Thank you all for the comments.. To settle some of the disagreements here, i work at the shelter, we do it cause we love animals, love to see them get a good home. Our shelter does have a yard sale every year, the employees and volunteers also put together a cook book. We have a contract with science diet and so that is the only food they feed there other then prescription food to some, or can food to ones to small for dry, or other issues... All the other food we donate to rangers pantry which then they distribute to people whom cant afford it... The blankets and towels come so often they donate some, but the tattered ones we cant use cause the dogs shread them the rest of way, then risk the chance of it blocking their intestines making it to where they have to have surgery to make it where they can go restroom. ( we had a 10 year old golden come in this way, that lived her remaining months in very loving home). So if it has holes they cant putwith animals.