Bush is killing the animals too.....

[Joanne98]

Thousands and thousands of the New Orleans pet population. Thousands of dogs and puppies with their cute little faces, floating in the water, some of them parents, who probably died trying to protect their little babies. Rottweilers, German Shepards, Poodles, Terriers, Labs....Animals heartlessly left to die by George W. Bush.
THE BIGGEST MASSACURE OF MANS BEST FRIEND IN AMERICAN HISTORY!
He didn't care about them. They weren't rich dogs like Barney, who have people servants to walk behind them with pooper scoopers. NO! They were poor animals and because they were poor they didn't matter.
And what about the cats? Bush doesn't even have a cat. Is this because he hates cats? Do all Republicans hate cats and want them to die? We'll never know because killer Republicans will never tell us. All we know is that thousands of cats with their cute faces, who loved their people and gave them purr-fect love are dead in the black water. White cats, red cats, Halloween black cats, tabbys, siamese, momma cats, daddy cats and their cute little babies all MURDERED by George Bush and his hateful administration. All they needed was a little help from their federal goverment so they could live to make their people happy. To make people smile at their cute faces and funny tricks. To protect children, bark at danger to keep the rats away. America mourns these little animals. Our friends. We mourn the dogs who will never run in the wind. Cats who will never smell another flower. We mourn for the people AND the animals too.
GEORGE BUSH IS THE BIGGEST ANIMAL MURDERER WHO EVER LIVED. Shame on him.

[roguevalley]

1. it haunts me day and night too. I hate this man with all my heart.

[Joanne98]

2. It's the biggest crime against animals in the history of the US!

[MisterP]

3. "kill everything" is their motto--Fallujah, New Orleans...

[Greylyn58]

64. You've got that right

All Death, All the Time!!

Shrubco and his cronies love death. If it lives and breathes then they have to kill it.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. Email PETA, but I am sure they are all over it.

[Joanne98]

6. Good idea. Maybe Pam Anderson will call Bush a puppy killer.

[TexanDem]

5. Very touching tribute to our precious little friends.

[Joanne98]

7. Thankyou. I love animals. I thought we should remember them too.

[Vinca]

8. The night before the hurricane hit I couldn't sleep because I was

worried about the animals. The next day, when it appeared it was bad, but not as bad as expected, my first thought was the animals. At least they wouldn't drown. Now . . . it's horrible. I think I sound heartless because people are in the same boat, but the animals. They had no choice. Locked in houses, chained in the back yard . . . it makes me ill. I can give money until I'm broke, but I can't save them. I hate George Bush.

[Joanne98]

9. I bet he hasn't even thought about them once.....

[SammyWinstonJack]

18. He doesn't care about humans, their pets are the last thing on his

sick twisted mind. :cry: I have a Yorkie, I'd be devastated if I lost her. :cry:

[FreedomAngel82]

49. I wonder what he would do

if that was his Barney or Laura's Miss Beazley.

[meti57b]

58. Bush doesn't care about Barney, he has a dog to look like a "regular guy"

It gets him votes from people who love their pooches.

[Double T]

10. George Bush has proved once again that he is a sham.......

bush is responsible for the deaths of more living, breathing creatures of this earth than we will ever know. The vile people that support him are no better, they are equally responsible for the deaths. Bush the Butcher is equal to the greatest tyrants, that have committed atrocities, throughout the ages.

[Joanne98]

12. Someone should start collecting pictures of the dead animals....

And when they have enough make a picture of Bush's face with them.

[global1]

11. As People Boarded Buses To Evacuate the NG Took There Pets ......

and threw them on the ground. Now there are reports of roving packs of dogs all over NO. They are looking for food and probably fresh water. Some were even seen feeding on the bodies of the dead.

You know what's coming next - they are going to send out teams to shoot the animals.

* has got to go. Send him to the animals.

