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PLATTSBURGH Shelly Pitcher and her 12-year-old son, Chase, never pass up loose change.

"We have done it since Chase was real young," she said. "Anytime we saw a coin on the ground, we would pick it up."

Those nickels, dimes and pennies add up, especially around the holiday season. The two have enjoyed treating themselves with the free money they had collected.

"Eventually, we were finding quite a bit, so last year we came up with the idea to save it up for a whole year," Shelly said.

By the end of summer, Chase began thinking about the best way to spend the money. The Pitchers have always been animal lovers they have both cats and dogs as pets.

And since he has volunteered at local animal shelters, he thought it would be money well spent to donate everything they found to those places.

The pair called their effort Coins for Cats, Dollars for Dogs.

ACTIVE SEARCH

For the first time, they actively went out of their way to find coins. The two specifically went to the mall and other locations where people tend to drop money.

The goal was to reach $300, in order to split it evenly among the Adirondack Humane Society and St. John Feral Cat Fund, both in Plattsburgh, and the Elmore SPCA in Peru.

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Coin collectors for a cause