1912: Bum, the Heroic NYC Police Dog of Notorious Mulberry Street » Dogs with Ambulance for Injured and Homeless Animals
Bide-A-Wee used ambulances to pick up stray and unwanted animals. Volunteers with the organization cared for the animals and worked to find them all permanent homes.
ca. 1900s, New York, New York, USA — The new ambulance installed by the Bide-A-Wee Home for Friendless Animals, a speedy car which not only calls for homeless, friendless pups and kitties, but rushes out on emergency calls when they are injured or ill. — Image by © Underwood & Underwood/CORBIS
