You can donate your spoiled refrigerator food to Houston-area exotic animals

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Friday, February 19, 2021
Don't throw your food out! You can donate it to local animals
As long as the food you planned to throw out isn't moldy, TGR Exotics Wildlife Park in Spring wants it to feed their animals!

SPRING, Texas (KTRK) -- If you have food that's gone bad in your fridge and freezer, you don't have to throw it all away!

Instead of seeing the ruined food go to waste, you can donate it to local exotic animals!

TGR Exotics Wildlife Park in Spring posted on Facebook they will take your fruits, vegetables, eggs and unseasoned meat for their animals.

The wildlife park says its animals will eat anything that's not moldy.

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You can drop off food anytime at the big green gate at Sherrod Lane off Spring Stuebner.

They ask donors not to bring onions, garlic or cabbage, but they'll take everything else.

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