[IceBlueButterfly]

Please send this to as many people as you can as soon as you can, people were forced to leave their pets behind when they were evacuated because of Hurricane Katrina and there are people there trying to get them all out as fast as they can but now they were told they have THREE DAYS to do it or else.

Please read this website:

http://www.pasadosafehaven.org/NEWS/NEWS.htm

If you know anyone you can call or write to to get the rescuers more time please do. The people are there they just need more time. One of my friends is part of this rescue effort this is FOR REAL and they need help. If all you can do is pass this along as fast as you can THANK YOU who knows who might read it and have connections there and get them more time to help save the pets.

[EchoesImmortal]

Please send this to as many people as you can as soon as you can, people were forced to leave their pets behind when they were evacuated because of Hurricane Katrina and there are people there trying to get them all out as fast as they can but now they were told they have THREE DAYS to do it or else.

Please read this website:

http://www.pasadosafehaven.org/NEWS/NEWS.htm

If you know anyone you can call or write to to get the rescuers more time please do.  The people are there they just need more time.  One of my friends is part of this rescue effort this is FOR REAL and they need help.  If all you can do is pass this along as fast as you can THANK YOU who knows who might read it and have connections there and get them more time to help save the pets.

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I contacted a local news station to try to see if they would give this story some air time. I'm hoping that if they do, someone in my area can help.

[Sanzen]

LOL @ those pets.

Where's PETA now?  Fuck those assholes.  I hope those animals find their owners.  Seeing animals hurt is more painful than watching another man die.  I know because I've done both.

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Why don't you go hug a tree, tree-hugger?

[IceBlueButterfly]

THANK YOU for helping pass this along- this is their most recent update (below), the Rescuers threatened with guns!  This is unbelievable!  In an Emergency situation you would think they would work with people not threaten these people with guns!  Other shelters want to take the animals to hold for fostering until they can be reunited with their owners, so let them go, and take in more animals to wait for care, I just don't get it.

If people have a local reporter you can call please do or a newspaper or anything please call or email them this is INSANE

9/10 6:47pm PST ASCENSION PARISH SHERIFF STOPS RESCUERS FROM SHELTER - ARMED GUARDS OUTSIDE WON'T LET US IN! Because the Louisiana State Veterinarian refuses to lift the 15 day quarantine hold period, the Gonzales state-designated shelter, is now considered full by the local sheriff. The Parish Sheriff is holding Pasado Rescuers back with loaded guns, despite the fact we have full vans, loaded with animals - the result of a 19-hour-day of rescue. We need to raise hell - call local media, whoever you can, the state vet needs to cut the bureaucracy and allow foster families, from around the country, to take these animals!

[IceBlueButterfly]

http://www.pasadosafehaven.org/NEWS/NEWS.htm

Some good news, now so many more pets can get out of there to the new shelters being built and to foster homes.

[Kaiyuan87]

LOL @ those pets.

Where's PETA now?  Fuck those assholes.  I hope those animals find their owners.  Seeing animals hurt is more painful than watching another man die.  I know because I've done both.

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really now....soo who have u killed so far?

[IceBlueButterfly]

I would have loved to be on this flight, "Thank you for flyin waggin' airlines! b-bark!"

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/09/11/katri...t.ap/index.html

New Orleans dogs go west
First flight of rescued pets to California homes
SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- The first major airlift of dogs from the hurricane-battered Gulf Coast left Louisiana on Sunday, carrying about 80 pets to new temporary homes in California.

The Continental Airlines flight from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was chartered for about $50,000 by Texas oil tycoon Boone Pickens and his wife, Madeleine, in a movement dubbed "Operation Pet Lift."

Some dogs were placed in cages in the cargo section while others rode in the passenger cabin, where they barked and wagged their tails.

"They'd been in cages far too long. We felt like they needed to be free so they sat on our laps, and we played with them the whole way," said Christine Penrod, Madeleine Pickens' sister, who accompanied the animals on the flight.

About half the dogs were headed for San Diego, with the rest bound for San Francisco. Sunday's move was organized by PetRelocation.com, based in Austin, Texas.

"The goal was to help rescue 200 dogs," Pickens' spokesman Jay Rosser said. "They're overjoyed that they were able to rescue 80, but clearly disappointed and dismayed at the bureaucracy, which prevented them from taking the full 200."

Organizers complained that some legal requirements were impractical, such as waiting out a 30-day quarantine before transporting the animals.

Kelly Harrington, director of disaster response services for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said a makeshift shelter for up to several thousand dogs had been set up at the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center in Gonzales, Louisiana, about 45 miles northwest of New Orleans.

She hoped additional dogs would be flown out in the coming days, but said the effort was taking time.

"Every animal has to be vet checked, vaccinated and microchipped ... so we can track these animals in case an owner does find them," Harrington said.

Petfinder.com was setting up a database of pet pictures to help reunite owners with lost animals.

Andrew Rowan, executive vice president of operations for the Humane Society United States, said animals must be moved out of the Gonzales facility quickly to make room for "maybe 50,000 or more dogs and cats in New Orleans that need to be rescued."

"There are vans and cars and trucks all over the place," he said. "Dogs are barking, cats are meowing. It's a tremendous logistical operation to provide the care that these animals need."

The Humane Society's Dave Pauli, director of the Gonzales facility, said 200 animals were shipped out Sunday by truck to Houston, but rescue teams expected to bring in about 300 more in the afternoon.

About 200 animals have been reunited with their owners at the facility.

"That's what keeps us going," Pauli said. "Every one of them brings a tear to your eyes and makes these sleepless nights worth it."

[Sanzen]

Wouldn't it be great if all these pets brought hidden bacteria with them and wiped out the human race because of some whiney hippies?

[IceBlueButterfly]

OH! And if you are able to go to Louisiana check here for the details they will need people especially after Sept 18th:

http://www.pasadosafehaven.org/NEWS/TO%20VOLUNTEER.htm