Noah wrote:http://www.thehorse.com/viewarticle.aspx?ID=6078
For anyone who is interested in horse rescue.
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Good idea. A horse can feed a lot of people.
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413. SAVING YOUR PETS
by AdgeT, 9/3/05 7:56 ET
For pets at NOLA Animal Clinic: contact Dr. Rai at 504-343-1631, 903-835-3620, or nohookem@msn.com
This information is important if you wish to save your stranded pets. Read over the following carefully. I cannot emphasize this enough. Failure to include necessary information will affect your pets' chances of survival. If someone (you or anyone you know) is still in the area AND can help in giving pets food and water, contact cvmcdowell@yahoo.com . Everyone else, keep reading.
Step A) Write an email to one or all** of the following animal rescue groups (the only punctuation in the address is the period before org). You probably won’t receive a confirmation, but don’t keep sending your message unless you get one back saying that a mailbox was full. If that’s the case, keep trying the address of the full mailbox, but only that address. This will allow other people to continue emailing the other groups...
info@NoahsWish.org [Noah's Wish]
Susan@AmericanHumane.org [American Humane]
Headquarters@EARS.org [United Animal Nations – Emergency Animal Rescue]
Disaster@HSUS.org [Humane Society of the United States]
KatrinaAnimalRescue@yahoo.com [La. SPCA]
**mention in your email all the groups that you contacted so the others don't perform redundant efforts (i.e. trying to aid a pet that has already been helped)
Step A1) Call Lost Animal Hotlines New Orleans: 225-578-6111 Jackson, MS.: 800-252-0923
Step B) Be sure to include ALL of the following information (copy and paste items number 1-10 into your email, then fill in your info):
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
1) Your full name:
2) The address where your pets are stranded with nearby streets and any local landmarks that may be helpful in finding the location:
3) Contact number(s) and/or email address(es) that you can currently be reached at:
4) Your pets’ names and species:
5) Condition of pets when you left and whether or not they have access to food, water, and dry land (if food was not placed in high areas, or not enough was left, let the groups know!):
6) Are pets wearing collars or microchipped? (include microchip #s):
7) A fairly detailed description of your pets, including distinguishable traits:
8) Any particular hiding places he/she likes:
9) How rescuers may entice him/her out of hiding and get on your pet's good side:
10) Info on how rescuers may gain entry without breaking in, or a statement giving authorization to break into your residence if need be (basically, say "yes, you may break in" or "no, please do not break in", depending on your preference, then put your initials after the statement) and a location other than the front door where rescuers may break in:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Please try your hardest to contact these organizations yourself. If you don’t understand my instructions, then contact me. Also, if you find out that your pets are okay from a friend, neighbor, relative, etc. after placing rescue requests, then please re-contact the rescue groups and inform them. This will enable them to help other pets in need.
Now, on to your safety following this catastrophe: if you give the location of a hidden key in your emails, then you should probably move it once you return home. I am not affiliated with these groups, and while I have faith that they have the best intentions, you can never be too safe. As we all know following this recent tragedy, "I told you so" is a horrible thing to hear.
Finally: please, please, please take your pets with you if you are allowed to return home but then required to leave again; don't assume you will be able to come back when the authorities say you will be allowed to come back. I am sure many hotels and other places of lodging will be sympathetic. There are also "pet-friendly" hotels that always allow pets--just call around and ask about pet policies. If you cannot find somewhere to stay that will allow your pets, then check the “Reaching Out” NOLA.com message board and craigslist.org. Many individuals and families have offered a place in their homes for people and pets affected by Hurricane Katrina.
You are all in my thoughts, A.J. Timmcke (of Kenner, La.)ADGETIMICK@AOL.COM
Updates found at:
http://www.noahswish.org (Noah’s Wish)
http://www.americanhumane.org/site/Page ... ter_relief (American Humane)
http://www.hsus.org (Humane Society of the U.S.)
http://www.uan.org/ears/action_report.html (United Animal Nations)
http://www.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pa ... cane_diary (American SPCA)
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http://www.scipionus.com has a zoomable map of LA. w/ reports of flooding and looting. No guarantee that it’s 100% accurate, but it’s a helpful resource. NOTE: Page takes long time to load, so only post confirmed info, no questions.
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by AdgeT, 9/3/05 7:56 ET
For pets at NOLA Animal Clinic: contact Dr. Rai at 504-343-1631, 903-835-3620, or nohookem@msn.com
This information is important if you wish to save your stranded pets. Read over the following carefully. I cannot emphasize this enough. Failure to include necessary information will affect your pets' chances of survival. If someone (you or anyone you know) is still in the area AND can help in giving pets food and water, contact cvmcdowell@yahoo.com . Everyone else, keep reading.
