Animal Rescue Alerts 01-09-2006
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Monday January 09, 2006
Times-Picayune Gives Ad to Aid in Finding Lost Pets (Jan 9)
From: Martha Waltz <sstealthvol_pr @yahoo .com> Date: Mon Jan 9, 2006 7:54 am Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Katrina-Pet-Rescue-info/ Times-Picayune Gives Ad to Aid in Finding Lost Pets
NEWS From STEALTH VOLUNTEERS – Reuniting Katrina Pets with Their Owners
- Contact: Martha Waltz (252) 452-3443 or mailto:stealthvol_pr@yahoo-dot-com (@yahoo.com)
- For Immediate Release
- January 9, 2006
“Times-Picayune Provides Weekly Space for Stealth Volunteers, a Grassroots Organization Quietly Responsible for More Than 650 Reunions, to Advertise Found Katrina Pets.”
NATIONAL – The Times-Picayune, recognizing the importance of animals in the lives of their owners, has partnered with Stealth Volunteers to post a weekly ad featuring animals still hoping to be reunited with their owners.
One week ago, the all-volunteer group from all over the country, took out an ad in the paper featuring nearly 200 animals who have yet to be reunited with their owners. The response has been overwhelming.
“These were the tough cases, animals with very little information attached to them. In some instances, we really only had areas within New Orleans where the animals were rescued from,” says Stealth Volunteer’s founder, Marilyn Knapp Litt.
Litt, a retired Federal Webmaster, created the online group called “Stealth Volunteers” just days after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast region.. Originally aimed at reuniting evacuees with family members, Litt saw the potential reward in combining her online “stealthing” skills with the information on PetFinder.com. This effort to search for the owners of thousands of pets rescued in the months following the storms became “Stealth Volunteers.”
Stealth Volunteers is urging all owners still searching for pets to review the list published in the Times-Picayune for a potential match and then contact the group.
If you, or someone you know, are searching for a lost animal, please look at the ad and if you think you see your pet, call us toll free at: (877) 707-2969. Leave your name, phone number, the address you are calling about, the PetFinder number listed with the pet in the ad and a description of your lost pet. A Stealth Volunteer will return your call within 24 hours. Remember, your pet may have wandered a significant distance from its home. Even if you cannot have your pet live with you at this moment, there are many people willing to foster animals until you are able to be reunited with your pet.
Please visit us on the web at: http://www.StealthVolunteers.com/
Looking For KATRINA Pet Rescue/Reunion Stories (Jan 8)
From: PJ <PJ @mindspring .com> Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 12:10:48 -0800 Subject: Looking For KATRINA Pet Rescue/Reunion Stories Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Katrina-Pet-Rescue-info/
Do You Have an Heroic Katrina Pet Rescue Story or an Heart Warming Katrina Pet Reunion Story or an Inspirational Story About a Volunteer?
Please forward all stories for a media pitch on behalf of the Katrina pets still on the streets in New Orleans to PJ Bremier at mailto:pj@mindspring-dot-com (@mindspring.com) for AnimalRescueNewOrleans.com. Individuals involved do not need to be ARNO members.
Thank you!
Please answer these preliminary questions and send to PJ as soon as possible.
- Your name, telephone number and email address
- The names, telephone numbers (and email addresses if available) of the individuals involved
- The type of animal species and brief description
- Where and when this incident took place
- Do you have photographs that can be used for this
- Describe what took place (about 150-200 words at most)
Roicy Duhon Animal Control. Lafayette LA. URGENT Dogs Need RESCUE! (Jan 8)
From: Marion Lindsay mariontl@telus.net Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 3:40 PM Roicy Duhon Animal Control. Lafayette LA. URGENT Dogs Need RESCUE! Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulfcoast_rescue_n_transport/
Hello;
Roicy Duhon Animal Control, in Lafayette Louisiana has URGENT DOGS that need SAVING. Must be spoken for before 5 pm on Monday 9th January, or they will be EUTHANIZED. These dogs need to be spoken for before 5 pm Monday (tomorrow) or they will be euthanized.
Roicy Duhon Animal Control, Lafayette LA: http://www.petfinder.org/shelters/LA40.html
Available Animals List: http://www.petfinder.org/pet.cgi?action=1&pet.Shelterid=LA40&preview=1
- Roicy Duhon Animal Control Center
- Lafayette, LA
- Phone 337-291-5645
If you have questions, please email
- Trisha at: mailto:sellinglafayette@hotmail-dot-com (@hotmail.com), or
- Debbie at: mailto:rescuerealtor@cox-dot-net (@cox.net),
- and they will respond to your questions.
- They are volunteers who works full time and do not have access to email at all times.
