Pasado's Safe Haven delivered 16,000 pounds of dog food to eight Seattle homeless shelters on Wednesday.
Terry Pallas of Union Gospel Mission said many men and women who live on the streets have dogs.
"Dogs provide security, but more than that they provide companionship," he said.
Pallas said Mission workers often get requests from homeless people for pet food.
"We've even seen them try to feed their dogs with the food that we give them before they'll eat themselves," he said.
Pallas says the Mission holds pet clinics for homeless and low income people a couple of times a month and the line stretches down the block.
"A donation like this will reall help assist them with providing the type of care for their animals that they really desperately need," he said.
Pasado's estimates that between 5 and 10 percent of homeless people have pets.
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