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—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: 1 Kinship Circle
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 10:52 AM
Subject: Dec. 16-18: NOLA/Locate Your Lost Katrina Pet! For RESCUERS & GUARDIANS

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RESPOND TO DIRECTLY TO BEST FRIENDS: kathim [at] bestfriends.org

Dear Friends and Fellow Rescuers,

It’s confirmed! Best Friends is hosting a “Locate Your Lost Katrina Pet” event in New Orleans from December 16-18.

As you know, several thousand families are still searching for the pets they lost in the hurricanes. Unfortunately, it has been very difficult, even impossible, for them to navigate all of the available resources.

This event will allow pet guardians to search in one place for their pets before the extended foster periods expire. We will set up banks of computers and give families the opportunity to work with reunion specialists to search for their pets – on a first come/first served basis.

We hope you and your databases will join us!

WHAT TO BRING:
* Your Katrina Pet databases & hardcopy records that supplement the information provided on Petfinder
* A representative(s) of your organization knowledgeable and proficient in using these records
* Laptops with wireless capability

We also need people who are very proficient in using the Petfinder database, as computers will be available for the public to use in their search. We welcome those reunion specialists who have successfully been reuniting Katrina pets with their families to join us.

This event will be publicized in the New Orleans area on WWL Radio, which has a very wide-reaching audience. We are also developing other media opportunities.

WHERE:
Garden District Hotel
2203 St. Charles Avenue (corner of Jackson and St. Charles Avenues)
New Orleans, LA 70130
University Conference Room
For reservations, call: 504-566-1200
*Mention Best Friends to get discounted room rates.*

Rates: www.gardendistricthotel.com/specials.html

WHEN:
Friday, December 16 - 10am - 6pm
Saturday, December 17 - 10am - 6pm
Sunday, December 18 - 1pm - 6pm

Free parking in the rear of the hotel
Airport Shuttle available - $10 per person per trip each way
The Hampton Inn and Quality Inn are down the street. Their rates may be lower, but availability may be limited.

CONTACT:
Kathi McDermott, Community Program Manager
Best Friends Animal Society
5001 Angel Canyon Road, Kanab, Utah 84741
435-644-3965 X4406; kathim [at] bestfriends.org
www.bestfriends.org

Please let me know how many representatives your organization will send to participate in this event.

Thank you for your support and for all you are doing to help the displaced pets of Katrina.

PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO SENDER
RESPOND TO DIRECTLY TO BEST FRIENDS: kathim [at] bestfriends.org

A better world through kindness to animals

—– Original Message —–
From: DawnWatch – news [at] dawnwatch.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 4:15 PM
Subject: DawnWatch: Huge spread on Katrina animals in San Francisco Chronicle 11/29/05

The Tuesday, November 29, San Francisco Chronicle has a huge spread (over 3000 words and many photos) headed, “The dogs of New Orleans. After all the human tragedy, pets left behind were an afterthought — except to a pack of determined rescuers.”
The front page of the paper has a caption and photo pointing to the story, which is on the cover of the Datebook section. (Pg E1)

The article is by Joyce Maynard, who tells us she is a good friend of Susan Kay, a rescuer covered in the story, who spent time in November rescuing animals in New Orleans.

The article is beautiful — it moved me to tears in parts. I highly recommend reading the whole piece on line at:
sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/11/29/DDGSUFU2A074.DTL

To summarize:

It lets us know that…

“Eleven weeks after Hurricane Katrina hit the gulf, the floodwaters had long since receded. Most of the TV crews had packed up and moved on.” But, “Despite the many weeks of rescue efforts, thousands of dogs and cats whose owners had been forced to leave them behind during the evacuation remained. Now they were roaming the streets. In the scale of everything else that had taken place in this devastated region, the plight of people’s pets might seem insignificant, but not to anyone who ever loved a dog or a cat.”

Regarding the numbers who have died:

“No clear count of the deaths has been made, but estimates suggest that well over 100,000 pets perished in the aftermath of Katrina. Approximately 8,500 animals have been rescued and 1,200 reunited with owners.”

We read:

“The Humane Society of the United States and Louisiana’s Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have taken a combined $40 million to date. But in a move that baffled many animal rights advocates, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco announced on Nov. 8 the discontinuation of the state’s policy — initiated during the crisis — of allowing out-of-state veterinarians to offer assistance. Blanco’s announcement is in line with the position of a number of official agencies in New Orleans: that the crisis is over. LASPCA has announced plans to discontinue its animal rescue operation, theorizing animals could not be alive in homes after so much time.”

But the group of rescuers in the region are still finding starving dogs and cats that need attention.

We get personal information about rescuer Susan Kay’s initial volunteer experience:

“Kay, 50, is the kind of animal lover who feels the pain of a suffering animal on her own nerve endings — someone who can’t attend a movie or read a novel in which a dog dies. In the first days after Katrina, she had offered herself as a volunteer with numerous animal rights groups, but the word came back from the Louisiana SPCA and others that, except for highly trained rescue workers and vets, volunteers were not needed.”

But eventually, thanks to pleas circulating from people volunteering in New Orleans, she got word that she was very much needed and got on a plane.

We learn from the article that ‘Best Friends,’ the group that runs the huge sanctuary based in Utah, is still in the area providing refuge for animals at a shelter in Tylertown. Perhaps the upside of ‘Best Friends’ being the only major group left there is that Best Friends is strictly ‘no kill’ — so rescuers need not worry that they are bringing animals to a place that will kill them or transport them to other shelters that will.
(Check out www.BestFriends.org)

The San Francisco Chronicle article is packed with touching personal stories and anecdotes. I think you will enjoy reading it. If you do, please send an appreciative note to the San Francisco Chronicle. The paper takes letters at letters [at] sfchronicle.com and advises, “Please limit your letters to 200 or fewer words … shorter letters have a better chance of being selected for publication.”

You can keep up-to-date on the New Orleans rescue efforts at www.animalrescueneworleans.com

Yours and the animals’,
Karen Dawn

(DawnWatch is an animal advocacy media watch that looks at animal issues in the media and facilitates one-click responses to the relevant media outlets. You can learn more about it, and sign up for alerts at www.DawnWatch.com. To unsubscribe, go to www.DawnWatch.com/unsubscribe.php. If you forward or reprint DawnWatch alerts, please do so unedited — leave DawnWatch in the title and include this tag line.)

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—– Original Message —–
From: In Defense of Animals
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 3:03 PM
Subject: Writing Alert: The dogs of New Orleans

Congratulations to volunteer writer Melanie Baker McCain whose letter to the editor of the Omaha World-Herald regarding fur was published.

The San Francisco Chronicle ran an article about the ongoing efforts of rescuers in the post-hurricane Gulf Coast area. Please write a letter to the editor of The Chronicle reiterating the urgency of the situation. Send letters to letters [at] sfchronicle.com.

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Click here to read “The dogs of New Orleans” online:
sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/29/DDGSUFU2A074.DTL

Excerpt from

The dogs of New Orleans
After all the human tragedy, pets left behind were an afterthought — except to a pack of determined rescuers

Joyce Maynard, Special to The Chronicle
Tuesday, November 29, 2005

New Orleans — It was 10:30 p.m. and in this part of town, as in so many others, electricity had not yet been restored. The only light in the abandoned neighborhood came from the headlights of a car and from the single thing that hadn’t changed in this devastated landscape, the moon.

Here in the Ninth Ward, where old paper bags and empty cans blew down the middle of the street like tumbleweeds in the desert, it looked as though nuclear winter had set in. The streets were bleak and eerie, devoid of any sign of human habitation. In the distance: the sound of barking dogs.

Susan Kay — a good friend of this reporter for more than two years — had come from a comfortable home in Ross, shared with her son, Jeffrey, and their two dogs, in response to an emergency e-mail she had received from Jane Garrison, founder of AnimalRescueNewOrleans.com (ARNO). There was a crisis going on still, the e-mail said, but this one possessed none of the drama of a levee crashing down or looters in the streets, and those most affected weren’t giving interviews. They were animals.

Eleven weeks after Hurricane Katrina hit the gulf, the floodwaters had long since receded. Most of the TV crews had packed up and moved on. Evacuated families — by no means all, but some — were straggling back from Texas and Alabama and a thousand other places, to find the little that was left of their former lives in Louisiana. But huge sections of the city remained uninhabitable.

By humans, at least. Despite the many weeks of rescue efforts, thousands of dogs and cats whose owners had been forced to leave them behind during the evacuation remained. Now they were roaming the streets. In the scale of everything else that had taken place in this devastated region, the plight of people’s pets might seem insignificant, but not to anyone who ever loved a dog or a cat.

“There was this dog on the roof of a car,” said Pia Salk, one of the founders of ARNO. “As long as I live I will never forget the sound of him, howling all night.”

In the first weeks after the storm, volunteers had gone door-to-door looking for animals whose owners, thinking they’d return in a few days, had shut them inside houses and apartments. Later, the volunteers started bringing animals to makeshift shelters, and when there was no place left to put them, they brought food to the houses, hoping to keep people’s pets alive until the owners could make it back. Sometimes the volunteers got there in time, sometimes not.

“In the beginning,” Garrison said, “I’d walk down the street calling out, ‘puppy puppy,’ and there’d be dogs barking back to me from all up and down the street. But as time passed, there was less of that, and a lot more dead animals.”

No clear count of the deaths has been made, but estimates suggest that well over 100,000 pets perished in the aftermath of Katrina. Approximately 8,500 animals have been rescued and 1,200 reunited with owners.

The Humane Society of the United States and Louisiana’s Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have taken a combined $40 million to date. But in a move that baffled many animal rights advocates, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco announced on Nov. 8 the discontinuation of the state’s policy — initiated during the crisis — of allowing out-of-state veterinarians to offer assistance. Blanco’s announcement is in line with the position of a number of official agencies in New Orleans: that the crisis is over.

LASPCA has announced plans to discontinue its animal rescue operation, theorizing animals could not be alive in homes after so much time. And in mid-November, following several days of informal assessment of the city’s animal population, LASPCA held a press conference to say that the number of animals on the streets had been inflated by rescue groups. Only trained animal rescue workers were needed, said LASPCA Director Laura Maloney, adding that “people who have worked in disasters say there is a psychological effect, where some people have a hard time letting go.”

Outraged animal rescue workers, who’d been on the scene for weeks, told a different story.

“You won’t see many animals during the day, because they’re scared and traumatized, but they come out at night,” said Garrison. “They’re everywhere, and they’re starving.”

Kay, 50, is the kind of animal lover who feels the pain of a suffering animal on her own nerve endings — someone who can’t attend a movie or read a novel in which a dog dies. In the first days after Katrina, she had offered herself as a volunteer with numerous animal rights groups, but the word came back from the Louisiana SPCA and others that, except for highly trained rescue workers and vets, volunteers were not needed.

Like many people living in places far from the reach of the hurricane, Kay, an art dealer, had studied the images of the disaster on television and in the papers, and felt helpless and frustrated and then depressed by her inability to make a meaningful contribution. She’d written checks to Katrina relief organizations, but none of that was the same as being there.

It wasn’t that she saw the situation of people stranded or homeless as less worthy, but the helplessness of animals, the authorities’ refusal to allow their owners to take them away when the floods were coming and the picture of their struggle to survive — in some cases, actually swimming alongside the boats carrying their owners away — had given Kay nightmares since the evacuation began.

“I keep imagining my dogs without me,” Kay said. “I had to do something, so when I got the word I was needed, I got right on the plane.”

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Please visit idausa.org/katrina for more information on IDA’s hurricane relief and rescue efforts.

Letters should be less than 200 words. Please do not send attachments and please remember to include your full name, address, and phone number (for verification purposes–street names and phone numbers will not be published) and not to use any wording in this alert.

Thanks and good luck!

Sincerely,
Kristie Phelps
Campaigns and Communications Manager

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—– Original Message —–
From: DawnWatch - news [at] dawnwatch.com
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 5:20 PM
Subject: DawnWatch: New York Times on media coverage of Katrina animal disaster 11/28/05

The Monday, November 28, New York Times has an article in the business section (Pg C12) headed, “Another Hurricane Side Effect: Some Soul-Searching About the Pet Coverage.”

DawnWatch is featured in the piece:

“Karen Dawn, who runs the animal advocacy Web site DawnWatch.com, argues that while the pet press became news-astute with Hurricane Katrina, the rest of the media is still struggling to become pet-aware. ‘Public policy is way out of touch with how people feel about their animals, and I think the media is too,’ she said.

“While many news outlets initially shied away from reporting on the fate of pets, perhaps fearing it would trivialize the storm’s human tragedy, Ms. Dawn pointed out in a Sept. 10 op-ed article in The Washington Post
(www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/09/AR2005090901824.html) that human and pet tolls were inextricably linked.”

The New York Times article then refers to the Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act, or PETS Act. (See community.hsus.org/campaign/pets_act_house/explanation)

And it includes a wonderful quote from Roy Peter Clark, vice president of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, who says that news organizations should get someone to cover pets because “It’s one of the things that people talk about most, and talk about most with strangers.”

You’ll find the whole article on line at: www.nytimes.com/2005/11/28/business/28pets.html

It presents a great opportunity for letters to the editor calling for more coverage of animal issues! The New York Times takes letters at letters [at] nytimes.com

Always include your full name, address, and daytime phone number when sending a letter to the editor. Shorter letters are more likely to be published.

Yours and the animals’,
Karen Dawn

—– Original Message —–
From: DawnWatch - news [at] dawnwatch.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 2:32 PM
Subject: DawnWatch: USA Today, Animal Planet, and Best Friends petition, on Katrina animals 11/23/05

The Wednesday, November 23 edition of USA Today has an article headed, ” Katrina pets, owners reunite; ‘For people who lost so much, this is important’” on page 15 D.

On the web version of the story, USA Today also has a box announcing:

“USA TODAY Live, the television arm of USA TODAY, has produced a TV special on owners reuniting with their pets after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Animal Planet Heroes: Hurricane Reunions premieres Saturday at 8 p.m. ET on the Animal Planet channel.”

You can find out more about that November 27 show on the following page, which has links to other Katrina Animal Disaster information:
animal.discovery.com/features/katrina/katrina.html

If you enjoy the show, please make sure to send an appreciative comment to Animal Planet. Go to extweb.discovery.com/ViewerRelations and follow the instructions. When the pull-down menu offers a list of program titles you will need to choose “other.” Then on the next page choose “General Question/Comment” and then enter your comments about the Animal Planet Feature on the Katrina Disaster.

The USA Today article tells us that the task of reuniting rescued animals with their human families “has proven logistically challenging because so many pet owners have been relocated far from home and their pets have been shipped to local animal groups all over the country.

It gives a typical example of a man separated from his animals:

“The helicopter crew told the man he could take ‘one thing of value with him,’ she says. What he took was his cats. When he was told to board a bus for Houston, he was not allowed to bring them along and had to hand them over to an animal-rescue worker.”

We read:

“The Humane Society of the United States (hsus.org) has helped facilitate more than 1,200 reunions between people and their pets, says president Wayne Pacelle. Other groups are doing the same, often posting photos and descriptive information on their websites or on two national sites, petfinder.com and petharbor.com.

The article says that the reunions are “being accomplished in various ways.”:

“The HSUS and ASPCA are paying to fly displaced animals to wherever their owners are living. Best Friends Animal Society (bestfriends.org), which has had 217 reunions at its Tylertown, Miss., emergency shelter, also is sending animals to owners by car….
The ASPCA is offering $500 grants to local shelters for each reunion as a way to encourage them to hold on to displaced animals and to reimburse them for their costs.”

Not mentioned in the article is that yesterday, Best Friends put a petition on line in order to “urge the national humane organizations to use all the resources and funds that were donated to the hurricane relief effort to ensure that animals still surviving on the streets of the Gulf region are rescued and cared for.”

The petition suggests:

“This would include:
– Providing volunteers to continue rescuing displaced pets still alive on the streets
– Providing staging areas to get them to safety
– Conducting a national adoption drive for all animals not reclaimed by their families.”

There is some concern as to how the tens of millions of dollars raised by the national humane organizations during Katrina disaster are being spent. You can learn more about the still desperate situation in the disaster area and sign the petition at: tinyurl.com/9q6ee

It may encourage the transparency sought by many in the animal advocacy community, which will surely benefit all.

The USA Today article presents a good opportunity for letters to the editor in support of the PETS Act (see community.hsus.org/campaign/pets_act_house/explanation) and against FEMA, and particularly Red Cross, no-pet policies, over which there is currently no government control. The PETS Act does not seem to address the latter.

You can read the full article on line at www.usatoday.com/life/2005-11-22-katrina-pet-reunions_x.htm

USA Today takes letters at: tinyurl.com/cee7y

Yours and the animals’,
Karen Dawn

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: 1 Kinship Circle ; 2 Kinship Circle
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 3:48 PM
Subject: *Need for Katrina Fosters Is Ongoing*

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 www.bestfriends.org/HF/FO.cfm

If you are an individual who can foster a left-behind companion animal 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: kathim [at] bestfriends.org

FOR ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS, INFORMATION ABOUT FOSTERING KATRINA ANIMALS:
Karla Osbeck: 310-800-7011
ARNO_exports [at] yahoo.com, vixey23j [at] yahoo.com

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UPDATE FROM THE FIELD

11/16/05: 50 Cats Rescued from Bulldozer
Animal Rescue New Orleans (ARNO) and Alley Cat Allies
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 FEMAOPA [at] dhs.gov, (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 this trailer park.

Alley Cat Allies needs cat caregivers at the base camp in Bogalusa. Please email Bonney Brown if you can help at bbrown [at] alleycat.org.

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.

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HURRICANE ALERTS COMPILED BY:

GRASSROOTS EFFORT
FOR ANIMALS OF THE STORM

KINSHIP CIRCLE
info [at] kinshipcircle.org
Brenda Shoss, Information & Volunteer Coordinator:
(desk) 314-863-9445; (cell) 314-795-2646
7380 Kingsbury Blvd.; Saint Louis, MO 63130
www.kinshipcircle.org

ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION (ARF)
ggnu [at] bellsouth.net
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
www.animalrescuemobile.org

—– Original Message —–
From: - DawnWatch - news [at] dawnwatch.com
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 8:19 PM
Subject: DawnWatch: Katrina animal stories in, and coming up on, major media. 11/14/05

The Katrina animal disaster is also much in the news today, Monday, November 14. The New York Times has a large story on the wealth of donations to animal groups. The Chicago Tribune, almost sadly ironical, has a story telling us that Jane Garrison is still desperate for volunteers. Friday’s (Nov 11) Houston Chronicle had a front page story also on the Katrina animal donations. And a recent story on the MSNBC website pointed to the continuing trauma caused by FEMA’s no-pet policies, for example no-pet polices in the mobile homes FEMA has provided for those that the hurricanes have left homeless.
This alert also notes specials coming up on Animal Planet and PBS.

The New York Times story is headed, “An Outpouring for Other Victims, the Four-Legged Kind.” (Pg F.24)

It opens:

“While the outpouring of donations for the human victims of Hurricane Katrina was overwhelming, even more remarkable were the tens of millions raised to help their pets.

“The Humane Society of the United States received the largest amount, more than $20 million, said Wayne Pacelle, the society’s president and chief executive. ‘It was off the charts,’ he said.

“Other animal welfare groups also generated large sums. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals took in $13 million, and the American Humane Association received $1.6 million, although neither group’s main mission is disaster response. Another group, Noah’s Wish, which was founded three years ago to serve that purpose, raised $5 million.

“Terri Crisp, the founder and director of Noah’s Wish, said that the news media’s intense focus on animals for the six-week-long duration of the rescue effort was critical in galvanizing sympathetic donors. Typically, she said, animals are stranded for just a few days, far less time to win public attention.

”’Anytime they would see a dog on a roof, people’s hearts went out, and they just wanted to make sure they got help,’ Ms. Crisp said.”

On that note, I send a whole-hearted thank you to anybody who sent a note to the media asking for coverage of the animal issue, or in appreciation when they saw animal coverage. You made a difference.

The article discusses the “range of purposes” on which HSUS used the money. You can read the whole article on line at: www.nytimes.com/2005/11/14/giving/14animal.html

The Houston Chronicle’s Friday, November 11 story on the same topic, headed, “Faces of Fido, Fluffy stirred folks to give” can be found on line at www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/special/05/katrina/3453906

The Monday November 14 Chicago Tribune piece, by Maureen Ryan, headed, “More dog days in New Orleans” plugs an Animal Planet special that will air on November 26 and also advertises the continuing need for volunteers in New Orleans. It is brief, so I will paste it here:

“On ‘Animal Planet Heroes: Hurricane Reunions,’ a big, burly resident of New Orleans recounts how he had to leave his dog behind when he escaped the flooded city. In the middle of his story, he stops. Tears come; the memory is too painful.

“There’s a happy ending to this tale; he was reunited with his beloved dog on the special, which airs Nov. 26.

“Readers may be amazed to learn animals are still being rescued in New Orleans, where thousands were made homeless by the storm.

“‘Just last week, we rescued a cat named Tigger,’ says one of the special’s stars, Jane Garrison, an animal rescuer who has been in the city for two months. ‘The cat was between the floorboards and the insulation. These animals have such an incredible will to live.’

“Though 9,000 animals have been rescued in New Orleans, the task of rescuing and feeding the thousands of animals that are still homeless is ‘daunting,’ Garrison says.

“‘These animals can’t even find a drop of rain to quench their thirst. We have to do food drops to keep them alive, but the volunteer base has dropped drastically,’ Garrison says. She refers anyone who wants to help to www.animalrescueneworleans.com.
(END OF TRIBUNE PIECE)

The situation in New Orleans changes frequently, with recent reports suggesting that the state is blocking animal rescuers. However Jane’s site gives contact information for volunteer coordinators who will be abreast of the situation and can tell you how you can shore up that drastically dropping volunteer base.

A piece on the MSNBC.com website, headed, “Shaggy survivors hanging on after Katrina — Rescuers are still finding pets - starving but alive - in New Orleans” describes the desperate state of the animals still alive in New Orleans. In describing the plight of a Vietnam veteran who hopes to be reunited with his dogs who were rescued by ‘Best Friends,’ (www.BestFriends.org) the article gives us important information about FEMA policy, as related by Michael Mountain, president of Best Friends:

“Gary is going to be getting or may already have a mobile home from FEMA, but they have one of those no-pets rules, so he can’t take the dogs back at this point. We’ll be hanging onto his dogs until he can get out of the trailer and make other arrangements.”

A bill in the legislature, the Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act, or PETS Act, would mandate states and municipalities to provide evacuation plans for pets and service animals in order to qualify for FEMA funding. You can find out more about that bill, and even send a letter to your representatives in support of it, at the HSUS website at community.hsus.org/campaign/pets_act_house/explanation and sign a petition in support of it at go.care2.com/e/gfO/bR/oco4

The MSNBC article suggests, however, that it is not only states’ policies, but FEMA policies, that must change.

You can read the full MSNBC article on line at www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9900273/
At the bottom of the page is a place where you can “rate this article.” High ratings from many readers will encourage more animal friendly coverage. Please take a moment to rate the story.

Finally, PBS will air a special on Sunday, November 20, 8pm ET (check local listings) on Katrina Animal Rescue. You’ll find the press release at: www.thirteen.org/pressroom/release.php?get=1778

If you enjoy the show, please make sure to thank PBS. The station takes comments at:
www.thirteen.org/homepage/contact.html

The stories cited above present opportunities for letters to the editor on various companion animal issues. You may wish to write in support of the PETS Act, or against FEMA and Red Cross “no pet” policies. Or, if reading about the attention paid to the animals affected by Katrina makes you feel for the millions of other animals who will be killed in the US this year for lack of homes, you can use these stories as jump-off points for letters to the editor on the joys of adoption and the importance of spay-neuter legislation.

The New York Times takes letters at letters [at] nytimes.com.

The Houston Chronicle takes letters at viewpoints [at] chron.com and advises, “Letters, 250 words or less to be considered for publication, must include the name, full home address and daytime and evening telephone numbers for verification purposes only.”
The Chicago Tribune takes letters at tinyurl.com/4lsug.

I send another big thank you to all who have volunteered, and all who have done something to encourage media attention on the animals and the families that are devastated by their loss, and to those who write letters on behalf of the companion animals currently awaiting death in shelters.