Step A) Write an email to one or all** of the following animal rescue groups (the only punctuation in the address is the period before org). You probably won’t receive a confirmation, but don’t keep sending your message unless you get one back saying that a mailbox was full. If that’s the case, keep trying the address of the full mailbox, but only that address. This will allow other people to continue emailing the other groups...
info@NoahsWish.org [Noah's Wish]
Susan@AmericanHumane.org [American Humane]
Headquarters@EARS.org [United Animal Nations – Emergency Animal Rescue]
Disaster@HSUS.org [Humane Society of the United States]
KatrinaAnimalRescue@yahoo.com [La. SPCA]
**mention in your email all the groups that you contacted so the others don't perform redundant efforts (i.e. trying to aid a pet that has already been helped)
Step A1) Call Lost Animal Hotlines New Orleans: 225-578-6111 Jackson, MS.: 800-252-0923
Step B) Be sure to include ALL of the following information (copy and paste items number 1-10 into your email, then fill in your info):
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
1) Your full name:
2) The address where your pets are stranded with nearby streets and any local landmarks that may be helpful in finding the location:
3) Contact number(s) and/or email address(es) that you can currently be reached at:
4) Your pets’ names and species:
5) Condition of pets when you left and whether or not they have access to food, water, and dry land (if food was not placed in high areas, or not enough was left, let the groups know!):
6) Are pets wearing collars or microchipped? (include microchip #s):
7) A fairly detailed description of your pets, including distinguishable traits:
8) Any particular hiding places he/she likes:
9) How rescuers may entice him/her out of hiding and get on your pet's good side:
10) Info on how rescuers may gain entry without breaking in, or a statement giving authorization to break into your residence if need be (basically, say "yes, you may break in" or "no, please do not break in", depending on your preference, then put your initials after the statement) and a location other than the front door where rescuers may break in:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Please try your hardest to contact these organizations yourself. If you don’t understand my instructions, then contact me. Also, if you find out that your pets are okay from a friend, neighbor, relative, etc. after placing rescue requests, then please re-contact the rescue groups and inform them. This will enable them to help other pets in need.
Now, on to your safety following this catastrophe: if you give the location of a hidden key in your emails, then you should probably move it once you return home. I am not affiliated with these groups, and while I have faith that they have the best intentions, you can never be too safe. As we all know following this recent tragedy, "I told you so" is a horrible thing to hear.
Finally: please, please, please take your pets with you if you are allowed to return home but then required to leave again; don't assume you will be able to come back when the authorities say you will be allowed to come back. I am sure many hotels and other places of lodging will be sympathetic. There are also "pet-friendly" hotels that always allow pets--just call around and ask about pet policies. If you cannot find somewhere to stay that will allow your pets, then check the “Reaching Out” NOLA.com message board and craigslist.org. Many individuals and families have offered a place in their homes for people and pets affected by Hurricane Katrina.
You are all in my thoughts, A.J. Timmcke (of Kenner, La.)ADGETIMICK@AOL.COM
Updates found at:
http://www.noahswish.org (Noah’s Wish)
http://www.americanhumane.org/site/Page ... ter_relief (American Humane)
http://www.hsus.org (Humane Society of the U.S.)
http://www.uan.org/ears/action_report.html (United Animal Nations)
http://www.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pa ... cane_diary (American SPCA)
__________________________________
http://www.scipionus.com has a zoomable map of LA. w/ reports of flooding and looting. No guarantee that it’s 100% accurate, but it’s a helpful resource. NOTE: Page takes long time to load, so only post confirmed info, no questions.
Click to Visit
E-mail This Post
» Forums Help
» User Agreement
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This is actually my first post after reading this forum for the last several years. The local humane society here in San Antonio is taking donations such as dog and cat food, crates, leashes, water bowls, etc. and are sending donations into the La/Ms area so anyone interested might check with their local humane society.
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PortA61 wrote:This is actually my first post after reading this forum for the last several years. The local humane society here in San Antonio is taking donations such as dog and cat food, crates, leashes, water bowls, etc. and are sending donations into the La/Ms area so anyone interested might check with their local humane society.
Your first line says it all. Our pets and animals bring out so much in all of us
Glad you are aboard and a big hug from all the critters
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Katrina Evacuees Distraught Over Pets
Saturday September 3, 2005 11:31 PM
AP Photo GAGB101
By MIKE STOBBE
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA (AP) - As Valerie Bennett was evacuated from a New Orleans hospital, rescuers told her there was no room in the boat for her dogs.
