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Saving New Orleans' pets
One of the saddest sights in New Orleans is dogs left behind by their owners. Although dogs aren't the only abandoned animals, they’re the most visible: stuck in trees, swimming through polluted water and marooned on dry porches.
But efforts to rescue animals are finally in motion. Best Friends Animal Society began rescuing dogs and cats from the streets of New Orleans on Friday, and the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals planned a door-to-door effort beginning Saturday, according to USA Today. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the Humane Society of the United States are just two of many organizations that are accepting donations to fund their relief plans in Louisiana and Mississippi.
The fate of New Orleans’ zoo and aquarium animals has been mixed. The aquarium lost 4,000 fish due to the loss of power, preventing oxygen from being pumped through the tanks. Zoo animals are in better shape, as the zoo updated its emergency plans after Hurricane Andrew hit in 1992, according to The Kansas City Star. Currently, the zoo's undermanned staff is striving to care for 1,400 animals with a limited amount of food and water. Still, some of the zoo’s birds have died and, in an ominous development, one of its alligators is missing.
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html?blog=/politics/war_room/2005/09/05/animals/index.html
Animal welfare groups rescue abandoned pets
By Anita Manning, USA TODAY
Animal welfare groups, which have been barred from entering most flood-affected areas of the Gulf Coast because of safety concerns, have finally reached parts of southern Mississippi and Louisiana to set up shelters and move hundreds of imperiled dogs and cats to safety.
A stranded dog tries to swim out of a flooded neighborhood. The Humane Society of the U.S. has gotten the most donations ever for a disaster.
By Phil Coale, AP
Rescue teams from the Humane Society of the U.S. on Friday moved 120 dogs and cats from Gulfport to a staging area in Jackson, HSUS president Wayne Pacelle said Saturday. Another 500 are being moved from St. Tammany Parish, just north of New Orleans, he said. "The needs are enormous," he said.
While Hurricane Katrina's impact on people remains a "national and international trauma," Pacelle said, "the animal situation is another massive saga that's still unfolding."
About 200 animals drowned after the Humane Society of South Mississippi's shelter in Gulfport was destroyed in the hurricane, he said. In Harrison County, rescuers found one woman who took refuge in an evacuated structure with seven dogs and eight cats afer her own house was destroyed, Pacelle said. "There's a dead man on the roof," he said.
Best Friends Animal Society, working with Jefferson Parish Animal Control, picked up more than 100 dogs and cats found wandering the New Orleans streets on Friday and moved them to a shelter in nearby Tylertown, Miss., said Best Friends director Michael Mountain.
A team of animal experts from Best Friends, which operates a huge animal sanctuary in Kanab, Utah, (www.bestfriends.org) was arriving Saturday at the St. Francis Animal Sanctuary in Tylertown with food, generators, fencing, satellite phones and fuel, he said.
St. Francis is sheltering about 600 animals, Mountain said. "They cannot accept any more until our team arrives from here with supplies of all kinds to build out the sanctuary."
From there, animals will be reunited with their owners, place in foster homes or be put up for adoption.
The Louisiana SPCA was to begin going house-to-house today in New Orleans to rescue animals stranded when their owners evacuated the city before the hurricane, and other groups also are hoping to start moving into the city, as security concerns diminish.
Animal rescue groups have gotten calls from pet owners desperate for someone to rescue animals they'd left behind. "People are frantically calling and telling us their cat is on the third floor of an apartment in New Orleans, or their horses were left in a pasture," Pacelle said.
In many cases, owners evacuated, but left animals inside homes or garages with food and water because they expected to return in a day or so. "Who would have thought they won't be able to pump water out for 90 days? Who would have thought New Orleans would be depopulated?" Pacelle said.
Animal lovers across the country have poured out support, offering everything from dog toys to cat food and volunteering to help in the rescue or to provide foster care for displaced pets. They've donated $3.5 million online at www.hsus.org, far more than has been given in any previous disaster, Pacelle said.
Funds are needed not only for immediate rescues, but also long-term rebuilding and support of shelters throughout the region.
HSUS does not own or operate shelters, but focuses on education and advocacy. It also has been active in disaster relief for a decade, Pacelle said, and has dozens of trained staff members along with hundreds of trained volunteers in the flood region already or prepared to go there.
Other animal groups are also helping:
• The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, www.aspca.org, is helping local animal groups in Austin, Texas, which are housing pets of flood evacuees who are in a Red Cross shelter. It is sending teams of veterinarians and technicians to Jackson, along with a mobile vet clinic.
• The Houston SPCA, www.spcahouston.org, is housing more than 600 animals evacuated from flood areas.
• The American Humane Association, www.americanhumane.org, has received 2,000 requests for animal rescues from the flood-ravaged region and has sent its Animal Emergency Services rescue rig to join other responders in Mississippi.
