By Our Side, Always
August 30th, 2007 6:54 pm by Kelly GarbatoClick here to view hundreds of past and current Hurricane Katrina (and other natural-and/or-man-made-disasters-for-non-human-animals) alerts.
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From: Kinship Circle – kinshipcircle [at] accessus.net
Date: Aug 29, 2007 1:19 PM
Subject: When 2 Years Equal A Lifetime, AUGUST 2005-2007
Kinship Circle Animal Disaster Relief
Permission to crosspost as written
Hurricane Katrina, 8/29/05 – 8/29/07
When two years equal a lifetime
www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters/
Still Loved
Forever Missed
Never Again
By Our Side, Always
2005 GULF COAST Animal Disaster Aid – In Pictures & Words:
www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters/gulfcoast/newsletters/default05.html
PHOTO: Kinship Circle member Tim Gorski on the water in New Orleans with the Winn Dixie rescue effort in 9/05.
9/13/05, Excerpt From Early Kinship Circle Alert: In our search for Spike (the little Yorkie) we’ve learned about volunteers on the water who could save Spike and others — but they desperately need more boats!
The Jefferson Pet Feed & Garden Center is serving as a drop site for boats and has a triage center with a veterinarian. Please, if you can bring down boats — or know someone who can — call: Jefferson Pet Feed & Garden Center: 504-733-8572 (This number, like all in the area, may be hard to reach. Do not give up. They are there!)
Or, better yet, drive down with your boats now: 4421 Jefferson Highway (At Jefferson Hwy. and Central Avenue between Clearview and Causeway in Jefferson, Louisiana). Contact Sherry Woodbury: 818-645-7847
www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters/gulfcoast/newsletters/9_13_05.html
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9/16/05, Excerpt From SAVING SPIKE: A True Katrina Tale About Two Brendas And A Dog Named Spike: By the time New Orleans evacuee Brenda Johnson called begging me to find her dog Spike, I already knew him. He was the faceless puppy left behind. Now he had a name.
“Can you save our Spike? He’s a big Yorkshire Terrier, probably 15 pounds, left upstairs in our apartment on Roger Drive. We thought we’d be back in a couple of days. I’m sure he’s under my daughter’s bed, probably scared.”
I overheard children, an aunt, a niece and a brother from her crowded hotel room in Lake Charles, Louisiana. I also heard the crack in her voice. The Johnsons fled on Sunday at 2:00 a.m., just before Katrina struck.
…I got through to “boat people,” animal rescue groups, parish sheriffs, and ordinary citizens. On Brenda’s behalf, I granted permission to break down doors and shatter windows. But with each passing day, I wondered “Is tonight his last? Will the heat, starvation, or water finally take him?”
On September 16 — more than two weeks after the Johnsons evacuated — Brenda called me. “They found Spike. He is alive.” Brenda Johnson and Brenda Shoss screamed with joy for one full moment…
Spike is alive… This story is about love. It’s about saving Spike.
www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters/gulfcoast/story_spike.html
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Sept/Oct 2005, GRASSROOTS EFFORT FOR ANIMALS OF THE STORM: Kinship Circle, a nonprofit animal advocacy organization, and Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF), a nonprofit no-kill shelter, initiated a relief effort for the animal victims of Hurricane Katrina.
PHOTO: Tim Gorski
Grassroots Effort for Animals of the Storm mobilizes volunteers/supplies in response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We send veterinarians, vet techs, rescuers, transport services, trained animal disaster relief workers, shelter/foster agencies and others to stricken communities in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Texas. ARF and Kinship Circle also manage a drop/distribution site for supplies. Items such as food, hay, cages, crates, veterinary meds, equipment, and much more are stored and circulated to storm areas. By October, the Kinship Circle/ARF alliance sent supplies to nearly 80 shelters and rescue missions in four storm states…
www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters/gulfcoast/effort/mission-photoalbum1.html
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12/14/05, Excerpt From New Orleans Animals Need You — UPDATES FROM THE FIELD: A day of hope for the animals! Organizers Jane, Rob and Pia worked with a tireless team of ARNO volunteers to save 13 cats, 17 puppies, and 22 dogs. For one dog, the wait was finally over…
Over several days, this dog was marooned on a canal ledge inside a well, surviving on MREs the National Guard kindly tossed his way. After contemplating the best way to retrieve him, rescuers realized they’d need to descend into the well. But as Rob lowered a ladder down toward the dog, the terrified little guy panicked and jumped into the water. In a split second, Rob bolted in after him. Soon the dog was safely in Rob’s grasp and hauled up the ladder to dry ground.
We currently have over 3,000 locations in our database where animals have been reported hiding under porches and homes. Many are still out there. Around corners. In sewers. On ledges. In the woods. If not us, who will hear them? Please volunteer your time and heart for animals in New Orleans…
www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters/gulfcoast/newsletters/12_14_05.html
PHOTO: Original ARNO co-founders David Meyer, Pia Salk and Jane Garrison with Jessica Higgins and Eric Rice in NOLA.
PHOTO: (from Cadi Schiffer) The morning meetings at ARNO’s compound at Magazine and Felicity in NOLA.