She pleaded. ``I offered him my wedding ring and my mom's wedding ring,'' the 34-year-old nurse recalled Saturday.
They wouldn't budge. She and her husband could bring only one item, and they already had a plastic tub containing the medicines her husband, a liver transplant recipient, needed to survive.
Such emotional scenes were repeated perhaps thousands of times along the Gulf Coast last week as pet owners were forced to abandon their animals in the midst of evacuation.
In one example reported last week by The Associated Press, a police officer took a dog from one little boy waiting to get on a bus in New Orleans. ``Snowball! Snowball!'' the boy cried until he vomited. The policeman told a reporter he didn't know what would happen to the dog.
The fate of pets is a huge but underappreciated cause of anguish for storm survivors, said Richard Garfield, professor of international clinical nursing at New York's Columbia University.
``People in shelters are worried about 'Did Fluffy get out?''' he said. ``It's very distressing for people, wondering if their pets are isolated or starving.''
Valerie Bennett left her dogs with an anesthesiologist who was taking care of about 30 staff members' pets on the roof of the hospital, Lindy Boggs Medical Center.
The doctor euthanized some animals at the request of their owners, who feared they would be abandoned and starve to death. He set up a small gas chamber out of a plastic-wrapped dog kennel.
``The bigger dogs were fighting it. Fighting the gas. It took them longer. When I saw that, I said 'I can't do it,''' said Bennett's husband, Lorne.
But the anesthesiologist, a cat owner, promised to care for the other pets.
``He said he'd stay there as long as he possibly could,'' Valerie Bennett recalled, speaking from her husband's bedside at Atlanta's Emory University Hospital.
The Bennetts had four animals, including their two beloved dogs - Lorne's English springer spaniel, Oreo, and Valerie's miniature dachshund, Lady.
They moved to Slidell, La., in July when Valerie took a job at an organ transplant institute connected to Lindy Boggs. Lorne, a former paramedic, is disabled since undergoing a liver transplant in 2001.
On Saturday, as Hurricane Katrina approached, both went to the hospital to help and took all four animals with them.
Patients were evacuated starting Monday by rescue workers using small boats to traverse the floodwaters surrounding the hospital. On Wednesday night, the Bennetts were told they had to go, too.
They fed their guinea pig and left it in its cage in a patient room. They couldn't refill its empty water bottle because the hospital's plumbing failed Sunday, they said. They poured food on the floor for the cat, but again no water.
``I just hope that they forgive me,'' Valerie Bennett cried.
They handed the dogs to the anesthesiologist. Valerie got his last name but no cell phone number. ``I wasn't thinking,'' she said.
But on Saturday afternoon, Valerie Bennett said she saw a posting on a Web site called petfinder.com that said the anesthesiologist was still at Lindy Boggs caring for the animals.
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On the Net:
http://www.petfinder.com
Saturday September 3, 2005 11:31 PM
AP Photo GAGB101
By MIKE STOBBE
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA (AP) - As Valerie Bennett was evacuated from a New Orleans hospital, rescuers told her there was no room in the boat for her dogs.
She pleaded. ``I offered him my wedding ring and my mom's wedding ring,'' the 34-year-old nurse recalled Saturday.
They wouldn't budge. She and her husband could bring only one item, and they already had a plastic tub containing the medicines her husband, a liver transplant recipient, needed to survive.
Such emotional scenes were repeated perhaps thousands of times along the Gulf Coast last week as pet owners were forced to abandon their animals in the midst of evacuation.
In one example reported last week by The Associated Press, a police officer took a dog from one little boy waiting to get on a bus in New Orleans. ``Snowball! Snowball!'' the boy cried until he vomited. The policeman told a reporter he didn't know what would happen to the dog.
The fate of pets is a huge but underappreciated cause of anguish for storm survivors, said Richard Garfield, professor of international clinical nursing at New York's Columbia University.
``People in shelters are worried about 'Did Fluffy get out?''' he said. ``It's very distressing for people, wondering if their pets are isolated or starving.''
Valerie Bennett left her dogs with an anesthesiologist who was taking care of about 30 staff members' pets on the roof of the hospital, Lindy Boggs Medical Center.
The doctor euthanized some animals at the request of their owners, who feared they would be abandoned and starve to death. He set up a small gas chamber out of a plastic-wrapped dog kennel.
``The bigger dogs were fighting it. Fighting the gas. It took them longer. When I saw that, I said 'I can't do it,''' said Bennett's husband, Lorne.
But the anesthesiologist, a cat owner, promised to care for the other pets.