Yours and the animals’,
Karen Dawn

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: 1 Kinship Circle
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 7:49 PM
Subject: LETTER/ Louisiana Ban Stalls Rescue As Animals Starve

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11/11/05–Louisiana Ban Stalls Rescue As Animals Starve
KINSHIP CIRCLE LETTER CAMPAIGN
www.kinshipcircle.org

SOURCE OF INFORMATION:
Jane Garrison, www.AnimalRescueNewOrleans.com
Alley Cat Allies, action.alleycat.org
Clare Davis, katrinacatrescue [at] yahoo.com

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SAMPLE LETTER & CONTACT INFO
Press release follows
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Governor Kathleen Blanco
Office of the Governor
P.O. Box 94004; Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70804-9004
ph: 866-366-1121; 225-342-0991; 225-342-7015
fax: 225-342-7099
web email: www.managekeelson.com/websites/la.gov/index.cfm?md=form&tmp=home&cfmid=146

Dr. Maxwell Lea, Jr., State Veterinarian
Office of Animal Health Services, Louisiana Department of Agriculture & Forestry
P.O. Box 1951; Baton Rouge, LA 70821-1951
office: 225-925-3980; fax: 225-925-4103
email: mlea [at] ldaf.state.la.us, maxwel_l [at] ldaf.state.la.us, info [at] ldaf.state.la.us
website: www.ldaf.state.la.us

Dr. Martha A. Littlefield, Assistant State Veterinarian
Office of Animal Health Services, Louisiana Department of Agriculture & Forestry
P.O. Box 1951; Baton Rouge, LA 70821-1951
wk: 225-925-3980; desk: 225-935-2168; fax: 225-237-5555
email: malc [at] ldaf.state.la.us

CC: Bob Odin, Commissioner, Louisiana Department of Agriculture & Forestry
bobodom [at] ldaf.state.la.us

Dear Governor Blanco, Dr. Lea, and Dr. Littlefield:

I respectfully request the continuation of Executive Order KBB 2005-35, which allows licensed veterinarians from other states to temporarily practice in Louisiana. Although this order was extended one month under KBB 2005-43, its October 25 termination means incoming veterinarians risk jail time and fines.

In essence, the Louisiana Governor, under advisement from the Assistant State Veterinarian, has told relief workers to go home. The state’s unrealistic grasp of the animal crisis overlooks thousands of companion animals still fending for themselves in the aftermath of Katrina and Rita.

Some burrow under broken homes or linger in debris-filled yards. Starving dogs roam in packs in St. Bernard Parish, a hard hit area with no functional animal control system.

New Orleans’ existing stray population now includes displaced pets, many unsterilized and set to yield even more homeless puppies and kittens. One study shows a dog and her young can produce 67,000 puppies in six years. A cat and her litter can create 420,000 kittens in seven years.

The beleaguered LA SPCA, head of animal control in Orleans Parish, simply doesn’t possess the people power or accommodations to feed, trap, and shelter this many animals.

With guardian requests to save lost animals still pouring in, a ban on any out-of-state animal relief workers is an affront to hurricane victims as well as animals.

In early November, rescuers discovered two dead cats alongside empty food and water bowls. A third died alone on a barren porch. These animals survived hurricane and flood only to succumb to starvation. There are many more like them, some huddled under structures slated for demolition. Local animal control agencies cannot manage this emergency situation alone.

Rather than turn down outside aid, please embrace out-of-state rescue organizations and veterinarians willing to devote their time and skills to Louisiana’s animals. Let’s work toward a common goal: Saving animals and reuniting them with their families.

Thank you,

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Claire Davis
(435) 899-1231
KatrinaCatRescue [at] yahoo.com

State of Louisiana blocks animal rescue while thousands of pets face starvation in New Orleans

Bogalusa, Louisiana, November 8, 2005–Two animal rescue groups are issuing a call for the state of Louisiana to stop blocking attempts to save the thousands of sick, injured, and traumatized dogs and cats who still wander the streets of New Orleans.

The state has announced that the Hurricane Katrina rescue phase is over. Out-of-state veterinarians are banned from volunteering their services on behalf of the animals of greater New Orleans. Rescuers have been threatened with arrest if they attempt to give food and water to animals in Orleans Parish. Outside rescue groups are told they should turn all operations over to local authorities and leave the state.

Meanwhile, the pets who survived Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath are dying on the streets -sometimes right next to food and water bowls that the handful of remaining rescuers couldn’t fill in time.

AnimalRescueNewOrleans.com and Alley Cat Allies (www.alleycat.org/) are calling for the state to reverse its course and accept outside help in the form of veterinarians and more volunteers.

“We are literally seeing animals on the streets starving to death,” says Jane Garrison, director of AnimalRescueNewOrleans.com, one of a handful of rescue organizations still in the city. “We need more volunteers to feed and water the thousands of traumatized animals still on the streets, we need to keep trapping animals so we can reunite them with their guardians, and we need a massive spay/neuter program.”

Garrison coordinated the animal rescue program for six weeks as a volunteer for the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). Since HSUS pulled out October 1st, she has been running her own program. With a steadily dwindling force of volunteers, Garrison races against time trying to provide food and water at more than 2,000 sites in the New Orleans area, as well as fielding a constant stream of owner rescue requests.

“Many of these animals are people’s companions who escaped their homes when doors and windows blew open. It would be completely unethical to allow them to die on the streets,” she says. The state claims that local authorities can handle the problem, but rescuers on the ground know this is not the case. One of the hardest hit areas, St. Bernard Parish, has no active animal control agency or functioning animal shelter. The Louisiana SPCA, in charge of animal control in Orleans Parish, does not have anywhere close to the staff, space, or resources required to address a problem of this magnitude.

As bad as the situation is now, in a few months it will be even worse. Despite the horrific conditions, the dogs and cats on the streets are still breeding, and rescuers are starting to see puppies and kittens born after Katrina. Statistics show that one unspayed female cat and her offspring can produce more than 59,000 cats in five years.

“If the state government doesn’t allow us to feed, treat, and find homes for the thousands of animals struggling to survive now, it is in for a rude awakening the beginning of next year,” says Becky Robinson, national director of Alley Cat Allies (ACA). “The number of free-roaming cats and dogs will be devastating.”

ACA, a national cat advocacy group now running a cat rescue operation from a base in Bogalusa, Louisiana, has plans for an immediate, large-scale spay/neuter program for the street cats of New Orleans. This program requires the services of about a dozen veterinarians experienced with high-volume surgery. Many out-of-state vets have offered their services, free of charge.

But the state of Louisiana is standing in the way. Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco, acting on advice from Assistant State Veterinarian Martha Littlefield, has refused to extend an executive order giving out-of-state veterinarians permission to practice in Louisiana. That order expired October 25. Any out-of-state vet practicing in the area now would do so at the risk of jail time and thousands of dollars in fines.

Despite the state’s claims that local veterinarians can fulfill the need, ACA has been unable to find local vets who can provide consistent care for the cats housed at its temporary shelter, let alone enough to conduct the type of large-scale spay/neuter program that is so desperately needed.

“This nation’s animal rescue community can help Louisiana meet this crisis if the state will simply acknowledge the problem still exists and allow us to work,” Robinson says. “This is not only humane and ethical; it is in everyone’s best interest.”

For more information, please contact Claire Davis at (435) 899-1231 or KatrinaCatRescue [at] yahoo.com, or visit www.alleycat.org/ and www.animalrescueneworleans.com/.

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—– Original Message —–
From: Satya Magazine
To: Recipient List Suppressed:
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 4:55 PM
Subject: SATYA’s November Issue Available–Katrina’s Left Behind and Forgotten

The November Issue of SATYA is now available!
See highlights at: www.satyamag.com

Katrina’s Left Behind and Forgotten

On the cover: The animals who lived in New Orleans are among the most needy victims of Hurricane Katrina. Photo by Pia Salk of 1-800-Save-a-pet.com.

This issue of Satya seeks to honor and acknowledge all the lives lost, disrupted, and displaced by Hurricane Katrina, and profile those working on their behalf. Click here to read more: www.satyamag.com/thismonth.html

Start off with Sangamithra Iyer’s editorial, Make Disparity History, a commentary on our government’s response to Katrina and the growing gap between rich and poor.

Miyun Park shares the story of millions of farm animals who perished in Katrina but tells of The Lucky Few who were rescued. Leana Stormont explains that Help Was Never on the Way for the 8,000 lab animals at Louisiana State University, who were abandoned and left to die.

In To The Rescue! learn about Jane Garrison’s work coordinating rescue efforts for cats and dogs in New Orleans, and Long Island activist Andy Stepanian shares his Katrina DIY Animal Rescue. Hear about the efforts of Project HALO, Alley Cat Allies, and United Animal Nations, and find out how you can get involved.

Leading environmental justice scholar and New Orleans resident, Dr. Beverly Wright, shares her concerns and hopes for her city in Going Home. Janelle L. White connects the personal and the political in New Orleans and Women of Color. Kymberlie Adams Matthews expresses the concerns of women and the LGBT community in God’s Wicked City, while Sally Huffer talks about the Montrose Counseling Center’s efforts to help these communities. It’s Not Easy Being Green, but Paul Bogart of the Healthy Building Network discusses the importance of green reconstruction. And Craig Newmark, creator of Craig’s List, discusses the role of his website in the relief and recovery process.

Also, Pattrice Jones and Joshua Ploeg pay tribute to the unique music and food of New Orleans.

Plus: Christine Morrissey tells a personal and poignant story of her pal, A Turkey Named Adam. And Satya’s Vegetarian Advocate pleads for A Truly Happy Turkey Day. Restaurant Reviews of Wild Ginger and Babycakes NYC, a Film Review of Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, and Catherine Clyne responds to All this Talk about Honey.

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—– Original Message —–
From: Disa Werner
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 7:23 PM
To: Kelly Garbato
Subject: Southern Louisiana

Rescue Ranch in Plaquemines Parish is in desperate need of vets and helpers. Port Sulfur, Empire and Venise have about 200 dogs and cats and endless catlle that need to be trapped and rounded up. PLEASE help me! I have contacted EVERY organization since I have come home, and still no one has helped these animals down there. I’m begging you, please get word out.

Thank you,

Disa
845-471-4975

Rescue Ranch’s contact information is as follows:
www.rescueranch.net/

Rescue Ranch
PO box 7112
Belle Chasse, LA 70037

Telephone: (504) 393-8485

Lori Wilson, Director
e-mail: lori [at] rescueranch.net

Angela C. Gallagher, Associate Director
e-mail: angela [at] rescueranch.net

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: 1 Kinship Circle
Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 4:47 PM
Subject: Needed In N.O. - WINN DIXIE/Grass Roots Animal Rescue

WINN DIXIE / GRASS ROOTS ANIMAL RESCUE
www.grassrootsrescue.org

Please come to New Orleans. The animals need you. We foresee another five weeks of rescue in hurricane-effected areas.

The disaster response rescue formerly known as Winn Dixie has applied for a new 501c3 under the name Grass Roots Animal Rescue. Grass Roots Animal Rescue still operates from the Winn Dixie parking lot at 4600 Chef Menteur Highway in New Orleans under the leadership of Richard and Pam Crook, and a Board of Directors. While the organization is newly formed, board members have conducted animal rescue in New Orleans since September 9, 2005.

TO VOLUNTEER, CONTACT:
Laurie Wetzler: 562-696-3769, LCorral [at] AOL.com
Richard Crook: 248-939-0832

Grass Roots Animal Rescue Forum

online discussion forum with up-to-date volunteer information
www.grassrootsrescue.org/smf/

LOCATION:
Winn Dixie Marketplace Temporary Staging Area
4600 Chef Menteur Hwy (at N. Louisa Street); New Orleans, LA 70126-5011

TRAVEL & ACCOMODATIONS:
Fly into New Orleans or Baton Rouge.
Rent a vehicle with room for supplies.

LODGING: Most volunteers sleep in tents, onsite at Winn Dixie staging area.
We have tents, but may need more as volunteer base grows. Also bring sleeping bag, air mattress, or cot.

HOTELS: Some hotels in New Orleans or nearby Metairie are open.
www.traveltoday.com/hotels/Metairie/LA/USA/
www.discoverneworleans.com/hotels.html
www.expedia.com
www.priceline.com
www.hotelsanyplace.com
www.hotelkingdom.com

AMENITIES: Porto potties and camp showers onsite. Bring dry food and water that you can pack. Area restaurants are open.

VOLUNTEER NEEDS:
Winn Dixie/Grass Roots Animal Rescue provides temporary housing for displaced animals and sends search/rescue/trap teams into hurricane-effected areas. We need:

Kennel/shelter volunteers to care for rescued animals
(no experience necessary)
Search and rescue volunteers
Animal rescue professionals
(ACOs, humane trappers, veterinarians/techs)

*Volunteers must be 18 or older.

FOSTER/TRANSPORT:
Qualifications to foster our rescued animals
* 501c3 or Non-501c3 foster/shelter groups must provide proof of mission statement and references regarding no-kill policy.
* Copy of organization’s policies and procedures.
* Letter of reference from a veterinarian is recommended.
* Will also accept foster applications from individuals not affiliated with a group.
* 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.

SUPPLY NEEDS:
CONTACT FOR SUPPLIES
Laurie Wetzler: 562-696-3769, LCorral [at] AOL.com
Online supply donation form:
www.grassrootsrescue.org/sdonate.html

Crates, Plastic Vari-kennels
Dog/Cat Food; Prescription Science Diet ID (cats & dogs)
Cat Litter
Humane Large Traps
Catch Poles
Towels, Sheets, Blankets
Trucks, SUVs (for transport)
Parvo test kits
Heartworm kits
Water, Ice, Gatorade, People Food/Snacks
Cots, Air Mattresses

DIRECTIONS TO WINN-DIXIE STAGING AREA:
Take I-10 E toward Slidell
Exit at Louisa St. North
Turn left on off-ramp / under freeway
Make right at first street (Gentilly)
Take immediate left into Winn-Dixie parking lot
OR
Take I-12 East to I-10 West
Exit at Louisa Street
Off ramp takes you directly into Winn Dixie parking lot

MONETARY DONATION
Donate with a check:
Grass Roots Animal Rescue
30010 Helene Street
New Hudson, MI 48165
248-437-8791

Donate via Pay Pal:
www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr

MI incorporation: 793724
Federal Tax ID: 20-3602648
501(c)3 status pending

Grass Roots Animal Rescue is incorporated in the State of Michigan and its Federal Tax ID number is: 20-3602648. We are not affiliated with any groups, but have worked in cooperation with other organizations, including HSUS, LASPCA, Best Friends, and Noah’s Wish.

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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
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
www.animalrescuemobile.org

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Information in all alerts is verified with original sources, to the best of our ability. We cannot assume responsibility for the consequences of its use. Call or email contacts before going.
Grassroots Effort for Animals of the Storm
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—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: 1 Kinship Circle ; 2 Kinship Circle
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 10:17 PM
Subject: ANIMAL RESCUE NEW ORLEANS NEEDS YOU NOW

11/4/05: Animal Rescue New Orleans Needs You Now

www.AnimalRescueNewOrleans.com
Jane Garrison & David Meyer

UPDATE FROM THE FIELD:
Question: Are volunteers still needed in New Orleans? Answer: Desperately!

WE STILL DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH VOLUNTEERS TO SUSTAIN ANIMALS WITH FOOD/WATER UNTIL WE CAN CATCH (TRAP) THEM. They are surviving in packs or burrowing under homes, some of which may be bulldozed.

A cat cowers in the dirt under her broken home. A pack of dogs dart between shattered cars. Quick shadows. Glimpsed after dark. Now mere vestiges of their former lives.

Where once there was a home, a warm lap and kind hand… There is starvation and death for thousands of animals in the ruins of New Orleans.

November 2: We rescued an emaciated cat living amid the debris of a destroyed home. This cat was experiencing liver failure by the time we reached her. Sadly, the cat died while in transit to the emergency clinic…

These animals survived hurricanes and floods. How can we let them succumb to starvation and disease? In New Orleans Parish, the Louisiana SPCA operates with just a few officers. Nearby St. Bernard Parish has virtually no animal control.

Please reserve days, weeks—whatever you can—to help New Orleans animals.
JUST DO IT. All of your questions are answered below.

WHO DOES ANIMAL RESCUE NEW ORLEANS NEED?
1. People to help put out feeding stations.
2. People to trap dogs/cats.
3. People to transport rescued animals to Best Friends in Mississippi each evening.
4. People to transport animals to humane societies.
In other words, we need people!

HOW LONG WILL YOU BE IN NEW ORLEANS?
We need volunteers THROUGH END OF NOVEMBER INTO DECEMBER, at which time we will assess continued need and update you.

HOW DO I VOLUNTEER?

1. PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT US UNTIL YOU KNOW YOUR ARRIVE/DEPART DATES.

2. EMAIL VOLUNTEER COORDINATORS
Brenda: info [at] kinshipcircle.org or Kate: katedanaher [at] animalearthhuman.org

3. In your email, state: (PLEASE DO NOT SEND INFO MORE THAN ONCE!)

* Full name / Name of organization (if applicable)
* Street, city, state
* Cell phone, land phone
* Email address
* Brief description of experience working with animals
* ARRIVE/DEPART dates in New Orleans
* Where did you hear about us or see our alert?
info [at] KinshipCircle.org, Best Friends, ARNO website, other blog, website or list?
*When you write back, please keep our original message in the body of your email.

4. Type “HURRICANE VOLUNTEER” in the subject line of your email, or we may miss it.

5. If you are an Animal Control Officer, Veterinarian/Vet Tech, or Experienced Humane Trapper state this in subject line of email. I.E., HURRICANE VOLUNTEER: Animal Control Officer

WHERE DO I GO WHEN I GET TO NEW ORLEANS?
Attend the morning assignment meetings - 7:30 am
Corner of Magazine and Felicity Streets by empty Star Hair & Nails bldg.
Around the corner from prior location at 1823 Magazine Street.
MAPQUEST “Magazine and Felicity St.” in New Orleans.

If you arrive after 7:30 am meeting:
Call Jane Garrison 843-343-8887 for food/water assignment area.
Call Holly: 757-641-4527 or Rob Stone: 253-307-0969

WHO DO I CALL IF…
1. I’M A LOUISIANA RESIDENT. I WANT TO HELP.
CONTACT Jane Garrison: 843-343-8887, JaneGarrison [at] comcast.net

2. I’M IN NEW ORLEANS, MISSED MORNING MEETING… CAN’T FIND YOU GUYS!
CONTACT Holly: 757-641-4527 or Rob Stone: 253-307-0969

3. I CAN HELP EXPORT/TRANSPORT/FOSTER ANIMALS
CONTACT Karla Osbeck: vixey23j [at] yahoo.com or 310-800-7011

4. I WANT TO DONATE MONEY OR SUPPLIES
CONTACT Priscilla Gargalis: pgargalis [at] yahoo.com

5. I READ THE WHOLE ALERT, BUT STILL HAVE QUESTIONS
Kate Danaher: katedanaher [at] animalearthhuman.org
Brenda Shoss: info [at] kinshipcircle.org
Pia Salk: piapia [at] adelphia.net

TELL ME ABOUT TRAVEL & ACCOMODATIONS
- Fly into New Orleans or Baton Rouge.
- Rent a vehicle with room for supplies. Vans and SUVs appreciated.

CAMPING: Bring tent to camp on parking lot/small fenced yard located alongside property at 1585 Magazine Street.

HOMES: Request list of residents to contact directly, Brenda: info [at] kinshipcircle.org

FEMA TENT: (Premier Camp tent) FEMA campground with cots, laundry, food, first aid, running water, showers, etc. that volunteers may use.
1 Melvin Bernard Hwy., Chalmette, LA 70043, Off St. Bernard Highway

State you are in town for ANIMAL RESCUE NEW ORLEANS. You must sign in and sign out of the FEMA tent daily, or we may lose privileges to stay there.

HOTELS: Volunteers have told us about…
Days Inn, in Harvey ($99; sharing makes it reasonable) 504-366-8531

Quality Inn, in Gretna ($112; Two beds) 504-366-8531

Wyndham New Orleans, 504-566-7006
www.wyndham.com/hotels/MSYCP/main.wnt

AFFORDABLE TRAVEL & RIDESHARES:
Email Shanah Lia Richardson at illinoiskatrinapets [at] hotmail.com for help locating affordable travel options or rideshares.

WHAT DO ARNO VOLUNTEERS DO?
1. FEED AND WATER TEAMS: Responsible for keeping animals alive until they can be trapped. Does not require any specialized skills…just compassion and will!

2. TRAPPING TEAMS: Animal Control Officers, DVMs, Vet Techs or Individuals with Experience Trapping Animals. These volunteers are encouraged to spend at least one week in New Orleans and may submit (air, car rental, or gas) travel receipts for reimbursement. An estimate of travel expenses is required for approval.

3. RESCUE TEAMS: Rescue animals described in calls to our dispatch number as “animals in need.” Teams also comb city to pick up street animals who approach them without need to trap. Animal handling experience necessary.

WHERE DO THE ANIMALS GO?
CARE FOR CRITICAL ANIMALS
Animals unable to survive transport are brought to:
SE Veterinary Specialists, 504-219-0444
400 N. Causeway; Metairie, Louisiana

PROCEDURE FOR OTHER RESCUED ANIMALS
Other animals go to Southern Animal Foundation by 4:30 pm.
They are then transported to Best Friends in Tylertown, MS.
Southern Animal Foundation
1823 Magazine Street; New Orleans, LA 70130

WHAT DO YOU NEED & WHERE CAN I SEND SUPPLIES?
CONTACT Priscilla Gargalis: pgargalis [at] yahoo.com

SMALL SHIPMENTS TO:
ATN: Rescue Groups
Southern Animal Foundation
1823 Magazine Street
New Orleans, LA 70130

LARGE SHIPMENTS TO:
Our storage area at (Church’s parking lot) 1585 Magazine St., New Orleans, LA 70130.
PLEASE CONTACT Holly: 757-641-4527 or Rob Stone: 253-307-0969 to arrange for someone to meet you there.

WE NEED:
Dry Dog/Cat Food
ANC (pop-top) Canned Cat Food and/or Canned Mackerel (for cat/dog traps)
Fresh Water (gallon containers)
Pedialyte
Disposable Lasagna Trays or Litter Boxes (for water on the streets)
Large Plastic Dog Crates / Small Crates
Catch Poles
Humane Large Dog Traps & Cat Traps
Towels and Sheets
Cat/Dog Gloves
Car Chalk for Marking Rescue Vehicles
Gift Cards to Gas Stations / Gift Cards to Wal-Mart
Monetary Donations for Vet Care, Spay/Neuter, etc.
Vet Supplies (Lactate Ringer fluid bags & tubing), antibiotics, etc.
Bottled Water, Gatorade, Energy Bars, Snacks for Rescuers

HOW CAN I DONATE MONEY?
Make check payable to: 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com
1-800-Save-A-Pet.com / P.O. Box 7 / Redondo Beach, CA 90277
Indicate in check memo: Animal Rescue New Orleans
Donate online:
secure2.convio.net/sap/site/Donation?ACTION=SHOW_DONATION_OPTIONS&CAMPAIGN_ID=1541

Make check payable to: Jane Garrison
2294 Otranto Rd. / North Charleston, SC 29406
Indicate in check memo: Animal Rescue New Orleans

GIFT CARDS: www.walmart.com/catalog/product_listing.gsp?cat=175427
Jane can download Walmart gift cards from this site. Or, you may go to any Walmart to purchase a gift card and mail to the address above.

HURRICANE ANIMAL RESCUE SHIRTS!
acustomtshirt4u.com/1800SaveAPet
FRONT: “If I leave, they leave… In Memory of Hurricane Katrina Animals”
BACK: “Animal Rescue New Orleans. 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com”

SUGGESTED PERSONAL SUPPLIES LIST
current Hepatitis vaccinations
(Hepatitis A most important)
current Tetanus shot
pepper spray
hand sanitizer; alcohol and hydrogen peroxide
insect repellent (non- aerosol if flying)
sunscreen
first aid kits
thick “bite-proof” work gloves
sturdy, waterproof (rubber) work boots/shoes
change of shoes, extra socks, hat
long sleeve shirts, long pants (for coverage, but lightweight)
eye protection (sunglasses)
cases of dust/surgical masks
MAPS OF NEW ORLEANS
utility knife, crowbar
belt (to hang gears/supplies from)
flashlights, D batteries
cell phone & car charger
phone cards (in case cell phones don’t work)
waterproof walkie talkies helpful
toilet paper
pillows, blankets, sheets, towels
water, Gatorade, snacks
other personal-care items
cash

Come prepared to camp: tent, sleeping bag, air mattress or cot

TO SUBSCRIBE TO KINSHIP CIRCLE HURRICANE ALERTS:
Regarding Animal Rescue New Orleans with Jane Garrison, as well as other
relief efforts, send an email to info [at] kinshipcircle.org

FOR DETAILS NOT ADDRESSED IN THIS ALERT, TRY:
savinglives.1-800-save-a-pet.com/site/PageServer?pagename=KatrinaVolunteers
www.AnimalRescueNeworleans.com

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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
www.kinshipcircle.org

Grassroots Effort for Animals of the Storm
Kinship Circle * Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF)

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: 1 Kinship Circle
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 1:53 PM
Subject: Mission Katrina: MuttShack Needs Volunteers NOW!

10/30/05: Mission Katrina – MuttShack Needs Volunteers NOW!

We desperately need volunteers at our command center in New Orleans.

MuttShack Mission Katrina: To provide loving care and shelter for pets who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina. To find their guardians and reunite them with their families wherever they may be now, or have them released to loving new forever families. MuttShack is a registered 501(c)3 and 509(a)1 volunteer charitable foundation.

