[quote="Terry"]Several groups ARE in NOLA. But they need more "boots on the ground" and "boats in the water" to be successful.
Requests to the media for access from pet rescue volunteers may work quicker than sending to LA Gov. Just a thought.
They are contacting the media also. The problem right now is that the National Guard is not allowing ANY rescue group access to New Orleans. So they might be there present, but can not help out. That's why they are asking everyone to contact the Governor I guess she's the only one that has the authority to tell the Natl Guards to allow these rescue groups in their City. The media has been showing many stranded dogs pinned to trees, on roofs, etc. and the reporters won't even help out these poor animals that are dying a very slow and painful death. It is so horrible to hear all these stories.
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cristy wrote:Terry wrote:Several groups ARE in NOLA. But they need more "boots on the ground" and "boats in the water" to be successful.
Requests to the media for access from pet rescue volunteers may work quicker than sending to LA Gov. Just a thought.
They are contacting the media also. The problem right now is that the National Guard is not allowing ANY rescue group access to New Orleans. So they might be there present, but can not help out. That's why they are asking everyone to contact the Governor I guess she's the only one that has the authority to tell the Natl Guards to allow these rescue groups in their City. The media has been showing many stranded dogs pinned to trees, on roofs, etc. and the reporters won't even help out these poor animals that are dying a very slow and painful death. It is so horrible to hear all these stories.
We can all contact our local news stations as well as the bigger new stations, keep emailing them with all the information you are giving here.
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To Everyone Interested in Helping. Please go to http://www.nola.com/forums/animals/inde ... itial=true. There you will find numbers and email addresses of people that can help regarding the rescue of the animals left behind in N.O. We believe that they are not letting HSUS have access to N.O. because of toxic water. But on the other hand, they allow the Hollywood Celebrities and the reporters and their crews. I guess the toxic situation is not that bad, otherwise we know the Hollywood crowd would not be there risking their lives. All day, many of us have been contacting the offices of General Honore to ask him to to allow access of the city of N.O. to HSUS. All the information you need is posted in the nola website. Please don't give up, let's do everything in our power to rescue these poor pets. Remember, they don't have a voice, we need to be their voice during this catastrophic event. Many people are facing death, because they refuse to leave when the National Guards do not allow them to bring their pets when they are being rescued. Also, there's a news reporter that went to the Waveland area this morning and saw many injured and emaciated dogs/cats. No rescue groups around that area. She just posted this on the nola.com forum. Maybe someone is from that area and can help her. Thanks!
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Hey All,
I don't remember if I posted this or not yesterday.. Petfinder.com is helping out the LA SPCA by posting pics of lost pets. Here's the link: http://www.petfinder.com/disaster/index.html
Kristi
P.S. Edited to add link
I don't remember if I posted this or not yesterday.. Petfinder.com is helping out the LA SPCA by posting pics of lost pets. Here's the link: http://www.petfinder.com/disaster/index.html
Kristi
P.S. Edited to add link
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This broke my heart. I am currently housing my 6 of my own and 4 of my cousins cats and 2 of their friends dogs but I may have to find room for a few more. I have also opened my home to an elderly couple that are due in Springfield this weekend needing a place to stay until their family can finish building their home in Kansas.
Week tragic for dogs, cats left at coast shelters
By Brian Skoloff
The Associated Press
WAVELAND — Katrina has been doubly cruel to family pets on the Gulf Coast — many were either left to fend for themselves in the powerful winds or trapped in flooding cages as owners fled. Others survived, only to die after days without food and water.
Even days later, strays were hunted down and killed.
It's been a tragic week for man's best friend.
At the Waveland Animal Shelter, there is the smell of death. Four dogs rot in the muck, one stuffed inside a refrigerator-sized cooler, baking in the sweltering heat. Another lies stiff in the mud on the front stoop swarmed by flies.
Two of the animals appeared to have died in their pens. Three more stand atop the double-stacked 8-foot-high cages, barking and running in circles. A Weimaraner paces back and forth in the office.
The storm surge pushed ashore by Katrina left them trapped inside the 30-foot-by-20-foot cinderblock building in about six feet of water, waste and debris.
The shelter manager fled before the storm, said a town firefighter who refused to give his name because he didn't want to make it seem as if the woman purposely left the dogs to die. She just had nowhere to take them.
Similar gruesome scenes occurred up and down the Gulf Coast in Mississippi and Louisiana as shelter managers either didn't expect the water to rise so high or simply had no way to get the animals out.
"I went in there after it was all over and probably about 80 percent of them survived," the firefighter said of the Waveland shelter. "They had swam up to the water line inside their cages. Somebody turned a bunch of them loose."