``He said he'd stay there as long as he possibly could,'' Valerie Bennett recalled, speaking from her husband's bedside at Atlanta's Emory University Hospital.
The Bennetts had four animals, including their two beloved dogs - Lorne's English springer spaniel, Oreo, and Valerie's miniature dachshund, Lady.
They moved to Slidell, La., in July when Valerie took a job at an organ transplant institute connected to Lindy Boggs. Lorne, a former paramedic, is disabled since undergoing a liver transplant in 2001.
On Saturday, as Hurricane Katrina approached, both went to the hospital to help and took all four animals with them.
Patients were evacuated starting Monday by rescue workers using small boats to traverse the floodwaters surrounding the hospital. On Wednesday night, the Bennetts were told they had to go, too.
They fed their guinea pig and left it in its cage in a patient room. They couldn't refill its empty water bottle because the hospital's plumbing failed Sunday, they said. They poured food on the floor for the cat, but again no water.
``I just hope that they forgive me,'' Valerie Bennett cried.
They handed the dogs to the anesthesiologist. Valerie got his last name but no cell phone number. ``I wasn't thinking,'' she said.
But on Saturday afternoon, Valerie Bennett said she saw a posting on a Web site called petfinder.com that said the anesthesiologist was still at Lindy Boggs caring for the animals.
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On the Net:
http://www.petfinder.com
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This is a WONDERFUL rescue group in South Florida. They, like so many of us, want to do whatever they can to make a difference. I have seen them "in action" and am helping them as much as possible myself...anyone in the Boca/Palm Beach area who can donate supplies or especially $$ will help save at least some of the displaced animals.
http://www.rescuerehabhome.org/Hurricane.html
http://www.rescuerehabhome.org/Hurricane.html
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Noah wrote:http://www.primezone.com/newsroom/news.html?d=85209
This is some excellent news.
Thanks for posting this. I needed some good news today. Even in the midst of evacuations finally going on full steam, the news comign out of Nola is awful...
This is a small ray of light in an otherwise dismal day.
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Thanks Noah -
Keep bringing on the good news - I heard a sad story and I need something to counter it.
My brother-in-law just came back from volunteering triage here in Houston. He heard many sad stories, including one woman who tried to bring her poodle with her. They took it from her and physically threw it from the bus. She cried and said she saw it running behind the bus as they pulled out - it ran and ran and ran till it could no longer keep up.
That had me in tears in a second - not only for the poor little poodle who almost certainly won't survive, but for the woman who was forced to abandon it.
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http://www.alleycat.org/katrina.html here is another rescue organization that is reporting that high numbers of animals are being rescued in very short periods of time.
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I was watching a live rescue earlier on fox news and there was a little dog running around on the roof with 2 men getting airlifted off and I thought they were going to leave the dog but at the last minute they grabbed him. Made me happy to see that. If you own pets (I have 2 dogs) you know how hard it must be for some people to have to abandon their pets.
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PTrackerLA wrote:
I was watching the same live rescue on CNN and was yelling at the tv for them to take that little dog. Leaving people's pets to die isn't going to help their owners to heal nor will it help with the cleanup efforts.
I was watching a live rescue earlier on fox news and there was a little dog running around on the roof with 2 men getting airlifted off and I thought they were going to leave the dog but at the last minute they grabbed him. Made me happy to see that. If you own pets (I have 2 dogs) you know how hard it must be for some people to have to abandon their pets.
I was watching the same live rescue on CNN and was yelling at the tv for them to take that little dog. Leaving people's pets to die isn't going to help their owners to heal nor will it help with the cleanup efforts.
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Houstonia wrote:My brother-in-law just came back from volunteering triage here in Houston. He heard many sad stories, including one woman who tried to bring her poodle with her. They took it from her and physically threw it from the bus. She cried and said she saw it running behind the bus as they pulled out - it ran and ran and ran till it could no longer keep up.
That had me in tears in a second - not only for the poor little poodle who almost certainly won't survive, but for the woman who was forced to abandon it.
OMG!! It feels like something in me dies when i hear these stories.
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Terry wrote:I was watching the same live rescue on CNN and was yelling at the tv for them to take that little dog. Leaving people's pets to die isn't going to help their owners to heal nor will it help with the cleanup efforts.
I saw that too and I was very sad to think that the poor little dog who obviously kept looking for shade on that hot roof and yet was jumping around when those two guys were being rescued, would be left behind to broil and die in that heat. I almost cried when the second guy got in and the Coast Guard rescuer reached down and handed him the dog to take with him.
Human life is WAY more precious than animals, but to think of all of those animals who are loved almost as much as any other family member has just been killing me! To see something good just made my week.
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