American Heritage Trails collects food donations for pets in Fort Wayne

American Heritage Trails employees decided to spend their time off the road collecting pet food donations to give to the Fort Wayne Pet Food Pantry.

Some businesses that haven't been able to reopen during the pandemic are turning their attention towards helping others.fox 55's jeremy masukevich shows us how a local motorcoach company is helping furry friends in fort wayne.

Nat diane thanks for coming out in the rain, woo!since they can't be on the road, diane current says the american heritage trails staff is looking for ways to put their buses to good use.sot diane we were just talking and thought why don't we do something locally because we are all furloughed right now.

Current says she was inspired by the generosity of another bus company from maine while participating in the 3 motorcoaches rolling for awareness campaignlower third: diane current, american heritage trails tour coordinator sot dianethey came down and the whole luggage bay under their bus was filled with bags of potatoes for the washington d.c.

Soup kitchens and we thought how cool is that.inspired to give back to the fort wayne community.sot diane the weather is not stopping people from coming out to help such a great organization thats helping out pets.american heritage trails used their time off the road to collect pet food donations today.sot dianemost of us have pets or are animal lovers, in fact two of our office greeters are black labs.

So it was a natural fit for us to contact the fort wayne pet food pantry and ask them if we could do this for them.

Nat dianethey were ecstatic and said please dorochele watson executive director of the fort wayne pet food pantry says the community's support is more important than ever.nat rochele the reality is all of us serving our community are literally 3 paychecks away from being in the exact same shoes as our clients sot rochele 2:15when we have other companies and other organizations in and around our area recognizing that, seeing that, and taking action in that momenti think it really speaks to the type of people that we have living in fort wayne and the surrounding area.

In fort wayne, jeremy masukevich, fox 55 news