[Joanne98]

15. Oh! That's horrible.

[ForrestGump]

51. I've been to places where feral dogs roam in packs

It's not a pretty sight. They'll try to surround a person but, in my experience, even picking up a rock will send them fleeing. Still, someone smaller than my significant size or too afraid (or prudent...last thing you want to do when they're close to you is bend or stoop over) to think of going for a rock or stick could be in very real danger. For sure, seeing them turn on a less dominant dog is a sight (and sound) that will stay with you a long time...

I'm a cat person, but even if were the most enthusiastic of dog lovers I think I'd still be open to blowing such dogs away. I grew up in rural areas where dogs who got loose (or were dumped by stupid f***ing humans), alone or in pairs or larger groups, turned into livestock killers. Conventional wisdom thereabouts was that those dogs needed to be shot on sight because once they had the taste for hunting and killing their own prey they became changed for life. That jibes well with what I now know of canine behavior, though I'd never be so black-and-white about it: the recovered dog may reassimilate into the human family at its previous position in the hierarchy and be perfectly fine, but I sure wouldn't look at Rex the same and would be really attentive to their behavior, especiailly around children and animals.

[CC]

13. I have nightmares over all the animals

but really have them over caged animals like birds, ferrets,rabbits, rats, hamsters. Animals people left locked in their cages with lots of food and water thinking they would be back in a few days and their pets were safer confined. Animals that had no way to escape their usually safe cages when the water started rising.

[Joanne98]

16. Oh God that's a terrible thought. Now I'm going to have nightmares.

[moobu2]

14. This makes breaks my heart every time I read anything about it.

There are a lot of organizations working desperately to save these animals but to many have already died.
ASPCA

Noahs Wish

[Joanne98]

17. FEMA is probably stopping the ASPCA from saving them too.

[FreedomAngel82]

50. The poor babies!

:cry:

[KoKo]

19. Our Animals are in a better place....safe from the Killer Bush...

those who made it are "Saint Animals" those who didn't will go off with all those souls who perished to expose the cruelty and inhumanity of the Bushies...and their "followers" and "enablers."

Pets in Heaven....I'm a Christian and an Episcopalian (where we have annual blessing of Pets." So to me, pets who died will be "reunited with their owners" and those who died suffering because of the deprevation and cut off from the pets who were kinder than their: Government, National Guard, FEMA, Red Cross and all the others.

Our Pets are Saints because...in the end so many folks are cut off from family that their "fellow traveler pets" are their only Source of Comfort" and they've died...been snatched out of arms of those who were desperate to get into shelters but didn't know they couldn't escape and keep their fellow travelers.

But...I have to believe "Our Pets" will live on long after this HELL and be put in the literature when the "Katrina Siege of New Orleans" is written for history.

[Joanne98]

28. A blessing of the pets. I like that.

[mnhtnbb]

42. Haunted by image of dog left behind

When the roof top rescues were first being made, CNN closed a segment with a boat full of people motoring away from a roof--with a dog left behind. I've been haunted by the image. I told my husband, "that dog is probably a better human being than the f**king piece of shit POTUS, Bush."

So sad.

[NYCGirl]

20. The Bushs do have a cat named India...they've had her for 10 years.

She's less known than Barney, I guess, because they can't carry her around for photo ops.

http://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/Pets/India.htm



Please give to Noah's Wish:

www.noahswish.org

[Joanne98]

22. That doesn't get him off the hook. It's probably Laura's cat....

[NYCGirl]

23. I was merely pointing out that your statement about him having a cat

was mistaken.

And mentioning Noah's Wish.

[Joanne98]

26. I know. Thankyou. I didn't mean to be rude.

[Jon8503]

21. I cry for the animals and pets too. I am a male but I have always receive

unconditional love from my Dalmatian, dogs and cats I grew up with and who have passed on. Just had to put my cat down as he is very intrigued with DU & always knows she gets the best and most honest news of what is going on from DU, so always gets right up front in the screen.

