The Good News: Nonprofit Provides Food, Medicine for Pets of the Homeless [VIDEO]

"What [the homeless] lack in their ability to provide vital resources like food, shelter and medicine for their pets, they reciprocate tenfold in love.”

Founder of Pets of the Homeless, Genevieve Frederick, says that she was inspired to create the organization while she was on a trip to New York City, where she saw a homeless man and his dog.

“I was confused as to the reason anyone who is homeless, who could barely feed or take care of themselves, would even consider having a pet,” she says on their website.

When she returned home to Nevada, she started doing some research and found that, because many shelters don't allow pets, the homeless often opt to stay with their animals (which many of them have rescued off the street). She started collecting food donations and donations of services from vets, and it soon turned into the nonprofit that it is today.

“For shelters that say ‘yes,’ we will send that shelter free collapsible sleeping crates, so that these people can get in out of the cold, out of the heat, off the streets, for just a little bit,” she told Mic.com. "This keeps them in a secure place and keeps everybody safe.”

I know that a lot of people will jump on the, "if they can't afford to have a home, they shouldn't have a pet" train. But a lot of these people rescue their pets off the street, and in my opinion, they're giving love to these animals that they didn't have before.