The Pet Postcard Project is a grassroots arts-and-crafts project run by Nikki Moustaki. The project is aimed at raising food for shelter pets and awareness about the plight of homeless animals. "Pet Postcards" for this project are homemade and handmade postcards featuring your own pets that you make and then snail mail into The Pet Postcard Project. Each card you send earns food for shelter dogs and cats. So far, this project has has received many thousands of funny, weird, sad, cute, and profound cards, all filled with love for a beloved pet.

Please include a PHOTO of the animal on each card, or else we won't know who's "talking!" The words are not just captions, they are creative confessions, wishes, advice, excuses, and "you know you love your dog/cat when" ideas. 

This site does not make money on this project. All of this effort is to raise food and awareness for shelter animals. 
How Postcards Turn Into Pet Food
  • A pet food company agrees to pledge a certain amount of food per postcard that comes in. Sometimes it's a "meal" (1/3 of a pound), sometimes a pound, sometimes much more - once we had a 128 pound per postcard pledge! Sometimes a company will pledge toys or even cash for each card that comes in. 
  • Next, someone "adopts" the campaign, which lasts 1 to 2 months. A cat or dog, several animals who form a team, sometimes even a high school, Girl Scout troop, college club, school district, or even a pet-loving company choose a shelter to be the recipient of the food, and drive cards into The Pet Postcard Project mailbox through their social networks (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) and friends and family.
  • At the end of the month, cards are tallied and the shelter is sent the food or other products. Often there's a card goal, and every Spokesanimal or team has always met the goal and every shelter has always gotten the food/products.
To count toward any campaign, the words on the cards shouldn't just be captions - they are ADVICE, CONFESSIONS, OR WISHES from or to the pet. 

CARDS CAN BE AS SIMPLE OR AS COMPLEX AS YOU WANT, BUT MAKE SURE THE WORDS YOU WRITE ARE EITHER FUNNY, PROFOUND, OR HEARTWARMING.