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Thank-you letter from Seneca Falls Humane Society.

I want you and your readers to know is what we saw in
New Orleans!! I felt like I was back in Africa or Bosnia -
where there is little concern for life, human, feline,
canine, any kind of life. The vulnerable- the old, the poor,
and pets left behind often because their people were
promised they'd be cared for - were left injured, dying in
their homes and on the street.

Subject:  Baron 9-year-old Male Golden Retriever Mix
Owners:  Amy and Sonny Borne

Darren was arrested with over 100 fighting dogs. He learned to fight dogs in Angola as a prisoner!  Darren runs Dirty South Kennels an appropriate name:

The more I look at your site the more mad I get at people!!!!

She said "there goes my companion of 9 years".

Print a flyer to help us find Snowball

"The publicity over Snowball has undoubtedly help save many other pets by galvanizing
the animal lover community. "
Ann Barnes

MYSTERY, !  WHICH DOG IS REALLY SNOWBALL ?,

Oily Dog
HAS BEEN FOUND !

Looking for "Muffin" bellow this dog stayed with his dead owner for days where is he? We would like to help him.

 MYSTERY, !  WHICH DOG IS REALLY SNOWBALL ?,

Are any the real Snowball?

 Tanya family re-united,

A "STARFISH" WAS SAVED TODAY

Whiskerville and Fabian kennels updates

DOGS LEFT BEHIND

MESSAGES FROM THE FRONT LINE!

    Apply to foster an animal in need click here

www.bestfriends org

Click here to join Katrina-Pet-Rescue-info
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Subject: Foster a dog NOW for your local Humane Society
Since "Katrina Dogs" have been moved to other  HSUS shelters, they will have to make room for them.
Please go to your local shelter today and offer to foster one of their dogs - it will save a life - and help to make room for these Katrina dogs that are coming in.
In essence, it is the same as fostering a Katrina dog.
All the shelters are going to feel the Katrina impact, so save a Katrina dog there in your home town.

The Snowball angle softened the official ''leave all pets behind" evacuation policy. Displaced people leaving New Orleans have been allowed to travel out with four-legged companions. Some of the evacuees who landed on Cape Cod arrived with their critters -- ''including several mutts, a Pomeranian, and a cocker spaniel," according to the Globe.
 
 

STARVING ANIMALS
*** URGENT ***
 
THE STARVING ANIMALS OF HURRICANE KATRINA
NEED YOU NOW
 
 
Today in New Orleans, we had ONLY FIVE PEOPLE to feed the THOUSANDS of Katrina animals who remain on the streets.  These animals are trying to stay alive long enough for their people to return or to be rescued.
 
Animal Rescue New Orleans (www.animalrescueneworleans.com) has mapped OVER 2,800 Food/Water locations that need to be refilled !! 
 
MOST Food/Water stations are not refilled for over a WEEK because we don't have enough people to feed the animals.
 
It is desperate down there. 
 
The animals are starving again. 
 
Two more emaciated dogs came in yesterday....
 
 
PLEASE GO FEED THE STARVING ANIMALS.
 
If you can't go yourself, then help spread the word that we need more volunteers.
 
Crosspost far and wide. 
 
THIS IS URGENT.
 
If you go down to help support ARNO's Food/Water program, don't let ANYTHING or ANYONE stand in your way.  Please don't stay at the shelter -- GO OUT AND FEED THE ANIMALS THAT HAVE NOT YET BEEN RESCUED.  The animals who are NOT in the shelter need you MORE than the animals in the shelter.  The shelter animals are fed every day -- but the thousands of animals on the street may eat ONLY ONCE A WEEK !!
 
 
PLEASE GO FEED THE STARVING ANIMALS.
 
They need you.  The animals  need you to go work hard to get them fed -- to work a 12-14 hour day -- to refill over 100 Food/Water stations a day.  It's the only way we can keep them alive. 
 
 
We used to keep them well-fed.
 
Now we are struggling just to keep them ALIVE.
 
 
PLEASE GO FEED THE STARVING ANIMALS who are living under homes....
 
 
 
Permission to crosspost far and wide
 
For more information on how to help the thousands of Katrina animals, please visit the Animal Rescue New Orleans website:
 
 
 
 
THANK YOU for anything you can do to help the innocent victims of Katrina.
 
My name is David Meyer and I, along with Pia Salk, joined Jane Garrison to lead the volunteer search/rescue efforts out of Lamar Dixon.  We also founded www.AnimalRescueNewOrleans.com (ARNO), which has been running a major feed and water program for stranded dogs and cats still living on the streets of New Orleans, and has been humanely trapping these former pets in conjunction with Best Friends Animal Society.  I am writing on behalf of ARNO, and 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com of which I am a founder.  I have worked non-stop for 4 months and salute ALL the many volunteers who have helped in so many ways, including all the amazing folks assisting with owner reunites, an issue about which I personally care deeply.

