Animal Rescue Alerts 01-17-2006
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Tuesday January 17, 2006
Louisiana Recovery Planning Day - Jan 21
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:34:34 -0000 From: "veni harlan" <borzoirule @cox .net> Subject: Louisiana Recovery Planning Day Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KatrinaAnimalReliefLA/
Governor Blanco has proclaimed Saturday, January 21, 2006, as Louisiana Recovery Planning Day, a day for Louisianans to provide input on rebuilding their communities. The day will be marked by open house meetings throughout Louisiana and the nation to allow people to express local needs and define a community-based vision for recovery. The complete proclamation is available online at http://www.gov.state.la.us/ .
Individual's Request: Housecats in Louisiana need Rescue
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:06:06 -0000 From: "stagesen" <stagesen @yahoo .com> Subject: Housecats in Louisiana need Rescue Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulfcoast_rescue_n_transport/
Crossposting: Please contact Sue Rabeaux at <suerabeaux @gmail .com>
I have an urgent need for the rescue of some house cats! A woman that I have been trying to help has let her cat population get out of control and she is at her wits end! I have taken in as many as I can, and no one else will help her. She has since neutered all of her males, but the females are still unaltered.
She has already put one cat down when he got diarrhea, because she can not afford to care for the healthy ones she has. PLEASE I need help with these cats before she puts any of the healthy cats to sleep! I need either rescues, or fosters, or even permanent homes, for as many of these cats as possible! PLEASE email me ASAP at <suerabeaux @gmail .com> if you can take even just one cat! All of these cats are very friendly and affectionate. None are sick. All have been house cats for all of their life. I have been providing this woman with cat food and litter, but it isn't enough. I NEED to get these cats out of her house ASAP! Please feel free to forward this email to anyone you know who you think can help! Thank you!
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- Sue Rabeaux
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Individual's Request: Need Your Help in NOLA!
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:41:40 -0000 From: "Jamie Joy Gatto" <jamiejoy @mindcaviar .com> Subject: Need Your Help in NOLA! Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Katrina-Pet-Rescue-info/
Dear Friends,
I am homeless in a FEMA hotel in Orlando awaiting FEMA application decisions. I was contacted yesterday by a friend in NOLA who had been searching for me and my fiance. Thank goodness a kind and astute member of this group wrote to let me know she had seen a post of someone searching for us at NOLA.com. My searching friend, Candy, finally got in touch with us and was relieved to hear that we survived. Candy is going to try to help us locate my missing cat, Coco. Candy said she had gone by the house several times to leave notes for us and to check for any activity there. She heard a cat inside the house! That may mean Coco is still frequenting the home. The house has open windows, so she may come and go. I need to find out information on trapping pets inside the house. I heard some rescue teams were leaving traps to catch pets. PLEASE SEND ME ANY INFO! Also, the cat knows Candy well, as she lived with me for a few months as my room mate. I think it will help if Coco would go to her, although Coco may be traumatized if that is indeed, her.
Another cat may be staying in my home, too. Our neighbor had a friendly outdoor cat named Baby that practically lived on our porch. Baby also had a litter once in our shed. This cat was left behind before the Hurricane, and I know my neighbor is not returning to NOLA. We would love to adopt this cat and will take full responsibility for her. We called her Frida, and she answers to both names. We also know that Frida/Baby survived and is living in the neighborhood. A different neighbor has seen her and has been leaving food and water. Baby/Frida loved us and we spent a lot of time with her on the porch. Can anyone help us with this situation? PLEASE LET ME KNOW! A light of hope has entered my heart. Please help me reunite with Coco or Frida or both! :-)
- Hugs to All,
- Jamie Joy (JJ)
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:42:56 -0500 From: <JaneLMW @netscape .net> Subject: RE: Need Your Help in NOLA!
JJ,
Please try Jane Garrison with Animal Rescue New Orleans. According to their website, she is the coordinator for cat trapping. Good luck on being reunited with your kitty.
CATS: Jane Garrison: 843-343-8887, mailto:JaneGarrison@comcast-dot-net (@comcast.net)
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:48:02 -0800 From: Kate Danaher <katedanaher @animalearthhuman .org> Subject: Re: Need Your Help in NOLA!
I have forwarded this information to Jane Garrison who is coordinating cat trapping for ARNO and Best Friends although I just realized there is no location information in the email below.
Need:
- Address
- Description of cats
- Contact info for you
Please send asap.