HOW TO VOLUNTEER
CONTACT:
Sharon Gorski: 877-727-9343; possecop [at] msn.com
Martin St John: 866-718-1001; martin [at] muttshack.org; volunteers [at] muttshack.org

MUTTSHACK LOCATION
Lake Castle School
8400 Hayne Blvd. (at corner of Crowder & Hayne)
East New Orleans, Louisiana
I-10 East (from Superdome), Exit at Crowder
Left towards Levy, On the corner

TRAVEL & ACCOMODATIONS
- Fly into New Orleans or Baton Rouge.
- Rent a vehicle with room for supplies.

- LODGING: The Lake Castle School facility is safe, clean, organized. It has been called one of the best run facilities in the region. On site sleeping accommodations can be arranged. Inquire when you call contacts listed above.

- AMENITIES: Volunteers have access to hot showers and meals (at nearby location) every night.

WHAT VOLUNTEERS WILL DO
MuttShack operates a rescue/triage/short-term care facility in East New Orleans. Ideal volunteers are prepared to stay a minimum of 5 to 7 days.

We have rescued and cared for so many animals, but there are many more that need us. We are prepared to stay in New Orleans. Please join us:

SHELTER/ANIMAL CARE WORKERS
Cattery and Dog Shelter Workers, Kennel Workers: Feed, clean cages, TLC, etc. The dogs love walks along the Lake Ponchartrain levee.

VETERINARIANS, VET TECHS
MuttShack Triage currently operates two Veterinary Clinics.

SEARCH/RESCUE PEPLE * PROFESSIONAL HUMANE TRAPPERS
Animal Rescue, Dog Trappers, Cat Trappers, Experienced Animal Control Officers, DART Certified, and Animal Behaviorists/Trainers: Urgently needed to help bring in the “runners” and animals now roaming in packs.

ADMINISTRATIVE PEOPLE
MuttShack Campground Volunteers: Administrators, Computer Database Operators, Operations Specialists.

COOKS
MuttShack Refectory: Cook to handle breakfasts…

MUTTSHACK STAFF
Transporters with Vehicles, RN’s, Paramedics etc.

SUPPLY NEEDS
Needs fluctuate. Check with Sharon Gorski (877-727-9343)

Please bring your strength, compassion and determination, but please check
your ego at the door – we promise to return it to you when you’re ready to
leave. MuttShack Animal Rescue Foundation, A registered 501(c)3 and 509(a)1
Charitable Project of the National Heritage Foundation (866) 718-1001

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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
www.kinshipcircle.org

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: 1 Kinship Circle
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 3:17 PM
Subject: NEED FOSTERS Or N.O. Rescue On Hold

DO NOT RESPOND TO SENDER
PERMISSION TO CROSSPOST

We can’t rescue any more animals because we have nowhere to bring them.

They’re under homes. Lingering in yards. Starving in the streets. There are still hundreds, if not thousands, of animals in New Orleans.

Animal Rescue New Orleans with Jane Garrison, David Meyer, Pia Salk and a dedicated team of organizers has stepped in to rescue, trap, and feed Katrina’s forgotten.

We’ve coordinated teams of ACOs, humane agents and trappers, veterinarians/techs. They’re in New Orleans now, with more on the way.

We’ve been transporting rescued animals to Best Friends in Tylertown, MS everyday. But their facility is full! Best Friends and Animal Rescue New Orleans are working over time to secure qualified foster organizations.

If you are a foster organization, or know one, please help us so we can rescue more animals in New Orleans.

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.
* Agree to not spay/neuter animal during foster period, unless a serious health issue.
* 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 www.bestfriends.org/HF/FO.cfm

If you are an individual who can foster a left-behind companion animal 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: kathim [at] bestfriends.org

FOR ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS, INFORMATION
ABOUT FOSTERING KATRINA ANIMALS:
Karla Osbeck: 310-800-7011
jgkatrina_exports [at] yahoo.com, vixey23j [at] yahoo.com

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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
www.kinshipcircle.org

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: Kinship Circle
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 2:00 PM
Subject: 10/25 UPDATE: Animal Rescue New Orleans with Jane Garrison

10/25/05 UPDATE: Animal Rescue New Orleans
Jane Garrison & David Meyer

PLEASE READ ENTIRE ALERT.
YOU WILL FIND MANY OF YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED HERE.
We apologize, but cannot always respond personally to emails due to the daily demands of coordinating this relief effort.

UPDATE FROM THE FIELD:
Bingo, the dog found in a bathtub too weak to lift her head after 7 weeks, is now able to walk and eat on her own. Affectionately renamed Bubbles, she is still under a vet’s care. The skin-and-bones Dobbie mix–whose guardians had tossed her out with the trash–remains on IV antibiotics, but eats from people’s hands.

On Oct. 24, 2005 we rescued 20 dogs and 19 cats, among them a beautiful feline whose guardian had perished in the hurricane. A returning neighbor notified Jane about the white, fluffy cat spotted around her damaged home, just waiting. Rescuers had to trap the frightened kitty, alone for over 7 weeks. But she is now in loving hands with plenty of food and water.

As addresses in our original database decrease, we enter Phase Two of this rescue mission—Trapping animals on the streets. Katrina added hundreds, if not thousands, of companion animals to New Orleans’ existing stray population. We will not turn our back on any of these animals. Once trapped, most quickly accept human kindness. On Oct. 24, rescuer Matt Rossell “tamed” a pack of dogs, including one very pregnant female. He succeeded in trapping the dog believed to be the alpha. Back on a leash, this dog reverted to his “old life,” rolling on his back for a tummy rub. Apparently signaling approval for the others, the rest of the dogs came right over to Matt, ready for their own dose of love and attention!

Their stories are why we are still here. Please join us in New Orleans.

HOW TO VOLUNTEER FOR ANIMAL RESCUE NEW ORLEANS

1. We need volunteers THROUGH END OF NOVEMBER, at which time we will assess
continued need and update you.

2. WHEN YOU KNOW YOUR ARRIVE/DEPART DATE, SEND FOLLOWING INFO TO:
info [at] kinshipcircle.org. If you’ve already sent this, PLEASE DO NOT SEND AGAIN!

*Full name(s) / Name of organization (if applicable)
*Full street address
*Cell phone, land phone, email
*Brief description of animal experience, including professional, rescue, shelter, etc.
*Arrive/Depart dates in New Orleans

3. Type “HURRICANE VOLUNTEER” in the subject line of your email, or we may miss it.

4. If you are an Animal Control Officer, Veterinarian/Vet Tech, or Experienced Humane Trapper
state this in subject line of email. I.E., HURRICANE VOLUNTEER: Animal Control Officer

CONTACTS
1. LOCAL RESIDENTS (IN LOUISIANA) / FEEDING ASSIGNMENTS
Jane Garrison: 843-343-8887, JaneGarrison [at] comcast.net

2. ARRIVING IN NEW ORLEANS WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT LODGING, DIRECTIONS, ETC.
Holly: 757-641-4527 or Rob Stone: 253-307-0969

3. VOLUNTEERS WHO CAN EXPORT/TRANSPORT/FOSTER
Karla Osbeck: vixey23j [at] yahoo.com or 310-800-7011

4. DONATE MONEY OR SUPPLIES
Priscilla Gargalis: pgargalis [at] yahoo.com

5. VOLUNTEER QUESTIONS NOT ANSWERED IN THIS ALERT (ONLY)
Kate Danaher: katedanaher [at] animalearthhuman.org
Brenda Shoss: info [at] kinshipcircle.org

TRAVEL & ACCOMODATIONS
- Fly into New Orleans or Baton Rouge.
- Rent a vehicle with room for supplies. Vans and SUVs appreciated.
- Attend 7:30 am daily meeting (location listed below)

- CAMPING: Bring tent to camp on parking lot/small fenced yard located alongside property at 1585 Magazine Street.

- HOMES: To inquire about availability in resident homes or FEMA tent
(limited to 20 people), contact Holly: 757-641-4527

- HOTELS: Some hotels in New Orleans or Metairie are open.
Volunteers may research this on their own.
www.traveltoday.com/hotels/Metairie/LA/USA/
www.discoverneworleans.com/hotels.html

- AFFORDABLE TRAVEL & RIDESHARES:
Email Shanah Lia Richardson at illinoiskatrinapets [at] hotmail.com for help locating affordable travel options or rideshares.

WHAT VOLUNTEERS WILL DO
Ideal people are willing to stay at least a week and be self sufficient.

MORNING ASSIGNMENT MEETINGS - 7:30 am
NEW: Corner of Magazine and Felicity Streets by empty Star Hair & Nails bldg. Around the corner from prior location at 1823 Magazine Street. (Southern Animal Foundation has been wonderful but we don’t want to block their front door each morning)

If you arrive after 7:30 am meeting:
Call Jane Garrison 843-343-8887 for food/water assignment area.
Call Holly: 757-641-4527 or Rob Stone: 253-307-0969

1. FEED AND WATER TEAMS: Responsible for keeping animals alive until they can be trapped. Does not require any experience or special skill…just a strong desire to help!

2. RESCUE TEAMS: Rescue animals described in calls to our dispatch number as “animals in need.” Teams also comb city to pick up street animals who approach them without need to trap. Animal handling experience necessary.

3. TRAPPING TEAMS: Animal Control Officers, DVMs, Vet Techs or Individuals with Experience Trapping Animals. These volunteers are encouraged to spend at least one week in New Orleans and may submit (air, car rental, or gas) travel receipts for reimbursement. An estimate of travel expenses is required for approval. Send to Kate Danaher: katedanaher [at] animalearthhuman.org

CARE FOR CRITICAL ANIMALS
Animals unable to survive transport brought to:
SE Veterinary Specialists, 504-219-0444
400 N. Causeway; Metairie, Louisiana

PROCEDURE FOR OTHER RESCUED ANIMALS
Other animals dropped off at Southern Animal Foundation by 4:30 pm.
Then transported to Best Friends in Tylertown, MS.
Southern Animal Foundation
1823 Magazine Street; New Orleans, LA 70130

SUPPLY NEEDS
CONTACT Priscilla Gargalis: pgargalis [at] yahoo.com
Send to - ATN: Rescue Groups
Southern Animal Foundation
1823 Magazine Street
New Orleans, LA 70130

Dry Dog/Cat Food
ANC (pop-top) Canned Cat Food
Fresh Water (gallon containers)
Pedialyte
Disposable Lasagna Trays or Litter Boxes (for water on the streets)
Large Plastic Dog Crates / Small Crates
Catch Poles
Humane Large Dog Traps & Cat Traps
Towels and Sheets
Cans of Mackerel for Trapping Cats
Cat/Dog Gloves
Car Chalk for Marking Rescue Vehicles
Gift Cards to Gas Stations / Gift Cards to Wal-Mart
Monetary Donations for Vet Care, Spay/Neuter, etc.
Vet Supplies (Lactate Ringer fluid bags & tubing), antibiotics, etc.
Bottled Water, Gatorade, Energy Bars, Snacks for Rescuers

MONETARY DONATIONS
Make check payable to: 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com
Click here
Or mail check to:
1-800-Save-A-Pet.com / P.O. Box 7 / Redondo Beach, CA 90277
Indicate in check memo: Katrina Animal Relief

Make check payable to: Jane Garrison
2294 Otranto Rd.
North Charleston, SC 29406
Indicate in check memo: Katrina Animal Relief

SUGGESTED PERSONAL SUPPLIES LIST
current Hepatitis vaccinations
(Hepatitis A most important)
current Tetanus shot
pepper spray
hand sanitizer; alcohol and hydrogen peroxide
insect repellent (non- aerosol if flying)
sunscreen
first aid kits
thick “bite-proof” work gloves
sturdy, waterproof (rubber) work boots/shoes
change of shoes, extra socks, hat
long sleeve shirts, long pants (for coverage, but lightweight)
eye protection (sunglasses)
cases of dust/surgical masks
utility knife, crowbar
belt (to hang gears/supplies from)
flashlights, D batteries
cell phone & car charger
phone cards (in case cell phones don’t work)
waterproof walkie talkies helpful
toilet paper
pillows, blankets, sheets, towels
water, Gatorade, snacks
other personal-care items
cash

Come prepared to camp: tent, sleeping bag, air mattress or cot

More frequently asked questions:
savinglives.1-800-save-a-pet.com/site/PageServer?pagename=KatrinaFAQforVolunteering

TO SUBSCRIBE TO KINSHIP CIRCLE HURRICANE ALERTS:
Regarding Animal Rescue New Orleans with Jane Garrison, as well as other efforts, send an email to info [at] kinshipcircle.org

FOR DETAILS NOT ADDRESSED IN THIS ALERT, TRY:
savinglives.1-800-save-a-pet.com/site/PageServer?pagename=KatrinaVolunteers
www.AnimalRescueNeworleans.com

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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
www.kinshipcircle.org

Grassroots Effort for Animals of the Storm
Kinship Circle * Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF)

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: Kinship Circle
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 7:39 PM
Subject: Oct. 28-30 Convoy for Horses & Cows: Help One Less Go Hungry

HOPEFUL HAVEN EQUINE CONVOYS GO OUT ALMOST EVERY WEEKEND!

Contact Debra Barlow directly. Do not respond to sender.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY (10/28-10/30) CONVOY FOR HORSES & COWS:
Help One Less Go Hungry
Government aid to the hurricane-smashed parishes of Vermillion, Cameron and Calcasieu is a sluggish operation, stymied by red tape. That leaves independent groups like Hopeful Haven to rescue and feed stranded horses and cows. One more animal may not go hungry tonight because of someone like you!

CONTACT:
Debra Barlow, president
Hopeful Haven Equine Rescue Organization
cell: 318-286-3116 * hopefulhaven [at] yahoo.com

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Cows and horses are in dire need of the supplies to sustain life. The region is devastated… Please join the convoy! Get your friends together, and put together a horse trailer full of supplies.

NEXT CONVOY - FRIDAY, 10/28/05:
Friday, Oct. 28, 8:00 a.m.
Convoy meets at Summer Grove Baptist Church, in Shreveport, LA
(on Jewella where the old South Park Mall used to be)

by 12:00 p.m.
Arrive in Lafayette, LA at OMNI Energy Building
4500 NE Evangeline Thruway
On I-49 at between exits 4 and 7 on Frontage Rd.
Go north on service road
OMNI Energy Bldg. is blue, on right side of road
Pull into parking lot; onsite contact: Lisa Simmons

by 1:00 p.m.
From Lafayette go to Erath, where new supply distribution site is located.
Load up and leave as convoy into devastated areas.

SUPPLY NEEDS:
Range Cubes
Horse Feed/Cattle Feed
Hay
Barbed Wire
T-Posts
Troughs
Vaccines (EEE/WEE West Nile & Tetanus)

If you can’t join the convoy…
SEND FEED TO:
ATN: Animal Rescue
13738 Highway 331
Erath, LA 70533
Debra Barlow or Hank Moses will accept supplies

SEND SUPPLIES TO:
ATN: Debra Barlow, Animal Rescue
315 Pecan Drive
Shreveport, LA 71106

SEND VACCINES FOR CATTLE & HORSES TO:
Dr. Prejean / 1101 West Port Street / Abbeville, LA 70510
Or, Debra Barlow / 315 Pecan Drive / Shreveport, LA 71106

MONETARY DONATIONS:
Hopeful Haven Equine Rescue
P.O. 17763
Shreveport, LA 71138

- Debra Barlow needs inventory of what is in your trailer by 10/27.
- IF bringing donations, specify donator’s name and address on inventory paper.
- Call & email Debra Barlow ASAP before Friday:
318-286-3116 * hopefulhaven [at] yahoo.com

*Hopeful Haven also has room for evacuees with horses. Arenas and foster homes available. If evacuees have an RV or living quarters in their horse trailer, they will be able to stay with their horses.

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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
www.kinshipcircle.org

Grassroots Effort for Animals of the Storm
Kinship Circle * Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF)

—– Original Message —–
From: DawnWatch - news [at] dawnwatch.com
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 4:52 PM
Subject: DawnWatch: Pet evacuation media coverage plus update/plea from Jane Garrison and David Meyer 10/20/05

(An update from Jane Garrison and David Meyer in New Orleans follows this media alert.)

Though it seems the US still has some way to go before it manages a flawless evacuation of people and their animals, there is no doubt that lessons have been learned from the Katrina disaster. As Florida prepares for Hurricane Wilma, the media have let us know that there are some pet friendly shelters available. On CNN’s “Situation Room,” October 19, Wolf Blitzer gave the number 1-800-HELP-FLA for reporting gouging and then said, “Also, they have information on pet-friendly shelters and places like that to go.”

Lori Golden from the Pet Press tells me that on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, on October 19, there was sound-bite from Florida Governor Jeb Bush saying, “We have pet shelters now because we heard from a lot of our citizens that they would not be leaving without their pets.”

In a Thursday, October 20, St Petersburg Times article headed, “Gov. Bush tells panel Florida is storm-ready,” (pg 11a) we read, “Shelters were being opened, including some that accept pets.”

The October 20 Sun Sentinel includes an article headed, “Schools consider pets in hurricane shelters: talk to begin when storm season ends.” (Pg 3B) It opens:

“Don’t expect to bring your pet to a shelter during Hurricane Wilma, but school district officials say they will study the idea after the hurricane season ends.” (As noted above, hopefully the opening phrase is inaccurate as there are shelters accepting pets.)

We read:

“Superintendent Art Johnson said his staff will talk further with county officials, who have made two formal requests to designate one school as a pet shelter.

The article tells us that “Palm Beach County School Board members say they still are uncomfortable with the proposal, citing health and sanitation concerns” but “board member Sandra Richmond was open to the idea, saying she’s heard from many of her constituents.”

She is quoted:

“This would be very important to them and their pets. They would rather stay in really precarious conditions in a bad storm if they could not bring their pets with them.”

You’ll find the whole article on line by clicking here OR going to tinyurl.com/7wqn9

As Hurricane Wilma approaches and is in every US paper, this is the perfect time to be writing letters to the editor on the importance of pet-friendly evacuations, both for the sake of the animals and for the people who love them and will put themselves at risk to protect them. Legislators look to the letters sections of their local papers as barometers of public opinion.

The papers cited above take letters at:
St Petersburg Times: www.sptimes.com/letters/
and Sun Sentinel: www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/sfl-letterseditor.customform

Don’t hesitate to ask me for help if you have any trouble finding the correct email address for a letter to your editor. And I am always happy to provide guidance if you are new to writing letters to the editor, and to help edit letters.

In your letter you might mention the Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act, or PETS Act, which calls for governments to include pets in evacuation procedures. You’ll find information about it at community.hsus.org/campaign/pets_act_house/explanation

And if you have not already signed the petition in support of it, please add your name at go.care2.com/e/gfO/bR/oco4

On Wednesday October 19, the Philadelphia Inquirer included an article headed “Pets given shelter from the storm.” (Pg B01.) It discussed an airlift of 80 dogs from the Katrina disaster area who arrived at Reading Regional Airport this week.

We read, “Across the region - and the nation - hundreds of kennels have agreed to take some of the thousands of dogs, cats and other animals stranded by Katrina.”

It is a feel-good article, but it makes this important point:

“Not everyone is convinced that bringing in Katrina pets is a good idea. Most shelters are full of strays and have trouble finding homes for them. Moving in Katrina ‘celebrity’ pets, which evidently have more cachet than an alley cat or pound dog, might put a dent in local adoptions. Some area shelters are shifting animals to private kennels to make room for Katrina pets. Worse, some fear local strays will be euthanized in deference to the Katrina pets.”

However, we read “Lisa Ricigliano of the Camden County Animal Shelter said the opposite was happening. The Katrina pets are drawing attention to the plight of strays overall.” She said “Just by people walking in, we’re placing some of the animals here.”

You’ll find the full Philadelphia Inquirer piece on line at www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/12938662.htm

It presents a great opportunity for letters to the editor in support of the PETS Act (mentioned above) or in support of adopting animals in need, regardless of the specific drama of their history.

The Philadelphia Inquirer takes letters at Inquirer.Letters [at] phillynews.com

Always include your full name, address, and daytime phone number when sending a letter to the editor. Shorter letters are more likely to be published.

Finally, a plea from Jane Garrison and David Meyer in New Orleans. They need your help now as much as ever.

Jane writes:

“10/19/2005 A FINAL DESPERATE PLEA…

“We know it is hard to imagine that more than 7 weeks after Hurricane Katrina hit that animals trapped inside could still be alive— but it is true….We still have a list of 1267 homes in downtown New Orleans where animals have been reported by their guardians to be trapped. We still have this many because we do not have enough volunteers to open the doors and rescue the pets that are slowly starving to death. THIS IS WHY WE NEED YOU! Please get in your car or get on a plane and come help us get through the rest of these houses.

“TIME IS RUNNING OUT! We are certain (based on the pets we see everyday) that there are animals still alive in these homes.

“Things you should know before you come:

“This will be the most rewarding life changing experience you have ever had. To save an animal from starving to death is a very rewarding experience.one you will never forget. The city is safe.we have been rescuing since the hurricane and have not had any problems with any of our rescuers’ safety.

People have requested that someone breaks in and rescues their desperate animal. You will need to bring a small tent or stay in your car. That is a small sacrifice to make for these animals who are desperately waiting for your help.

Hurricane Wilma is not heading anywhere near New Orleans so please do not wait until after it passes.it may be too late.

You do not need any special passes to get into the city.

Although the city is open to residents, most have not returned or even plan on returning.

You can get updates and information on rescue efforts here: www.animalrescueneworleans.com

“I have spent 6 weeks rescuing animals in New Orleans. I have climbed through windows, on roofs, and under houses to get to these animals who are trapped. This has been the most rewarding and heartbreaking experience of my life. With every animal I rescue I think about the dozens of others who lay trapped behind closed doors dying a slow, lonely death from starvation and dehydration. I am begging every compassionate person to come to New Orleans and help us get through the rest of these homes and get these forgotten victims to safety.”

The following is from David Meyer of www.1-800-Save-A-Pet.com.

“This is the single worst tragedy for companion animals in the history of the United States. Despite all you have seen on TV and the various organizations that have pitched in, it has been volunteers like you and me who have come forth, made the trip to New Orleans and saved thousands of pets, one by one. Now the last ones need our help and there is no one left to save them but us. If you stay home, in a month you won’t remember what you did in the next few days. If you come and save one of these dogs and cats, you will remember it for your lifetime. I know, I have been here for a month and held them in my arms.”

(End of notes from Jane and David.)

The site listed, www.animalrescueneworleans.com , has contact information, general information, and a blog.

Brenda Shoss, from Kinship Circle, has lots of information on other groups needing volunteers — Ally Cat Allies is one example.
You can contact Brenda at info [at] kinshipcircle.org, (desk) 314-863-9445 or (cell) 314-795-2646

I have received heartwarming notes from people who have spent time volunteering in the Katrina disaster area and I send my heartfelt thanks, on behalf of the animals and the animal protection community, to all who have been. Many thanks, also, to those who have written letters to make sure the issue has been covered by the media and taken seriously by our legislators. Those letters help ensure that we never again have a crisis in which the needs of animals and the people who love them, and would die for them, are entirely disregarded.

Yours and the animals’,
Karen Dawn

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: Kinship Circle
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 4:18 PM
Subject: Volunteer NOW for Katrina Cat Rescue

ALLEY CAT ALLIES NEEDS IMMEDIATE HELP FOR KATRINA CAT RESCUE

CONTACT ALLEY CAT ALLIES NOW:
*This campaign will last for the next six weeks.
Pilara Felgate, Alley Cat Allies:
pfelgate [at] alleycat.org or 240-482-1980
Volunteers may also call: 240-482-1997

Volunteer information: www.alleycat.org/katrina.html#rescue

LOCATION:
Bogalusa, Lousiana
Camp established 1 hour north of New Orleans
Electricity available, but arrive self-sufficient prepared to camp.

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
In New Orleans, there are still animals to save from homes and the streets.
These survivors need us—but we cannot reach them all without more volunteers! Please join our cat rescue/recovery team immediately. Come NOW to our hurricane relief base camp in Bogalusa, Louisiana.

WE NEED:
-Caregivers to feed and care for animals at base camp
-Vets/vet techs
-Computer/data entry expertise
-Clerical people who can help with volunteer and animal intake
-Animal handlers/trappers
-Handy men/women
-Photographers
-Cage assemblers and cleaners
-Supply inventory helpers who will also run errands as necessary
-People with rescue skills or disaster training
-Drivers and vehicles for transport (Trucks, SUVs preferable)
-Foster homes and barn homes (for feral cats)

*If you can transport and/or foster, please contact Pilara Felgate:
pfelgate [at] alleycat.org or 240-482-1980

SUPPLY NEEDS:
Updated list: www.alleycat.org/katrina.html#help

Alley Cat Allies cannot operate our rescue and restoration project in the Gulf States without the hard and generous work of committed volunteers. There’s nothing glamorous or fun or easy about this work — but you are guaranteed to go to bed at night knowing that YOU ARE MAKING A REAL DIFFERENCE IN THEIR WORLD!
www.alleycat.org/

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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
www.kinshipcircle.org

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: Kinship Circle
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 7:39 PM
Subject: Jane Garrison Needs Help in N.O./ Expenses Paid for 10

PLEASE RESPOND DIRECTLY TO JANE GARRISON
JaneGarrison [at] comcast.net

WE STILL NEED HELP!