Tony Governale, 50, who lives a couple of houses down from the shelter just a mile from the coast said residents were shooting stray dogs on sight, fearing disease.
"We saw a lot of them the first couple of days," Governale said Saturday. "But we're not hearing gunshots nomore."
In Gulfport, about 20 miles east, 17 dogs and six cats died at the Humane Society of South Mississippi shelter. About 125 survived, many of them dog-paddling for hours until the mix of mud and sewage receded.
The national Humane Society chapter came in Friday and retrieved the survivors, trucking them to shelters further north, said Julie Parks, the assistant director of the Gulfport facility.
"We asked for help before but they didn't have the resources," Parks said Saturday.
"We had dogs that swam the entire time in four feet of water and survived," said Parks, who weathered the storm at home further inland. "Even cats were in about 8 to 9 inches of water in the upper cages and they swam and survived, too. Just like everybody else, they're survivors."
She said the national Humane Society's disaster relief team would soon be coming to the Gulf Coast to set up makeshift shelters for the streams of pets that residents continue to find in the wake of the devastation.
"They have portable kennels and everything. They're like a MASH unit."
Parks' shelter can't currently take in any dogs or cats. The place has to be sanitized and the roof repaired. All the food was ruined and the water contaminated. She's waiting for help with disposing of the carcasses that rot in a Dumpster.
Mark and Dawn Wilkinson were turned away Saturday with a yellow Labrador retriever they found wandering the streets.
"He's really well-mannered. He was so thirsty when we found him," Dawn said, sitting in the back of a pickup truck with the pooch as her husband drove out of the shelter lot.
Park said the likely hundreds of pets up and down the coast that became separated from their owners — and survived — face tough times ahead and will have to fend for themselves until Humane Society workers arrive, as police and rescue crews focus on human victims.
In New Orleans, many of the people expressed opposition to being evacuated to another state for an unknown length of time, often because they have pets they refused to leave behind.
"You've got to protect your property, that's the main thing. This is all I've got," said John Ebanks, 69, sitting on his porch with his mixed-breed dog watching rescue boats go up and down his street. "I'm pretty damn old to start over."
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Week tragic for dogs, cats left at coast shelters
By Brian Skoloff
The Associated Press
WAVELAND — Katrina has been doubly cruel to family pets on the Gulf Coast — many were either left to fend for themselves in the powerful winds or trapped in flooding cages as owners fled. Others survived, only to die after days without food and water.
Even days later, strays were hunted down and killed.
It's been a tragic week for man's best friend.
At the Waveland Animal Shelter, there is the smell of death. Four dogs rot in the muck, one stuffed inside a refrigerator-sized cooler, baking in the sweltering heat. Another lies stiff in the mud on the front stoop swarmed by flies.
Two of the animals appeared to have died in their pens. Three more stand atop the double-stacked 8-foot-high cages, barking and running in circles. A Weimaraner paces back and forth in the office.
The storm surge pushed ashore by Katrina left them trapped inside the 30-foot-by-20-foot cinderblock building in about six feet of water, waste and debris.
The shelter manager fled before the storm, said a town firefighter who refused to give his name because he didn't want to make it seem as if the woman purposely left the dogs to die. She just had nowhere to take them.
Similar gruesome scenes occurred up and down the Gulf Coast in Mississippi and Louisiana as shelter managers either didn't expect the water to rise so high or simply had no way to get the animals out.
"I went in there after it was all over and probably about 80 percent of them survived," the firefighter said of the Waveland shelter. "They had swam up to the water line inside their cages. Somebody turned a bunch of them loose."
Tony Governale, 50, who lives a couple of houses down from the shelter just a mile from the coast said residents were shooting stray dogs on sight, fearing disease.
"We saw a lot of them the first couple of days," Governale said Saturday. "But we're not hearing gunshots nomore."
In Gulfport, about 20 miles east, 17 dogs and six cats died at the Humane Society of South Mississippi shelter. About 125 survived, many of them dog-paddling for hours until the mix of mud and sewage receded.
The national Humane Society chapter came in Friday and retrieved the survivors, trucking them to shelters further north, said Julie Parks, the assistant director of the Gulfport facility.
"We asked for help before but they didn't have the resources," Parks said Saturday.
"We had dogs that swam the entire time in four feet of water and survived," said Parks, who weathered the storm at home further inland. "Even cats were in about 8 to 9 inches of water in the upper cages and they swam and survived, too. Just like everybody else, they're survivors."
She said the national Humane Society's disaster relief team would soon be coming to the Gulf Coast to set up makeshift shelters for the streams of pets that residents continue to find in the wake of the devastation.
