This Month’s Features
Pet Spotlight: Ama
We had been hoping to adopt a kitten for a long time. We visited Bideawee twice before but left empty-handed, feeling like we just hadn’t met the right cat yet.
Then, on our third visit in October 2024, something special happened. As soon as we walked in, a kitten in the front room ran straight over to greet our 6-year-old daughter from behind the glass. Everywhere our daughter went, the kitten followed—jumping, pawing, and trying her best to get noticed.
President’s Corner: Summer of Second Chances
Creative Ways You Can Help Pets Find Homes
Phew! It’s hot out there! Hopefully you and your friends and family are finding creative and fun ways to stay cool and beat the heat. I’m hoping that with this blog, I’ll be able to inspire you to add a few more “cool” and “pawsome” things to do this summer – with a twist of course!
Corporate Volunteer Opportunities Available at Bideawee
Are you part of a company that volunteers together and loves animals? Bideawee’s Corporate Volunteer Program may be a great fit for your team!
Corporate Volunteer opportunities are offered at all three Bideawee locations and are available at various levels depending on duration, donation level, size and project. Our beautiful Wantagh and Westhampton campuses have many openings this summer!
Based on the location where you wish to volunteer, we’ll design a successful day for you and your team including interaction with our animals when possible.
To learn more about the opportunities available, visit Bideawee Corporate Volunteering
Kitten Season” Offers Special Foster Care Opportunities
Summer is here, and long days and warm weather are once again fueling “kitten season,” the months when unfixed cats are most likely to breed. Rescuing vulnerable feral-born kittens from outdoor dangers and adopting them into loving indoor homes is one of the goals of Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR), and appropriate, age-specific care is crucial to each kitten’s survival and adoption success. Through fostering kittens for Bideawee or another shelter or rescue group, you can help reduce the number of kittens struggling on the streets and free up TNR caretakers’ time to focus on community cat spay/neuter.
Do you want to help orphaned or feral-born kittens but don’t know where to begin? Learn kitten socialization and bottle-feeding basics through a free, on-demand webinar, Kitten Season 101 (Watch Video, View Handout), from Bideawee’s Feral Cat Initiative.
And for more in-depth education on bottle-feeding and socialization, check out our other kitten season webinars, Bottle-Feeding & Care of Orphaned Kittens (Watch Video, View Handout), and Taming Feral Kittens for Adoption (Watch Video, View Handout).
If you’re interested in putting your kitten season skills to work as a Bideawee foster volunteer, learn more and apply on our website, or email [email protected].
Staff Spotlight: Julia Howe
Volunteer and Events Manager, Manhattan
A decades-long New Yorker and lifelong animal lover, Julia began her journey in the animal welfare and rescue field as a volunteer at both the Animal Care Center of Brooklyn and Badass Animal Rescue.
Name: Aphra Behn Age: 8 Years Resides in: Bushwick Favorite activity: Getting ready to go outside for a walk - not the actual walk itself, she hates that part, just going out the apartment and to the elevator. Favorite food: Aphra isn’t very food motivated, but she loves when her brother drops a piece of his cat food for her. Celebrity Kindred Spirit: Jennifer Coolidge - they’re both goofy and beautiful and look like they’d give great hugs. Least favorite phrase: Time to get out of bed! Favorite phrase: Look who’s home!