I will pay the travel cost (airline or gas) for 10 people to get to New Orleans right away. Animal Control officers or Search and Rescue people are best. Ideal people are willing to stay at least a week and be self sufficient. Please contact me at JaneGarrison [at] comcast.net

Thanks!
Jane Garrison

Jane Garrison: 843-343-8887,
JaneGarrison [at] comcast.net
David Meyer: 310-897-6546
Pia Salk: 323-899-4160

JANE GARRISON/DAVID MEYER RESCUE EFFORT CONTACT:
Jane Garrison: 843-343-8887, JaneGarrison [at] comcast.net
David Meyer: 310-897-6546
Pia Salk: 323-899-4160

SUPPLY NEEDS:
Dog/Cat Food, Disposable Lasagna Trays for Water,
Large Humane Dog Traps, Money for Supplies, Spay/Neuter
Send to: ATN: Rescue Groups, Southern Animal Foundation
1823 Magazine Street; New Orleans, LA 70130

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Direct all questions to David or Jane at phone numbers listed above.
Ideal people are willing to stay at least a week and be self sufficient.

1.) MORNING MEETINGS - 7:30 am
Southern Animal Foundation
1823 Magazine Street; New Orleans, LA 70130
Each morning, sign up with your contact phone number to be reached throughout day as needed. Morning meetings led by Rob Stove or Matt. Will assign lists for rescues each morning consisting of map with specific locations or a section of city to feed and patrol.

2.) MAPS, ASSIGNMENTS, BRIEFING
Maps and assignments emailed to Rob each evening to print/distribute at morning meeting. Rob or Matt will read a briefing from team each day, to keep volunteers abreast of information pertinent to rescue efforts.

3.) DISPATCH
Jane and David to conduct dispatch directly. Volunteers will be called with specific rescues throughout day and asked to contact Jane or David directly with questions or concerns.

4.) CARE FOR CRITICAL ANIMALS
Animals who cannot survive transport to a rescue facility such as Best
Friends brought to:
SE Veterinary Specialists, 504-219-0444
400 N. Causeway; Metarie, Louisiana

5.) PROCEDURE FOR OTHER RESCUED ANIMALS
Other animals dropped off at Southern Animal Foundation no later than 4:30 pm. Then transported to Best Friends in Tylertown, MS. Volunteers needed for daily transports.

6.) FEEDING STATIONS
Volunteers also go around the city to set up feeding stations. Most animals come out after the sun goes down.

7.) MAPS, LOGS & DATABASE ENTRIES
To end problem of going to repeat addresses, all completed maps and logs turned into Rob each night by 6:00 pm at the Southern Animal Foundation or at his home, so he can fax maps to data entry people to update database!

8.) LODGING
Volunteers responsible for their own lodging. We are compiling a list of campgrounds and affordable housing if you need it.

9.) INTERNET COMMNICATION
Currently setting up website to contain all updated information–if you are able to stop by a Kinkos or other location to check the internet.

MONETARY DONATIONS:
1-800-Save-A-Pet.com
Online: click here
Or mail check to:
1-800-Save-A-Pet.com / P.O. Box 7 / Redondo Beach, CA 90277

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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
www.kinshipcircle.org

Grassroots Effort for Animals of the Storm
Kinship Circle * Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF)

—– Original Message —–
From: In Defense of Animals
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 5:32 PM
Subject: OFFICIAL UPDATE TO NEW ORLEANS SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATION

OFFICIAL UPDATE TO NEW ORLEANS SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATION
FROM DAVID MEYER, JANE GARRISON AND PIA SALK

October 17, 2005

In the last couple of days rescuers have been receiving reports of many of the animals in the streets of New Orleans not looking as good as they have in the past when there were more volunteers in New Orleans putting out food and water. They are still rescuing – unbelievably they are still pulling some animals out of homes. They are in desperate need of more volunteers.

Due to the fact that The Humane Society of the United States had to evacuate Lamar Dixon Expo Center on October 15th and the prowler trailer will be taken away, we must make the following changes to keep the search and rescue operation running and efficient to find the remaining animals still trapped in homes, and to be allowed to continue to operate without interruption.

Any questions about any of these changes should be directed to either David or Jane at the phone numbers listed below.

Morning meetings will now be held at 7:30 am in front of the Southern Animal Foundation at 1823 Magazine, in downtown New Orleans. You will need to sign up each morning with your contact phone number so we can reach you throughout the day as needed. That meeting will be led by either Rob Stove or Matt (who you will meet). We will continue assigning lists for rescues each morning consisting of a map with specific locations or a section of the city in to “feed and patrol.”

Maps and assignments will be emailed to Rob each evening to print and distribute at the morning meeting. Rob or Matt will also be reading a briefing from us each day. This briefing will keep you abreast of any changes to the rescue operation or any other information that is pertinent to your rescue efforts. This will help prevent any rumors and keep you up to date with the facts. It is very important that you receive correct information through us about the changing legal issues as well as safety concerns that we are keeping up to date on.

Dispatch will now be done directly from the Jane and David. This means that we will be calling you with specific rescues throughout the day and ask you to call us directly with any questions or concerns (at the numbers below). The prowler will no longer be ours to use, and the dispatch will be done from land lines and with internet/mapquest access.
The most critical animals that cannot survive transport to a rescue facility such as Best Friends will be brought to SE Veterinary Specialists, 400 N. Causeway–Metarie, 504-219-0444. We have an account set up so you will not need to pay any bills.

All other animals will be dropped off each day to Southern Animal Foundation and be transported by small truck or van to Best Friends in Tylertown (volunteers needed each day for this transport). They must be dropped off at Southern Animal Foundation by 4:30 pm. In order to reunite the animals with their families, you will need to be extremely diligent about writing down exactly where the animal was rescued and any info you have about the animal’s guardian. You must also leave a notice on the door telling the family where they can find their animal.

After you drop animals off at Southern Animal Foundation, please go around the city and set up feeding stations. Most animals come out after the sun goes down. Any donations of supplies should be sent to Southern Animal Foundation (they are storing all dog/cat food and supplies for us).

To end the problem of going to repeat addresses, all completed maps and logs must be turned into Rob each night by 6pm at the Southern Animal Foundation or at his home, so he can fax the maps to a team of data entry people and the database can be updated!! All database entries will be done from outside Louisiana.

Volunteers are responsible for finding their own lodging. We are working to make a list of campgrounds and affordable housing if you need it.

We are currently setting up a web site for this operation. It will have all updated information if you can stop by a Kinkos or other location to check the internet.
Until we have a downtown place to keep supplies, Rob will bring supplies into the city each morning in his truck if he has them. We should have a place by the weekend.
Thank you and let’s stay organized and effective and rescue those remaining trapped animals!

Jane Garrison 843-343-8887 JaneGarrison [at] comcast.net

David Meyer 310-897-6546

Pia Salk 323-899-4160

Interested IDA volunteers, please email hurricanekatrinainquiries [at] idausa.org if you plan to go for information about lodging and logistics.

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—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: 1 Kinship Circle
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 5:40 PM
Subject: REUNIONS: Help Hurricane Animal Victims From Home

REUNIONS: Help Hurricane Animal Victims From Home

IN THIS ALERT:
1.) Stealth Volunteers
2.) No Animal Left Behind
3.) The Pet Railroad

We’ve all envisioned it: A girl buries her face in the fur of a cat left behind. A stalwart man cries when his lost dog greets him. Some have witnessed it. But not enough.

As hurricane animal relief shifts from hard core rescue to feeding and fostering, we face a dilemma: How many of these animals will see their families again? The system to reunite pets and people is imperfect. This is not about blame. It is about doing something.

You can make a difference. Cooperative efforts are underway to rescue and reunite animals and people. They need volunteers.

If you…
-Can work from your home
-Have access to computer, fax and phone
-Are creative and persistent with computer searches
-Willing to make phone calls nationwide
…You can join these amazing teams.

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1.) STEALTH VOLUNTEERS
Have rescued animal reports. Looking for their people.
Stealth Volunteers Coordinator: Marilyn Knapp Litt

DESCRIPTION:
Volunteers are assigned animal cases registered on PetFinder. Thorough rescuer’s notes (some of which are not available publicly) are sent to you. As a Stealth Volunteer you receive instructions and guidelines to comb search engines; survivor’s databases; crisscross directories; NetDetective, Lexis-Nexis, etc. Your mission: To find displaced people, tell them where their animal companion is located, and assist with their reunion.

Primary online tools used in your search can be viewed here:
www.KatrinaSanAntonio.com

HOW TO JOIN STEALTH VOLUNTEERS:
Subscribe to Stealth Volunteers Yahoo Group
groups.yahoo.com/group/stealthvolunteers

You will receive a Welcome Document with specific instructions about how to get started, along with human and computer resources available to you.

Post message: stealthvolunteers [at] yahoogroups.com
Subscribe: stealthvolunteers-subscribe [at] yahoogroups.com
Unsubscribe: stealthvolunteers-unsubscribe [at] yahoogroups.com
List owner: stealthvolunteers-owner [at] yahoogroups.com

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2.) NO ANIMAL LEFT BEHIND
Have reports from people. Looking for their lost animals.
No Animal Left Behind Coordinator: Anita Wollison

DESCRIPTION:
This is Stealth Volunteers in reverse. As a volunteer for this group, you help people who want to find their missing animal companions.

HOW TO JOIN NO ANIMAL LEFT BEHIND:
Read Welcome to No Animal Left Behind:
noanimalleftbehind.blogspot.com/2005/10/welcome-to-no-animal-left-behind-hi.html

Or go to website and click on Welcome to No Animal Left Behind:
www.noanimalleftbehind.blogspot.com

To volunteer for this effort, you must first agree to a statement asking to extend the deadline for adoptions of Katrina animal victims. If you agree, join No Animal Left Behind by sending an email to:
noanimalleftbehind [at] gamil.com

Include:
Full name
City, State
Affiliation (if applicable)

TO FILE A REPORT ABOUT A MISSING ANIMAL:
email: noanimalleftbehind [at] gmail.com
and/or call: toll-free 877-680-0090

FROM KINSHIP CIRCLE: It is suggested you include as much of the following
information in your report as possible.
1. Full name of pet(s) guardian
2. Address where pet(s) were trapped or last seen
3. Contact phone numbers for pet(s) guardian
4. Contact phone numbers for person searching on behalf of pet(s) guardian
5. Permission to enter home, including breaking doors or windows.
6. Pet’s name, species, breed, special markings or other unique characteristics
7. Where pet(s) might be found once in the house, yard, etc.
8. Pet(s) age and any special medical needs
9. If guardians can reclaim/transport pet(s) who are found

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3.) THE PET RAILROAD
Nationwide transport network for hurricane rescues
Founder: Laura Sterling
www.thepetrailroad.com/

CONTACT INFORMATION:
contact [at] thepetrailroad.com
Laura Sterling: laura [at] thepetrailroad.com

DESCRIPTION:
The Pet Railroad is building a network of animal lovers in each state who can help transport pets from the Gulf Coast to loving foster homes and rescue groups. Animals have filled makeshift staging areas and local shelters. (From Kinship Circle: Julia Fischer, of Animal Rescue Foundation in Mobile, AL reports the euthanasia rate among beleaguered Gulf Coast shelters has never been higher due to hurricane rescues and evacuees’ owner-surrendered animals). Animal facilities are out of space and need to move animals quickly to other shelters and foster homes.

HOW TO VOLUNTEER FOR THE PET RAILROAD:
TRANSPORT: www.thepetrailroad.com/transport
Follow instructions to determine what geographic region you can transport to and from.
This will lead you to a simple volunteer information form.

FOSTER: www.thepetrailroad.com/foster
Follow instructions to enroll in a master foster list for each state. Lists are distributed to shelters/groups handling foster care.

VOLUNTEER TEAMS: www.thepetrailroad.com/volunteers
A great way to get involved, even you can’t travel to the Gulf Coast.
1. Transport Team Leaders: Responsible for keeping a list of volunteers for transport for each state.

2. Foster Team Leaders: Responsible for keeping a list of volunteers for foster homes for each state.

3. Attorney: To offer legal advice.

4. Rescue group and shelter liaisons: Rescue groups and shelters that can house animals.

5. Advocates: Volunteers to spread the word about The Pet Railroad. We need people to post pre-written blurbs to message boards, call shelters and other advocacy groups and send pre-written press releases to the media. If you are active on animal-related message boards, we need your help!

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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
www.kinshipcircle.org

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: 1 Kinship Circle
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 4:44 PM
Subject: Official N.O. Search/Rescue-Jane Garrison, David Meyer, Pia Salk

OFFICIAL UPDATE TO NEW ORLEANS SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATION
FROM DAVID MEYER, JANE GARRISON AND PIA SALK

October 13, 2005

Due to the fact The Humane Society of the United States has to evacuate Lamar Dixon Expo Center on October 15, and the prowler trailer will be taken away, we must make the following changes to ensure the search and rescue operation runs smoothly–with the goal of finding animals still trapped in homes and operating without interruption.

CONTACT:
Jane Garrison: 843-343-8887, JaneGarrison [at] comcast.net
David Meyer: 310-897-6546
Pia Salk: 323-899-4160

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Direct all questions to David or Jane at phone numbers listed above.

1.) MORNING MEETINGS - 7:30 am
(in front of) Southern Animal Foundation
1823 Magazine Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
Each morning, sign up with your contact phone number so we can reach you throughout the day as needed. Morning meetings led by either Rob Stove or Matt (who you will meet). We will continue assigning lists for rescues each morning consisting of a map with specific locations or a section of the city in to “feed and patrol.”

2.) MAPS, ASSIGNMENTS, BRIEFING - Maps and assignments will be emailed to Rob each evening to print and distribute at morning meeting. Rob or Matt will also read a briefing from us each day. This briefing will keep you abreast of changes to the rescue operation or any other information pertinent to your rescue efforts. This will help prevent rumors and keep you up to date with facts. It is essential that you receive correct information through us about changing legal issues as well as safety concerns.

3.) DISPATCH – Jane and David will now conduct dispatch directly. This means we will call you with specific rescues throughout the day and ask you to call us directly with any questions or concerns (at the numbers above). The prowler is no longer ours to use, and the dispatch will be done from land lines and with internet/mapquest access.

4.) CARE FOR CRITICAL ANIMALS – Animals who cannot survive transport to a rescue facility such as Best Friends will be brought to:
SE Veterinary Specialists
400 N. Causeway; Metarie, Louisiana
504-219-0444
We have an account set up so you will not need to pay any bills.

5.) PROCEDURE FOR OTHER RESCUED ANIMALS – Each day, all other animals will be dropped off at Southern Animal Foundation no later than 4:30 pm. They will then be transported by small truck or van to Best Friends in Tylertown, MS. Volunteers needed for daily transports. To reunite animals with their families, you must be extremely diligent about recording the precise location where the animal was rescued and any additional info you have about the animal’s guardian. You must also leave a notice on the door to inform the family where they can find their animal.

6.) FEEDING STATIONS – After you leave animals at Southern Animal Foundation, please go around the city to set up feeding stations. Most animals come out after the sun goes down.
Send donated supplies such as dog/cat food to:
Southern Animal Foundation
1823 Magazine Street
New Orleans, LA 70130

7.) MAPS, LOGS & DATABASE ENTRIES - To end the problem of going to repeat addresses, all completed maps and logs must be turned into Rob each night by 6:00 pm at the Southern Animal Foundation or at his home, so he can fax the maps to a team of data entry people and the database can be updated! All database entries will be done from outside Louisiana.

8.) LODGING - Volunteers are responsible for their own lodging. We are compiling a list of campgrounds and affordable housing if you need it.

9.) INTERNET COMMNICATION - We are currently setting up a website for this operation. It will contain all updated information, if you are able to stop by a Kinkos or other location to check the internet.

Until we have a downtown place to keep supplies, Rob will bring supplies into the city each morning in his truck if he has them. We should have a place by the weekend. Thank you and let’s stay organized and effective and rescue those remaining trapped animals!

Jane Garrison: 843-343-8887, JaneGarrison [at] comcast.net
David Meyer: 310-897-6546
Pia Salk: 323-899-4160

************************************

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
www.kinshipcircle.org

Grassroots Effort for Animals of the Storm
Kinship Circle * Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF)

—– Original Message —–
From: DawnWatch - news [at] dawnwatch.com
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 4:10 PM
Subject: DawnWatch: CBS News and NPR to cover Katrina animals. Also Boston Globe and Times-Picayune, plus update on rescue efforts 10/13/0

(Current volunteer needs and information summary at the bottom of this alert.)

CBS Evening News anchor, Bob Schieffer announced last night, regarding the Thursday, October 13, broadcast:

“On Thursday’s broadcast: 6 weeks after Katrina some of her most defenseless victims are still being rescued. We’ll take you along as a group of dedicated people work to save the animals.”

Watch if you can, and please thank CBS for covering the issue. Positive feedback for animal friendly stories includes similar coverage.

CBS Evening News takes feedback at: evening [at] cbsnews.com

(I thank David Sickles for making sure we knew about the coverage.)

On Friday, October 14, National Public Radio’s ‘Morning Edition’ is scheduled to air a story on the animal disaster relief efforts. The reporter spent time in Gonzales and interviewed Dave Pauli. You can listen on your local NPR station or later in the day on line at www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=3 . If you do get a chance to hear the story, please make sure you thank Morning Edition for airing it. The show takes comments at www.npr.org/contact/

The New Orleans paper, the Times-Picayune, has run a sorrowful lead story in the Thursday, October 13 edition, headed, “Pet rescuers arranging fewer happy reunions; Animals being found are hungry, scared.”

It tells us that animals are still being found alive, “But though animal rescues continued this week in largely empty neighborhoods, and though the resilience of domesticated animals — from house cats to lap dogs to exotic birds — was sometimes astonishing, time was no longer on their side.” And we read that according to Amanda St. John, the founder of Muttshack, a volunteer rescue organization, “A lot of homeowners are coming home to dead and dying animals.”

It gives the following heartbreaking descriptions:

“A chow in the Lafitte public housing development seemed to have melted into the rug where he starved to death. A mummified pit bull hanged from his leash on an eastern New Orleans fence where he may have strangled as flood waters receded. A cat skeleton peeked from beneath a pile of rubble. The rescuers recall a small dog, alive but too weak to move, that had presumably been put out with the trash in front of a home. Another dog, found in a bathroom, barely had the strength to raise its head to greet rescuers.”

And it quotes Chicago volunteer Karen O’Toole: “I thought when they opened the city, people would rush back to get their pets but some people have just abandoned them. We were told to no longer be going into people’s residences as of last Wednesday, but we’re working in neighborhoods where the houses are condemned.”

It also provides heartening news about the rescue efforts: “Despite the near-death condition of some of the animals, the veterinarians have euthanized none. St. John says that, curiously, the most damaged animals are often the first to be adopted once they’ve reached evacuation sites. ‘Old people take old dogs, people with heart conditions take dogs with heart conditions, people with a limp take dogs with a limp,’ she said.”

I understand that the number of animals euthanized in the whole effort is not actually zero, but is tiny, and that animals were killed only when more than one vet felt that nothing could be done to save them.

You can read the whole story on the Times-Picayune website at tinyurl.com/e4mxm.

And you can send a letter to the editor at www.nola.com/contactus/.

Under “Submit to” you should choose “Letters to the Times-Picayune.”

The Boston Globe today, October 13, has a piece by Gina Spadafori, a Boston Globe Correspondent who is “the author of several pet-care books and a consultant to the Veterinary Information Network.” She makes the point that “If pets aren’t included in disaster plans, people will die. That’s because in disaster after disaster, it has been proven that the strength of the human-animal bond is such that if animals have to be left behind, there are plenty of people who will stay and fight for their pets’ survival along with their own.”

You’ll find that piece on line at tinyurl.com/78n6z and you can send a supportive letter to the Globe at letter [at] globe.com

Always include your full name, address, and daytime phone number when sending a letter to the editor.

Finally, as the items above make clear, some animals are still being found alive and the situation is urgent. Volunteers are needed to get animals out of homes, to leave food for animals on the streets, and to care for animals arriving at the Best Friends shelter in Tylertown. Jane Garrison is still down there, and desperately needs your help. She is now working closely with David Meyer from 1800SaveAPet.com. If you can get down there to help them please just go. Their latest alert tells us,

“Morning meetings will now be held at 7:30 am in front of the Southern Animal Foundation at 1823 Magazine, in downtown New Orleans.”

Volunteers are responsible for finding their own lodging and should prepare to camp.

If you plan to go I will be delighted to forward you the whole page. It includes the following contact information but I urge you not to use it unless you are in the area and for some reason cannot find them through the Southern Animal Foundation. Jane has begged people not to tie up her phone and she is overwhelmed with email.

Jane Garrison 843-343-8887; JaneGarrison [at] comcast.net
David Meyer 310-897-6546

Pia Salk has also been working with them. You can contact her at 323-899-4160

There are other rescue efforts in the Katrina Disaster area in need of volunteers. Brenda Shoss of Kinship Circle is an excellent source of information. She is at info [at] kinshipcircle.org, (desk) 314-863-9445; (cell) 314-795-2646.

Thanks for going to help if you can, and for whatever efforts you have made, or can make, to encourage media coverage of the issue. Positive feedback for positive coverage is truly helpful.

Yours and the animals’,
Karen Dawn

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: Kinship Circle
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 2:14 AM
Subject: *10/12: PART 2 - More Help For Hurricane Animals*

If you did not receive PART 1, request it at: info [at] kinshipcircle.org

PART 2
10/12/05—MORE HELP FOR HURRICANE ANIMALS

IN THIS ALERT:
12.) Rescuers: Distribute This Form to Shelters!
13.) Help Horses, Cows… In Ravaged Storm Regions
14.) Humane Society of Southern Mississippi
15.) St. Tammany Parish Animal Shelter
16.) Galveston County Animal Shelter
17.) Best Friends Calling In More Volunteers
18.) Noah’s Wish Needs Help Through Oct. 31
19.) Lake Charles Animal Rescue
20.) Staging Area in Dothan, Alabama
21.) Louisiana SPCA in Algiers – Professionals Only
22.) Emergency Response for Avian Victims
(#1-11 listed in PART 1)

PLEASE SEND THE FOLLOWING TO info [at] kinshipcircle.org:
(If you have already sent this, DO NOT SEND AGAIN)
Your full name / Name of organization (if applicable)
Full street address
Cell phone, land phone, email
Brief description of what you can provide
*Before you leave, let us know your destination. You may be able to help us with a transport, based on where you are volunteering.

DUE TO THE VOLUME OF VOLUNTEER INQUIRIES, PLEASE:
- Type “HURRICANE VOLUNTEER” in the subject line of emails.
- Read alerts carefully. Contact people listed within specific effort.
- For directions to a volunteer site:
www.mapquest.com/directions/main.adp
- We cannot find foster pets for individual homes. We only coordinate transport/foster for 501c3-affiliated organizations to travel to hurricane-effected areas and bring back animals for foster. Please contact your local shelter or check our Directory of Animal Shelters: www.kinshipcircle.org/katrina/shelters.html#4

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1.) RESCUERS: DISTRIBUTE THIS FORM TO SHELTERS

21755. RESCUERS, pls. Read & distribute - from Eric R.
by shireen, 10/11/05
There is a file called National Consensus Recommendations Interim Plan for National Pet-Owner Reunification. It prints on one page. When you interact with shelters, please give them a copy of it. The file is posted in 2 formats, word and pdf. You can download it from:

home.comcast.net/~whimbrel/pet_owner_reunite.doc
home.comcast.net/~whimbrel/pet_owner_reunite.pdf

If you can’t access it, please send me email at whimbrel [at] comcast.net

From Eric Rice, www.ericsdogblog.com/: This needs to get in the hands of Shelters who are adopting out animals. This was done last week but the HSUS still had not gotten it in the hands of shelters. It clearly states that the pet MUST be on petfinder.com for 30 days and recommends much longer than that. HSUS is recommending December 15, I think. But The shelters have not been passed this info. It is depressing. Can you continue to post and bump this and get it the hands of those volunteering to find animals so they can get it in the hands of shelters?

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2.) HELP HORSES, COWS… IN RAVAGED STORM REGIONS

CONTACT:
Debra Barlow, president, Hopeful Haven Equine Rescue
318-286-3116, hopefulhaven [at] yahoo.com

1) CRITICAL NEED FOR HORSE VACCINES
EEE/WEE West Nile & Tetanus
Request for equine vaccine donations from veterinarians. No limit to amount needed. Fed Ex delivery is ideal.
SEND VACCINES TO:
Dr. Prejean; 1101 West Port Street; Abbeville, LA 70510

2) SUPPLY NEEDS: THEIR LIVES DEPEND ON IT
CATTLE FEED, RANGE CUBES, HORSE FEED, SHEEP FEED, HAY, T-POSTS FOR FENCING,
BARBED WIRE, VACCINES & SYRINGES

To send supplies for distribution on Hopeful Haven convoys–
SHIP TO: Debra Barlow
315 Pecan Drive; Shreveport, LA 71106
cell: 318-286-3116 * hopefulhaven [at] yahoo.com

To send supplies directly to Abbeville Shelter–
CONTACT: Joelle Rupert: 337-277-4239; Larry Rupert: 337-277-1235
Rupert home: 337-893-0235

3) SAVE LIVES WITH HOPEFUL HAVEN’S ONGOING CONVOYS
Local ranchers lost everything. Nothing from the government or Fema. Cows and horses still in marshes. We bottle fed a calf born the day of the hurricane. They are all so thin… We tried to nurse a cow who has been down 10 days. Please bring supplies and join our convoy!