We continue to be in a race against time in the gulf coast, as former pets still roam deserted streets, without even access to garbage cans to scrounge for food. Many are being kept a live all these months only by the ARNO food and water program, which is only a temporary solution. These animals, mostly unaltered, are facing predation from other animals, exposure to diseases such as heart worm and feline HIV, in some areas are being hit by cars or living under homes about to be bulldozed, and are all beginning to reproduce!  It is a nightmare with puppies and kittens being now born on the streets right and left.  Best Friends has remained along side us, and now even expanded their rescue efforts by creating Celebration Station in New Orleans, a temporary "Lamar Dixon" type holding area as we triage these pets, reunite them with owners, or move them to safety in animal shelters around the country.  Best Friends is leading a multi agency task force to complete this rescue effort, and HSUS has been funding ARNO efforts.  Best Friends and the Association of Veterinarians for Animal Rights (AVAR) has also purchased a mobile spay/neuter clinic that we arranged which is already in use.

The biggest problem we have is that we cannot save these lives and prevent generations of more suffering unless we can get these pets off the streets NOW, and we can only do that if we have shelters/rescues able to house them.  There are now very few shelters/rescues willing take these animals.  Although the shelters and rescues that have taken in Katrina pets over the last few months have been no-kill or in any case have agreed not to euthanize these pets, the effect has in some cases been that other local animals who would have been rescued from the kill shelters and housed in those same runs or foster homes, have not been rescued, and so other animals have died as a result.  Despite all the Katrina publicity, what has been lacking has been a major publicity campaign to educate the public about the need to adopt ALL pets from ALL shelters and rescues.  This would not only save those pets, but potentially make space for more Katrina rescues so we can keep working in the New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.

That is why 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com and Best Friends have partnered to launch an adoption drive that uses the Katrina issue and the media interest around it on behalf of ALL shelters/rescues, and promoting adoption of ALL homeless pets, not specifically Katrinas.  In order for this to be a success, we need people to e-mail the link to www.Operation-Save-A-Pet.com to their friends to spread the word.

On the issue of the Katrina rescues and reuniting them with guardians, all the groups involved have faced a terrible dilemma.  Most shelters/rescues will no longer take Katrina fosters for two reasons.  The first, as I mentioned, is that it takes up a foster home or kennel run that could be used to save a local animal, and it does so for a long period of time.  The second is that although there have been many fantastic reunites (I have been involved with many myself), shelters complain that there are also many hassles in which someone thinks their pet may have passed through their shelter, and great effort is expended to handle all these public inquiries, most of them erroneous.  They will only take pets if there are "no strings attached".

So the choice seems to be: to place Katrina rescued pets on the internet lost pet databases, have relatively few shelters who will accept them, and have many dogs and cats die on the streets because we have nowhere to move them to; or don't place them in public view, end the possibility of reunites, and ship them out for immediate adoption.  ARNO and Best Friends came up with what I think is a good compromise that gives guardians, who have already lost so much, another chance to get reunited, but also sees the big picture that most pets we rescue will not be reunited and need to have their lives saved NOW.  The plan has been to work with ARNO to do a minimum 5 day concentrated reunion search of known missing pet reports, reuniting where possible giving it our best shot, and then move the animals to safety in shelters and keep the flow of rescue moving by doing what shelters want-- not posting on the internet.

In practice, the plan has not yet been working well because it has been a huge struggle to get all the pet descriptions and details in a timely manner (or at all) from Celebration Station to our ARNO reunion folks.  Our reunite people have been extremely frustrated and for good reason.  So ARUSA has developed a shelter management/impound system that can get us the info over the internet, and Best Friends has asked to use it- in the next few days should be using that instead of their own system.  If this works, all the data will be available to our reunite people as soon as it is input so they have at least 5 days (and likely more before a transport) to see if in the last 4 months, anyone has reported one of these pets as missing.  If so, the pet will be held back for a chance at a reunite.  That's the plan.

Whether people agree with the plan or not, I hope everyone knows that we are all just trying to save as many animals as possible, prevent as much future suffering as possible, and reunite as many pets with guardians as possible in a very, very difficult situation.  Hey, over 4 months after the storm hit, at least we are there and still trying...

from:
David Meyer  davidm@1-800-Save-A-Pet.com
www.Operation-Save-A-Pet.com
  

When the last scene of all comes, and death takes the master in its embrace and his body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all friends pursue their way, there by his grave side will the noble dog be found. His head will be between his paws and his eyes sad, but open in alertness and watchful and faithful and true -- always true even in death.

--- Author unknown

 
 

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