"They have portable kennels and everything. They're like a MASH unit."
Parks' shelter can't currently take in any dogs or cats. The place has to be sanitized and the roof repaired. All the food was ruined and the water contaminated. She's waiting for help with disposing of the carcasses that rot in a Dumpster.
Mark and Dawn Wilkinson were turned away Saturday with a yellow Labrador retriever they found wandering the streets.
"He's really well-mannered. He was so thirsty when we found him," Dawn said, sitting in the back of a pickup truck with the pooch as her husband drove out of the shelter lot.
Park said the likely hundreds of pets up and down the coast that became separated from their owners — and survived — face tough times ahead and will have to fend for themselves until Humane Society workers arrive, as police and rescue crews focus on human victims.
In New Orleans, many of the people expressed opposition to being evacuated to another state for an unknown length of time, often because they have pets they refused to leave behind.
"You've got to protect your property, that's the main thing. This is all I've got," said John Ebanks, 69, sitting on his porch with his mixed-breed dog watching rescue boats go up and down his street. "I'm pretty damn old to start over."
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simplykristi wrote:Kudos to CNN for showing stories of the plight of pets.. 360 had a nice piece on Noah's Wish's work in the NO area. Then on Paula Zahn, there was a segment involving a CNN crew helping a woman resuce three of her four cats from her flooded home.
Kristi
Hey where's the link girl????
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It was nice to see the two pieces on back-to-back shows.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/06/katrin ... index.html
Read this.. ^^^ im getting a clip here from cnn too. hang on.... click this link http://www.cnn.com/ scroll to the right and down a little to "saving the pets".. Another below is a good read.
http://katrinafoundpets.com/
Read this.. ^^^ im getting a clip here from cnn too. hang on.... click this link http://www.cnn.com/ scroll to the right and down a little to "saving the pets".. Another below is a good read.
http://katrinafoundpets.com/
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I saw that clip...I think it was on CNN...where a woman and her dog
( a cute golden brown Chow) helped people get out, and, now, they were
asking her to leave...without her dog. She was crying - she
wanted out, but, she said, "No Way!" Not without her dog.
It made me think real hard. I have had my buddy, Alex, for almost
eleven years, and, she's been my best buddy - she has stepped between
me and other dogs who would have probably bit me - she has put her head
on my chest when I have cried about crazy humanity (9/11), and, she
has been with me through thick and thin. I am not sitting in NO right
now - I can only see what tv shows me - my tummy is not growling from
hunger, and, I am not thirsty. My clothes are clean. But, I hope that I
never am faced with that decision. I love my old pooch - and I know
that she loves and trusts me. The thought of deserting my old friend
is overwhelming.
( a cute golden brown Chow) helped people get out, and, now, they were
asking her to leave...without her dog. She was crying - she
wanted out, but, she said, "No Way!" Not without her dog.
It made me think real hard. I have had my buddy, Alex, for almost
eleven years, and, she's been my best buddy - she has stepped between
me and other dogs who would have probably bit me - she has put her head
on my chest when I have cried about crazy humanity (9/11), and, she
has been with me through thick and thin. I am not sitting in NO right
now - I can only see what tv shows me - my tummy is not growling from
hunger, and, I am not thirsty. My clothes are clean. But, I hope that I
never am faced with that decision. I love my old pooch - and I know
that she loves and trusts me. The thought of deserting my old friend
is overwhelming.
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I just found this interesting because of a wild boar washed up from Deer Island. To be alive after that it must be one tough boar! The rest of the article is just sad.
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Posted on Tue, Sep. 06, 2005
Feral animals roam Biloxi, Miss., streets while animal hospitals tend to strays
By Mark Washburn, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 6--BILOXI - New complications for the calamity facing South Mississippi: Biting dogs, packs of strays and even a feral pig.
Pets left behind during the evacuation -- shelters wouldn't accept them -- are roaming the streets, scavenging for food and drinking from fetid pools fouled by sewage, fuel and contaminated water.
"They call it a boar," says Biloxi Police Chief Bruce Dunnagan, but he thinks the 200- to 300-pound creature sighted repeatedly in the city's east end is probably just a pig that came ashore from a colony that's been on neighboring Deer Island for years.
Whatever it is, he wants it darted, crated and gone because it's making people nervous.
"It's got small tusks," Dunnagan said, "but he's not like a prehistoric stegosaurus."
Stray dogs are running in packs, a problem the city faces even during normal times but a particularly unsettling sight amid the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Officers responded as late as Monday to a report about a biting dog, Dunnagan said.
