{"id":215876,"date":"2026-06-10T20:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215876\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T20:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:44:18","slug":"pet-food-pantry-on-pittsburghs-north-side-forced-to-shut-down-while-it-finds-new-home-for-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215876\/","title":{"rendered":"Pet food pantry on Pittsburgh\u2019s North Side forced to shut down while it finds new home for storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH  \u2014 A pet food pantry on Pittsburgh\u2019s North Side is temporarily shut down for the second time in six months. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The woman behind the \u2018Doctor John P. Ruffing VMD Pet Food Pantry\u2019 says the person who stores donations was threatened with an eviction notice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">She says the pantry is now stuck trying to find a new place to store all of their donations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s really dismaying, but we don\u2019t have anywhere to go,\u201d Sue Kerr said. \u201cWe can\u2019t stay there; we are not going to put her in that position, so yeah, we are going to load everything into a truck and then just try and figure out what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The pantry distributes food each month through an honor system to nearly 300 local caretakers and families. It had to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/repeated-thefts-lead-temporary-closure-pet-food-pantry-pittsburghs-north-side\/OKIFT73XQJBJBIRA5DOCNANEKU\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/repeated-thefts-lead-temporary-closure-pet-food-pantry-pittsburghs-north-side\/OKIFT73XQJBJBIRA5DOCNANEKU\/\"> temporarily close in January<\/a> due to repeated thefts of food and supplies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A pet food pantry on Pittsburgh\u2019s North Side is temporarily shut down for the second time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4925,94457,139,859,73,75,74,69105,12927,420,94458,860],"class_list":["post-215876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-doctor","tag-john_p-_ruffing","tag-news","tag-ott_news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburghs","tag-side","tag-video","tag-vmd","tag-wpxi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}