The organizations say donations of money and supplies are needed, as are volunteers to help in disaster relief, to provide transportation for animals and to offer temporary or permanent homes for animals.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-09-03-katrinapetrescues_x.htm
Saving New Orleans' pets
One of the saddest sights in New Orleans is dogs left behind by their owners. Although dogs aren't the only abandoned animals, they’re the most visible: stuck in trees, swimming through polluted water and marooned on dry porches.
But efforts to rescue animals are finally in motion. Best Friends Animal Society began rescuing dogs and cats from the streets of New Orleans on Friday, and the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals planned a door-to-door effort beginning Saturday, according to USA Today. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the Humane Society of the United States are just two of many organizations that are accepting donations to fund their relief plans in Louisiana and Mississippi.
The fate of New Orleans’ zoo and aquarium animals has been mixed. The aquarium lost 4,000 fish due to the loss of power, preventing oxygen from being pumped through the tanks. Zoo animals are in better shape, as the zoo updated its emergency plans after Hurricane Andrew hit in 1992, according to The Kansas City Star. Currently, the zoo's undermanned staff is striving to care for 1,400 animals with a limited amount of food and water. Still, some of the zoo’s birds have died and, in an ominous development, one of its alligators is missing.
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html?blog=/politics/war_room/2005/09/05/animals/index.html
Animal welfare groups rescue abandoned pets
By Anita Manning, USA TODAY
Animal welfare groups, which have been barred from entering most flood-affected areas of the Gulf Coast because of safety concerns, have finally reached parts of southern Mississippi and Louisiana to set up shelters and move hundreds of imperiled dogs and cats to safety.
A stranded dog tries to swim out of a flooded neighborhood. The Humane Society of the U.S. has gotten the most donations ever for a disaster.
By Phil Coale, AP
Rescue teams from the Humane Society of the U.S. on Friday moved 120 dogs and cats from Gulfport to a staging area in Jackson, HSUS president Wayne Pacelle said Saturday. Another 500 are being moved from St. Tammany Parish, just north of New Orleans, he said. "The needs are enormous," he said.
While Hurricane Katrina's impact on people remains a "national and international trauma," Pacelle said, "the animal situation is another massive saga that's still unfolding."
About 200 animals drowned after the Humane Society of South Mississippi's shelter in Gulfport was destroyed in the hurricane, he said. In Harrison County, rescuers found one woman who took refuge in an evacuated structure with seven dogs and eight cats afer her own house was destroyed, Pacelle said. "There's a dead man on the roof," he said.
Best Friends Animal Society, working with Jefferson Parish Animal Control, picked up more than 100 dogs and cats found wandering the New Orleans streets on Friday and moved them to a shelter in nearby Tylertown, Miss., said Best Friends director Michael Mountain.
A team of animal experts from Best Friends, which operates a huge animal sanctuary in Kanab, Utah, (www.bestfriends.org) was arriving Saturday at the St. Francis Animal Sanctuary in Tylertown with food, generators, fencing, satellite phones and fuel, he said.
St. Francis is sheltering about 600 animals, Mountain said. "They cannot accept any more until our team arrives from here with supplies of all kinds to build out the sanctuary."
From there, animals will be reunited with their owners, place in foster homes or be put up for adoption.
The Louisiana SPCA was to begin going house-to-house today in New Orleans to rescue animals stranded when their owners evacuated the city before the hurricane, and other groups also are hoping to start moving into the city, as security concerns diminish.
Animal rescue groups have gotten calls from pet owners desperate for someone to rescue animals they'd left behind. "People are frantically calling and telling us their cat is on the third floor of an apartment in New Orleans, or their horses were left in a pasture," Pacelle said.
In many cases, owners evacuated, but left animals inside homes or garages with food and water because they expected to return in a day or so. "Who would have thought they won't be able to pump water out for 90 days? Who would have thought New Orleans would be depopulated?" Pacelle said.
Animal lovers across the country have poured out support, offering everything from dog toys to cat food and volunteering to help in the rescue or to provide foster care for displaced pets. They've donated $3.5 million online at www.hsus.org, far more than has been given in any previous disaster, Pacelle said.
Funds are needed not only for immediate rescues, but also long-term rebuilding and support of shelters throughout the region.
HSUS does not own or operate shelters, but focuses on education and advocacy. It also has been active in disaster relief for a decade, Pacelle said, and has dozens of trained staff members along with hundreds of trained volunteers in the flood region already or prepared to go there.
Other animal groups are also helping:
• The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, www.aspca.org, is helping local animal groups in Austin, Texas, which are housing pets of flood evacuees who are in a Red Cross shelter. It is sending teams of veterinarians and technicians to Jackson, along with a mobile vet clinic.
• The Houston SPCA, www.spcahouston.org, is housing more than 600 animals evacuated from flood areas.
• The American Humane Association, www.americanhumane.org, has received 2,000 requests for animal rescues from the flood-ravaged region and has sent its Animal Emergency Services rescue rig to join other responders in Mississippi.
The organizations say donations of money and supplies are needed, as are volunteers to help in disaster relief, to provide transportation for animals and to offer temporary or permanent homes for animals.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-09-03-katrinapetrescues_x.htm
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