PET OF THE WEEK

Evelyn

By The Bahamas Humane Society

The lovely Evelyn is about three years old and is a favourite with the volunteer dog walkers at the Bahamas Humane Society. She’s friendly with other dogs and behaves well on a leash, enjoying her trips off-property. As the dog walker said, Evelyn “would be the perfect pet”. If your New Year’s goals included more walking, Evelyn might be the perfect companion to help you achieve them! Come to the BHS to meet her, or call recognised.

Do you know of somebody or a business that goes beyond the normal display of compassion and kindness, do you watch a friend day in, and day out give of themselves in order to make the world a better place for the animals of The Bahamas? If you do, now is the time to nominate them. When you nominate, we will need a write-up as to why you believe that they deserve to be this year’s winners. It does not have to be complicated but it must lay out clearly what your reasons are to nominate them for the country’s only animal award.

Actually, whilst on the subject: animal advocates are generally misunderstood in The Bahamas and frequently are only tolerated because of who they are. We get treated as crackpots when we try and make people understand that all animals have feelings. Fear, hunger, thirst, loneliness, confusion, and dejection are not only emotions that we, the “ultimate” animal, experience. All the animals on earth feel those emotions sometimes more than we do. The sensitivity of an animal is so superior to that of we humans because we have actually destroyed our power of understand. An animal can walk into a room and smell fear and can smell death… we cannot. Take a dog into a room where another dog was been put to sleep (i.e. killed) and he is immediately frightened because he can smell the fear.

Let’s not sugar coat the lack of interest there is in animal welfare in The Bahamas, those struggling to get their voices heard are a handful of good folks with hearts full of kindness and compassion. I think that it is so fitting that we have an award to showcase these marvelous persons yearly.

325-6742 for more information. Evelyn looks forward to meeting you! (If you’d like to join the dog walk, they’re generally Wednesdays at 10am. Please bring a leash and poop bags.)

The BHS Thrift Shop is open and ready to sell you all kinds of wonderful things! Books, clothing, housewares, giftware, art, and much more! Wed/Thurs/Fri 11 - 3 and Saturday 10 - 2. Bring your bag!

It is always a very proud moment for me to hand out these awards. We used to have a big gala ball and give the recipients their prizes at that event but, it became apparent that the tickets were so highly pricesd that not everybody who wanted to cheer their nominee could. This seemed to be to be a bit unfair…when you are being honoured your nearest and dearest all want to be right there and enjoy seeing you recognized and want to be the first to cheer.

With this in mind we now give out our awards at the Party for the Animals held at the Bahamas National Trust gardens “The Retreat” on February 18, 2023, we are hoping that you will want to nominate somebody and if they win, we want you to be there holding them up and cheering them on.

Tickets are available at Fox Hill Nursery and are $40 – there is a cash bar and a cash food truck, music and fellowship is included.

A load of people brought together for one common cause, the love of animals… plan to join.

Above all, please plan on thinking if there is anybody in any of the categories that you feel would be deserving of the 2022 Bahamas Humane Society B-Humane award… we don’t want to miss anybody and you can help us be on the ball.

Please send your written nominations to me at berryislandgirl@gmail. com. Any other comments are welcome too.