Convoy schedules posted separately. Request latest dates:
Debra Barlow, Hopeful Haven Equine Rescue
cell: 318-286-3116 * hopefulhaven [at] yahoo.com

4) MONETARY DONATION
Hopeful Haven Equine Rescue
P.O. Box 17763; Shreveport, LA 71138
Online: www.hopefulhaven.com/webscr.htm

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3.) HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI

CONTACT:
Tara High, President of the HSSM Board and Acting Executive Director
cell: 228-669-8272; sold [at] tarahigh.com, info [at] hsosm.org

LOCATION:
Humane Society of South Mississippi (HSSM)
13756 Washington Avenue; Gulfport, Mississippi 39503

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
10/10/05, from Tara High, HSSM, Board President and Interim Director:
The HSSM is still very dependent upon the commitment and dedication of volunteers from around the nation… Overcoming obstacles daily from extensive damage to the shelter, our equipment and supplies, to harmful rumors. We have lost animals and staff as a result of the storm and are working diligently to get back on our feet so that we can provide refuge for the homeless animals of our community.

SUPPLY NEEDS:
Full supplies list: hssm.org/help/wishlist/

HSSM supplies registered at local Home Depot:
Home Depot / Gulfport, MS on Creosote Road
ph: 228-867-9925 ext. 432
You can purchase items with credit card over the phone. They will then notify HSSM and we will pick up.

Purchase gift cards at Lowe’s, Home Depot, Office Max or Depot or Sam’s/Walmart. Mail gift cards to:
HSSM / 13756 Washington Ave. / Gulfport, MS 39503

MONETARY DONATION:
Secure credit card donations via Pay Pals

Send check by mail made out to HSSM Katrina Relief Fund:
Humane Society of South Mississippi (HSSM)
13756 Washington Avenue; Gulfport, Mississippi 39503

ADOPTION:
To arrange transport of animals for adoption to other areas please call:
Michelle Prince, HSSM: 909-519-1964 or 228-396-2763

SOURCE: hssm.org/2005/10/10/letter-from-the-president/

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4.) ST. TAMMANY PARISH ANIMAL SHELTER

CONTACT:
Melissa, 985-809-0183; shelter [at] stpgov.org
Dr. Brent Robbins

LOCATION:
St. Tammany Parish Department of Animal Services
(St. Tammany Parish Animal Shelter)
25026 Hwy 36; Abita Springs, LA 70420

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Need dog walkers, TLC for animals… Have double the shelter’s normal capacity due to hurricane rescues.

ADOPTION:
Contact Melissa: 985-809-0183

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5.) GALVESTON COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER

CONTACT:
Alexis or Gwen Norman: 409-948-2485

LOCATION:
Galveston County Animal Shelter
3412 Loop 197 North; Texas City TX
(just outside Galveston, Texas)

FOSTER/ADOPT:
Shelter is swamped with owner-surrendered hurricane animals and unclaimed rescues. Urgent need to release animals for foster/adoption. Shelter will transport animals to nearby areas.
1) Call Alexis: 409-948-2485
2) Please check the shelter website: www.gcas.petfinder.com
Not all available dogs and cats are posted because staff is overtaxed with hurricane animals. Adoptions can be arranged with shelter by phone/fax.

SUPPLY NEEDS (10/5/05):
Attn: Alexis / Galveston County Animal Shelter
3412 Loop 197 N; Texas City, Texas 77590

Dog Food Dry/Can; Cat Food Dry/Can; Bowls, Leashes, Collars, Kitty Litter, Litter Boxes, Grooming Supplies (brushes, combs, nail clippers…), Dog/Cat Shampoos, Oatmeal Shampoo (some stressed animals are losing hair) Flea Control Products (please do NOT donate Hartz, which has proven TOXIC to cats and dogs in hundreds of recorded cases), Pet Wormers, Flagyl, Heartguard (all size doses, especially large), Sentinel, Wire Crates, Pet Toys, Towels

MONETARY DONATIONS:
(mail to temporary address until bank account set up)
Alexis Lott / 2309 Lees Court / League City, Texas 77573
Write on check or money order: ATTENTION: ALEXIS/VET SERVICES
Make check payable to: ALEXIS LOTT

RESCUE GAS FUND:
Mission Katrina & Rita Rescue / C/O Friends of GCAS
3412 Loop 197 N; Texas City, Texas 77590
make out checks or money orders to: GCAS
Write on check or money order RESCUE GAS FUND
Gasoline fund finances transport of animals to new homes.

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6.) BEST FRIENDS CALLING IN MORE VOLUNTEERS

LOCATION:
Best Friends Hurricane Relief Center at the St. Francis Animal Sanctuary
97 Obed Magee Rd.; Tylertown, MS 39667

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Joy Moffat, Best Friends Member Services: Best Friends is taking animals at St. Francis in Tylertown from Lamar-Dixon. We are fostering out the animals we’ve already rescued to make room. We have deployed hundreds of volunteers already, and are calling in more to care for all the animals coming and going. We especially need to hear from people who can foster pitbulls.

WHAT TO DO:
Register to volunteer for Best Friends hurricane effort:
www.bestfriends.org/HF/VL.cfm

If you can help with transportation:
www.bestfriends.org/HF/TS.cfm

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7.) NOAH’S WISH NEEDS HELP THROUGH OCT. 31

LOCATION:
Noah’s Wish temporary animal evacuation shelter, 985-656-4267
The Slidell Public Works Yard
1325 Bayou Lane; Slidell, LA (Located next to Heritage Park)
Noah’s Wish Foundation: 530-622-9313; pagers: 877-575-0128 or 800-746-9390
info [at] noahswish.org, Terricrisp [at] msn.com

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Noah’s Wish in Slidell, LA has approximately 1000 animals in care as of today. Volunteers are very needed to assist with all areas of animal care including dog walking, kennel cleaning, cat cuddling and feeding.

WHAT TO DO:
Trained Noah’s Wish Volunteers, send email with your availability:
info [at] noahswish.org
Untrained volunteers request Convergent Volunteer Registration form:
convergentvol [at] noahswish.org

FOSTER:
To foster, email: info [at] noahswish.org
After 30 day holding period, animals eligible to be fostered. Anyone interested in eventually adopting particular animal has to first foster animal for additional 30 days.

ADOPTION:
To adopt, email: adoption [at] noahswish.org
Not adopting any animals unless owner-surrendered or have completed their 60 day holding period.

SOURCE: www.noahswish.com, spiritsmission [at] shaw.ca

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8.) LAKE CHARLES ANIMAL RESCUE

CONTACT:
Volunteers need to speak to Dr. Dick Green: 337-437-3846

LOCATION:
Calcasieu Parish Animal Shelter
5500A Swift Plant Road 70615; Lake Charles, Louisiana
shelter ph: 337-439-8879

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
People with experience in search-and-rescue work; animal control or humane officer field; veterinarians, vet techs, shelter workers/volunteers, feral cat/aggressive animal handlers, dog trainers, groomers; Red Cross or other emergency response training; livestock handlers.

People to clean cages, dispense food/water, provide TLC … Also, people qualified to manage paperwork and organize electronic records and data.

If you are self-contained (have RV or ready to camp) that is ideal.

DIRECTIONS:
WESTBOUND on I-10: Exit at FIRST Lake Charles exit (exit 36). Turn right at bottom of ramp, go over overpass and through first traffic signal, then take first street on right. Go to end of road, the shelter is on your left.

EASTBOUND on I-10: Exit at LAST Lake Charles exit (also exit 36). Turn left at bottom of the ramp, go over overpass, through first traffic light, take first street on right, and go to end of road.

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9.) STAGING AREA IN DOTHAN, ALABAMA

CONTACT:
Maria Church, Director of Staging Area Operations
home: 334-793-3943; cell: 334-685-0522; staging area: 334-615-4620
mamaloveslabs [at] netzero.com

Rescue coalition formed by SAVE-A-PET, at the Dothan Animal Shelter, the Wiregrass Humane Society, and the Southeast Alabama Kennel Club
NOTE: Coalition supported and funded in part by the Florida Association of Kennel Clubs and the American Kennel Club

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Pet Care, Veterinary Care, Grooming, Transportation, Clerical, Laundry, Warehousing, and Volunteer Support, Foster Homes, and Donations.

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/17/05):
Tents, Cat/Dog Food, Generators, Cat/Dog Treats, Heavy Duty Extension Cords, Cat/Dog Toys, Temporary Lighting, Kitty Litter, Wading Pools, Large Garbage Cans & Liners, Crates, Adjustable Dog Collars, Heavy Duty Hoses with Nozzles, Filing Cabinet, Leashes, Office Supplies, Foldup Tables & Chairs, Hand Sanitizer, Laptop, Dawn Dishwashing Liquid, Water Gallon Containers, Spray Bottles, Laundry Soap, Paper Towels, Bleach Towels, Toilet Paper

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10.) LOUISIANA SPCA IN ALGIERS – PROFESSIONALS ONLY

LOCATION:
The LA/SPCA animal control division is based at a semi-permanent 45,000 square foot warehouse in Algiers, Louisiana.

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Will accept strays and adopt out animals who are unclaimed. To augment staff, LA/SPCA is working with Society for Animal Welfare Administrators
(SAWA), a nonprofit management organization of professional administrators of organizations involved in the animal care and control field.

WHAT TO DO:
Interested professionals fill out appropriate forms at links below.
Starting date: 10/17/2005 - Ending date: 12/17/2005

Louisiana SPCA / Animal Care
Volunteer form: www.petharbor.com/WebForm_RequestDetail.aspx?id=18

Louisiana SPCA / Animal Control Officer
Volunteer form: www.petharbor.com/WebForm_RequestDetail.aspx?id=19

Louisiana SPCA / Director of Operations Backup / 1 person
Volunteer form: www.petharbor.com/WebForm_RequestDetail.aspx?id=22

Louisiana SPCA / Exec. Director Backup / 1 person
Volunteer form: www.petharbor.com/WebForm_RequestDetail.aspx?id=23

Louisiana SPCA / Export Assistant / 1 person
Volunteer form: www.petharbor.com/WebForm_RequestDetail.aspx?id=21

Louisiana SPCA / Intake/Redemption Clerks
Volunteer form: www.petharbor.com/WebForm_RequestDetail.aspx?id=20

SOURCE: www.sawanetwork.org/

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11.) EMERGENCY RESPONSE FOR AVIAN VICTIMS

SUPPLIES & MONETARY DONATIONS:
Jinx Scogin and Steven Thomas
625 Bradford Street N; Gainesville, Georgia 30501-3214
678-450-5574, jinx625 [at] charter.net, sthomas625 [at] charter.net
Accepting donated items for 911 Parrot Alert at our home. Large front porch where items can be left if not at home. If you cannot bring them to our home, call 678-450-5574. We will arrange to pick them up for you.

RESCUE:
Donna Powell; c/o 911 Parrot Alert
16365 Woodmere; Baton Rouge, LA 70819
www.911parrotalert.com
If you wish to ship items directly to Donna Powell, contact:
Ellen, Beaks and Noses Rescue (in Massachusetts)
BeaksandNoses [at] hotmail.com, 978-362-2072.

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/27/05):
[available at pet supply stores, supermarkets]
Paper towels; Old towels and hand towels; Trash bags (medium and large); Household bleach, Spray bottles (must be unused, hardware stores carry them); Cage cleaning supplies (NO HOUSEHOLD CLEANERS except bleach); Seed mixes, pellets (all breeds, finches to large parrots); Healthy treats (Nutriberries, lots of varieties); Millet sprays; Cuttlebone and mineral blocks; Perches, Swings (all sizes, varieties); Toys with mirrors; Toys, toys, toys (have fun with this one!); Cage bowls and dishes; Cages (all sizes); Carriers for transport (all sizes, including those made for small dogs and cats); Syringes (all sizes. For hand feeding baby birds, administering oral medications); Dietary supplements (vitamins, Ornabac, Ornalyte, Furazite. Hi-cal grit, molting and conditioning aids, bird charcoal); Nets (for safely catching birds); Mosquito netting; Cuddle things (such as Birdy Buddy); Copy paper reams

MONETARY DONATIONS:
Cash or check donations to order items from www.drsfostersmith.com/
Make checks payable to “For The Birds.”
ONLINE DONATIONS: www.911parrotalert.com

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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
www.kinshipcircle.org

*DISCLAIMER:
Information in all alerts is verified with original sources, to the best of our ability. We cannot assume responsibility for the consequences of its use. Call or email contacts at specific locations before going.
Grassroots Effort for Animals of the Storm
Kinship Circle * Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF)

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: Kinship Circle
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 2:15 AM
Subject: *10/12: PART 1 - Help For Hurricane Animals*

If you did not receive PART 2, request it at: info [at] kinshipcircle.org

PART 1
10/12/05—HELP FOR HURRICANE ANIMALS

IN THIS ALERT:
1.) Reunite Pets With Their People
2.) MuttShack Rescue Unit – New Orleans
3.) Winn-Dixie Site: Disaster Response Rescue
4.) Caring About Cats With Alley Cat Allies
5.) Pasado Animal Rescue – Until 10/16
6.) Animal Relief In Abbeville
7.) Homes For New Iberia Humane Society Animals?
8.) Humane Society of Louisiana in Tylertown
9.) Jane Garrison/David Meyer Rescue Effort
10.) Kinship Circle/ARF Supply Distribution
11.) Personal Supplies List
(#12-22 listed in PART 2)

DUE TO THE VOLUME OF VOLUNTEER INQUIRIES, PLEASE:
- Type “HURRICANE VOLUNTEER” in the subject line of emails.
- Read alerts carefully. Contact people listed within specific effort.
- For directions to a volunteer site: www.mapquest.com/directions/main.adp
- We cannot find foster pets for individual homes. We only coordinate transport/foster for 501c3-affiliated organizations to travel to hurricane-effected areas and bring back animals for foster. Please contact your local shelter or check our Directory of Animal Shelters: www.kinshipcircle.org/katrina/shelters.html#4

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1.) REUNITE PETS WITH THEIR PEOPLE

WANTED: Computer sleuths. Join stealthvolunteers to help an animal find his or her family.

JOIN stealthvolunteers: groups.yahoo.com/group/stealthvolunteers/

LOCATION:
Your computer.

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Group for people who would like to search online to help reunite Katrina evacuees with their pets. (Previously finding two-legged family members.)
Volunteers must be:
-VERY comfortable with a computer.
-Willing to call nationwide to chase down leads.
-You will be assigned to an animal with *some* ID.
-You will attempt to track the owner based on that ID. (IF you can’t call people for some reason, we have a Phone Buddy who will make calls on your behalf.)

Learn about search methods used: www.KatrinaSanAntonio.com

-You need to be approved to join only as a precaution against spammers.
-If you join, you will be approved.
-You receive a Welcome document with instructions which you must read or you will be hopelessly confused!

Related Link: www.KatrinaSanAntonio.com
Post message: stealthvolunteers [at] yahoogroups.com
Subscribe: stealthvolunteers-subscribe [at] yahoogroups.com
Unsubscribe: stealthvolunteers-unsubscribe [at] yahoogroups.com
List owner: stealthvolunteers-owner [at] yahoogroups.com

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2.) MUTTSHACK RESCUE UNIT – NEW ORLEANS

CONTACT:
Sharon Gorski: 877-727-9343; possecop [at] msn.com
Cris Stevens: 219-608-4112, 219-326-8887

LOCATION:
Lake Castle School; 8400 Hayne Blvd.; New Orleans, LA

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
MuttShack has established a haven for immediate triage and temporary shelter. A waystation for rescued animals, this animal M.A.S.H. unit provides emergency veterinary care and shelter, with the ultimate goal of reuniting companion animals with their families. Need veterinarians, vet techs, search/rescue teams and shelter workers. Please be prepared to volunteer a minimum of 5 days.

SUPPLY NEEDS:
Needs fluctuate. Check with Sharon Gorski (877-727-9343)

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3.) WINN-DIXIE SITE: DISASTER RESPONSE RESCUE

CONTACT:
Shannon and Mark Martin
email: athenspsp [at] hotmail.com; home: 706-769-7701
groups.msn.com/disasterresponseanimalrescue

LOCATION:
Winn Dixie Marketplace Temporary Staging Area
4600 Chef Menteur Hwy (at N. Louisa Street); New Orleans, LA 70126-5011

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Kennel help with rescued animals. Search/rescue. Need veterinarians, vet techs.

SUPPLY NEEDS (10/1/05):
WORM MEDICINE (especially for cats), Wire Crates, Trucks, SUVs, Catch Poles,
Water, Ice, Gatorade, Cots, Air Mattresses, Diesel & Unleaded Fuel, Humane
Cat & Dog Traps, Bulk Towels (for kennels)

DIRECTIONS TO WINN-DIXIE STAGING AREA:
* Take I-10 East to 610 East, until it meets back up with I-10 East again.
* Exit at Louisa St. North.
* Turn right on Gentilly Road.
* Take an immediate left into the Winn-Dixie parking lot. (At bottom of freeway exit ramp. The back side of Winn-Dixie will be visible, one block to your right.)
OR
* I-12 E to Slidell
* Exit 83 to Hwy 11 over Ponchatrain
* After bridge take a right onto I-10E to Louisa St exit

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4.) CARING ABOUT CATS WITH ALLEY CAT ALLIES

CONTACT:
Pilara Felgate, Regional Coordinator, Alley Cat Allies:
pfelgate [at] alleycat.org; 773-244-4049
Volunteers may also call: 240-482-1997

www.alleycat.org/katrina_colony.cfm: Can use Feral Cat Colony Help
Request Form as hurricane volunteer form. Skip sections that don’t apply.

Volunteer information: www.alleycat.org/katrina.html#rescue

LOCATION:
Bogalusa, Lousiana / Camp established 1 hour north of New Orleans
Electricity available, but arrive self-sufficient prepared to camp.

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Help needed immediately. Anticipate the need for ongoing help through the end of the year. With citizens returning to New Orleans/surrounding areas, Alley Cat Allies plans to help rebuild the caregiver network, remove feral cats from shelters, collect/provide food and water to known colonies, identify other colonies in need and assess future needs such as spay/neuter services and ongoing support for caregivers.

LOOKING FOR:
1. Rescuers, veterinarians, caregivers… on the ground
2. Drivers and vehicles for transport (Trucks, SUVs preferable)
3. Foster homes and barn homes (for feral cats)

*If you can transport and/or foster, please contact Pilara Felgate: pfelgate [at] alleycat.org; 773-244-4049

SUPPLY NEEDS:
Updated list on the website: www.alleycat.org/katrina.html#help

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5.) PASADO ANIMAL RESCUE – UNTIL 10/16
Susan Michaels, Co-Founder, Pasado’s Safe Haven: “At this point we are going to leave Raceland in about a week and transport those injured or ill animals back to Pasado’s in Washington State.”

CONTACT:
AFTER travel arrangements are made, email: cstaylor [at] frontiernet.net

LOCATION:
Pasado Safe Haven Staging Area / 3515 Hwy. 309; Raceland, LA 70394

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Anticipate rescuing through October 16. Cleaning kennels, washing dogs, walking dogs, other assigned duties. NEED VETERINARIANS. If you are a vet, email: susan [at] pasadosafehaven.org

WHAT TO DO:
-Book a flight to Baton Rouge, LA or New Orleans
-Book a campsite or hotel early. They fill up fast.
LIST OF HOTELS/CAMPSITE: www.pasadosafehaven.org/NEWS/NEWS4.htm
-There is no space to sleep, shower, go to bathroom at Pasado triage site.
-Once you have done the above, email: cstaylor [at] frontiernet.net

SUPPLY NEEDS (10/11/05):
Send to Pasado Safe Haven:
10131 Woods Lake Rd.
Monroe, WA 98272tissue glue, thumb forceps, blade handles, needle holders, conjugate mixing tubes/vials, comcat (?) catheters, metranyacol 500mg, FeLV/FIV combo “snap” tests, CANNED ID Prescription dog food

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6.) ANIMAL RELIEF IN ABBEVILLE

CONTACT:
Marie Bossard, St. Martin Humane Society:
337-879-6600, 337-277-9538, stmartinhumane [at] hotmail.com
Joelle Rupert: 337-277-4239; home: 337-893-0235

LOCATION:
Abbeville Shelter, Cecil McCrory Bldg.; Abbeville, Louisiana 70510
(on Port Rd., next to Clyde Prejean’s DMV office)
Fly into Lafayette, LA airport. Rent car to drive to nearby Abbeville. No gas shortages. Can show up, or call above for more information.

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
ABBEVILLE SHELTER: Need volunteers to help with large/farm animals (horses, cows, etc.) in Rita storm areas. Help needed for dogs, cats, pets brought back to temporary Abbeville Shelter. Animals also held at Sugarena in Iberia for 30 days. After that, animals go to local shelters, foster.

SURGARENA ACADIANA FAIRGROUND: No volunteer needs at present time. Dogs, cats, geese, goats, cows, horses here. Up for adoption after 30 days.
Hwy 3212; New Iberia, LA
(US 90 to New Iberia, Hwy 3212 – Signs: Acadiana Fairgrounds)

SUPPLY NEEDS (10/5/05):
RANGE PELLETS, HAY, CATTLE FEED, HORSE FEED, FENCING
Call Joelle Rupert: 337-277-4239; Rupert home: 337-893-0235
CRATES (airline approved, plastic)
WATER TROUGHS (for horses/cattle at Sugarena)
Call Marilynn White: 337-380-2481
FOR DOG/CAT RESCUES:
Dog/Cat Toys, Collars, Shampoo, Flea Treatment (not Hartz!), Treats, Bowls…

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7.) HOMES FOR NEW IBERIA HUMANE SOCIETY ANIMALS?

CONTACT:
Marilynn DeBuse White: 213-220-0468; white [at] giftsetc.com
website: www.iberiahumane.com

LOCATION:
New Iberia Humane Society
(Under direction of Dr. Eric White, DVM)
1314 Troy Road; New Iberia, Louisiana
337-365-1923; IberiaHu [at] IberiaHumane.com
MAP: www.iberiahumane.com/map.htm

FOSTER/ADOPT:
CONTACT Melissa or Marlene: 337-365-1923
-NO KILL shelter located west of New Orleans with rescues from Katrina and Rita.
-Also obtaining formal surrenders from evacuees who cannot care for their animals because homeless.
-Anticipate need for foster/adopt for at least the next six months.

Compiling list of animal shelters nationwide willing to come here and transport animals, free and clear for adoption, to other areas where safe, loving homes are available. (Iberia Humane Society must follow the Louisiana quarantine regulations).

SUPPLY NEEDS (10/4/05):
*Requested that rescuers bring donated supplies with them whenever possible.
Dog, puppy, cat, kitten food, Litter, Horse feed, Cleaning supplies, Cages

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8.) HUMANE SOCIETY OF LOUISIANA IN TYLERTOWN

CONTACT:
CALL FIRST - Sharon Gorski, 877-727-9343, possecop [at] msn.com
Shelter director, Jeff Dorson: 901-268-4432; call in Tylertown: 601-876-2781
To confirm your arrival date, email: humanela [at] gmail.com
Onsite contacts: Ask for Johnna Harris or Jeff Dorson

LOCATION:
The Humane Society of Louisiana Emergency Shelter
115 Obed Magee Rd.; Tylertown, Mississippi 39667
(next to St. Frances Animal Sanctuary)

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Presently in need of veterinarians, vet techs, animal caretakers, office staff, transporters, electricians, plumbers. No housing, come prepared to camp with tent. Access to nearby Red Cross showering facilities.

FOSTER/ADOPT
You need definitive approval from a local New Orleans animal protection charity, before heading down. 501c3 no-kill sanctuaries or rescue groups that want to adopt animals through Humane Society of Louisiana,
CONTACT: Jen Daley, Katrina Adoptions Coordinator, jndaley [at] yahoo.com

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/28/05):
Long list: www.humanela.org/ (scroll toward bottom of page)

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9.) JANE GARRISON/DAVID MEYER RESCUE EFFORT
This rescue effort is currently in a state of transition as organizers establish a new base of operation. We will keep you updated.

Today, David Meyer of 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com arranged to airlift all animals still in Lamar-Dixon to shelter/foster in CA.