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2006 GULF COAST Animal Disaster Aid – In Pictures & Words:
www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters/gulfcoast/newsletters/default06.html
3/1/06, Excerpt From Local Leaders Build Future For NOLA Animals:
VOLUNTEER FOR ARNO
Animal Rescue New Orleans, 504-571-1900; ar-no [at] cox.net
www.animalrescueneworleans.org
If you live near New Orleans or want to travel to New Orleans and to help, please consider volunteering for Animal Rescue New Orleans. The ARNO food water program is a network of volunteers who replenish cat and dog feeding station in Orleans, St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parish. Field feeders sustain abandoned animals stranded in the field and document their movements. This enables ARNO to coordinate trapping, rescue, and Trap-Neuter-Return efforts. Field data from food/water volunteers helps reunite pets with their people or place them in loving homes.
There are currently more than 4,000 feeding stations in the devastated areas of the parishes of Orleans, St Bernard and Plaquemines.
www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters/gulfcoast/newsletters/4_13_06.html#4
www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters/gulfcoast/newsletters/3_1_06.html
2007 — RESIDENT-RUN ARNO STILL NEEDS LOCAL/VISITING VOLUNTEERS
For Katrina-Related Animal Aid: www.animalrescueneworleans.org
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6/17/06, Louisiana Pet Evacuation Bill Awaits Governor Blanco’s Signature: Louisiana’s Pet Evacuation Bill passed out of the House Appropriations Committee and successfully made its way through the legislative process. Rep. Steve Scalise wrote to Shannon Moore’s mother, Jennie Adams: “I appreciate your passion to pass this piece of legislation and agree that it will be very important to have a pet evacuation plan in place in the event that we need to have any evacuations in the future. That is also why I agreed to co-author this bill…”
Cathy Wells, wellsc [at] legis.state.la.us, writes: “We all know that if it was not for the emails, letters, and phone calls, the bill would not have had the success it does… I know Shannon is smiling.”
www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters/gulfcoast/newsletters/6_17_06.html#1
Shannon Moore, July 22, 1969 ~ May 31, 2006
PHOTO: Shannon petting a dog at Pet March Rally in Baton Rouge, LA.
photo: Todd Denson/La. Senate.
PHOTO: Shannon’s love.
www.flickr.com/photos/yepitsme770/sets/72157594155834244/
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2007 GULF COAST Animal Disaster Aid – In Pictures & Words:
www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters/gulfcoast/newsletters/default.html
February-March 2007, Excerpt From New Orleans Now – A Place Between Hope And Despair: From February 16-22, 2007, Kinship Circle traveled to New Orleans to aid Katrina affected animals… A wheat-colored dog races toward our vehicle at 1400 Montegut and N. Villere Street. A curious Shepherd mix follows. Behind them, a graying man in rumpled shirt and jeans approaches. He wants to talk. It’s been nearly two years since Hurricane Katrina leveled his Chalmette, Louisiana home.
He lives in a makeshift room in his commercial warehouse in the Upper Ninth Ward. When Louisiana State Police tried to evacuate him after Katrina, the man refused to desert Buddy and Baby Girl.
“I have no wife, no children,” he explains. “These dogs are my family.”
PHOTO: Kinship Circle, Ninth Ward, New Orleans
An officer aimed his gun at Baby Girl, forcing the man to leave or watch his dog die. He quickly confined both dogs to an upper level, with self-dispensing food and water. Floodwaters rose eight feet beneath the dogs. But the man managed to sneak back into the city to retrieve them. “We still live in this ‘temporary’ warehouse apartment,” he confides. “The insurance company I had for 18 years didn’t come through for us.”
As Katrina’s two-year anniversary nears, Gulf Coast recovery progresses unhurriedly. Rejuvenation of infrastructure, debris pileup, demolished structures, levees and wetlands remains tangled in red tape.
In the Ninth Ward west, where Katrina’s wrath seems frozen in empty doorsteps and board-covered windows, occasional new homes rise from rubble. Two black cats dart between dilapidated buildings and overgrown lawns…
www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters/nola_now.html
PHOTO: Kinship Circle, by Barb Dunsmore in Upper 9th Ward
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8/29/07, Forwarded By Karen O’Toole, Cougy [at] aol.com — I have my candles on as a memorial to all pets who died there, or were later killed in the overcrowded system where they found no homes to take them in. Or they’re still searching for their owners. And poor owners still searching for them.
This came regarding a Katrina owner recently. My candle is on for Joffee and all the others like him, and their lost families.
Greetings Everyone! It’s Joffee the Pomeranian’s 12th birthday today but unfortunately he still hasn’t been found. If anyone has any perspectives or ideas or information, please contact me anytime! Tara, his owner, has never given up hoping and searching and we know he is out there! So while you’re scanning the web, keep a big eye out for him okay. I know he wants to get home to Tara, but just doesn’t know how! Thanks, Natalie, nataliehornsby [at] comcast.net
602-549-1115 * www.karenotoole.org/
karensrescuelist [at] yahoogroups.com
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Still Loved
Forever Missed
Never Again
By Our Side, Always
Hurricane Katrina, 8/29/05 – 8/29/07
When two years equal a lifetime
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Originally posted @ www.kellygarbato.com/blog/2007-08-30-2/
Filed under: Animals, Current Events, Hurricane Katrina — Kelly @ August 30, 2007 6:54 pm
