Bandits Place
Our Adoptable Pet List
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Our Featured Pet...
Meet Pugsley - He's between 8-12 years old and he is our poster child for this month. Although Pugs has found his forever home (Thanks, Lisa!) I keep his picture up to remind me of why I make myself crazy with this rescue stuff. You see, Pugs was abandoned - old, frightened, hairless, with infected teeth and ears, a skin infection and diminishing eyesight. He was just taken and dumped. Just like that. He was one I could not pass up, however, because I just could not believe that after all he'd been through, he was still trying! So we took him in, got him vetted (thanks BIG time to the Southwick Animal Hospital - Dr. Patty Kuzmickas is AWESOME and gave Pugs a new lease on life!) and into an incredible foster home (Thanks, Laurie & Tammy!!!) who re-named him Mikey ("because he liked that name better"). Mikey is now happy and healthy and living out the rest of his life in a comfy, cozy bed. I bet these last years will be the best years of his life. So I write all this to first remind myself that there is always hope and second, to remember that there are wonderful people out there who are willing to help guys like Pugs. If you'd like to help Bandit's Place help guys like Pugsley, donations can be made through Paypal or by simply dropping us a check. Pugsley's treatment was expensive but well worth it - just to see his toothless, gummy grin! ....
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Lassie and Cleo and Rin Tin Tin and Toto don't show up in rescue. We don't get the elegantly coiffed, classically beautiful, completely
trained, perfectly behaved dog. We get the leftovers. Dogs that other people have incompetently bred, inadequately socialized, ineffectively
"trained," and badly treated. Most Rescue dogs have had it. They've been pushed from one lousy situation to another. They've never had proper veterinary care, kind and consistent training, or sufficient company. They've lived outside, in a crate, or in the basement. They're scared, depressed and anxious. Some are angry. Some are sick. Some have given up. But we are Rescue and we don't give up. We never give up on a dog. We know that a dog is a living being, with a spirit and a heart and feelings. Our dogs are not commodities,
things, or garbage. They are part of sacred creation and they deserve as much love and care and respect as the next Westminster champion. So please, please don't come to rescue in the hopes of getting a "bargain," or indeed of "getting" anything. Come to Rescue to give, to love, to save a life -- and to mend your own spirit. For Rescue will reward you in ways you never thought possible. I can promise you
this -- a rescue dog will make you a better person.
We use Patented Kuranda Dog Beds because
they are durable, chew proof and easy to clean. If you would like
to donate a bed to us, click here.
Who We Are
In 1982 I went to the New Britain dog pound looking for a dog they had advertised in the paper for adoption. I came out instead with a smelly, cross-eyed pooch that I had to bathe three times to see her actual colors. The animal control officer said that she'd be the best dog I ever owned. She was so afraid that she wouldn't even walk out of that pound. I had to carry her. It was found that this trembling little bundle had been eating food out of broken glass containers and had been severely abused. She was only about 3-4 months old when I got her but she had already come to know the terror that can be inflicted by the human race. Named Bandit by a close friend (he's a cop and named her Bandit because "when she rides with me in the cruiser it will be Smokey and the Bandit"). She gave me 10 incredible years with her. Bandit was an inspiration, not only to me but to all that met her. She taught kids who had been abused that fear and mistrust could be overcome with love and understanding. She had a smile (yep, a smile) and intelligence that has never been matched. From the beginning, until she died in my arms in 1992 I promised Bandit that I would always do what ever I could to help animals be placed in loving, caring homes. I promised her then and have kept that promise to her.
Bandit's Place is a non-profit organization dedicated to rescuing homeless animals and placing them in loving, forever homes. It matters not where they've come from, but it matters greatly where they go.
Needy animals are pulled from pounds across a wide area and, when room provides itself, from individuals needing to surrender their pets. Referral services are also offered at no cost.
Future plans for Bandit's Place include setting up a kennel so that there is a central place to view animals available. Currently animals are housed in foster homes.
Training classes for new adoptions are also part of our future plans and we hope to have an actual training center next to the kennel...
Bandit's Place would also hope to, at some point, acquire a transport van which would enable us to rescue animals in a more efficient manner.
Adopting a friend
Bandit's Place accepts applications from throughout the New England area. All applications are screened and references are thoroughly checked. Home visits may also be required. Bandit's Place reserves the right to refuse an application if the board does not feel the placement is in the best interest of the animal being considered.
Adoption fees cover the cost of veterinary care, transport costs and general care. This is a non-profit organization thus all adoption fees go back into helping another animal be rescued and rehomed.
All adoptions include signing an adoption contract and the application. A valid drivers license is also required to be shown upon adoption completion.
Wish list
Bandits Place
Main Office
70 Granville Road
East Hartland, CT 06027
Phone: 860-653-0558
Email:
BanditsPlace1@aol.com