From Jane Garrison (10/11/05): Unbelievably, we rescued 2 more animals from inside 2 separate homes yesterday. Both were found alive in the attics of the houses…Completely skin and bones but alive and THRILLED to see our rescuers! As this point, we have about 600 addresses still on our list of people who asked for their animals to be rescued…

CONTACT:
Jane Garrison: JaneGarrison [at] comcast.net

LOCATION:
UNTIL 10/15/05–
Come to Lamar-Dixon Expo Center: 9039 St. Landry Ave.; Gonzales, LA 70737
Report to Prowler trailer between barn #1 and barn #2.
Advising people to stay in the FEMA tent at Lamar Dixon Expo Center.
After Oct. 15, may still be able to stay there in your own tent but we are working out those details. I will keep you informed on this situation.

AFTER 10/15/05–
Will meet outside the spay/neuter clinic of a local rescue group we have connected with. This clinic also agreed to let animals stay at the clinic throughout the day prior to being sent to Best Friends temporary shelter (where we have been bringing animals since HSUS closed Lamar Dixon). This group is also helping us locate a warehouse or storage unit in New Orleans where we can store dog/cat food. Hope to have all of this worked out soon.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDS/SITUATION:
Continuing work from a database of requests to save animals at known addresses. Also go to homes where food and water were left. If an animal’s caretakers have not returned, rescue the animal.

1. Need a few volunteers to call people on the list and then remove those names who no longer need rescuing from the database.

2. People to go to New Orleans and check the remainder of the addresses. Animal control officers or experienced rescuers are preferred at this point.

3. Vets and techs willing to assist us and Best Friends as many animals rescued from the streets (and the few from within homes) are critical.

4. People willing to feed animals on the streets in New Orleans. Literally thousands of animals have no access to food and water… We have been sustaining animals by putting out hundreds of feed and water stations each week (which takes quite a few people) and rescuing the animals we are able top catch. However, with so many rescue groups leaving New Orleans animals won’t have a chance of surviving. In fact, we are now already starting to see a decline in their health.

If you are willing to come to New Orleans to feed and water please let [Jane] know. We will assign you a section of the city that you will be responsible for while you are here and we will provide all the food and bowls you will need.

SUPPLY NEEDS:
Dog/cat food
Will let you know where to ship once we have warehouse/storage unit in downtown New Orleans.

MONETARY DONATIONS:
1-800-Save-A-Pet.com
secure2.convio.net/sap/site/Donation?ACTION=SHOW_DONATION_OPTIONS&CAMPAIGN_ID=1482
Or mail check to:
1-800-Save-A-Pet.com / P.O. Box 7 / Redondo Beach, CA 90277

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10.) KINSHIP CIRCLE/ARF SUPPLY DISTRIBUTION
Our supply storehouse in Mobile, AL is no longer accepting NEW supplies—except for very specific and/or veterinary items.

We will tentatively conclude Grassroots Effort for Animals of the Storm at the end of October. Due to your generosity, some Katrina-related animal relief locations are inundated with supplies. Dog food and other everyday items have been turned away… But Rita-hit areas and some Katrina sites still need supplies.

NEED TRANSPORTERS TO DELIVER OUR EXISTING SUPPLIES:
1.) Drivers with large vehicles (trucks, empty horse trailers, SUV caravans, etc.) to transport supplies from Mobile, AL to storm areas still in need.
2.) Transporters must be willing to load/unload supplies.

CONTACT:
Julia Fischer, Supply Distribution Director
home: 251-645-8605; cell: 251-455-9377
ggnu [at] bellsouth.net

-State day and time you are arriving.
-If bringing supplies: type and quantity of supplies.
(Note: We will not accept Harts Flea/Tick Control products)
-Arrange, with Julia, for someone to meet you at storage site.

LOCATION:
Alternate Storage
5809 Larue Steiner Road; Theodore, Al 36582
(In Mobile off of I-10)
West off 65 onto I-10 take exit 15A.
Circle under interstate and stay on this road (Hwy 90).
Turn right at second stop light and this is Larue Steiner Road.
Travel about .3 miles down this road and it will be on this street.
52, 54, 55 are the units we have at this moment.

SUPPLY NEEDS (10/6/05):
Most INCOMING supplies now need to go directly to animal rescue sites—not to us. Through the end of October ask Julia, our supply coordinator, WHERE supplies, (such as the list below) are needed.
Flea control products (NO Harts products please. Lethal to cats/dogs. Been recalled.)
Horse/Cattle fly sprays
Lactated ringers (fluid bags), tubing and needles
Dog/Cat vaccines; Equine vaccines
Antibiotics (Calvados especially)
Multiple dog-walking devices
Puppy pads
Grooming tools (clippers, blades, brushes)
Vary Kennels (for relocation travel)
LARGE dog supplies (cages, leashes, collars)
Doggie pooper scoopers
Odorant
Bleach; Cleaning supplies
Trashcans
Large “circus type” fly tents
Water, Gatorade

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11.) PERSONAL SUPPLIES LIST

1.) Bring documentation, i.e., your animal organization’s nonprofit status; DART or other animal disaster relief training; veterinarian/vet tech or animal control credentials; animal rescue/shelter experience credentials; animal transport, etc.

2.) Have magnetic signs printed at Kinkos or another copy store for both sides of your vehicle. Suggestions for text on sign:
ANIMAL RESCUE or ANIMAL DISASTER RELIEF

3.) Bring 501c3 documentation and a veterinarian’s reference if you intend to bring back animals to foster.

current Hepatitis vaccinations
(Hepatitis A most important)
current Tetanus shot
pepper spray
hand sanitizer; alcohol and hydrogen peroxide
insect repellent
sunscreen
first aid kits
thick “bite-proof” work gloves
sturdy, waterproof (rubber) work boots/shoes
change of shoes
hip-waders (if possible)
long sleeve shirts (for coverage, but lightweight)
long pants (for coverage, but lightweight)
extra socks
utility knife
belt (to hang gears/supplies from)
mouth coverings (surgical masks, bandannas)
eye protection (sunglasses)
flashlights
D batteries
containers full of gasoline
cash
cell phone & car charger
phone cards (cell phones work, but not well)
waterproof walkie talkies
toilet paper
pillows, blankets, sheets, towels
water, Gatarade, snacks
other personal-care items

SHELTER: Bring a tent or trailer/RV type vehicle to live in.
Air mattress or cot

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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
www.kinshipcircle.org

*DISCLAIMER:
Information in all alerts is verified with original sources, to the best of our ability. We cannot assume responsibility for the consequences of its use. Call or email contacts at specific locations before going. Grassroots Effort for Animals of the Storm
Kinship Circle * Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF)

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: 1 Kinship Circle
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 9:34 AM
Subject: 10/16 CONVOY: Their Lives Depend on You!

Permission to cross-post

1.) SUNDAY (10/16) CONVOY FOR RITA’S STRANDED & STARVING
Nothing from the government or Fema. Cows and horses still in marshes. We bottle fed a calf born the day of the hurricane. They are all so thin… We tried to nurse a cow who has been down for 10 days. Their lives depend on you. Please bring supplies and join our convoy!

CONTACT:
Debra Barlow, president
Hopeful Haven Equine Rescue Organization
cell: 318-286-3116 * hopefulhaven [at] yahoo.com
P.O. Box 17763; Shreveport, La 71138

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Local ranchers lost everything. Cows and horses are in dire need of the supplies (listed below) to sustain life. The region is devastated…Erath, Henry, and Abbeville farmers. Please get on my convoy! Get your friends together, and put together a horse trailer full of the following supplies.,, Boats and houses have floated into pastures. The surge was 14 feet above sea level. They have nothing for winter.

NEXT CONVOY - SUNDAY, 10/16/05
3:00 a.m.
Convoy meets at Summer Grove Baptist Church, in Shreveport, LA (on Jewella where the old South Park Mall used to be)

by 6:30 a.m.
Arrive in Lafayette, LA at OMNI Energy Building
4500 NE Evangeline Thruway
On I-49 at exit 4
Go north on service road
OMNI Energy Bldg. is blue, on right side of road
Pull into parking lot; onsite contact: Lisa Simmons

by 7:30 a.m.
From Lafayette, will leave as day-long convoy with supplies into devastated regions.

SUPPLY NEEDS:
Get with your friends and fill up a horse trailer with these items and jump on board. It’s an experience you will never forget.
CATTLE FEED
RANGE CUBES
HORSE FEED
HAY
T-POSTS FOR FENCING
BARBED WIRE
VACCINES & SYRINGES

-Debra Barlow needs inventory of what is in your trailer by 10/15.
-IF bringing donations, specify donator’s name and address on inventory paper.
-Call & email Debra Barlow ASAP before Sunday, 10/16: 318-286-3116 * hopefulhaven [at] yahoo.com

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2.) VACCINES FOR HORSES

CRITICAL SUPPLY NEED:
EEE/WEE West Nile & Tetanus
Desperate request for equine vaccine donations from veterinarians. No limit to amount needed. Fed Ex delivery is ideal. We do not currently have enough to vaccinate all horses.

CONTACT:
Debra Barlow, president
cell: 318-286-3116; hopefulhaven [at] yahoo.com

SEND VACCINES TO:
Dr. Prejean
1101 West Port Street; Abbeville, LA 70510

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3.) HAY, HORSE/CATTLE/SHEEP FEED, FENCING

CRITICAL SUPPLY NEED:
CATTLE FEED
RANGE CUBES
HORSE FEED
SHEEP FEED
HAY
T-POSTS FOR FENCING
BARBED WIRE
VACCINES & SYRINGES

CONTACT:
To send supplies with Hopeful Haven convoys–
Debra Barlow
cell: 318-286-3116 * hopefulhaven [at] yahoo.com

CONTACT:
To send supplies directly to Abbeville or Sugarena Shelters–
Joelle Rupert: 337-277-4239; Larry Rupert: 337-277-1235
Rupert home: 337-893-0235

SEND VACCINES TO:
Dr. Prejean
1101 West Port Street; Abbeville, LA 70510

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GRASSROOTS EFFORT
FOR ANIMALS OF THE STORM

KINSHIP CIRCLE
7380 Kingsbury Blvd.; Saint Louis, MO 63130
Katrina relief contact Brenda Shoss:
(desk) 314-863-9445; (cell) 314-795-2646
www.kinshipcircle.org

ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION (ARF)
771 Holcombe Ave.; Mobile, Alabama 36605
Katrina relief contact Julia Fischer:
(cell) 251-455-9377; (home) 251-645-8605
www.animalrescuemobile.org

*DISCLAIMER:
Information in all alerts is verified with original sources, to the best of our ability. We cannot assume responsibility for the consequences of its use. Call or email contacts at specific locations before going. Grassroots Effort for Animals of the Storm
Kinship Circle * Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF)

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: 1 Kinship Circle
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 3:03 PM
Subject: LETTER/ Animals Shot Execution-Style in N.O.

10/10/05–Justice for Animals Shot Execution-Style in N.O.
KINSHIP CIRCLE LETTER CAMPAIGN
www.kinshipcircle.org

SOURCE OF INFORMATION
PasadoRescue News: Dog Shootings
www.pasadosafehaven.org/NEWS/DOGSHOOTING/REWARD.htm
Press Release: www.peta.org/mc/NewsItem.asp?id=7224
St. Bernard Parish, www.st-bernard.la.us/elect.htm
Louisiana District Attorneys Association
www.ldaa.org/roster/das.html

PETITION:
www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/434180433?ltl=1128434242
Asks Louisiana State’s Attorney and other officials to fully investigate the shooting of dogs at an evacuation center in St. Bernard’s Parish.

CNN video / Dogs killed at evacuation center (09.30.05, 2:32):
search.cnn.com/pages/search.jsp?query=dogs

TO THOSE NEW TO KINSHIP CIRCLE LETTER CAMPAIGNS:
Sample letters are provided as templates, based on our background research. We encourage you to personalize letters, changing some of the words. We also supply the best contact information we can find. In some cases, working emails are not available. We urge you to copy the content of the letter into your word processing software and print it out to mail or fax.

Whether you correspond via email, postal mail or fax–always sign your full name and address. DO NOT MENTION KINSHIP CIRCLE IN YOUR COMMENTS, which suggests a “form letter.” The intent is to send as many letters as possible from people around the country and world.

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CONTACT INFORMATION
*Sample letter follows*
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Louisiana Attorney General’s Office
The Honorable Charles C. Foti, Jr., Attorney General
1885 North 3rd St.; Baton Rouge, LA 70802
ph: 225-326-6000; fax: 225-326-6797, 225-342-8703
Executive Division: Executive [at] ag.state.la.us
Criminal Division: CriminalInfo [at] ag.state.la.us
Investigation Division: InvestigationInfo [at] ag.state.la.us
Litigation Division: LitInfo [at] ag.state.la.us
Public Protection Division: PublicProtectionInfo [at] ag.state.la.us
www.ag.state.la.us/ContactUs.aspx

The Honorable John F. Rowley
District Attorney, 34th Judicial District
P.O. Box 947; Chalmette, LA 70044-0947
St. Bernard Parish ph: 504-271-1658; fax: 504-279-2874

Louisiana District Attorneys Association
E. Pete Adams, Executive Director: pete [at] ldaa.org

Henry J. Rodriguez, Jr., St. Bernard Parish President
8201 W. Judge Perez Dr.; Chalmette, LA 70043
ph: 504-278-4227; email: hrodriguez [at] sbpg.net

St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s Office
P. O. Box 168; Chalmette, LA 70044
ph: 504-271-2504; fax: 504-278-7716; email: sheriff [at] sbso.org

Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco
Office of the Governor
P.O. Box 94004; Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9004
ph: 1-866-310-7617, 225-342-0991, 225-342-7015, 225-925-1938
fax: 225-342-7099
web email: www.gov.state.la.us/govemail.asp

Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu
Office of the Lieutenant Governor
Capitol Annex Building, 1051 North Third Street
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802
ph: 225-342-7009; fax: 225-342-1949; email: ltgov [at] crt.state.la.us
web email: crt.g2digital.com/contact/

Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
724 Hart Senate Office Building; Washington DC 20510
ph: 202-224-5824
web email: www.landrieu.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm

Senator David Vitter (R-LA)
516 Hart Senate Office Building; Washington DC 20510
ph: 202-224-4623
web email: www.vitter.senate.gov/contact.cfm

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SAMPLE LETTER
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TO: Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., District Attorney John F. Rowley, St. Bernard Parish President Henry J. Rodriguez, Jr., Louisiana District Attorneys Association, Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu, Senators Mary Landrieu and David Vitter

Honorable Officials of Louisiana:

My prayers are with Gulf coast cities as officials endeavor to rebuild in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. However, no city can renew itself without an underpinning of humanity.

That is why I have taken the time to contact you about the execution-style killing of family pets found inside Beauregard Middle School and Sebastien Roy Elementary School in St. Bernard Parish. Rising floodwaters forced people to take refuge at the schools. Upon further evacuation, they were ordered to leave their companions behind. Many scratched notes on walls or paper scraps: “There is a very nice dog in here. Please do not shoot her… Her name is Angel.”

“Please save our dogs,” they begged. “We love them.” But despite the presence of food, water, collars, ID tags, and contact information–some 29 dogs and cats, a number of them tethered in what appeared to be a jet-ski two rope, were found shot to death. At the Beauregard Middle School, 14 dogs with bullet wounds in the body cavity testified to a prolonged death. Amid the carnage, investigators spotted shell casings consistent with the type law enforcers use.

The deliberate slaughter of pets is merciless. One cannot measure its psychological impact upon hurricane survivors who already lost everything.

It may also comprise a violation of state law. Louisiana RS 14:102.1 proclaims, in part, that whomever “intentionally or with criminal negligence tortures, maims, or mutilates any living animal, whether belonging to himself or another, shall be guilty of aggravated cruelty to animals.”

On behalf of these animals and their distraught guardians, I respectfully ask you to rigorously investigate, prosecute and seek the conviction of individual(s) involved in the shooting of evacuees’ pets. If convicted, offenders ought to receive maximum penalties under the law. Law enforcers associated with this crime should be removed from active duty.

In early September Dallas Morning News photojournalist David Leeson videotaped Sgt. Mike Minton of the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s office randomly shooting displaced pets. When asked how many dogs he shot, Sgt. Minton replied, “Enough.”
www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/photography/2005/katrina_video/straydogs.html

These are domestic animals, many considered family members. Neuropsychiatrist Carol A. Tavani, M.D., says she regularly witnesses “the powerful emotional bonds people form with their animal companions. Forcing disaster victims to abandon animals… is likely to inflict profound and persistent emotional trauma.”

Forcing them to accept police officers killed their pets is inadmissible. I implore you to do everything possible to apprehend those responsible for the shootings and to assure no more animals are senselessly killed.

Thank you,

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Kinship Circle is a 501c3 non-profit organization.
We accept online donations at:
www.kinshipcircle.org/donation/donations.html
We are grateful for your support!

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: 1 Kinship Circle
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 11:20 PM
Subject: 10/6/05: Jane Garrison/Pia Salk Rescue Effort

10/6/05: JANE GARRISON / PIA SALK RESCUE EFFORT

DISCLAIMER: THIS RESCUE SITUATION IS VERY FLUID.
AS CHANGES OCCUR, WE WILL UPDATE YOU ASAP.

IN THIS ALERT:
1.) Volunteers: Show Up at Lamar Dixon – Until Oct. 15
2.) Data Entry Volunteers: To Use As Needed
3.) Current Foster/Adopt Situation
4.) Donations

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1.) VOLUNTEERS: SHOW UP AT LAMAR DIXON – UNTIL OCT. 15
The HSUS lease with Lamar-Dixon Expo Center ends October 15. After that, this rescue effort may operate from another location. Will keep you posted.

WHAT TO DO:
1) Come to Lamar-Dixon (Gonzales, LA) until October 15.
2) Report to Pia Salk at the “Prowler” trailer between barn #1 and barn #2.

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Primary mission: Continuing work from a database of requests to save animals at known addresses. Also go to homes where food and water were left. If an animal’s caretakers have not returned, rescue the animal.

NEED:
-Open-minded people whose skills are utilized to enhance entire operation.
-Must be able to follow assigned duties.
-Search and rescue
-Temporary animal care and transport, retrieve supplies
-Database management
-Can stay at least 3 days, preferably 1 week

BRING:
-Self-contained sleeping arrangement (vehicle, tent, etc.)
-Large containers (lasagna pans, etc.) to leave water for animals in the city
-Thick “scratch/bite-proof” work gloves
-Sturdy, waterproof work boots/shoes
-Utility knife

ON-SITE CONTACTS:
You do not need to contact anyone prior to your arrival.
Pia Salk, David Meyer, Karla Osbeck: 310-800-7011
*Team rescue leaders may vary as effort continues.
*Only call for critical information or an emergency.
*A frightened feral cat bit Jane Garrison and she has temporarily left Lamar-Dixon to seek medical treatment.

LOCATION:
Lamar Dixon Expo Center
9039 St. Landry Ave.; Gonzales, LA 70737

DIRECTIONS TO LAMAR DIXON:
FROM THE WEST: Take I-10 East to Exit 177
At bottom of ramp take a right
Go through traffic light and take second left into the Lamar Dixon Equestrian Center. Ask for the volunteer registration area.

FROM THE EAST: Take I-10 West to Exit 177
At bottom of ramp take a left
Go through traffic light and take second left into the Lamar Dixon Equestrian Center. Ask for the volunteer registration area.

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2.) DATA ENTRY VOLUNTEERS, TO USE AS NEEDED

*need fax machine

CONTACT:
info [at] kinshipcircle.org
Send name, phone number, email address

*Only send email if you can do data entry in evenings, approx. 7pm to 1am. Sorry, I may not have time to respond. I am simply recording your availability to do data entry. List will go to David Meyer (david [at] grappling.us), who will contact you when needed.

*If you already sent information in response to the first Jane Garrison alert, you do not need to resend.

LOCATION:
Work from your home.

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Data entry volunteers are contacted on as-need basis. If you are available when called, great! Databases need to be updated (animal found, missing, deceased) so rescuers don’t waste time returning to same addresses. You will enter data at www.dogdetective.com. David will explain details about how to do this.

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3.) CURRENT FOSTER/ADOPT SITUATION

This effort currently brings rescued animals to the Best Friends site in
Tylertown, MS. Holding facility may change. We will update you. For now, individuals or 501c3 foster/shelter groups must follow Best Friends’ policy to foster/adopt:

BEST FRIENDS
Organization to foster left-behind pet
www.bestfriends.org/HF/FO.cfm

Individual to foster left-behind pet
www.bestfriends.org/HF/FI.cfm

Adopt left-behind pet
www.bestfriends.org/HF/AD.cfm

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4.) DONATIONS

Monetary donations for www.1-800-Save-A-Pet.com

Mail check to:
1-800-Save-A-Pet.com
P.O. Box 7
Redondo Beach, CA 90277

Or click here

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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
www.kinshipcircle.org

*DISCLAIMER:
Information in all alerts is verified with original sources, to the best of our ability. We cannot assume responsibility for the consequences of its use. Call or email contacts at specific locations before going.
Grassroots Effort for Animals of the Storm
Kinship Circle * Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF)

—– Original Message —–
From: DawnWatch - news [at] dawnwatch.com
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 2:27 PM
Subject: DawnWatch: USA Today front page on Katrina animals, plus update on rescue efforts 10/6/05

The Thursday, October 6, edition of USA Today has a front page story headed, “Trapped New Orleans pets still being rescued.” It is on line at
www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-10-05-rescue-pets-cover_x.htm. I will quote from it and also provide some updates and contact information for those who wish to help. As the article makes clear, animals are still being saved, and help is still desperately needed.

The USA Today piece opens:

“For weeks after Hurricane Katrina struck, the only noise here in the empty neighborhoods of sodden houses was the barking of dogs. Then the barking stopped. Dogs are still here, but many are too hoarse and weak to make a sound. Many others have died. But hundreds of volunteer pet rescuers insist it’s not too late.

“The animals we are finding now are emaciated and sick and lonely, but we are still finding them alive,’ says Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States.

“Across the New Orleans area, the largest pet rescue operation in U.S. history has been a backdrop to the human suffering and the questions of how and when communities can be rebuilt. But from the start, pets have been part of the story - from the tens of thousands of animals left behind by their owners because shelters and hotels wouldn’t accept them, to the scattered residents who risked their lives and refused to evacuate so they could stay with their pets.

“Five weeks after the flooding began, animal rescue teams continue to fan across New Orleans and surrounding parishes every day at dawn in a race against diminishing odds. They gather up hundreds of desperate pets every day - more than 8,000 so far. And they leave behind fresh water and dry food for the dogs and cats roaming the streets that rescuers do not have enough staff to find or collect.

We read “that some pets are being flown to shelters in two dozen other states….After Oct. 15, most of the pets that have not been claimed can be put up for adoption under applicable state laws, Pacelle says. However, he says that deadline could be extended because so many pets are still arriving at shelters. Animals that are not claimed will be kept at the shelters across the country until they can be adopted, he says.”

That quote suggests that none of the animals will be killed, which is heartening. In fact, out of the many thousands rescued, apparently less than 100 have been deemed by HSUS too ill to recover and have been euthanized. However, not all of the shelters to which animals are being shipped are no-kill shelters. If the Katrina animals are not to be killed, at kill shelters they may displace others, who will lose their chance of finding homes — and of life. I just spoke to Michael Mountain, of Best Friends, a wonderful Utah sanctuary (no-kill) not mentioned in this article but which has a temporary sanctuary in the Katrina disaster area. That group has just acquired two large air-conditioned trucks to transport animals across the country to no-kill rescue groups. If you have a group that is able to foster animals, and help adopt out those who are not reunited with their families, please let Best Friends know by visiting www.bestfriends.org/HF/FO.cfm and filling out the form. Or you can email their disaster relief team at hurricane [at] bestfriends.org

(Note: As I send out this alert on Thursday afternoon the Best Friends website seems to have gone down temporarily — perhaps overwhelmed — but will surely be up again shortly.)

The Petfinder website also has a form where you can register to foster animals: disaster.petfinder.com/emergency/foster/index.cgi

The USA Today article refers to Jane Garrison’s terrific work:

“The concern now is for animals still trapped in houses…. Jane Garrison…has divided the city into 35 sectors and dispatches search teams after dawn each day.”

Jane is still desperate for people to help her, and will not turn away anybody who shows up. There is some upheaval now in the area, as animals have been moved out of the Lamar-Dixon facility, and Jane and her crew are elsewhere. However Priscilla Gargalis is in touch with Jane regularly and is happy to provide information and help coordinate efforts. Please get in touch with Priscilla at pgargalis [at] yahoo.com

And Brenda Shoss of Kinship Circle is an excellent resource who is also working with many of the other rescue groups in the region. Brenda is at info [at] kinshipcircle.org or 314-863-9445 (desk) and 314-795-2646 (cell).

Here is good news from the USA Today piece:

“The images of residents on their roofs, stranded after staying behind with their pets, and packs of gaunt, frightened dogs roaming through debris after Katrina have led to changes in evacuation policies. As Hurricane Rita approached last month, Texas suspended rules that barred pets from shelters there. The state’s homeland security chief, Steve McCraw, urged evacuees to take their pets with them. The Humane Society is urging Congress to pass a bill that would require state and local emergency management agencies that receive federal funding to allow pets to be included in evacuation plans.”

