Animal Rescue Alerts 12-11-2005

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1 Sunday December 11, 2005

1.1 Concordia Animal Welfare Shelter Rescue
1.2 How to get assistance for Katrina Pets - crisis ongoing

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Sunday December 11, 2005

Concordia Animal Welfare Shelter Rescue 

Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:03:05 -0600
From: "Debbie" mailto:rescuerealtor@cox-dot-net (@cox.net)
Subject: Concordia Animal Welfare
Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Katrina-Pet-Rescue-info/

The Concordia Animal Welfare Society of Ferriday pulled 3 dogs and 2 cats from Roicy Friday. I don't remember them all, but do know they pulled a Rattie, Terrier mix, and the long haired Tux cat. This is a great connection for the future, and special thanks to Jennifer Beun from the DC area for making the connection, and to Brandi Barron for transporting. We have a great group of out of town supporters...could not do it without them. They are saving many lives. Here is the contact info for anyone who would like to make a donation(note that it is for the Roicy pulls): 

Concordia Animal Welfare Shelter Rescue
1212 First Street
Ferriday, LA 71334

I have a new email address. The old one is supposed to be forwarded to the new one, but I don't trust it. So, if you emailed me and I did not answer, try again.

Debbie

How to get assistance for Katrina Pets - crisis ongoing 

From: Marilyn Galfin <laffalot5 @juno .com>
Date: Dec 2, 2005 3:40 PM
Subject: Katrina Pets

Please send this post all over the internet and keep passing it on and on. Any questions or suggestions e-mail me at mailto:laffalot5@juno-dot-com. Let's find a way to help these pets once and for all. We must try everything and anything until we get someone to get this job done. If you have media contacts or contacts with celebrities or know "people of influence" call them now or if you know people who know influential people call them. Any outside of the box ideas? Let's get creative!

Enough is Enough. 3 months later and thousands more animals still homeless from Katrina and Rita will perish unless we make a concerted effort to rectify the situation in Lousiana and Mississippi. This disaster was of unprecedented proportions. The situation calls for action on an ongoing basis to keep pressure on the organizations that took in millions of dollars that was supposed to be used to rescue these animlals. The crisis is not over and more animals need to be rescued. They must do more to help these animals and not just focus on re-uniting. There is still a crisis going on. We must also get media to show the truth. I appeal to your humanity to take some time and become the voice of these animals who are totally dependent on you. Many of you have done a lot already but we can not stop now. The media and the city officials of Louisiana and Mississippi and also some large rescue organizations want you to believe that everything is under control, but it is not. We must not give up. Yes, the hurricane was several months ago, but for many of these animals, Katrina and Rita is as present today as she was on August 29. They are foraging through garbage for food, or worse yet, hiding so they don't become food. Many are slowly dying from hunger and dehydration where there is no source of food and water. And desperately needed are 501c3 groups to take animals from Tylertown that have been rescued and to get animals adopted from shelters to make more room. If no room, they cannot rescue anymore.

How can YOU make a difference in the lives of these animals? Help with this major calling, faxing and e-mailing campaign

1) Call HSUS at 202-452-1100. FAX 301-258-3077 E-MAIL mailto:wpacelle@hsus-dot-org

  • They received so many millions of dollars. Leave a message for CEO Wayne Pacelle. Ask him where all the money is going that was allocated to save the Katrina and Rita pets. There is still rescue needed and it is still a crisis situation. Demand these animals get help now. Tell him he cannot only focus on re-uniting when animals are dying from lack of help. He makes $300,000 a year. Tell him to donate his own money if he says HSUS doesn't have enough money to help. Demand that HSUS open a Tylertown type facility to allow rescuers to continue with the trapping of animals in Mississippi and New Orleans. HSUS received millions of dollars in donations to help these animals. Please, beg for them to spend the money now, before it is too late. Tell them they need to hire more professional trappers on the ground and hire people to feed and get water to the pets. Not a handful of people but as many as is necessary to get things under control. It is grassroots wiht hardly any money who are saving lives. HSUS should be using the money to save lives. Ask why there is no one from HSUS doing rescue in Louisiana or Mississippi. There are a small group all alone in Biloxi trying to feed and save hundreds of animals. It is totally impossible. Tell them it is absolutely necessary to make a national commercial immediately to let the world know that shelters are overflowing with katrina pets and we need foster homes and people to adopt so more animals can be rescued. Especially with holidays coming when people want to buy puppies, it is mandatory to tell the world not to buy pets. They need to call all 501c3 rescue groups and ask for them to pick up a few more animals each to alleviate the loads in Tylertown. Also tell them to make a commercial and run ads in all magazines telling people from Louisiana that don;t assume your pet has perished. Many animals miraculously survived. Then they need to let the public know they will help them locate their pet to call them directly. (many people don;t even know how to begin looking or who to call.Money was also collected to re-unite owners and there pets so they need to let the people how to find these pets by doing the above or something else.)
  • Tell HSUS to put up on their website immediately, how desperate the situation really is and how much help is still needed and how desperate it is that people adopt pets now and how much help is needed in shelters. Tell them to keep posting up to date rescue notes that the grassroots groups that are on the ground and post what supplies etc they need.Demand HSUS to help them also.
  • Call HSUS' Membership Dept at 202-452-1100 and if you donated money ask for it back and donate it to one of the groups mentioned below so they can put it to real use!
  • Call 202-452-1100 ask for Sherry Chaney-Director of Field Services At HSUS ask for names of all the people involved with the katrina and rita disaster and tell all of them what you want done to help the animals. Also speak to the media person and tell her to make use of all the celebrities they have to make a commercial and also to use celebrities to bring attention to the ongoing crisis.

