It’s called Community Pet Project, serving Hillsborough County, a non-profit and community supported organization.

And for its president Rhonda Eldridge, it’s a mission and a ministry.

“We provide food, treats, collars, leashes, flea preventive, medical referrals, medical co-pays, grooming and supplies, beds, crates,” Eldridge said. “Whatever we happen to have donated to us we’re able to give.”

Providing so people whether homeless or at risk, or with the coronavirus, the many now unemployed can keep the pets they love.

And for those in need love and concern for their pets is all they need.

"There is no charge,” Eldridge said. “We are blessed by an extremely generous support group and generous community. All of our funding is through fundraisers or donations.”

Rhonda told us one of many stories she hears about a mom now out of work whose little girls were heartbroken when told the family dogs would have to go because there wasn’t enough money to feed them.

So Community Pet Project delivered pet food to them, and ...

“We were able to keep the animals in the home and keep them healthy and happy and the family unified until we can get through this crisis,” Eldridge said.

And in the big picture just how important are these pets, we asked Rhonda.

“I say a lot of times that the majority of these people that those pets are the only reason they wake up in the morning, and their only reason to keep going.”