Ty Pennington built 245 homes across America on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Now he's fighting a different kind of crisis, and most people don't even know it exists. In this episode of Stick a Fork In It, Ty sits down with Feeding Tampa Bay to talk about what it really means to show up for your community and why pets are at the center of that mission. As a PetSmart Charities ambassador, Ty is shining a light on pet food insecurity: the heartbreaking reality that many seniors in America are choosing between feeding themselves or feeding their beloved pets. Spoiler: most choose the pet. Ty opens up about his own rescue dogs, Dory and Phoebe, and the moment Phoebe climbed into his lap at the shelter and never looked back. He shares what it feels like to walk through a shelter and see dogs in cages wondering, "Is it my time?" And why he believes the people who adopt senior dogs are the real heroes. This is a conversation about community, compassion, and the bond between people and their pets —and what happens when both go hungry.
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