Hi
I havent posted in a while, really since the 2004 Ohio debacle. Im in Houston, been at the George R Brown with all the food and clothes I can give and buy. The emotional toll living in a city swarming with so many displaced is growing. Our city has grown by 150,000 in one week. WHie the human tragedy unfolds , and thousands die from the negligence of our govt, we must also remember the other victims: animals, pets. Pets can become our best friends. SOmetimes they are really all people have.
I worked for years for the Houston Zoo and cant imagine having to leave any animal behind. But that is the gut wrenching other story-thousands of people's pets had to be left behind in NO. I just cant bear it. this was posted today on the wwltv blog in NO. **Gas chambers have been set up to kill many of the thousands of people's pets as there is no where apparently to take them.
We must find ways not just to save humans but pets as well. Pets are part of the family. It is like gassing family members in my mind. The gas chambers run, in America not for humans, but for American's pets becuase the GOP govt failed all of NO, leaving the poor to die and now their pets too.......
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html
11 A.M. - ATLANTA (AP) -- As Valerie Bennett was evacuated from a New Orleans hospital, rescuers told her there was no room in the boat for her dogs. She pleaded. "I offered him my wedding ring and my mom's wedding ring," the 34-year-old nurse recalled Saturday.
They wouldn't budge. She and her husband could bring only one item, and they already had a plastic tub containing the medicines her husband, a liver transplant recipient, needed to survive. Such emotional scenes were repeated perhaps thousands of times along the Gulf Coast last week as pet owners were forced to abandon their animals in the midst of evacuation.
In one example reported last week by The Associated Press, a police officer took a dog from one little boy waiting to get on a bus in New Orleans. "Snowball! Snowball!" the boy cried until he vomited. The policeman told a reporter he didn't know what would happen to the dog.
At the hospital, a doctor euthanized some animals at the request of their owners, who feared they would be abandoned and starve to death. He set up a small gas chamber out of a plastic-wrapped dog kennel.