For those who have their dogs in tow, food is a problem.
Jerry Dove, 53, of Long Beach, was out searching for some with Ruby, a 2-year-old mutt enjoying the unusual fragrances of post-hurricane Biloxi.
Dove said he's encountered desperate strays in town.
"I ran into this puppy at the Salvation Army, looking hungry and thirsty," he said. "He was bad, drooling and everything. I gave him water."
At the Biloxi Animal Hospital, 1875 Pass Road, veterinarian Dr. Tracy Acosta warned that even loving pets can become aggressive when agitated by heat, chaos and upsetting noise like chainsaws.
"Animals are very stressed and even animals that are lovable housepets are biting their owners, biting neighbors."
Acosta said she cleared her kennel of boarding animals before the storm, which is the clinic's policy.
"There were clinics I know that had pets boarded during the storm and they drowned," said Acosta, a syndicated newspaper columnist and author of "Your Dog's Life," a guide to upbringing.
Her clinic, open 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., is among those that have reopened and are selling pet food and ministering to injured animals.
FEMA's veterinarian assistance center is on U.S. 49, just north of Pass Road in Gulfport. It is a center for reuniting lost animals with their owners. Owners are asked to bring a description or photograph of the animal and address of where it was last seen.
Acosta, who works with FEMA's operation, said the agency is finding many pets in need of food and care, particularly in the Pass Christian and Waveland areas, where destruction is severe.
"They're having to euthanize animals that are so far gone," she said.
ADVICE FOR PET OWNERS: Dr. Tracy Acosta offers these tips for people with pets in the aftermath of the storm:
--Quality time with the pet is important now. Be reassuring and pay attention to it.
--Try to provide the same diet as before the storm. If you're using boiled water for drinking, make sure your pets get the same, or use bottled water. Contaminated water will sicken them.
--Make sure you pet has its name and address on its collar in case it gets away.
--If your fence is down, be sure to leash or chain your dog. Don't trust it to stay around on its own.
--Use caution in approaching stray pets.
--Be cautious walking pets because of sharp debris.
--Dogs are attracted to stinky, rotting things. Keep them away.
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Posted on Tue, Sep. 06, 2005
Feral animals roam Biloxi, Miss., streets while animal hospitals tend to strays
By Mark Washburn, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 6--BILOXI - New complications for the calamity facing South Mississippi: Biting dogs, packs of strays and even a feral pig.
Pets left behind during the evacuation -- shelters wouldn't accept them -- are roaming the streets, scavenging for food and drinking from fetid pools fouled by sewage, fuel and contaminated water.
"They call it a boar," says Biloxi Police Chief Bruce Dunnagan, but he thinks the 200- to 300-pound creature sighted repeatedly in the city's east end is probably just a pig that came ashore from a colony that's been on neighboring Deer Island for years.
Whatever it is, he wants it darted, crated and gone because it's making people nervous.
"It's got small tusks," Dunnagan said, "but he's not like a prehistoric stegosaurus."
Stray dogs are running in packs, a problem the city faces even during normal times but a particularly unsettling sight amid the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Officers responded as late as Monday to a report about a biting dog, Dunnagan said.
For those who have their dogs in tow, food is a problem.
Jerry Dove, 53, of Long Beach, was out searching for some with Ruby, a 2-year-old mutt enjoying the unusual fragrances of post-hurricane Biloxi.
Dove said he's encountered desperate strays in town.
"I ran into this puppy at the Salvation Army, looking hungry and thirsty," he said. "He was bad, drooling and everything. I gave him water."
At the Biloxi Animal Hospital, 1875 Pass Road, veterinarian Dr. Tracy Acosta warned that even loving pets can become aggressive when agitated by heat, chaos and upsetting noise like chainsaws.
"Animals are very stressed and even animals that are lovable housepets are biting their owners, biting neighbors."
Acosta said she cleared her kennel of boarding animals before the storm, which is the clinic's policy.
"There were clinics I know that had pets boarded during the storm and they drowned," said Acosta, a syndicated newspaper columnist and author of "Your Dog's Life," a guide to upbringing.
Her clinic, open 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., is among those that have reopened and are selling pet food and ministering to injured animals.
FEMA's veterinarian assistance center is on U.S. 49, just north of Pass Road in Gulfport. It is a center for reuniting lost animals with their owners. Owners are asked to bring a description or photograph of the animal and address of where it was last seen.
Acosta, who works with FEMA's operation, said the agency is finding many pets in need of food and care, particularly in the Pass Christian and Waveland areas, where destruction is severe.
"They're having to euthanize animals that are so far gone," she said.
