Has Snowball been found? USA Today says Yes

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9255741/

Amid the heart-wrenching moments of devastation from deadly hurricane Katrina, there is at least one bright spot. Snowball, a small white dog taken by police from a sobbing little boy as he and his family were boarding a bus at the Superdome, has been located, USA Today reported Thursday.

Snowball is now at the Louisiana SPCA in Gonzalez and will be reunited with his owner, U.S. Department of Agriculture veterinarian Terry Conger told the newspaper. The Humane Society of the United States and the Louisiana SPCA rescued 43 dogs and 16 cats from the Superdome and delivered them to a temporary shelter at Lamar-Dixon Expo Center.

The dog is reported to be among an estimated 3,000 animals brought into the Louisiana shelter system.

[napi21]

1. I heard they found the little boy who owns him and

either have already or are working on uniting them. That was on CNN or MSNBC last night. I'm soo happy for that poor little boy, and very happy for his little doggie too. I have 3 Bichons that look just like Snowball, and I can't even imagine what my life would be like without them!

I think they said the CNN/MSNBC folks did everything they could to unite that pair again.

[RamboLiberal]

2. Here's another feel good story - kudos to NBC folks

Keith Olbermann mentioned on the Monday night the storm hit New Orleans that a puppy who couldn't be taken in to the Superdome was staying in an NBC van. The NBC producer wanted to adopt the pup, but now they're working on reuniting him with his owner. Scroll down Brian William's blog.

Puppy love in New Orleans (Heather Allan, NBC News Coordinating Producer)

It was Sunday night, Aug. 28, and the storm was due to hit on Monday morning. We were at the Superdome in this absolutely pouring down, squalling rain. The winds had already started to pick up. Most of the thousands of people who were trying to get into the Superdome had already managed to get in. They were just about to close the doors and lock down for the night.

That’s when I saw a man walking down and talking to cop cars and National Guard people all along the way in the pouring rain. He had a puppy in his arms. They said to him, "you can go in, but you can’t take your dog with you."

He kept saying, "Look man, it’s a puppy. If I left him at home, he would just die."

So I looked at Tom Baer, our satellite truck operator, and I said, "Tom, we gotta do it."
He nodded. So I went out into the rain and I said, "We’ll look after your dog for you."


Tom Baer holds "Cain/Storm" inside the NBC satellite truck in New Orleans.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9216831/

[MidnightWind]

3. I heard Campbell Brown say this weekend that they had 10 dogs

in the "NBC compound" in New Orleans that they had adopted or taken in.

[gulliver]

4. Barbara Bush is probably wondering why they didn't ...

... just bring Snowball along in the first place and leave the little boy.