My wife just received this message from one of her animal advocacy groups:
NEW ORLEANS ANIMALS DESPERATELY NEED VOLUNTEERS TO HELP FEED/CARE FOR THEM
Subject: New Orleans Animals desperately need volunteers to help feed/care for them
Please forward this to everyone you know:
Below is a message telling just how bad things really are for the animals in New Orleans. Some are only getting to eat once a week. And not just there - there are many miles of surrounding areas where pets and animals are not being fed/watered at all, due to a lack of volunteers.
Under the message is info on two groups that send convoys to feed horses, livestock, etc., in different parts of Vermilion Parish. Note their web sites for info on donating food for livestock and supplies, plus dog and cat food - there is a great need for it. --In addition,
note the drop-off points for donations in Mississippi (also hit hard by Katrina), and in Harahan at ARNO, just outside of New Orleans. (ARNO just needs donations of dog and cat food.)
The media has dropped this story like a hot potato, so please publicize it any way you can.
Thanks!
PLEASE CROSSPOST FAR AND WIDE
* URGENT *
THE STARVING ANIMALS OF HURRI CANE KATRINA NEED YOU NOW
Today in New Orleans, we had ONLY FIVE PEOPLE to feed the THOUSANDS of Katrina animals who remain on the streets. These animals are trying to stay alive long enough for their people to return or to be rescued.
Animal Rescue New Orleans: www.animalrescueneworleans.com has mapped OVER 2,800 Food/Water locations that need to be refilled !! MOST Food/Water stations are not refilled for over a WEEK because we don't have enough people to feed the animals.
It is desperate down here. The animals are starving again. Two more emaciated dogs came in. If you can't go yourself, then help spread the word that we need more volunteers.
If you go down to help support ARNO's Food/Water program, don't let ANYTHING or ANYONE stand in your way. Please don't stay at the shelter --GO OUT AND FEED THE ANIMALS THAT HAVE NOT YET BEEN RESCUED. The animals NOT in the shelter need you MORE than the animals in the shelter.
The shelter animals are fed every day -- but the thousa nds of animals on the street may eat ONLY ONCE A WEEK !! The animals need you to go work hard to get them fed -- to work a 12-14 hour day -- to refill over 100 Food/Water stations a day. We used to keep them well-fed. Now we are struggling just to keep them ALIVE.
For more information on how to help the thousands of Katrina animals, visit the Animal Rescue New Orleans Website:
www.animalrescueneworleans.com
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Web sites of Hopeful Haven and Vermilion Animal Aid - two Vermilion Parish groups with convoys:
www.vermillionanimalaid.blogspot.com
www.hopefulhaven.com
Drop-off sites for donations of food/supplies:
Harrison County Fairgrounds in Lyman, MS, Hancock County. Contact:
Mike McMillan 228-861-8620 - Crama Koury 228-860-5055
Gulfport Humane Society in Gulfport, MS, Harrison County
Contact: Tara, Michelle or Pamela - 228-863-4394
*ARNO at 271 Plauche St., Harahan, LA (70123 - right outside of New Orleans)
You can request map and general driving directions from
info@kinshipcircle.org (kinshipcircle.org)
ARNO coordinators will be on-site from 8:00 a.m. to
5:00-7:00 p.m daily.
ARNO main line: 504-571-1900.
*Finding ARNO:
Cross-street: Edwards (off of Jefferson Highway)
Take I-10 East to Clearview. Go south on Clearview. Travel awhile and then make a right onto Jefferson Highway (west). (This turn is past Airline Highway 61. You'll see a McDonald's with a blown-out sign at the corner). Then turn left on to Plauche St. Follow Plauche around
and then make a hard right on to Plauche Ct. Warehouse is on right. There is an orange sign on front door: "Animal Rescue New Orleans"
PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY AND DO WHAT YOU CAN TO HELP!
If you can't help New Orleans animals, please help by doing the following:
- Spay, neuter, rescue, adopt. Don't breed or buy while homeless pets die.
- Urge your Representative to support the Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards (PETS) Act, H.R. 3858, which would require state and local agencies to include pets in their disaster plans.
For Penny, Angie, Bubba, and Booger, our rescued "pibbles."
Jeff Latas for Congress