Random acts of cruelty on the rise in New Orleans (Jan 8)
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 10:33:55 EST From: DRCTBD @aol .com Subject: Random acts of cruelty on the rise in New Orleans Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulfcoast_rescue_n_transport/ Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Katrina-Pet-Rescue-info/
January 8, 2006 / FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRESS CONTACTS:
- Jane Garrison: 843-343-8887, 225-298-9501,
- mailto:JaneGarrison@comcast-dot-net (@comcast.net)
- Pia Salk: 323-899-4160, 225-298-9508,
- mailto:piapia@adelphia-dot-net (@adelphia.net)
- Brenda Shoss: 314-863-9445, 225-298-9504,
- mailto:kinshipcircle@brick-dot-net (@brick.net)
A Neverending Storm for Katrina's Lost Animals
- Random acts of cruelty on the rise in New Orleans
- By Brenda Shoss, 1/8/06
It was a day like any other, except for the flash of hot, sharp pain. A rainbow-colored arrow ripped through the cat's body, shredding his gallbladder, spleen, lung, intestines, and nearly every organ except his heart. Bewildered, the cat staggered to his feet with an arrow protruding from either side of his body.
Since Hurricane Katrina stole his home, the black and white cat had burrowed invisibly under broken buildings near a St. Bernard Parish high school. He'd emerged at dusk, blending with the dark to scour for food. The cat was just another shadow among thousands of displaced pets and strays in the New Orleans area.
No one knows who shot the arrow or how many days the cat survived with a hole through his body. But on January 3, 2006, someone notified Animal Rescue New Orleans (ARNO), a volunteer rescue operation on the ground since October.
ARNO co-director Jane Garrison, former rescue operations coordinator for the Humane Society of the U.S. at the state shelter in Gonzales, La., instructed one of her humane trappers to carefully watch the frightened cat without chasing him away.
In the meantime, Garrison dispatched a volunteer to a veterinary clinic for acepromazine to safely sedate the cat. ARNO trappers set some tuna-wrapped ace before the cat, who collapsed but still managed to consume the "bait." He was rushed to Southeast Veterinary Specialists (http://southeastvetspecialists.com/) in Metairie.
He'd survived hurricanes and floods, yet a newly named "Max" now faced the greatest challenge of his nine feline lives: Surgery to remove his gall bladder and resection his intestines. Just before surgery, with a chest tube and IV line embedded under his fur, the gentle tuxedo cat used his paws to "make muffins" against the hands of hospital staff.
Max awoke from surgery within hours, but his condition remained critical for two more days. On January 6, Deanna Theis of Southern Animal Foundation (http://www.southernanimalfoundation.org/) (SAF) in New Orleans, described Max as "not completely out of the woods, but making progress."
Max is not alone. Random cruelty appears to be on the rise in hurricane-ravaged areas where people lost homes, jobs, and most of their memories. While animal abusers represent a minority of the returning population, their brutality is unsettling.
Within 24 hours of Max's discovery, 13 poisoned cats were uncovered in two separate locations. A veterinarian confirmed the cats were killed with antifreeze.
Cadi Schiffer, ARNO's Food/Water Program Coordinator at the group's base camp in Metairie, notes a disturbing trend in recent weeks. "I've had two reports of residents shooting at dogs with pellet guns. One of the kids was throwing stones at the dogs."
Rescuers found a yellow Lab mix nicknamed Canal Girl riddled with 100 pellets. ARNO volunteers also spotted a gaunt, chained dog with no access to food or water. "When the team went back to follow up, the dog was dead by the side of the road," says Jessica Higgins, ARNO's Dog Trapping Coordinator.
The vast majority of returning residents are shocked by this senseless violence. In fact, many work tirelessly to feed, rescue and foster the hurricane homeless. Some borrow cars to help sustain more than 2,000 ARNO food/water stations across 650 sq. miles in Orleans Parish, St. Bernard Parish and beyond.
Under Louisiana state law, it is a misdemeanor crime to unjustifiably overwork, injure, or withhold food/water, shelter and veterinary care. Deliberate torture or mutilation, "aggravated animal cruelty," is a felony.
Garrison and fellow ARNO directors Pia Salk and David Meyer intend to uphold the law. They ask volunteers to document animal cruelty observed in the field. They file police reports and urge officials to vigorously investigate animal abuse offenses. If a suspect is apprehended, they advocate prosecution to the fullest extent of the law.
Currently, ARNO circulates a flyer that reads: "Official Warning: It is against the law to harm, poison or kill animals. Rewards offered for information leading to arrests."
Sometimes, the laws of conscience prevail. In October, a returning NOLA resident watched her neighbor discard a Doberman alongside a garbage pile. Although the skin-and-bones dog couldn't lift her head, she was alive. The witness quickly called ARNO and SAF. Once on IV antibiotics, the dog ate right out of her caregivers' hands.
Weeks later she walked out of the clinic to join her new family. For this old girl, the hurricanes and hurt were finally over.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
- If you see someone or know about someone who has harmed, shot, poisoned or otherwise abused an animal in the New Orleans area, call: 843-343-8887.
- Download animal abuse warning flyers from http://www.AnimalRescueNewOrleans.com/ to post in hurricane-effected areas. Or request flyer as attachment from mailto:info@kinshipcircle-dot-org (@kinshipcircle.org).
- Volunteer for hurricane animal rescue. Follow instructions under "HOW TO VOLUNTEER FOR ARNO" at http://www.AnimalRescueNewOrleans.com/
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- Brenda Shoss,
- Kinship Circle Volunteer Coordinator & NOLA Food-Water Assignments,
- Animal Rescue New Orleans
- http://www.AnimalRescueNewOrleans.com/
- http://www.KinshipCircle.org/
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