Bideawee: Helping Dogs & Cats
Bideawee: Part 1
Helping Dogs & Cats Find Loving Homes For Over 100 Years
For individuals looking for their first dog, and whose needs dictate an adult animal rather than a pup or kitten, the perfect answer is often to turn to an animal shelter. Not all animal shelters function as their name seems to imply though. That is, not all of them provide shelter, food, and care for a homeless animal until a new home becomes available.
One such organization whose standards far surpass the average home is the Bideawee, For The Love Of Pets organization, formerly known as the Bide-A-Wee Home Association. Entrusting a beloved pet to their care, the bereaved owner is assured that no animal is ever destroyed unless it is incurably ill.
Located in Manhattan and in both Wantagh and Westhampton, Long Island, the Bideawee Home has been finding loving new homes for unwanted animals for more than 100 years. Thousands upon thousands of dogs and cats are placed in loving new homes each year by the efforts of the Bideawee group.
Such a wide variety of animals passes through Bideawee each week that the prospective pet owner usually has no difficulty finding exactly what he’s looking for. The variety of pups and dogs of mixed ancestry is unending and these combination often produce marvelously handsome, hardy animals.
While purebred pups and kittens rarely find their way to the Home, purebred adult animals frequently find themselves up for adoption – concrete evidence of too many pups and kittens of pure as well as mixed ancestry are glutting the animal market. Dogs and cats of almost every known breed from Afghan to Abyssinian have at one time or another been offered for adoption at Bideawee.
A Reasonable Organization
A small donation goes a long way at Bideawee. Only a small fee is charged for people to put the animals up for adoption, which includes inoculation. When available, purebred pets may cost slightly more but well within the means of most prospective pet owners.
All pets are sent out with a health guarantee and are treated free of charge should they exhibit symptoms of illness within the specified guarantee period. Every animal that is placed for adoption has received at least a temporary inoculation against distemper (and, in the case of cats and kittens, against pneumonitis too) and has been thoroughly examined by a Bideawee veterinarian.
Information solicited from the animal’s original owner initiates the adoptive “parents” in what to expect from their new pet. Is he a good watchdog? Is he fond of children? Is he housetrained? Does he tend to be destructive? What does he like to eat?
The answers to these questions often make adopting a Bideawee dog even easier than buying a pup since the new owner is spared much mystery about how his pet will develop and, often, much of the disappointment of adopting a pet for, say, a watchdog in the neighborhood or, what is worse, selecting a pup as a child’s companion only to have it become an overly aggressive, intractable dog.
Bideawee: Part 2
Helping Dogs & Cats Find Loving Homes For Over 100 Years
At the Bideawee organization, an excellent pet adoption center that has been in existence for more than 100 years, the great majority of dogs and cats there are housetrained, eat one or two meals a day (compared to the four or five meals needed by a puppy or kitten), and are easily identifiable as to basic temperament.
Yet there are many, many adult dogs and cats who seem doomed to spend indeterminable months at one of the Bideawee shelters only because they are more mature or less handsome than the average pet. These animals surely need new homes all the more desperately.
Adopting The Unadoptable
At Bideawee there are many animals that may seem unadoptable, but eventually they will find a home. For example, there’s Tootsie, a 5-year-old Beagle-Fox Terrier mix, who for some strange reason is always ignored by visitors to the Manhattan adoption center.
Junior, a 4-year-old male mixed spaniel, and a handsome fellow too, has spent months at Bideawee growing more and more despondent as the days go by.
But by far the saddest of all is Hercules, an 8-year-old mixed Chihuahua who would love a nice quiet home with an elderly person or a couple.
Experience has shown shelter officials that even these lovely animals, classified by some as hardcore unadoptable canines, will eventually be given new homes by some kind humanitarians in exchange for the love and devotion that they are eager to offer. As the old saying goes: Where there’s life, there’s hope – especially at Bideawee!
For these animals the wait may be long but the prospect of a happy new home filled with love will never be abandoned. In the meantime, these animals become the very special favorites of the Bideawee staff who desperately try to add a more personal touch to the institutional atmosphere which pervades even this fine shelter facility.
Bideawee Needs Your Help
What is obvious here is the fact that Bideawee, like all such agencies, is in desperate need of our help. More than volunteer work, more than donations, Bideawee needs you to adopt a pet!
These animals – whose only crime is to be unwanted – need loving and understanding new homes, homes with people who will show them once again how to enjoy life.
While many critics of such shelter systems bemoan the fact that it is indeed just as cruel to keep an animal in a cage for a long period of time as it is to destroy it, Bideawee claims that it provides a service of inestimable value to those people who cannot condone taking the life from an otherwise healthy animal merely, because they are allergic to it or their landlord says not pets are allowed.
Obviously, no animal shelter or organization can be all things to all people, and for those to whom euthanasia is more readily acceptable than confinement, many, many shelters functioning in that fashion exist all across the country.
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