Nevada medics open hearts to helpless/Guard members care for evacuees pets

[NVMojo]

Guard members care for evacuees' pets after the storm

NEW ORLEANS

They are among Hurricane Katrina's most helpless victims, caught amid nature's fury and the collapse of a society not of their making.

Some were left to fend for themselves. Others were never abandoned by their trusty caretakers. Still more suffered the mental scars of a world gone crazy.



They are the countless dogs, cats and other pets that have suffered just as helplessly as the hundreds of thousands of people displaced by last week's brutal storm.

"A lot of the pets are in pretty good shape. Most are in better shape than the people that they're coming with," Nevada Army National Guard Spec. Matt McGauran of Las Vegas said this week. "The people are smelling a lot worse than the animals. And the animals are better fed."

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[BiggJawn]

1. Don't let "Brownie" find out....

"No! No! No! You're supposed to let a Halliburton-Uh, I mean a FEMA approved Vet tem look at the animals!"...

Good on 'em! You got some great people from NV!

[KenCarson]

2. these animals tear at me 100 times more than the people

i feel bad for the people, but the cats just make me want to build another barn in my yard to make a house for a ton of them


yes, i suppose that makes me a bad person

[LostinVA]

3. No, I'm the same way -- they haunt me

[Coventina]

4. No, you are not a bad person. It's recognizing the plight of the

abandoned.

We ask these creatures to abide by our rules, when their capacity to understand us is so limited. They ask so little in return, just to be by our sides, food and water. Yet, for some reason, when disaster strikes they are cast off, their lives deemed unworthy of saving.

It is betryal of their trust, and of our better selves.

Whether people on an individual level like animals or not, on a collective level we have adopted them into our family. You should never abandon family. Never.