You can find out more about that bill, and even send a letter to your representatives in support of it, at the HSUS website at community.hsus.org/campaign/pets_act_house/explanation

If you have not yet signed the petition in support of the bill, please go to go.care2.com/e/gfO/bR/oco4 and sign. There are currently almost 70,000 signatures, with 100,000 being the goal.

This story on the front page of the most widely distributed newspaper in the US provides the perfect opportunity for letters to the editor in support of the PETS Act, or on other aspects of our treatment of other species. Those who cannot give hands-on assistance should not underestimate the importance of making sure this issue is part of public discussion. USA Today takes letters at asp.usatoday.com/marketing/feedback/feedback-online.aspx?type=18 OR tinyurl.com/cee7y

Yours and the animals’,
Karen Dawn

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: 1 Kinship Circle ; 2 Kinship Circle
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 2:01 PM
Subject: TRANSPORTERS, Where Art Thou?

10/6/05: TRANSPORTERS, Where Art Thou?

The Kinship Circle/ARF supply storehouse in Mobile, AL is no longer accepting NEW supplies—except for very specific and/or veterinary items.

We need transporters NOW to deliver our existing supplies!

As the rescue effort shifts from national groups to local organizations, needs have changed. Due to your generosity, most Katrina-related animal relief locations are inundated with supplies. Dog food and other everyday items have been turned away… But Rita-hit areas and some Katrina sites still need supplies.

Here’s the problem: Our Mobile, AL supply storehouse is filled to the brim! We don’t need more “stuff.” We need drivers to transport supplies from Mobile, AL to Abbeville, Lake Charles, and other Rita regions where cows and horses are stranded and starving. Where returning evacuees have no resources to feed their companion animals. And where animals live in abandoned homes with notes asking they be fed.

CALLING ALL TRANSPORTERS FOR THE MOBILE EXPRESS
1.) Drivers with large vehicles (trucks, empty trailers, SUV caravans, etc.)
2.) Transport volunteers must be willing to load/unload supplies.
(Poor little Julia has been doing this alone! She needs backup).

CONTACT:
DO NOT RESPOND TO SENDER OF THIS EMAIL
Julia Fischer, Supply Distribution Director
home: 251-645-8605; cell: 251-455-9377
ggnu [at] bellsouth.net

CALL BEFOREHAND:
-State day and time you are arriving.
-If bringing supplies: type and quantity of supplies.
(Note: We will not accept Harts Flea/Tick Control products)
-Arrange, with Julia, for someone to meet you at storage site.

SUPPLY NEEDS (10/6/05):
As of today, most INCOMING supplies need to go directly to animal rescue sites—not to us. Through the end of October, Julia will still serve as our supply coordinator. You may contact her to ask WHERE supplies, (such as the list below) are needed.

It will be your responsibility to transport most new supplies directly to shelters and staging areas.

Flea control products (NO Harts products please. Lethal to cats/dogs. Been recalled.)
Horse/Cattle fly sprays
Lactated ringers (fluid bags), tubing and needles
Dog/Cat vaccines; Equine vaccines
Antibiotics (Calvados especially)
Multiple dog-walking devices
Puppy pads
Grooming tools (clippers, blades, brushes)
Vary Kennels (for relocation travel)
LARGE dog supplies (cages, leashes, collars)
Doggie pooper scoopers
Odorant
Bleach; Cleaning supplies
Trashcans
Large “circus type” fly tents
Water, Gatorade

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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
www.kinshipcircle.org

—– Original Message —–
From: In Defense of Animals
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 9:28 PM
Subject: Urgent Correction: Re: Animals in Desperate Need in Mississippi

Urgent Correction: Re: Animals in Desperate Need in Mississippi

On October 1, we sent out an Action Alert titled “Animals in Desperate Need in Mississippi” that stated that animals housed at the Humane Society of Southern Mississippi (HSSM) were due to be euthanized on October 5.

As it turns out, we were given inaccurate information and, in an effort to expeditiously save lives, we sent the alert out too hastily. The HSSM has informed us that there is, in fact, no deadline for people to rescue the animals in their steed and there are no plans for euthanizing them before any deadline.

Because of the utmost concern that our members displayed in response to the alert, the HSSM has been inundated with calls which has distracted them from other, urgent, actions that need to be taken. To the many who called the HSSM, and to those who are still contemplating contacting them, there is no impending deadline and therefore no need to call HSSM.

Thank you to the members who contacted the shelter quickly to help and who contacted us about this mistake; we have learned from this instance and will certainly put more effort into fact-checking future leads, no matter how urgent, before we release them.

In the meantime, volunteers are still desperately needed in Gonzales, La. to help save animals still trapped in houses throughout the New Orleans area. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact IDA President Dr. Elliot Katz for more information at (415) 388-9641, ext. 225 or hurricanekatrinainquiries [at] idausa.org.

We are so grateful for all that you do to help animals.

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: 1 Kinship Circle
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 9:06 PM
Subject: CONFUSION over request for help from Lamar-Dixon

Grassroots Effort for Animals of the Storm
Kinship Circle * Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF)
Volunteers: Brenda Shoss, info [at] kinshipcircle.org
Supply Storehouse: Julia Fischer, ggnu [at] bellsouth.net

RE: 10/1/05—Need Rescuers, Fosters, Data Entry NOW – for Jane Garrison

We apologize for the confusion surrounding our 10/1/05 alert on Jane Garrison’s behalf. Numerous circumstances, beyond anyone’s control, have changed since many of you kindly offered to help. Since the afternoon of 10/1/05, we have been unable to reach Jane for firsthand verification.

DATA ENTRA VOLUNTEERS:
You were instructed to call “Alvin” at 225-647-3340 for data entry instructions. Alvin, to our knowledge, is unavailable and out in the field. However, Lamar Dixon Dispatch today reports that other volunteers know anyone who asks for “Alvin” is a data entry inquiry. He tells me that some of you have been doing data entry, based on information faxed to you from Lamar-Dixon. If anyone can confirm this, we would greatly appreciate it! In the meantime, I have recorded everyone’s phone/email who contacted me with interest in data entry. I will keep this on file to contact you immediately if the need becomes urgent again.

SEARCH/RESCUE & FEED/WATER VOLUNTEERS:
As per original alert, you were instructed to make one-time contact with Jane Garrison before reporting to her at the Command Center trailer at Lamar-Dixon. We were told volunteers were needed until October 15. Today, a man in Dispatch said everyone was packing up to be out of Lamar-Dixon tonight. We cannot confirm this statement. We are only reporting it.

TRANSPORT/FOSTER FROM WINN-DIXIE OR PASADO RESCUE:
Jane Garrison and HSUS/LSPCA volunteers will not bring rescues to the Winn-Dixie staging area in New Orleans as originally planned.

HSUS will not bring future rescues to PasadoRescue in Raceland, Louisiana.
From Pasado: pasadosafehaven.org./NEWS/NEWS.htm
UPDATE 10/3 - 12:44pm PST
Correction: NO agreement has been reached with HSUS to serve as an intake facility for them. We were presented erroneous information. PasadoRescuers will continue to assist smaller rescue groups with their animals and continue our efforts to rescue as many animals as we can.

We have verified this information. I apologize to those 501c3 groups I spoke to via phone. I know some of you were consulting with your boards to make arrangements to travel to New Orleans.

Grassroots Effort for Animals of the Storm does not report rumors. Our role throughout the hurricane animal relief effort has been to mobilize volunteers and supplies to accessible locations in need. However, the constantly changing landscape of this effort can make today’s “fact” tomorrow’s “frustrated volunteer.” We are very aware that your time, travel expenses and commitment to helping animals are VALUABLE.

If we obtain a credible update on this particular alert, we will post it at once.

Thank you,
Brenda Shoss, Kinship Circle
Julia Fischer, Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF)
Grassroots Effort for Animals of the Storm

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ORIGINAL ALERT WITH INFORMATION THAT IS NO LONGER APPLICABLE

10/1/05—Need Rescuers, Fosters, Data Entry NOW – for Jane Garrison

IN THIS ALERT:
1.) Critical: Data Entry People To Update Rescue Lists
2.) Search & Rescue With Jane Garrison – Until Oct. 15
3.) Urgent: Transport/Foster From Winn-Dixie Site

This is the status of Lamar-Dixon in Gonzales today:
The state-designated shelter is closed. No new animal intake.

However, Jane and rescue units are still operating in full force. Animals have to be brought elsewhere. (Jane Garrison is not employed by HSUS. She is an HSUS volunteer).

Data Entry and Search/Rescue will continue from Lamar-Dixon until October 15, 2005.

New rescues brought to Winn Dixie staging area need transport/foster.

NO animals will be released from Lamar-Dixon itself.

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1.) CRITICAL: DATA ENTRY PEOPLE TO UPDATE RESCUE LISTS
*need fax machine

CONTACT: Alvin (at Lamar-Dixon) 225-647-3340 *Alvin is coordinating data input at Lamar-Dixon. Tell her you are responding to Jane Garrison’s alert, distributed by Brenda (Kinship Circle) on behalf of Jane.

LOCATION: Work from your home.

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION: Critical need for data entry volunteers to help update rescue lists. Jane needs data entry people who can input information, from 7pm to 1am, starting right now. You will enter data at www.dogdetective.com. Alvin will explain details about how to do this.

If you cannot go to LA, here is your chance for HANDS-ON HELP reuniting storm victims with their pets. I know there are people out there who can do this. Let’s not let the animals down.

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2.) SEARCH & RESCUE WITH JANE GARRISON

CONTACT:
*Please do not call Jane unless you know the date/time you will arrive at Lamar-Dixon.

Jane Garrison: 225-647-3338 or 843-343-8887
jgarrison [at] hsus.org

LOCATION: Lamar Dixon Expo Center 9039 St. Landry Ave. Gonzales, LA 70737

WHAT TO DO: Search/Rescue volunteers come to Lamar-Dixon (until Oct. 15)
Report to Jane Garrison at the Command Center, in trailer between barn #1 and barn #2. Search/Rescue volunteers attend daily 5:30am meeting and go.
Need help with search/rescue AND feed/water stranded animals.

DIRECTIONS TO LAMAR DIXON:
FROM THE WEST Take I-10 East to Exit 177 At bottom of ramp take a right Go through traffic light and take second left into the Lamar Dixon Equestrian Center Ask for the volunteer registration area

FROM THE EAST Take I-10 West to Exit 177 At bottom of ramp take a left Go through traffic light and take second left into the Lamar Dixon Equestrian Center Ask for the volunteer registration area

FROM JANE GARRISON, 10/1/05: In at least 20 percent of the homes we enter for the first time, animals are found alive. These are locations where no rescuers have been. We just found a little Yorkshire Terrier. He was scratching on the door…

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3.) URGENT: TRANSPORT/FOSTER FROM WINN DIXIE SITE

CONTACT:

1.) EMAIL FIRST: Jane Garrison, jgarrison [at] hsus.org

2.) Only call Jane when you have transport/foster arrangements completed.
Call 225-647-3338 or 843-343-8887 to tell her:
-Day and time you will arrive.
-Number of animals you can transport/foster.
DO NOT CALL WITHOUT A FIRM COMMITMENT.

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
501c3 groups and affiliates who can pick up animals for foster are needed!
New rescues will go to Winn Dixie Marketplace Temporary Staging Area.
The rescue teams are still bringing in approximately 200 animals a day.

Conditions for transport/foster:
1.) 501c3 documentation.
2.) A letter of reference from a veterinarian is advised.
3.) All animals must be photographed/described and posted on petfinder.com.
4.) All animals must remain in foster at least 30 days.

LOCATION:
Winn Dixie Marketplace Temporary Staging Area
4600 Chef Menteur Hwy (at N. Louisa Street)

New Orleans, LA 70126-5011

DIRECTIONS TO WINN-DIXIE STAGING AREA:
Take I-12 E (from Hammond) towards N.O. and I-10.
Around Covington, LA, take US Hwy 190 South, which to N. Causeway Blvd. and the bridge over Lake Ponchatrain into N.O. Be sure to stay on Causeway Blvd. to go over bridge! You will be in Metarie once over the bridge.

Stay on S. Causeway Blvd. all the way to Jefferson Hwy, 90 E. (You’ll cross over Veterans Blvd.)
Stay on Jeff Highway east to N.O.. until it turns into S. Claiborne Ave.
Take a right on Monticello Ave, which turns into (dead ends) at Oak St. Go left on Oak.
Bear right on Leake Ave. (You will be paralleling the Mississippi river)
Stay on Leake for 10 or so blocks and then take a left onto St. Charles Ave.
Continue past Tulane on your left, Audubon Park on your right. Cross over
Napoleon and Louisiana Aves. Stay on St. Charles until you dead end.
Follow signs to reach I-10 E. (i.e. go left at the end of St. Charles)
Take I-10 E to Louisa St. N (the 2nd exit). Go left on Louisa.
Go through several red lights to Chef Menteur Hwy and go right.
Immediately see Winn-Dixie on right in the first block.

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GRASSROOTS EFFORT
FOR ANIMALS OF THE STORM

KINSHIP CIRCLE
7380 Kingsbury Blvd.; Saint Louis, MO 63130
Katrina relief contact Brenda Shoss:
(desk) 314-863-9445; (cell) 314-795-2646
www.kinshipcircle.org

ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION (ARF)
771 Holcombe Ave.; Mobile, Alabama 36605
Katrina relief contact Julia Fischer:
(cell) 251-455-9377; (home) 251-645-8605
www.animalrescuemobile.org

*DISCLAIMER:
Information in all alerts is verified with original sources, to the best of our ability. We cannot assume responsibility for the consequences of its use. Call or email contacts at specific locations before going. Grassroots Effort for Animals of the Storm
Kinship Circle * Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF)

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: Kinship Circle
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 5:26 PM
Subject: Rita’s Victims: Vaccines, Hay, Feed, Rescue, Supply Transport

Permission to cross-post

10/3/05–For Rita’s Victims: Vaccines, Hay, Feed Rescue, Supply Transport

In this alert:
1.) Vaccines for Horses
2.) Hay, Horse/Cattle/Sheep Feed, Fencing
3.) 10/9 Convoy: Save Animals in Rita-Hit Regions
4.) Calling All Transporters: Mobile to Abbeville Express

Do not underestimate Rita’s wrath. Rescuers, with no government aid, are still trying to coax cows and horses out of marshes. They have encountered bloated cows floating in watery graves. Hayfields and pastures are flooded. Stranded animals are starving to death…

Do not respond to info [at] kinshipcircle.org unless you have questions. Every item below has a direct contact person for you.

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1.) VACCINES FOR HORSES

CONTACT:
Debra Barlow, president
cell: 318-286-3116
hopefulhaven [at] yahoo.com

SEND VACCINES TO:
Dr. Prejean
1101 West Port Street
Abbeville, LA 70510

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2.) HAY, HORSE/CATTLE/SHEEP FEED, FENCING

CRITICAL SUPPLY NEED:
RANGE CUBES, HAY, HORSE FEED, CATTLE FEED, SHEEP FEED FENCING
Thanks to those who helped Hopeful Haven’s last convoy deliver 11 horse trailers full of feed to the Vermillion Parish Ag Center… But this was just a “drop in the bucket” for animals in largely agricultural regions.

CONTACT:
To send supplies with Hopeful Haven convoys–
Debra Barlow
cell: 318-286-3116 * hopefulhaven [at] yahoo.com

CONTACT:
To send supplies directly to Abbeville or Sugarena Shelters–
Joelle Rupert: 337-277-4239; Larry Rupert: 337-277-1235
Rupert home: 337-893-0235

SEND VACCINES TO:
Dr. Prejean
1101 West Port Street
Abbeville, LA 70510

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3.) 10/9 CONVOY: SAVE ANIMALS IN RITA-HIT REGIONS

CONTACT:
Debra Barlow, president
Hopeful Haven Equine Rescue Organization
cell: 318-286-3116 * hopefulhaven [at] yahoo.com
P.O. Box 17763
Shreveport, La 71138

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Horse People, Animal People:
Get with your friends, everyone chip in and fill up a horse trailer of supplies, get donations from your feed stores, designate a group to come and y’all share the gas and let’s go! Anyone can join our convoys.

SUNDAY, 10/9/05
3:00 a.m.
Convoy meets at Summer Grove Baptist Church, in Shreveport, LA
(on Jewella where the old South Park Mall used to be)

by 6:00 a.m.
Arrive in Lafayette, LA at OMNI Energy Building
4500 NE Evangeline Thruway
On I-49 at exit 4
Go north on service road
OMNI Energy Bldg. is blue, on right side of road
Pull into parking lot; onsite contact: Lisa Simmons

by 7:30 a.m.
From Lafayette, will leave as day-long convoy with supplies into devastated regions.

SUPPLY NEEDS:
1.) Urgent: RANGE CUBES, HAY, FEED, FENCING
2.) Debra Barlow needs inventory of what is in your trailer by 10/8.
3.) If bringing donations, specify donator’s name and address on inventory paper. Call & email Debra Barlow ASAP before Sunday, 10/9: 318-286-3116 * hopefulhaven [at] yahoo.com

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4.) CALLING ALL TRANSPORTERS!
Mobile to Abbeville Express

Supplies mentioned above–as well as dog/cat food ALSO needed in Abbeville–are sitting in our Mobile, Alabama storehouse. We need drivers to make supply runs from Mobile to Abbeville, with possible supply drops at other sites along the way.

CONTACT:
DO NOT RESPOND TO SENDER OF THIS EMAIL
Respond to Julia Fischer, Supply Distribution
Grassroots Effort for Animals of the Storm
home: 251-645-8605
cell: 251-455-9377
ggnu [at] bellsouth.net

CALL BEFOREHAND:
-State day and time you are arriving.
-If bringing supplies: type and quantity of supplies.
(Note: We will not accept Hartz Flea/Tick Control products)
-Arrange, with Julia, for someone to meet you at storage site.

SUPPLY NEEDS (10/1/05):
Please call Julia Fischer for supply needs beyond this list.
GOOD FLEA MEDS (NO Hartz products please. Lethal to cats/dogs. Been recalled.)
VET MEDS
VET SUPPLIES
VACCINES!!
ANTIBIOTICS (Clavamox in particular)
GROOMING TOOLS (Especially clippers, blades, brushes)
VARI-KENNELS (for relocation to California, etc..)
LARGE DOG SUPPLIES (Cages, leashes, collars for pits, chows, etc.)
BLEACH
CLEANING SUPPLIES
DOGGIE POOPER SCOOPERS
TRASH CANS
WATER FOR WORKERS; GATORADE ETC…
DIESEL FUEL!

Supplies move in and out of our drop/distribution site in Mobile, AL. We will never have too many supplies. We will continue to distribute items to overtaxed shelters long after the primary rescue effort ends.

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GRASSROOTS EFFORT
FOR ANIMALS OF THE STORM

KINSHIP CIRCLE
7380 Kingsbury Blvd.; Saint Louis, MO 63130
Katrina relief contact Brenda Shoss:
(desk) 314-863-9445; (cell) 314-795-2646
www.kinshipcircle.org

ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION (ARF)
771 Holcombe Ave.; Mobile, Alabama 36605
Katrina relief contact Julia Fischer:
(cell) 251-455-9377; (home) 251-645-8605
www.animalrescuemobile.org

*DISCLAIMER:
Information in all alerts is verified with original sources, to the best of our ability. We cannot assume responsibility for the consequences of its use. Call or email contacts at specific locations before going. Grassroots Effort for Animals of the Storm. Kinship Circle * Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF)

—– Original Message —–
From: In Defense of Animals
Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 3:37 PM
Subject: Animals in Desperate Need in Mississippi

PERMISSION TO CROSS POST

To the many who have asked to foster animals left in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina, there is another urgent need now, at HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI (HSSM). PLEASE, all of you who have wanted to get dog/cats out, come now.

CONTACT HSSM:
Shelter office: 228-863-4394
Shelter phone: 228-863-3354
Tara High, president: 228-669-8272

If you have a rescue group or would be able to place some of these animals, please call 888-722-3106

LOCATION:
Humane Society of Southern Mississippi
13756 Washington Ave.
Gulfport, MS 39503
www.hssm.org/

MISSISSIPPI SHELTER RELEASING NOW: 9/29/05 17:29 ET

HSSM is releasing animals to ANY 501 groups who can send drivers to come get them. Individuals/convoys can pick up, but must be associated with 501 organization. Please come ASAP. They are NOT euthanizing now, but will be after OCT 5!

Dogs and cats are pouring in. The shelter is up and running and so by law, must take the strays.

Again, free releases are to 501 breed or sanctuary groups. Get a copy of your local shelter’s paperwork and COME GET THESE ANIMALS PLEASE.

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: 1 Kinship Circle
Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 3:44 PM
Subject: Rescuers, Fosters, Data Entry NOW - for Jane Garrison

PERMISSION TO CROSS-POST ALERT AS WRITTEN

10/1/05—Need Rescuers, Fosters, Data Entry NOW – for Jane Garrison

IN THIS ALERT:
1.) Critical: Data Entry People To Update Rescue Lists
2.) Search & Rescue With Jane Garrison
3.) Urgent: Transport/Foster From Winn-Dixie Site

Many of you know who Jane Garrison is–the veteran rescuer, volunteering for HSUS on the front lines to save animals. She has sidestepped politics to plead for volunteers for hurricane animals still trapped or roaming. Today (10/1/05) I spoke with Jane at great length. I am counting on the hundreds of you who have inquired about volunteering to step forward NOW.

This is the status of Lamar-Dixon in Gonzales today:
The state-designated shelter is closed. No new animal intake.

However, Jane and rescue units are still operating in full force. Animals have to be brought elsewhere. (Jane Garrison is not employed by HSUS. She is an HSUS volunteer).

Data Entry and Search/Rescue will continue from Lamar-Dixon until October 15, 2005.

New rescues brought to Winn Dixie staging area need transport/foster.

NO animals will be released from Lamar-Dixon itself.

Please read info below carefully and ACT.

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1.) CRITICAL: DATA ENTRY PEOPLE TO UPDATE RESCUE LISTS
*need fax machine

CONTACT:
Alvin (at Lamar-Dixon)
225-647-3340
*Alvin is coordinating data input at Lamar-Dixon. Tell her you are responding to Jane Garrison’s alert, distributed by Brenda (Kinship Circle) on behalf of Jane.

LOCATION:
Work from your home.

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Critical need for data entry volunteers to help update rescue lists. Jane needs data entry people who can input information, from 7pm to 1am, starting right now. You will enter data at www.dogdetective.com. Alvin will explain details about how to do this.

If you cannot go to LA, here is your chance for HANDS-ON HELP reuniting storm victims with their pets. I know there are people out there who can do this. Let’s not let the animals down.

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2.) SEARCH & RESCUE WITH JANE GARRISON

CONTACT:
EMAIL FIRST: Jane Garrison, jgarrison [at] hsus.org
225-647-3338 or 843-343-8887
*Please do not call Jane unless you know the date/time you will arrive at Lamar-Dixon.

LOCATION:
Lamar Dixon Expo Center
9039 St. Landry Ave.
Gonzales, LA 70737

WHAT TO DO:
Search/Rescue volunteers come to Lamar-Dixon (until Oct. 15)
Report to Jane Garrison at the Command Center, in trailer between barn #1 and barn #2.
Search/Rescue volunteers attend daily 5:30am meeting and go.
Need help with search/rescue AND feed/water stranded animals.

DIRECTIONS TO LAMAR DIXON:
FROM THE WEST
Take I-10 East to Exit 177
At bottom of ramp take a right
Go through traffic light and take second left into the Lamar Dixon Equestrian Center
Ask for the volunteer registration area

FROM THE EAST
Take I-10 West to Exit 177
At bottom of ramp take a left
Go through traffic light and take second left into the Lamar Dixon Equestrian Center
Ask for the volunteer registration area

FROM JANE GARRISON, 10/1/05:
In at least 20 percent of the homes we enter for the first time, animals are found alive. These are locations where no rescuers have been. We just found a little Yorkshire Terrier. He was scratching on the door…

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3.) URGENT: TRANSPORT/FOSTER FROM WINN DIXIE SITE

CONTACT:
1.) EMAIL FIRST: Jane Garrison, jgarrison [at] hsus.org

LOCATION:
Winn Dixie Marketplace Temporary Staging Area
4600 Chef Menteur Hwy (at N. Louisa Street)
New Orleans, LA 70126-5011

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GRASSROOTS EFFORT
FOR ANIMALS OF THE STORM

KINSHIP CIRCLE
7380 Kingsbury Blvd.; Saint Louis, MO 63130
Katrina relief contact Brenda Shoss:
(desk) 314-863-9445; (cell) 314-795-2646
www.kinshipcircle.org

ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION (ARF)
771 Holcombe Ave.; Mobile, Alabama 36605
Katrina relief contact Julia Fischer:
(cell) 251-455-9377; (home) 251-645-8605
www.animalrescuemobile.org

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: 1 Kinship Circle
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 1:12 PM
Subject: DIESEL & WATER to N.O./ Save animals before bulldozing begins

**DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS EMAIL (info [at] kinshipcircle.org) UNLESS ARRANGEMENTS ARE MADE AND DIESEL/WATER ARE ON THEIR WAY TO NEW ORLEANS.