2) Call the ASPCA 212-876-7700 and ask for president Ed Sayres. or anyone involved with the Gulf coast rescue. They gave millions to the Louisiana SPCA and an honor to Laura Maloney. Ask them why LASPCA isn't using some of the money they gave them to save the animals instead of f saving it for a new facility. What good is a new facility once all the animals have perished? Maloney needs to be rescuing pets and calling in more help and admit they have a problem. Then ask why ASPCA isn't sending more rescue help to continue the rescue phase when animals are still dying animals on the streets of NO and Mississippi. They are still taking in collections and some money needs to go to save the pets in the streets. They also need to post on their site that rescue is still going on. Then, ask them why they are not more present in Mississippi?

3) Call PETA-757-622-7382

  • Tell them we really need more help to save these animals. Ask if they can call upon all their celebrity connections to make a commercial letiing the world know that we need people to adopt from the shelters .We need to help the groups on the ground find or build a temporary shelter for these animals. Ask if they can get more people to help with rescue or send money to the grassroots. Ask them to send out emergency mailing to all the members asking for help etc.and to post something on their websites. They need to dig into their pockets. We need more help form all organizations.

4) Call North Shore Animal League 516-883-7575

  • They are great also at getting publicity and they get lots of money and have access to lots of celebrities. Tell them to also get media attention and help the Katrina and Rita Animals .Ask them to please contact all their members to make a plea for help and to send people again to help with rescue and pick up more pets from Tylertown.

5) CALL BEST FRIENDS -435-644-2001

  • THEY ARE DOING GREAT WORK- and still rescuing but ask them about their celebrity contacts to make a national commercial and get word out to the world and if they can get more help to Mississippi.Also to put on their website that volunteers etc. still needed on the ground in Louisiana and Mississippi and also to list these groups below that need help.

(Call any other group you know who took in large donations and ask for more help , ask if they can try to get media attention and ask them to post on their website these groups below on the ground still rescuing and to post that help is still needed.)

6) Contacts in the field:

7) Media:

  • Let us also target just a few media contacts but bombard them with hundreds of calls so they know how important to let the world know the plight of the animals is not over .Thousands of animals depend on you. The world needs to see the horror and desperation instead of all the fluffy stories ,so people can get the help for these animals. Start with this and I will e-mail more. Anyone have suggestions of media who you think we should contact. Send me the contact numbers and e-mails and I will post again. laffalot5@juno.com
  • E-Mail immediately mailto:abcstoryideas@yahoo-dot-com tell them it is a desperate situation in Louisiana and Mississippi. We need media to show the world it is not over for the Katrina and RIta pets. In spite of the fluffy re-uniting stories that media has focused on ,thousands of homeless animals will perish unless they get help now. Many of these are companion pets, scared, lonely, confused, now suffering from starvation and dehydration in areas where there is no source of food or water. These companion pets if saved and re-united with owners will be a source of hope for recovery for the owners. More people are needed to help keep up food and water. More professional trappers are needed, more funds are needed. And more than ever we need 501c3 groups to come to Tylertown to pick up rescues and we desperately need people to adopt pets from shelters to make room for katrina and rita animals. These animals have struggled for 3 months to stay alive and it is a disgrace if they die because not enough help to keep them alive and if not enough places to hold these animals tell adopted. More puppies and kittens are being found now and the cycle of unwanted pets will start unless we intervene now. They will also perish without humane intervention because of the wide devastation there are no humans to feed them and no source of garbage to scavenge. The world needs to know how bad it is so people will help. We need media They can contact Judy Clark, http://www.triplerpets.org/ who is working in Mississippi at 228-238-2465 and Jane Garrison at 843-343-8887 http://www.animalrescueneworleans.com/ who co-ordinates rescue in New Orleans.


