Bide Awhile Animal Shelter
A long-running Dartmouth shelter that the municipality names as one of the local shelters to check, with its own online lost-pet form.
Contact
Report a lost pet at Bide Awhile Animal Shelter (opens in a new tab) bideawhile.org (opens in a new tab)
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- Coverage
- Halifax and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- [email protected]
- Cost
- Free
What to do here
Fill in their lost-pet form with a clear full-body photo and the area the pet went missing — a photo is the thing that lets staff match a cat nobody can describe the same way twice. Their own advice is to call and visit local shelters in person and to keep coming back every other day rather than reporting once.
Halifax's municipal lost-pet page names this shelter as one of the local shelters to check alongside Animal Services, so it is worth a call even though it is not the municipal pound.
More shelters and humane societies
- BC SPCA 1-855-622-7722
- BC SPCA Abbotsford 604-850-1584
- BC SPCA Burnaby 604-291-7201
- BC SPCA Chilliwack 604-823-6612
Also covering Nova Scotia
- Halifax Regional Municipality Animal Services 311
- HRM Animal Redemption Centre 902-536-2032
- Nova Scotia SPCA 1-844-835-4798
- Nova Scotia SPCA Cape Breton Shelter 902-539-7722
One organisation is never the whole search
A pet is found by whoever happens to be nearby, so the shelter, the city, the registry and the local search groups each hold a different piece. Work the list rather than one entry on it.