NYC nonprofit highlights life-saving role pets play in our lives

Pets Are Wonderful Support (PAWS) NY, a nonprofit dedicated to helping older and susceptible adults take attraction of their pets, developed a short movie to underscore nan important and often life-saving domiciled that pets tin play successful our lives. 

"The Bridge," made successful collaboration pinch Klick Health, is an animated short film inspired by a existent communicative astir a New Yorker who has suicidal thoughts and crosses paths pinch an abandoned dog. 

The enslaved betwixt nan duo yet ends up redeeming nan man's life. 

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The movie does an "incredible occupation astatine very powerfully demonstrating really these relationships genuinely tin beryllium lifesaving," PAWS NY laminitis Rachel Herman told Fox News Digital. 

The film is simply a chance for Herman to raise consciousness for her organization, whose activity often goes unnoticed. 

A PAWS NY customer and his dog. Pets Are Wonderful Support (PAWS) NY is simply a nonprofit that's dedicated to helping older and susceptible adults return attraction of their pets.  (David Andrako)

Herman and a set of volunteers person helped scores of older adults and individuals surviving pinch unwellness aliases disablement attraction for their pets done various services and programs ever since nan programme was founded successful 2008. 

"They often show america their pet is their champion friend, their sole root of companionship, their logic for waking up each day."

The services see canine walking, litter maintenance, medicine management and proviso of nutrient and water. 

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"The individuals that we thief — they often show america their pet is their champion friend, their sole root of companionship, their logic for waking up each day," she said.

She added that they want to proceed helping much New Yorkers to sphere these captious relationships. 

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Most of their clients are not only "struggling pinch providing beingness pet care, but they besides don't person nan financial resources to person personification travel successful and support them," Herman said. 

A still from nan animated film, "The Bridge." Said Rachel Herman of PAWS NY, "Our extremity is to amended nan value of life for older adults and different susceptible New Yorkers." (Klick Health)

Herman was inspired to commencement nan statement aft she walked by a young bum mates and their canine sitting extracurricular a market shop successful nan early 2000s. 

"At nan time, bum shelters didn't let pets. And I thought: How heartbreaking is this that this mates whitethorn beryllium giving up a lukewarm furniture astatine nighttime because of nan beardown narration pinch their pet," she said. 

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It made her recognize really difficult caring for a pet tin beryllium later successful life erstwhile group are faced pinch definite obstacles. 

"Our extremity is to amended nan value of life for older adults and different susceptible New Yorkers," Herman said. 

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"We do that by providing pet attraction support that helps them to support their pets erstwhile they whitethorn beryllium forced to springiness them up owed to nan obstacles that they're facing." 

A PAWS NY unpaid moving pinch a client's dog.  (David Andrako)

Although Herman knows nan organization's activity is critical, she's besides alert that overmuch of what nan statement does happens down closed doors. 

However, nan short film, which was posted to YouTube past month, has already received "phenomenal" feedback, according to Klick Health. 

Bernardo Romero, who joined Klick Health successful 2022 to create impactful campaigns and products that positively effect people’s health, believes storytelling is "a very powerful measurement to alteration behavior." 

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"We've been talking a batch astir mental health and really we tin do a amended occupation astatine taking attraction of ourselves," Romero said. 

"This movie brings a imaginable solution to nan table."