However, I have always been able or felt that I could trust my pets more than humans. I have humans I trust as well but animals do so much for humans and I am glad to see the population on this board that recognizes that.

I always remember the saying, can't remember who said it but "You can always judge a society by how it treats it animals".

[Joanne98]

24. I don't think Barney even likes Bush. Doesn't he drop him a lot?

[FreedomAngel82]

54. I think so

I still remember last November Barbara Walters did a special with him and Laura and I turned it on there to see what nonsense they were talking about and they were outside in the back of the White House and Barney was playing and playing with Miss Beazley and Bush kept calling Barney over and Barney just kept looking at him with a blank stare and just ignored him and kept sniffing the grass or Miss Beazley. I thought that was funny.

[FreedomAngel82]

53. So true on that quote

And I remember I used to have a dog who I trusted a lot. I remember he would sit next to me on the swings in our backyard and I would chat with him. I miss him all the time. :(

[Fleshdancer]

25. Uh oh...hopefully Frist won't see this as a personal challenge

we know what Frist does to cats :scared:

[Joanne98]

27. Oh yeah! I hope the Human Society keeps him away. (shudder)

[HuskiesHowls]

29. I would have stayed

My pets mean too much to me to leave them to fend for themselves. I'm on a maillist for Siberian Huskies, and there is a lot of mail about pet rescues, for different breeds, and about groups going there from all over the country just to help the pets.
The animals ask for so little and return so much to us, you'd think they could be provided at least a little help!!

[Joanne98]

32. Is there a website where people can report their missing pets?

[mnhtnbb]

37. YES!

http://www.petfinder.org/disaster/

[mnhtnbb]

40. Here's a story of a dog and a woman

This one will bring tears. I guarantee it.

http://www.newsobserver.com/print/sunday/front/story/2784061p-9223642c.html

[FreedomAngel82]

56. Aww

I'm glad she got to take the dog with her. How sad. :( I can't believe people aren't letting their animals come with them.

[Joanne98]

43. Thanx!

[moobu2]

30. $1775 reward to the person who saves and returns Snowball

"$1775 reward so far for the safe return of " Snowball" to his 9 year old owner. On Thursday, when an officer confiscated a dog, a little boy cried out Snowball! Snowball!'' until he vomited. The police took from a boy and tossed by the side of the bus- the dog tried again and again to get on the bus -police pushed it away.

National Guard officers said dogs were being taken to a stairwell in the New Orleans Center, a shopping mall near the Superdome, and given food and water. They feared some of them might have escaped, and two small dogs were seen wandering nearby streets. The tiny dog desperately tried to get on the bus...we saw this on the news he is either a Poodle or a Bichon."

For more visit
http://www.katrinafoundpets.com/snowball_fund.htm

[Fleshdancer]

31. oh dear Goddess! I'm in tears!

I heard about this story on DU but I didn't see the images before now. And the worst part is that the Astrodome had an area for pets!

:cry:

[Joanne98]

33. OH NO! That's heart breaking!

[IndyOp]

39. Snowball may have been found...

<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4636839>

[Joanne98]

41. And the mother with 11 puppies.

[moobu2]

45. Thanks for the update.

If it's not snowball, at least another pet was saved. Hopefully it's snowball though.

[ForrestGump]

55. That middle picture is incredibly sad

Think I've got something in my eyes...

Sure, I know that some'll counter with "but what of the human suffering?" and other such good points, and perhaps submit that human lives are worth more than those of dogs, cats, and other 'lower' vertebrates (throughout my life my own internal jury's been MIA on that point), but what kind of people would we be if we didn't care about the plight of our commensals, our pets? We'd be George W, Bush, that's who we'd be, or something equally odious.

Besides, the sadness isn't just about poor little Snowball's heroic futility in trying to get on that bus, it's also for the kid inside who's beyond traumatized at the separation -- and, for all he knows, sudden loss -- of his little fluffy friend.

