Pet relief fund

[cancunkid]

http://www.hsus.org/hsus_field/hsus_dis ... oding.html okay I am posting this although I am sure someone will assume I don't care about people for it. A lot of people who stayed in NO stayed because of their pets then had to leave them behind when plucked from roof tops. Pets and farm animals are no doubt in need of some help which the US government won't be giving.

[Canelaw99]

I am SO glad that you posted that. I can't imagine what I would do if someone came to me and said I had to leave my 2 cats behind if I was evacuating. I just wish that more hotels would open themselves up to pets at times when people are evacuating...it can make the difference between people staying behind or people evacuating.

[GalvestonDuck]

Like he said, it's farm animals too. I don't want to sound cruel, but I like meat. And I don't want to see diseased cows, chickens, and pigs get into the grocery stores nor do I want to see prices go up because of a shortage of livestock.

Glad to see help for them, as well as so many pets.

[simplykristi]

A co-worker and I were talking today about the animals in the Gulf Coast region that are homeless and were killed. We both said that we would grab our animals first and would find a place that would take both people and pets.

Kristi

[TampaFl]

Emergency Animal Rescue Link mentioned in this post.

http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic ... ce23fe0233


Robert

[NC George]

Or you wind up like me: I came home from work the day Floyd hit to discover water completely surrounding my house, and my house was on the opposite side of the stream that was flooding from where I was. My 2 10 year old cats were inside. I drove by the Red Cross shelter (on the same street as my house located at the local high school, but on the other side of the stream from my house, and investigated every back route I could to get back to my house. I found one (fortunately for me I drove my monster truck to work that day, thinking ahead...) but it was 10 mile trip through a flooded town. I made it and rescued the cats, neighbor saw what I was doing, and told me I could stay at his house for the night. When dawn broke the storm was still in full effect, but by noon we could see the water going down at my house. The bottom of the floorboard were wet, but the carpet was dry, whew! Luckily for me the water stayed down, I live at the beginning of the creek that flows to the stream that flows to the river (Tar/Pamlico) that flooded eventually two days later, and is the flood you normally associate with Floyd. For me personally it was the flash flood before the storm actually made landfall that affected my life the most.