ALSO URGENT CALL TODAY AND NEXT FEW DAYS TO CALL OFF BEAR HUNT IN N.J

Do not give up hope! In 2004 the hunt was called off only 2 days before it was slated to begin. Giving up now plays into the hands of the hunters. WE NEED TO WORK UP TO THE VERY LAST MOMENT.

Contact Governor-Elect Jon Corzine.

  • Please be sure to contact him via phone, fax & email. We need to bombard him. Make the call from your cell phone or a pay phone during your lunch hour. Email him from your cell phone during your 15-minute break at work. Email him from ALL your email accounts if you have more than one. Send this alert to all your co-workers, family and friends.
  • Tell them you KNOW that Corzine CAN use his political influence to stop the bear hunt. 
Phone: 609-826-5100
Fax: 609-984-4747
Email: mailto:transition@govelect.state.nj-dot-us

Contact Acting Governor Richard Codey.

  • Do the same thing with Codey. Contact him via all means and pass this email

along to others. Most people like Codey, in his capacity as a state senator and more recently as the acting governor. He is a well-liked politician. Ask that that image not be tainted by the blood of a bear hunt. Tell Codey how upset you will be if he does not stop the hunt. Let him know how this will impact your holiday, your family life. Let them know how this will depress you if a hunt goes through. Beg for the lives of the bears. 

Phone: 609-292-6000
Alternate Phone: 609-777-2459
Fax: 609-292-3454
Alternate Fax: 609-777-0357
Webmail: http://www.state.nj.us/governor/govmail.html

If you are interested in protesting, please email Angi at mailto:acm@nj-ara-dot-org (@nj-ara.org) so that we can be sure that all shifts are covered. When emailing Angi, indicate which day(s) you are available.

VISIT http://www.nj-ara.org/bears.html This page lists a recap of all of the contacts you need to reach out to. Please go over it again and again, and again!

MORE ON HOW TO HELP WITH ANIMALS IN THE GULF COAST

1) Volunteer! Even a long weekend can make a significant impact. There are several groups still on the ground in areas that desperately need assistance!

2) If you can't personally volunteer, can you sponsor a volunteer? Many volunteers have already spent hundreds or even thousands of dollars on rescue efforts. If you can donate an airline ticket, airline mileage or use of transportation, you can allow a rescuer to get to the affected area.

4) Work with local shelters in your area to promote adoptions through shelters this holiday season. Then ask them if they have space to help out some Katrina victims!

5) Can you safely transport animals? Do you know someone with a climate controlled cargo van? Could it be donated for a few days to help transport animals?

6) If you have any contacts in the media we need them now! Campaign your local networks and print to bring back the story of this storm to the headlines. It is NOT over!

7) CALL, FAX, AND E-MAIL government officials until someone hears us and these animals get the help they need and deserve:

  • a. Louisiana Governor Blanco; 1-866-366-1121 or fax; 225-342-7099
    • Ask that she lift the ban that forbids out of state vets to practice in Louisiana until further notice. This is holding up rescue and causing the death of more animals.
  • b. Mayor Nagin; 504-658-4900 or 504-329-1250
    • Ask him to do something to help these pets. He can influence Governor Blanco's ban on vets and he can request FEMA and VMAT assistance before it is too late.
  • c. Senator Mary Landrieu; 202-224-5824 or fax; 202-224-9735
  • d. Senator David Vitter; 202-224-4623
  • e. State Vet Martha Littlefied or Maxwell Lea at 225-925-3980
  • f. Office of Animal Health Services, Louisiana Department of Agriculture & Forestry; office: 225-925-3980; fax: 225-925-4103; email: mailto:mlea@ldaf.state.la-dot-us, mailto:maxwel_l@ldaf.state.la-dot-us, mailto:info@ldaf.state.la-dot-us website: http://www.ldaf.state.la.us/
    • Ask them why they are not doing anything to help save the animals of Louisiana. Why aren't they calling in for more help to save pets including cattle and horses. Ask why they aren't pressuring LASPCA to call in for more help. ASPCA just donated a few million to the LASPCA. Why aren't they using it for more people to help in the rescue? Thousands of animals need help.


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