[FreedomAngel82]

57. Poor Snowball

:cry: I hope they get the poor baby to the owner.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

60. Update on Snowball

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4645926&mesg_id=4651027

[nookiemonster]

34. That's really sad.

My kitty boy means the world to me, I can just imagine.

[Joanne98]

35. I have two cats! If Bush killed them I'd be furious.

[Joanne98]

36. FOX is doing a segment on the pets. Like they care. We know better.

[leftyleftist]

38. Makes me too sick to think about

I've given to the relief funds and have a carload of food and water to bring to the armory to be brought down there. I think I'm going to go grab one of those 20 packs of canned dog food with the poptops to that shipment. I want to give to the pet relief funds as well, but that probably will have to wait until the next pay cycle.

I seriously have trouble even reading about this, or thinking about it. I have 4 dogs and 2 cats, and the thought of having to leave them behind... I'd probably be one of those wanting to stick it out with them, even if it meant we all died together.

The children. The animals. The sick and disabled. The elderly. The poor. The oppressed.

This is criminal...

[leftyleftist]

44. Oh heckfire

I went and donated just now instead. Just a little bit for now, but I'm sure it's needed.

Thanks for this topic. It hurts so bad to think about.

[Joanne98]

46. Good for you. Who did you give too?

[leftyleftist]

62. Petfinder.com n/t

[nicknameless]

47. Pet rescue info here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4650234

[Joanne98]

52. Thankyou. These people are really getting something done.

[nicknameless]

65. They are the people who rescued Snowball!

[nicknameless]

66. They are the people who rescued Snowball!

[leftchick]

61. excellent links

thank you

[FreedomAngel82]

48. It's so sad

:( The poor babies. PET MURDER!

[Karmadillo]

59. PETA: Forcing an evacuee to leave a pet behind is a crime

http://www.helpinganimals.com/f-disasterupdate.asp

Emergency Update:
ATTENTION: NO ANIMAL GROUPS HAVE BEEN ALLOWED IN TO HELP ANIMALS IN NEW ORLEANS, AND THE PROBLEM IS JUST WORSENING.

MEANWHILE, FEDERAL AUTHORITIES ARE FORCING EVERYONE, INCLUDING ELDERLY RESIDENTS WHO HAVE STAYED IN WATER-LOGGED RESIDENCES FOR 5 DAYS JUST TO SAFEGUARD THEIR BELOVED ANIMALS, TO NOW LEAVE THEM BEHIND TO STARVE. IN SOME CASES, PEOPLE ARE TOLD THAT THEY MUST CHOOSE BETWEEN BRINGING VITAL MEDICINE AND THEIR DOG. THIS IS ILLEGAL. IT HAS TO STOP.

PETA HAS ISSUED A NEWS RELEASE ADVISING THAT ANYONE FORCING A PERSON TO LEAVE AN ANIMAL BEHIND IS ENGAGING IN A CRIME, BUT THAT IS NOT STOPPING FEDERAL EVACUATORS FROM INSISTING THAT ANIMALS BE LEFT TO DIE. PLEASE, IMMEDIATELY CALL YOUR MEMBER OF CONGRESS. LEAVE MESSAGES IN WASHINGTON AND AT THEIR HOME OFFICES AND GET EVERYONE YOU KNOW TO CALL.

YOU CAN FIND CONTACT INFORMATION HERE:

YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES
YOUR SENATORS

[NAO]

63. In the Siege of Fallajuh, our soldiers were ordered to kill all pets

The siege of Fallajuh was carried out in the true spirit of the Bible:

DEUTERONOMY 20:16 "But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth"

I can't find the link now, but there was a story that after the siege of Fallajuh the dogs were eating the corpses of the dead Iraqis that were strewn in the streets and spreading disease, so the US Military ordered the solders to shoot any dogs and cats they saw.

The soldiers were reportedly very traumatized by this order, which is completely understandable to me. I would hate to have to shoot a person, but if it was my life or theirs I would do it. But to have to kill a dog...would be so very sad.

