![]() Feral cats can be found anywhere there’s available food, often provided by compassionate people who feed them. While it’s rare for a litter of puppies from New York to be brought into Last Hope, that isn’t the case with kittens. It’s all about supply and demand, she added. ![]() The cat problem hasn’t gotten any better because of the feral cat problem.” It’s very rare, and it’s good because people have gotten the message about leash laws, and they’ve also gotten the message about spaying and neutering their dogs on Long Island. “We saw tiny puppies, we saw shepherd mixes, Lab mixes. “We don’t see what we used to see going back 20 years in our shelters,” she said. “She’s my buddy, and she’s just a pleasure.”Īnd with many families like the Lasts wanting to provide homes for rescue dogs, at times there just aren’t enough dogs, Anderson noted. And it makes you feel great to know that we’re able to do that for her. “She wants to be a good dog, she wants to please and make people happy. “It makes you feel good to give a home to a good dog,” Last said. She was at work and she passed away, and she had four dogs.”Īll four were brought to Last Hope, including the Australian cattle dog that became a part of the Last family. “Something happened, and this poor woman apparently dropped dead. “She belonged to a woman who was apparently good friends with a shelter in Georgia that Last Hope works with,” he said. Last said that his dog had a well-documented medical history because of her loving owner. Sometimes we know they have it sometimes we find out when they get here.” That’s $1,200 to treat a dog with heartworms. “Things that you might have not known, like the dog might test positive for heartworms. “There’s transport fees, veterinary fees, surprise veterinary fees,” she said. ![]() And the $11,000 grant will help offset the cost of rescuing them. The dogs come from rescue partners in Southern states, Anderson said. “What will happen is, with the stockpile of applications, we’ll have the next group of dogs coming, and before we even advertise them, for many of them we already have an approved person who will take that dog.” “We and other places have a stockpile of approved people for particular dogs, but we don’t have enough dogs to fulfill the applications that we have,” Anderson said. Because so many people were home and had more time on their hands, more sought a furry companion for their family. But one unforeseen positive impact was the increased rate of pet adoption. The coronavirus pandemic has posed many obstacles for nonprofits like Last Hope, including in-terfering with their ability to hold in-person fundraisers. Last Hope is supported in its mission to continue transporting and treating dogs from the South by an $11,000 grant from Petco Love, a nonprofit affiliate of Petco Animal Supplies Inc. “We don’t have this on Long Island or New York anymore.” “There’s a constant intake of strays and owner surrenders in the poor rural areas,” explained Joanne Anderson, Last Hope’s outreach coordinator. “ went out of their way to do it.”Īll the dogs at Last Hope have similar stories, and most of them come from Southern states. ![]() “We have a daughter with special needs, and we really wanted a dog that would fit in well with our family and that would meet the needs of what we had and would help us to work with our daughter,” Last said. Eric Last, an internist with a practice in Wantagh, and his daughter were playing fetch with their Australian cattle dog mix from Georgia, which they adopted from Wantagh’s Last Hope Inc.
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