Hundreds of pets homeless in New Orleans a year after Katrina

[leftchick]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060824/lf_afp/uskatrina1year_060824164955

NEW ORLEANS, United States (AFP) - A symphony of barks echoes through the converted warehouse acting as New Orleans' temporary animal shelter a year after Hurricane Katrina separated thousands of pets from their owners.

Most of the animals rescued after 80 percent of the city was flooded have found their way back to their owners or to new homes across the country.

But the city's only animal shelter - which operates out of an old coffee warehouse without air conditioning or drainage - is still full of hundreds of pets awaiting adoption.

Some are strays found wandering through the rubble of abandoned homes. Others were given up by owners unable to care for them because of the stress of living in tiny trailers while they rebuild their homes, among other reasons.

"People are still getting their lives together," explained Gloria Dauphin, the assistant director of the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA). "Housing is a big, big issue and renting with an animal is next to impossible."

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Yeller, a Labrador Retriever German Shepard mix, gets a kiss from volunteer Claire Zotkiewicz, 11, as she and two other volunteers wash the dog at the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) in New Orleans, where he is awaiting adoption, 10 August 2006.(AFP/File/Robyn Beck)

[uppityperson]

1. Animal Rescue New Orleans, good group to help

http://www.animalrescueneworleans.com/

[faithnotgreed]

2. any harm to animals is my nightmare

i couldnt read the post but saw the subject about homeless animals and had to make sure to kick this up
thank you for posting this

we have been donating to best friends animal rescue for some time but especially in the past year
like other organizations they have worked quite hard for katrina animals

[Dogmudgeon]

3. What do you expect?

We haven't even provided for the human beings. The non-animal suffering is still enormous -- did you think the animals were going to fare any better?

Of course, that's a rhetorical question. The entire post-Katrina "response" has been a disgrace and a humiliation. Yet, again, Team Bush has pushed America's face into the dirt and laughed.

Those dogs and cats and ferrets and macaques are going to have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps -- after all, it's Wartime™.

:sarcasm:

--p!