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PET RESCUE ORGS NEEDED TO FOSTER KATRINA RESCUE PETS
From: (Marcus,*Carol)
Date: Mon, Nov 21, 2005, 10:42am To: Subject: [adl] FW: *Need for Katrina Fosters Is Ongoing* Reply*to: , (Marcus, Carol) http://www.AnimalDefense.info Importance: High REPLY DIRECTLY TO BEST FRIENDS DO NOT RESPOND TO SENDER 11/18/05: Need For Katrina Fosters Is Ongoing On a single day, (November 14) Animal Rescue New Orleans saves 13 cats, 17 puppies, and 22 dogs. Multiply that times many days and you can understand our need for space. Each day, rescued animals are transported to the Best Friends shelter in Tylertown, Mississippi. When the Best Friends facility is full, we have nowhere to bring animals. We currently have more than 3,000 locations in our database where animals have been reported hiding under porches and homes. While our dedicated food/water volunteers continue to sustain animals in and around New Orleans, we can step up humane trapping and shelter with the help of foster organizations. QUALIFICATIONS TO FOSTER KATRINA ANIMALS: * * 501c3 NO-KILL Organization * * Can safely transport animals to your shelter. * * Will upload each animal's identity info/photo on petfinder.com and track them. * * Agree to hold Katrina animals in foster for a minimum of 3 months. * * If guardian comes forward during that time, agree to release the animal. * * Ideal groups can take at least 10 animals. HOW TO FOSTER KATRINA ANIMAL: 1. Fill out Best Friends forms IMMEDIATELY. They're moving quickly through *their list of qualified 501c3s due to urgent need. If you've already filled *out forms, and meet qualifications above, you will be contacted. ******If you are an organization who can foster left-behind companion animals **http://www.bestfriends.org/HF/FO.cfm * *******If you are an individual who can foster a left-behind companion animal ******http://www.bestfriends.org/HF/FI.cfm 2. If your organization has worked with JANE GARRISON/DAVID MEYER (Animal **Rescue New Orleans) or KINSHIP CIRCLE-and meets all qualifications * above-fill out application AND email Kathi McDermott for some priority attention: ********Kathi McDermott, Community Program Manager, Best Friends Animal Society: FOR ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS, INFORMATIONABOUT FOSTERING KATRINA ANIMALS: Karla Osbeck: 310-800-7011 , ============================================== UPDATE FROM THE FIELD 11/16/05: 50 Cats Rescued from Bulldozer Animal Rescue New Orleans (ARNO) and Alley Cat Allies http://www.alleycatallies.org/ http://www.alleycatallies.org/ (ACA) rescued 50 cats today from a trailer park in Kenner (near the New Orleans airport). FEMA plans to bulldoze the park in order to put up trailers for displaced Katrina victims. People, many of whom are disabled, are still living at the trailer park, and now face being displaced themselves. They have to be out by Saturday, November 19. The 50 cats rescued today were tame and able to be put in carriers. A total of approximately 100 animals including dogs, bunnies and many more cats are still in need of rescue there. Please contact FEMA at , (202) 566-1600, and Governor Blanco's office at (866) 366-1121, Fax: (225) 342-7099, and insist that they rescue and provide care for the people and animals currently living at thiistrailer park. Alley Cat Allies needs cat caregivers at the base camp in Bogalusa. Please email Bonney Brown if you can help at . 11/18/05: St. Bernard readies wrecking ball 320 buildings get approval for razing By Karen Turni Bazile St. Bernard/Plaquemines bureau The first building demolitions in the wake of Hurricane Katrina's widescale devastation of St. Bernard Parish are expected to begin in about three weeks. St. Bernard Parish Council members on Tuesday approved a list of 320 buildings to be demolished. Inspectors had deemed each of the buildings to have 100 percent damage from Hurricane Katrina, meaning the damage exceeds the home's pre-Katrina value. ********************************************** HURRICANE ALERTS COMPILED BY: GRASSROOTS EFFORT FOR ANIMALS OF THE STORM KINSHIP CIRCLE Brenda Shoss, Information & Volunteer Coordinator: (desk) 314-863-9445; (cell) 314-795-2646 7380 Kingsbury Blvd.; Saint Louis, MO 63130 http://www.kinshipcircle.org ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION (ARF) Julia Fischer, Supply Storage & Distribution Director: (cell) 251-455-9377; (home) 251-645-8605 shelter phone: 251-478-9743 771 Holcombe Ave.; Mobile, Alabama 36605 http://www.animalrescuemobile.org "...the earth is not dying, the earth is being killed. * * ...and those that are killing it **have names and addresses." ******************************(utah philips) ______________________________________________ Animal Defense League of Long Island PO Box 1587 Huntington, NY, 11743 info:631-374-9096 http://www.AnimalDefense.info ______________________________________________ |
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