Crew Society (AARCS) is helping Calgary seniors keep their beloved pets happy, healthy and by their side with a Senior’s Pet Wellness Clinic on October 14, 2026. The clinic is open to Calgary qualifying seniors aged 65+ and will provide their pets with veterinary wellness exams, core vaccinations, deworming and microchips.
“No senior should have to worry that the cost of basic veterinary care could come between them and their beloved pet,” said Amy Corpe, Director of Animal Health at AARCS. “Offering accessible pet care is one way we can support seniors in our community while helping their pets enjoy happy, healthy lives in their loving homes.”
As the cost of veterinary care continues to create challenges for pet owners, AARCS’ community programs aim to help local seniors while reducing the risk of pets being surrendered to already-busy animal shelters.

10/03/2026

THANKSGIVING HAMPERS, this year, PETS are INCLUDED!

We’re so excited to be joining Airdrie Inclusive for their Thanksgiving hamper project this year! Airdrie Inclusive has been working hard to make sure local families who may not otherwise be able to afford a Thanksgiving dinner have one to take home.

This year, we’re making sure their four-legged family members get to be part of it, too! ❤️

The numbers are currently at 25 cats and 16 dogs in these households.

Kibbles & Bits of Kindness is working to provide each of them with a Thanksgiving meal!! Why? Because pets are family! 🐾

In order to make this happen, we’ve teamed up with the amazing team at Pet Planet Sierra Springs Airdrie!

We’d LOVE to see our amazing pet-friendly community support this project. Plus, why not do two great things at once this Thanksgiving, support a local business AND help a local pet in need!

JUST $5 GIVES A LOCAL PET A THANKSGIVING MEAL!

HOW TO HELP:

1. Head to Pet Planet Sierra Springs
2. Ask to purchase, or simply add, a Thanksgiving cat or dog meal (or two... or three!) to your purchase. 😉
Tell them it’s for Airdrie Inclusive, KBK, or the Thanksgiving hampers.
4. That’s it! They’ll set it aside for us to collect.

📍 Pet Planet Sierra Springs
Unit 3007, 130 Sierra Springs Drive, Airdrie

⏰ DONATIONS ARE OPEN UNTIL OCTOBER 9TH!

Can’t make it to the store? No problem! You can send a $5 e-transfer to:

📧 [email protected]

Please put “Thanksgiving Dinners” in the message.

We’re incredibly grateful to Airdrie Inclusive for including us in this project and to Pet Planet Sierra Springs Airdrie for helping us make the pet side of it possible.

Support local. Shop local. Help local families and their pets.

This Thanksgiving, pets are part of the hamper too, and we couldn’t be more excited! 🥹🐾

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09/30/2026

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 🧡

Today is a day to remember the children who were taken from their families and communities and forced to attend residential schools.

For generations, more than 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and Métis children were forcibly removed from their families. Residential schools were created to assimilate Indigenous children, separating them from their families, languages, cultures and communities. Many children experienced physical, emotional and sexual abuse, neglect, and profound loss. Some never returned home.

They were children with names, families, cultures, languages, dreams and lives that mattered.

Survivors, their families and Indigenous communities continue to live with the effects of what happened, including intergenerational trauma that continues to affect generations today.

September 30 is one day. One day cannot represent generations of loss, trauma, resilience, survival and strength. It cannot capture everything Indigenous children, families, Survivors and communities have experienced, or everything that continues today.

But it can be a day when we stop, a day when we listen, a day when we learn, and a day when we remember.

Truth means being willing to learn what happened.

Reconciliation means listening to those who lived it and recognizing the ongoing impact.

Remembering means carrying that truth forward.

Today, we honour the Survivors, we remember the children who never came home, and we recognize the families and communities who continue to carry this history and its impacts.

This day is more than wearing orange or sharing a post!

It is an opportunity to learn the truth, listen to Indigenous voices, and understand why remembering matters.

Want to learn more?

We encourage you to learn directly from the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, which preserves Survivors' records and provides resources to help people understand the history and ongoing legacy of residential schools.

Learn more through the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
https://nctr.ca/

Every Child Matters.

When we know better, we do better.
So today, we choose to learn. We choose to listen, and we choose to carry the truth forward.

09/24/2026

Happy Thursday everyone! Keep those litter boxes clean!

I had a heartbreaking conversation yesterday. A woman had just put her beloved 4-year-old cat to sleep because he was peeing outside the litter box.

She told me she’d done multiple urinalyses and they were all normal. “He just developed an incurable behavior problem,” she told me. She was heartbroken.

I asked her how often she was scooping the litter box, and there was a long pause.

“Maybe once a week.”

I asked how often she was completely emptying and cleaning her cat’s litter box and replacing the litter. She couldn’t remember, because she just added more litter when the box got low.

Imagine only flushing your toilet once a week—and never cleaning it. Eventually, even entering your bathroom would become almost unbearable.

Cats feel the same way.

They are incredibly clean animals, and if their toilet is disgusting, they may choose to stop using it and find a more acceptable place to go potty (for them, not for you).

😿 I’ve spent the last 24 hours thinking about this potentially unnecessary euthanasia, so I’ve decided to do a PSA about it 💔:

If your cat suddenly stops using the litter box, there could absolutely be a medical reason, so always rule that out first. But if your cat is healthy, take a hard look at your litter box hygiene.

Scoop every day. Disinfect it often. Replace the litter regularly. Cats deserve a clean potty, too.

It matters to your cat, and therefore it should matter to you. ❤️

09/23/2026

You see a bag of food on a doorstep. We see everything it took to get it there. 🐾

The people we meet and the reasons they reach out are all different.

Sometimes it’s a child who doesn’t drive, whose mom has been going through some medical challenges, quietly trying to take one more thing off her plate by making sure the animals are fed.

Sometimes it’s someone who has lost something many of us take for granted.

Sometimes it’s someone who has escaped a terrible situation and is trying to rebuild, while trying to find enough hours in the day to make everything work.

Sometimes transportation is too expensive, life is already stretched too thin, or there simply isn’t a way to make one more trip happen.

These are the kinds of situations that have us getting in the car, loading up the food, and heading out.

Behind every drop-off is a person, a story, and a reason we’re making that drive and every mile takes something to make it happen.

There’s planning. Messages. Food to gather. A car to load. Gas to buy. Miles to drive. And eventually, food sitting on someone’s doorstep.

None of that happens by itself.

But at the end of all those miles, there’s a pet who gets to eat. And that’s what makes the trip worth taking. ❤️

If you’d like to help keep those trips possible:

🐾 Donate pet food & supplies: Drop them in one of our donation boxes or email [email protected] to arrange a drop-off/pick-up.

❤️ Donate funds: E-transfer [email protected]

Every bag, every dollar and every mile helps us keep the food moving.

For the community, by the community. 🐾

09/14/2026

A heartfelt thank you to Healing Traditions Holistic Veterinary Clinic for their incredibly generous donation of specialized veterinary food.

This means so much to us, and we are so grateful for your kindness and for helping us support the pets who need it most.

Thank you for being part of what we’re building.