Veterandog chefRachael Ray is making sure there’s enough support for all of Harvey’s furry victims. Estimates right now vary, but by Monday, large cities like San Antonio say they’d alreadytaken in hundredsof displaced pets, some of which are being sent to shelters as far off asSeattleandNew Jersey. The chef, No. 2 onForbes’s highest-paidlistand herself a rescue-pet owner, wroteon her Facebook pagethat the Rachael Ray Foundation and her high-end pet-food brandNutrishhad donated $1 million to animal-welfare groups that are “actively working in Texas and Louisiana to care for animals.”
She isn’t the only chef finding a somewhat niche way to help out — José Andrés traveled to Houston, found a Target, andloadeda basket full of pasta and red sauce to cook for people. Even Budweiserquit bottling beerso it could ship nearly half a million cans of water to the region.
Ray’s Nutrish line donates a percentage of its sales to pet charities, so fortuitously, the company was just able to earmark a portion of those for relief efforts. Among the organizations that got a chunk were theSPCA of TexasandAustin Pets Alive!, which are now each $100,000 richer.