ADVICE FOR PET OWNERS: Dr. Tracy Acosta offers these tips for people with pets in the aftermath of the storm:
--Quality time with the pet is important now. Be reassuring and pay attention to it.
--Try to provide the same diet as before the storm. If you're using boiled water for drinking, make sure your pets get the same, or use bottled water. Contaminated water will sicken them.
--Make sure you pet has its name and address on its collar in case it gets away.
--If your fence is down, be sure to leash or chain your dog. Don't trust it to stay around on its own.
--Use caution in approaching stray pets.
--Be cautious walking pets because of sharp debris.
--Dogs are attracted to stinky, rotting things. Keep them away.
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Miss Mary
breeze wrote:I saw that clip...I think it was on CNN...where a woman and her dog
( a cute golden brown Chow) helped people get out, and, now, they were
asking her to leave...without her dog. She was crying - she
wanted out, but, she said, "No Way!" Not without her dog.
It made me think real hard. I have had my buddy, Alex, for almost
eleven years, and, she's been my best buddy - she has stepped between
me and other dogs who would have probably bit me - she has put her head
on my chest when I have cried about crazy humanity (9/11), and, she
has been with me through thick and thin. I am not sitting in NO right
now - I can only see what tv shows me - my tummy is not growling from
hunger, and, I am not thirsty. My clothes are clean. But, I hope that I
never am faced with that decision. I love my old pooch - and I know
that she loves and trusts me. The thought of deserting my old friend
is overwhelming.
Annette gets it. I'd have a hard time leaving my dog behind too. Heck, she sits by the front window when I just run a short errand. The greeting I receive 30 minutes later is as if I were gone for days.
These stories are breaking my heart too.
If you don't get it, please don't reply.
Mary
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simplykristi wrote:Hey All,
I don't remember if I posted this or not yesterday.. Petfinder.com is helping out the LA SPCA by posting pics of lost pets. Here's the link: http://www.petfinder.com/disaster/index.html
Kristi
P.S. Edited to add link
Actually, they are posting pictures of FOUND pets now per NBC news...
So if you have lost your pet, check their site...
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Persepone wrote:simplykristi wrote:Hey All,
I don't remember if I posted this or not yesterday.. Petfinder.com is helping out the LA SPCA by posting pics of lost pets. Here's the link: http://www.petfinder.com/disaster/index.html
Kristi
P.S. Edited to add link
Actually, they are posting pictures of FOUND pets now per NBC news...
So if you have lost your pet, check their site...
That is great! It is going to be monumental to get everyone matched back with their pets and with so many people having to rent they aren't going to be able to take their pets a lot of places. Anyone down that way who can foster for friends I am sure they would appreciate it.
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Hi All,
Remember the Bennetts who had to leave their pets at a hospital in Slidell LA? Here's a happy ending to the story: http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascit ... 584490.htm
Kristi
Remember the Bennetts who had to leave their pets at a hospital in Slidell LA? Here's a happy ending to the story: http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascit ... 584490.htm
Kristi
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United Animal Nations/EARS has a good summary of rescue activities they are involved in at:
http://www.uan.org/ears/action_report.html
Here is part of the most recent update:
http://www.uan.org/ears/action_report.html
Here is part of the most recent update:
Today was UAN partner Code 3’s first full day of water rescue operations in the New Orleans area. The water rescue team, led by Warren Craig with Code 3 Associates, went out today with their 15-foot Zodiac and 14-foot flat bottom boats along with the ASPCA team and their 12-foot Zodiac and the Animal Rescue League of Boston’s team of three Zodiacs. EARS’ partners at the Ramona-based Emergency Animal Rescue are also involved with a swift-water rescue team in the area. They are working from a 138-pagelist of rescue requests that have streamed into the Animal Evacuation and Recovery Command Center located at the Louisiana State Veterinarian’s office over the past week. Warren estimates it will be 7-10 days before they’ll be able to make real progress toward reducing the enormous number of stranded animals. He reported that the team rescued 29 cats and 14 dogs from homes in the flooded areas and says it is “slow going” and very, very hard work.
UAN continues to coordinate response efforts with several other organizations providing animal disaster relief - including the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), Colorado-based Code 3 Associates, the ASPCA, the Humane Society of the United States, the American Veterinary Medical Association, the Louisiana Veterinary Medical Association, the Louisiana SPCA, the School of Veterinary Medicine at Louisiana State University and the American Humane Association. Daily conference calls and in-field meetings are occurring between these organizations. The animal rescue and shelter operation in Louisiana is coordinated by the Animal Evacuation and Recovery Command Center located in the Louisiana Department of Agriculture Building in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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