Thank you, Kate
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:52:09 -0800 (PST) From: Leslie Q <cablond14 @yahoo .com> Subject: Re: Need Your Help in NOLA!
JJ:
I forwarded your message to a group called Stealth Volunteers. Their main mission is reuniting owners with pets. Don't be surprised if someone asks you for more info, like your address is NOLA. I wish I could be of more help but my time is limited. If your cat or cats are around, they will find them. If they have already been rescued, they will find them. Just give them all the info they ask for.
God bless you and good luck!
Leslie in California
La. SPCA has treats, tags, collars
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 04:31:40 -0000 From: "veni harlan" <borzoirule @cox .net> Subject: La. SPCA has treats, tags, collars
Tools to aid agency's trapping program
- Monday, January 16, 2006
- West Bank bureau Times Picayunne
The Louisiana SPCA is distributing free pet collars and ID tags.
The tags include a serial number to identify the lost pet and a toll-free number to call to help reunite the pet with its owner. The program is being coordinated with HELP4PETS Inc., which will maintain a database of pets and their owners that is available 24 hours a day via the company's toll-free hotline, (800) HELP-4-PETS.
The free collars and tags will be available until June 1 and can be picked up seven days a week at the Louisiana SPCA at 701 Thayer St. in Algiers from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. SPCA animal control officers patrolling the streets of New Orleans also will have the tags and collars in their vehicles to distribute to pet owners.
Also this month, the Louisiana SPCA began a major program to sweep the unpopulated areas of New Orleans of lost pets and other stray animals. Executive Director Laura Maloney urged pet owners to put a tag and collar on their pets in case they escape and are caught in the sweep.
The SPCA, which has a contract for animal control with the city of New Orleans, will be putting out traps each night in areas of the city that have not been repopulated since Hurricane Katrina, Maloney said.
As animals are brought in, they will be held for five days at Thayer Street and their pictures will be put up on the petharbor.com Web site.
The trapping program will be the agency's "final sweep" to pick up pets that were left to roam free in the wake of the storm, Maloney said.
Even as people return to New Orleans, more pets are getting loose on the streets, she said.
"So many pets are being lost because fences are down, contractors are leaving gates open, that sort of thing," she said.
ARNO Adoption and Reunite Policy- Please cross post (Jan 16)
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:19:04 -0800 From: Kate Danaher <katedanaher @animalearthhuman .org> Subject: ARNO Adoption and Reunite Policy- Please cross post Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Katrina-Pet-Rescue-info/
Hello-- I have too many e-mails to personally respond to each one, so I am writing this to be cross posted.
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 http://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 http://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>
- http://www.Operation-Save-A-Pet.com/
One Minute Needed to Help Save Katrina Pets (Jan 16)
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:42:29 -0800 From: Kate Danaher <katedanaher @animalearthhuman .org> Subject: 1 Minute Needed to Help Save Katrina Pets Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Katrina-Pet-Rescue-info/ From: David Meyer <davidm @1-800-Save-A-Pet .com> http://www.Operation-Save-A-Pet-Katrina.com/
Thanks for taking a moment to read this.
The charity I co-founded, 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com, and our grassroots partner, Animal Rescue New Orleans, has been saving pets in New Orleans since the hurricane first struck. We continue to be in a race against time in the gulf coast, as former pets made homeless by Katrina 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 our volunteers placing out thousands of food/water stations which is just a temporary solution. These animals are facing danger from other roaming animals, exposure to diseases, and are living under homes about to be bulldozed. They are also now beginning to reproduce, which is just a nightmare. We've been working with Best Friends Animal Society to trap, triage and move these pets to safety but a crucial link in the rescue chain has broken because we have nowhere around the country left to send these pets. Shelters are full, and without places to send these poor dogs and cats, we cannot continue to take them off the streets.
In response we have launched Operation Save-A-Pet Katrina (http://www.Operation-Save-A-Pet-Katrina.com/) to tell people about the need to adopt a any pet from any local shelter to make space for more Katrina pets still being pulled from the destruction. You can help tremendously in this effort by sending the link to http://www.Operation-Save-A-Pet-Katrina.com/ to people you know who might wish to adopt a pet, or might send the link to others. Please take 1 minute to be a link in this chain of life. Be this link - send this link. Please send the link to http://www.Operation-Save-A-Pet-Katrina.com/ to anyone you know who loves animals!
Also, if you wish to help with a donation, it is desperately needed and you can donate here:
Thank you so much for your help!
David
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