[katamaran]

67. Navy sailors rescuing pets!

My TV station has two crews down in the NO area right now. One of the reporters is on the USS Tortuga out in the Mississippi River. Her report tonight showed video of sailors rescuing pets...a litter of puppies and their mother, and one sailor carrying an adult golden retriever on the ship. The sailors have actually built a bunch of kennels in an empty part of the ship and are taking as many in as possible! Go Tortuga!

[Coventina]

68. The Republican party has become a death cult

Culture of life MY ASS!!!!

[jillan]

69. I have some GREAT news on this.

My wonderful Democrat Governor, in my Red state of AZ
made arrangements for the citizens of NOLA to come to Az. Not only did she arrange everything for them, she also arranged for their pets to join them:) Does that rock, or what????????

And today AAR Phx had a fund drive for what these people needed...
You should have seen all the pet food.

I think it has been proven this week that democrats, liberals and progressives are the ones with the big hearts!

[Joanne98]

70. Cool!

[Gloria]

71. I look at my 3 babies (dogs) and can't imagine what if we were

caught in such a disaster. I think I would die with them.

[Wcross]

72. Are you for real?

I think you are a little bit emotional about the issue. Fema isn't there to save animals.

[undergroundpanther]

73. Wcross

Fire departments will take all life from a burning building.
My buddy Mike was a fireman. He would rush into the flames and grab every living thing he could.

You might not value animals..

But I would die without my 3 cats.

THESE kitties of mine have kept me from suicide .

I have PSTD.. and HUMANS do not have near the love in them that my cats do,nor are humans as open with their love as my cats are.

Cats and dogs birds and other pets are role models to teach us arrogant,emotionally detached,callous,oblivious self centered humans how to have compassion for each other and for all things in this miserable fucking existance. AS long as we think animals do not matter and can't feel pain or emotions is it any wonder this country has a COMPASSION DEFICIT???

[Wcross]

74. I value animals.

The problem is that there are still people that may be dying. Do you divert resources that could be saving human lives? I think those peoples relatives would be just a tad upset if their loved one died because they had to chase down a dog down the street.

[shockra]

75. Saturday night my local news...

Led with a story about the pet situation in New Orleans, saying that a quarter of a million pets had already starved, or drowned.

Animal Writes newsletter said this:

Katrina
By JJswans

Before Hurricane Katrina hit land, a televised news report said that officials were warning that anyone who abandoned their animals would be charged with animal cruelty. Since animals are usually the last thing that government officials, and the news media, concern themselves with, it was encouraging to see a preemptive attempt to protect potential animal victims.

An unknown number of people risked their own lives by staying with their animals, and that too was encouraging to see, though it brought to mind the importance of increasing the numbers of shelters that would allow animals, and increasing attempts to get such information out to animal guardians that there are shelters that will help.

What was discouraging is how many stories are now emerging about people that were forced to make a choice between abandoning their animals in order to be allowed to enter a shelter set up for humans, or risking their own lives by remaining outside of the shelter with their animals. How can officials tell someone they must abandon their animals after stating that such abandonment would mean charges of animal cruelty?

It is estimated that 60 percent of the U.S. population has a companion animal. Eighty percent of that 60 percent have two or more companion animals. And yet shelters for humans don't take that into account - there are no contingencies for the furred, feathered, or scaled members of people's families which have proven to be medically and psychologically beneficial for their people. And if there was ever a time when people need the soothing and stabilizing effect that an animal can give, it's when they have lost everything they own, and their lives are in upheaval, such as the victims of Katrina.

How difficult would it be for the Red Cross and the Salvation Army to join hands with the HSUS, the ASPCA, and other animal aid organizations who could supply crates/cages to be available at every Red Cross/Salvation Army shelter, along with food for the animals. If there were people that didn't want to be around the crated animals, they could even have non-animal sections of the shelters.