Bideawee: Helping Dogs & Cats Find Loving Homes For Over 100 Years (2)
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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