IMMEDIATE NEED:
1.) DIESEL FUEL FOR TRUCKS, TRAILERS TO BRING OUT ANIMALS
2.) WATER

N.O. SET TO BULLDOZE SOME STORM AREAS.
WILL BE OFF-LIMITS TO RESCUERS.
NEED DIESEL FUEL FOR LARGE VEHICLES TO BRING OUT ANIMALS.

WATER is also in short supply (for rescuers and animals). Need to replenish stocks now.

Are you a rescue volunteer headed to New Orleans?
Do you know a volunteer headed to New Orleans?
Can you arrange a transport to New Orleans?

If so, bring diesel fuel and water directly to:
MUTTSHACK M.A.S.H. UNIT – NEW ORLEANS
Lake Castle School
8400 Hayne Blvd.; New Orleans, LA

CONTACT:
Amanda St. Martin: 818-272-1671
Cris Stevens: 219-608-4112; indianafireguy143 [at] yahoo.com

New Orleans has contracted companies to bulldoze entire storm areas. We need as much DIESEL FUEL as possible, to power large trucks and trailers.

ONCE BULLDOZING BEGINS, ABSOLUTELY NO RESCUERS WILL BE ALLOWED ENTRY.
Contractors will be forced to bulldoze everything in their path. Please help us get out as many animals as possible before this begins.

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If your driving route to New Orleans enables you to stop In Mobile, Alabama, please pick up WATER and other supplies to bring with you to MuttShack M.A.S.H. Unit.

CONTACT:
Grassroots Effort for Animals of the Storm / Supply Distribution
Julia Fischer
home: 251-645-8605
cell: 251-455-9377
ggnu [at] bellsouth.net

CALL BEFOREHAND:
-State day and time you are arriving.
-Type and quantity of supplies you can bring/transport
(Note: We will not accept Hartz Flea/Tick Control products)
-Arrange, with Julia, for someone to meet you at storage site.

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/30/05):
GOOD FLEA MEDS (NO Hartz products please. Lethal to cats/dogs. Been recalled.)
VET MEDS
VET SUPPLIES
VACCINES!!
ANTIBIOTICS (Clavamox in particular)
GROOMING TOOLS (Especially clippers, blades, brushes)
VARI-KENNELS (for relocation to California, etc..)
LARGE DOG SUPPLIES (Cages, leashes, collars for pits, chows, etc.)
BLEACH
CLEANING SUPPLIES
DOGGIE POOPER SCOOPERS
TRASH CANS
WATER FOR WORKERS; GATORADE ETC…
DIESEL FUEL

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GRASSROOTS EFFORT
FOR ANIMALS OF THE STORM

KINSHIP CIRCLE
7380 Kingsbury Blvd.; Saint Louis, MO 63130
Katrina relief contact Brenda Shoss:
(desk) 314-863-9445; (cell) 314-795-2646
www.kinshipcircle.org

ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION (ARF)
771 Holcombe Ave.; Mobile, Alabama 36605
Katrina relief contact Julia Fischer:
(cell) 251-455-9377; (home) 251-645-8605
www.animalrescuemobile.org

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: Kinship Circle
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 2:26 PM
Subject: LETTER/ Never Again: Animal Evacuation Law Now

*Please keep entire alert intact, including identity disclaimers, when cross-posting. Thank you!

9/28/05–Never Again: Animal Evacuation Law Now
KINSHIP CIRCLE LETTER CAMPAIGN
www.kinshipcircle.org

SOURCE OF INFORMATION
Legislation would require pet to be included in evacuations
www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/22/katrina.pets.ap/
AnimalVoices, AnimalVoicesNews [at] earthlink.net

Everyone has a Representative and two Senators at the federal (national) level, determined by the state and district where you live. To find out their names and contact information, try these links:
www.Congress.org
www.senate.gov
www.house.gov
www.house.gov/writerep/
action.fund.org/directory
www.vote-smart.org
Congressional Switchboard: 202-224-3121

PETITION: Don’t Abandon Pets In Disasters!
www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/256230705
Target: The U.S. Congress
Sponsor: The Humane Society of the United States

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SAMPLE LETTER
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The Honorable Representative _________________________________
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20510

The Honorable Senators ______________________________________
The U.S. Senate, U.S. Capitol Building
Washington, D.C. 20510

Dear Representative __________________________________ and

Senators _______________________________________________ :

A disaster preparedness plan without provisions for animals is a bad plan. In America, companion animals live in over half of all households. In New Orleans alone, 50,000 to 70,000 dogs are pets. This American Veterinary Medical Association estimate doesn’t account for cats who inhabit 3 of every 10 American homes, according to Humane Society of the U.S. figures.

Disaster victims should never have to choose between survival and their pets. Yet that is exactly what happened in Katrina’s wake. The images are unforgivable: A white dog is ripped from a boy’s arms as he boards a bus. A bewildered yellow Lab watches his family disappear in a helicopter. An elderly woman cannot receive medical care unless she deserts her cats.

This is an emergency preparedness plan so out of touch with constituents, it can neither protect nor save them. In fact, Katrina “stragglers” cited pets as the foremost reason for staying in flooded areas. Conversely, when Galveston, TX Mayor Lyda Thomas allowed pets to accompany evacuees on buses, nearly every resident departed before Hurricane Rita struck.

The human death toll might have been lower if an enforced plan to accommodate animals had been in place. I ask my Representative to support and cosponsor The Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act (PETS Act, H.R. 3858). I ask my Senators to sponsor comparable legislation in the Senate.

Initiated by Congressman Tom Lantos (D-CA) and cosponsors Christopher Shays (R-CT), Don Young (R-AK), James Oberstar (D-MN), and Barney Frank (D-MA), the PETS Act requires state/municipal preparedness plans eligible for FEMA funding to contain provisions for companion and service animals.

To fully implement protocols on the rescue/shelter of animals during a disaster, the federal government must also be willing to consult with accredited animal welfare organizations.

Tens of thousands of pets are still emaciated, dehydrated, and poisoned in empty New Orleans parishes. While animal rescue groups have managed to save more than 6,000 animals in Mississippi and Louisiana, they should have received federal and state aid from the onset.

Please insist that the President, Governors Blanco and Barbour, Secretary Chertoff, and Secretary Rumsfeld authorize responders under their command to carry out animal rescue and relief missions now.

I trust you will sponsor/cosponsor The Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act–so a tragedy of this magnitude doesn’t repeat itself.

Thank you,

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subscribe [at] kinshipcircle.org

*Kinship Circle cannot guarantee the validity of email addresses. During a campaign, recipients may change or disable their email addresses.

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: 1 Kinship Circle ; 2 Kinship Circle
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 10:29 AM
Subject: 9/28: HELP Stranded, Starving Horses, Cows…

We listed this in our volunteer alert, 9/28/05—Hurricane Rescue Evolves, Help Still Needed:

1.) Rita-Hit Animals Need You Right Away

However, we are sending the plea again for:
HAY
CATTLE FEED
HORSE FEED
FENCING

Urgently needed at Abbeville Shelter–
LOCATION:
Abbeville Shelter, Cecil McCrory Building
(on Port Rd., next to Clyde Prejean’s DMV office)
Abbeville, Louisiana 70510
Fly into Lafayette, LA airport. Rent a car to drive to nearby Abbeville. No gas shortages reported at this time.

Horses, cows, other large farm animals are stranded and starving in Rita-hit areas. State and federal authorities are providing NO help right now in this area. “There are still cows and horses with water up to their necks. Farmers are desperate.”

Need HAY, CATTLE FEED, HORSE FEED, FENCING now.
Need volunteers able to help with large/farm animals.

CONTACT:
Joelle Rupert: 337-277-4239; Larry Rupert: 337-277-1235
Rupert home: 337-893-0235
Marie Bossard, St. Martin Humane Society: 337-879-6600, 337-277-9538

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GRASSROOTS EFFORT
FOR ANIMALS OF THE STORM

KINSHIP CIRCLE
7380 Kingsbury Blvd.; Saint Louis, MO 63130
Katrina relief contact Brenda Shoss:
(desk) 314-863-9445; (cell) 314-795-2646
www.kinshipcircle.org

ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION (ARF)
771 Holcombe Ave.; Mobile, Alabama 36605
Katrina relief contact Julia Fischer:
(cell) 251-455-9377; (home) 251-645-8605
www.animalrescuemobile.org

—— Forwarded Message
From: Marie St Martin Humane - stmartinhumane [at] hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:25:36 -0500
Subject: 9/28 DESPERATE- HELP for cattle, horses, farm animals…

URGENT - URGENT - URGENT - URGENT - URGENT - URGENT

As of Wed. Sept. 28 8:30 am

Please CROSS POST

I just spoke with Joelle Rupert and that’s what she said:

What is URGENTLY needed in Abbeville (Cecil McCrory Building, on Port Rd. - next to Clyde Prejean’s DMV office) is HAY, CATTLE FEED, HORSE FEED, FENCING… and volunteers able to help with large/farm animals.

Call Joelle and Larry Rupert -
Joelle’s Cel: (337) 277-4239
Larry’s cell: (337) 277-1235
Home: (337) 893-0235.
Joelle said they are getting NO help from the state and feds and are on their own to find solutions.

There are still cows and horses in the area with water up to their necks and the farmers are desperate.

Thanks,

Marie Bossard
337-879-6600 337-277-9538
St. Martin Humane Society
www.stmartinhumane.org

—— End of Forwarded Message

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: Kinship Circle
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 12:41 AM
Subject: *9/28/05‹Hurricane Rescue Evolves, Help Still Needed*

If you receive this twice, we apologize. Kindly delete duplicate messages.

9/28/05—Hurricane Rescue Evolves, Help Still Needed

IN THIS ALERT:
1.) Rita-Hit Animals Need You Right Away
2.) Humane Society of Louisiana in Tylertown, MS
3.) MuttShack M.A.S.H. Unit – New Orleans
4.) Pasado’s Raceland, Louisiana Triage Area
5.) Disaster Rescue Response - Winn-Dixie Site
6.) Mandeville, LA Rescue/Shelter Task Force
7.) HSUS Lamar-Dixon & Hattiesburg “Demobilizing”
8.) Gearing Up To Help Feral/Stray Cats
9.) Emergency Response for Avian Victims
10.) Katrina/Rita: Haven For Horses
11.) Help In Waveland, Mississippi
12.) Administrative Volunteers - LSU Center
13.) Staging Area In Dothan, Alabama
14.) Supplies: Drop/Distribution Site
15.) Personal Supplies List

PLEASE SEND THE FOLLOWING TO info [at] kinshipcircle.org:
(If you have already sent this, DO NOT SEND AGAIN)
Your full name
Name of organization (if applicable)
Full street address
Cell phone, land phone
Email
Brief description of what you can provide

DUE TO THE VOLUME OF VOLUNTEER INQUIRIES, PLEASE:

-Type “KATRINA VOLUNTEER” in the subject line of emails.

-Read alerts carefully. Contact people listed within specific effort.

-Before traveling, print out Kinship Circle’s most recent alert so phone numbers and driving directions are with you.

-We do not have time to answer questions about where to donate money or foster/adopt a specific animal. We provide as much information as possible within alerts.

- For directions to a volunteer site: www.mapquest.com/directions/main.adp

Thanks, Brenda Shoss
Kinship Circle/ARF Grassroots Effort
314-863-9445; 314-795-2646

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1.) RITA-HIT ANIMALS NEED YOU RIGHT AWAY

CONTACT:
Patty Meehan, Lafayette Animal Aid: 337-344-2829
Marie Bossard, St. Martin Humane Society:
337-879-6600, 337-277-9538, stmartinhumane [at] hotmail.com

LOCATION:
Abbeville Shelter, Cecil McCrory Building
(on Port Rd., next to Clyde Prejean’s DMV office)
Abbeville, Louisiana 70510
Fly into Lafayette, LA airport. Rent a car to drive to nearby Abbeville. No gas shortages reported at this time. You can show up, or contact names above for more information.

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
ABBEVILLE SHELTER: Rescues underway for cows, horses, other farm animals in Southwest Louisiana storm areas. HANDS-ON RESCUE NEEDED for dogs, cats, pets. If you have a BOAT, bring it! Some areas are walkable, others aren’t. Shelter volunteers also needed in Abbeville. Animals brought back to Abbeville Shelter 9/27 to 10/4-5, possibly longer. Animals held at Sugarena in Iberia for 30 days. After that, animals go to local shelters.

IBERIA HUMANE SOCIETY: Iberia Humane Society is fostering many Rita animals from Abbeville and Surgarena shelters. Volunteers are needed.
1314 Troy Road; New Iberia, Louisiana
337-365-1923; IberiaHu [at] IberiaHumane.com
MAP: www.iberiahumane.com/map.htm

SURGARENA ACADIANA FAIRGROUND:
Hwy 3212; New Iberia, LA
(US 90 To New Iberia, Hwy 3212 - Signs read Acadiana Fairgrounds)
Marilynn White: white [at] giftsetc.com; 337-380-2481
No volunteer needs at present time (could change)
Dogs, cats, geese, goats, cows, horses…rescued from Iberia parish, LA, also sheltered here. Up for adoption after 30 days.

FOSTER/ADOPT
Iberia Humane Society
1314 Troy Road; New Iberia, Louisiana
337-365-1923; IberiaHu [at] IberiaHumane.com
MAP: www.iberiahumane.com/map.htm

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/28/05):
HAY & GRAIN!
Most stores contaminated by flood waters. If you or someone you know can transfer hay/grain to Abbeville or Sugarena Shelters, go directly to addresses listed above, or contact:
Marie Bossard, St. Martin Humane Society: 337-879-6600, 337-277-9538
Marilynn White: 337-380-2481
Patty Meehan, Lafayette Animal Aid: 337-344-2829
CRATES (airline approved, plastic)
WATER TROUGHS (for horses/cattle at Sugarena)
Call Marilynn White: 337-380-2481
FOR DOG/CAT RESCUES:
Dog/Cat Toys, Collars, Shampoo, Flea Treatment (not Hartz!), Food, Treats, Bowls, etc. *Stock up at PetSmart

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2.) HUMANE SOCIETY OF LOUISIANA IN TYLERTOWN

CONTACT:
Shelter director, Jeff Dorson: 901-268-4432
To confirm your arrival date, email: humanela [at] gmail.com
(Send email before you show up)
Onsite contacts: Ask for Johnna Harris or Jeff Dorson

LOCATION:
The Humane Society of Louisiana Emergency Shelter
115 Obed Magee Rd.; Tylertown, Mississippi 39667
(next to St. Frances Animal Sanctuary)

To reunite rescued animals whenever possible, looking to work with groups to post photos online and foster, prior to adoption. For adoption-ready animals only, can network with other shelters/agencies to find animals.

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/28/05):
Long list: www.humanela.org/
(scroll toward bottom of page)

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3.) MUTTSHACK M.A.S.H. UNIT – NEW ORLEANS

CONTACT:
Sharon Gorski: 877-727-9343; 586-727-9815; possecop [at] msn.com
To obtain security authorization papers

LOCATION:
Lake Castle School
8400 Hayne Blvd.; New Orleans, LA

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
MuttShack has established a haven for immediate triage and temporary shelter. A waystation for rescued animals, this animal M.A.S.H. unit provides emergency veterinary care and shelter, with the ultimate goal of reuniting companion animals with their families. Need veterinarians, vet techs, rescuers and shelter workers. Muttshack will coordinate some rescue/transport efforts with Mandeville Rescue/Shelter Task Force.

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/27/05):
BOATS; TRANSPORTERS; Veterinary/Medical Supplies; Generators; Ice;
Golden Malrine (fly bait; serious fly problem due to polluted water)

Needs fluctuate. Check with Sharon Gorski (877-727-9343, 586-727-9815)

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4.) PASADO’S RACELAND, LOUISIANA TRIAGE AREA

CONTACT:
Volunteer email: cstaylor [at] frontiernet.net
*Send email AFTER flight and other travel arrangements are made*

LOCATION:
PasadoRescue Triage Area
Raceland, Louisiana

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Pasado is the only shelter open to animals in South Louisiana. They need help cleaning kennels, washing dogs, walking dogs, other assigned duties. Volunteers must commit to 5 days on the ground (excluding travel days).
NEED VETERINARIANS DESPERATELY.

WHAT TO DO:
-Book a flight to Baton Rouge, LA or New Orleans
-Book a campsite or hotel early - they fill up fast.
LIST OF HOTELS/CAMPSITE: www.pasadosafehaven.org/NEWS/NEWS4.htm
-There is no space to sleep, shower, go to bathroom at Pasado triage site.
-Rent a vehicle

Once you have done the above,
Email: cstaylor [at] frontiernet.net
If you email BEFORE booking flight/living quarters, Pasado will not answer your email. (“Sorry, we’re swamped!”)

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/28/05):
-CANNED ID Prescription dog food. Dogs coming in are so emaciated that canned ID is the only food they’re able to digest. Please get your vets on-board to help. Ship to:
Law Offices of Louis St. Martin
ATTN: PASADO RESCUE TEAMS
#1 Church St.; Houma, LA 70364; 985-868-9600
-Walmart Gift Cards, Gatorade always welcome
-Check Pasado website,
www.pasadosafehaven.org/NEWS/TO%20VOLUNTEER%20ALT.htm, a day or so before you leave to bring what is requested No room for extra supplies.

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5.) DISASTER RESPONSE RESCUE - WINN-DIXIE SITE

CONTACT:
Shannon and Mark Martin: 706-769-7701

LOCATION:
4600 Chef Menteur Hwy staging area at N. Louisa Street

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Volunteers needed. Many dry areas, but bring rubber boots. Need rescue groups to get dogs off porches, etc.
A returning volunteer writes:
Michelle La Pierre gte.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005
We just spent 2 days at Winn-Dixie!! Please put the word out that they still need help, volunteers for feeding and dog walking… We are transporting 22 dogs back to California for 2 vets that are working out of Winn-Dixie… This has been an incredible experience, please keep encouraging people to help.

>From I-10, when you reach the [security] check point say you are going to see Mark at the Winn-Dixie… Display a sign from [vehicle] window that says “Disaster Response – Animal Rescue” and say they’ve been there before!!

SUPPLY NEEDS:
WORM MEDICINE (especially for cats), Crates, Boats (inflatables needed to hold full crates on the water), Trucks, SUVs, Sticks with loops to get reluctant dogs

Stay on S. Causeway Blvd. all the way to Jefferson Hwy, 90 E. (You’ll cross over Veterans Blvd.)
Stay on Jeff Highway east to N.O.. until it turns into S. Claiborne Ave.
Take a right on Monticello Ave, which turns into (dead ends) at Oak St. Go left on Oak.
Bear right on Leake Ave. (You will be paralleling the Mississippi river)
Stay on Leake for 10 or so blocks and then take a left onto St. Charles Ave.
Continue past Tulane on your left, Audubon Park on your right. Cross over Napoleon and Louisiana Aves. Stay on St. Charles until you dead end.
Follow signs to reach I-10 E. (i.e. go left at the end of St. Charles)
Take I-10 E to Louisa St. N (the 2nd exit). Go left on Louisa.
Go through several red lights to Chef Menteur Hwy and go right.
Immediately see Winn-Dixie on right in the first block.

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6.) MANDEVILLE, LA RESCUE/SHELTER TASK FORCE

CONTACT:
1.) Sharon Gorski: 877-727-9343; 586-727-9815; possecop [at] msn.com
To obtain security authorization papers

2.) For more information,
Kendra Williams: 985-246-9388
Owner of Lansas Kennels in Mandeville

Cris Stevens: 219-608-4112, 219-326-8887
Sarah Stevens: 219-608-1735, sarah [at] mixedupmutts.org
Past & returning task force leaders

LOCATION:
Lansas Kennels
C/O Kendra (if mailing supplies)
23015 Kilgore Street; Mandeville, LA 70471

PLEASE WEAR DARK BLUE T-SHIRT to appear as a unified rescue unit.

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Volunteers convene at Lansas Kennels in Mandeville, LA. People of every age and ability are needed for paperwork and animal care at the Mandeville shelter, as well as rescue in New Orleans. Bring a tent (or vehicle you can sleep in). Camping area with bathrooms available.

IMPORTANT: Some returning volunteers have complained about lack of organization at Lansas Kennels. We can assure you rescue teams meet here to save trapped animals in New Orleans. The Mandeville Rescue Task Force is now coordinating efforts with MuttShack M.A.S.H. Unit.

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/28/05):
-PLASTIC TOTES (large Rubbermaid types)
-TRANSPORTERS, TRANSPORT TRAILERS & TRUCKS!
-Needs fluctuate. Check with Kendra Williams (985-246-9388)

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7.) HSUS LAMAR-DIXON & HATTIESBURG, MS “DEMOBILIZING”
LAMAR DIXON: 9039 St. Landry Ave.; Gonzales, LA 70737; 225-621-1700
HATTIESBURG: Forrest County Multi Purpose Center
952 Sullivan Drive; Hattiesburg MS 39401

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
“HSUS is looking to wind down the Gonzales operation.”
Fact: There is a measure of truth to this, but it’s not by choice. The property managers want us out of there, and they have waged a campaign of harassment to drive us out. What’s more, we operate under the incident command structure of the State Veterinarian’s Office and meet with the state team every day. They have asked us to cease intake of animals by September 30, 2005. We are beseeching them to let us continue for a longer period, and we are cautiously optimistic we’ll persuade them to extend our rescue operations through Lamar Dixon.

In addition, we are working with the Louisiana SPCA to ready their new operations site. On Saturday, October 1, we expect that facility to be operational in Algiers (which is within New Orleans).

Wayne Pacelle, President & CEO, The Humane Society of the United States
2100 L Street, N.W.; Washington, D.C. 20037
202-452-1100; fax: 301-258-3077; wpacelle [at] hsus.org

HSUS/RAVS Disaster Response Schedule Update 9/25/05
The word today is that we will be aiming to demobilize both the Lamar-Dixon facility and the Hattiesburg, MS facility within the next 1-2 weeks, moving all of the remaining animals to foster/adoption at various shelters around the country. As this occurs our volunteer needs will begin to decrease. By 10/5 we should be operating with a just a limited number of shelter and veterinary staff to process and care for any remaining rescued animals. Of course, the nature of disaster response work is always unpredictable…so we may continue to need full staffing for a longer time period than expected.

**Anyone looking for a lost pet is advised to search Lamar-Dixon & Hattiesburg shelters ASAP. If you know any evacuee(s) you can help transport to either shelter, do so now.

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8.) GEARING UP TO HELP FERAL/STRAY CATS

CONTACT:
Alley Cat Allies
Send email to alleycat [at] alleycat.org
INCLUDE: full name, email address, phone numbers to contact you during the day, special skills/training, dates available. If you have already contacted Alley Cat Allies about volunteering: You are on their list and they will be in touch as soon as location is secured. Please DO NOT email or call again. You will receive a response shortly.

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
With citizens returning to New Orleans/surrounding areas, Alley Cat Allies plans to help rebuild the caregiver network, remove feral cats from shelters, collect/provide food and water to known colonies, identify other colonies in need and assess future needs such as spay/neuter services and ongoing support for caregivers. Mobilization will happen in the next week.

LOOKING FOR:
1. Base of operations – house, warehouse, campsite, etc. within an hour to
1-1/2 hour drive of New Orleans for ACA staff, volunteers, storage
Need contact information for the property owners, exact location
and facilities available on this property (water, plumbing, electricity)
2. Volunteers for on the ground help
3. Drivers and vehicles for transport (Trucks, SUVs preferable)
4. Foster homes and barn homes (for feral cats)
Transport to foster and barn homes

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9.) EMERGENCY RESPONSE FOR AVIAN VICTIMS

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/27/05):
Urgent need for supplies/donations to go to shelters and rescue centers housing hundreds of companion birds in devastated areas of Gulf Coast. We have chosen to concentrate our efforts on helping Donna Powell, of 911 Parrot Alert, and the many volunteers now helping her care for over 200 rescued birds in her home in Baton Rouge, LA.

[available at pet supply stores, supermarkets]
Paper towels; Old towels and hand towels; Trash bags (medium and large);Household bleach, Spray bottles (must be unused, hardware stores carry them);Cage cleaning supplies (NO HOUSEHOLD CLEANERS except bleach); Seed mixes, pellets (all breeds, finches to large parrots);Healthy treats (Nutriberries, lots of varieties); Millet sprays; Cuttlebone and mineral blocks; Perches, Swings (all sizes, varieties);Toys with mirrors; Toys, toys, toys (have fun with this one!);Cage bowls and dishes; Cages (all sizes. We will clean used donated cages, if necessary);Carriers for transport (all sizes, including those made for small dogs and cats);Syringes (all sizes. For hand feeding baby birds, administering oral medications);Dietary supplements (vitamins, Ornabac, Ornalyte, Furazite. Hi-cal grit, molting and conditioning aids, bird charcoal); Nets (for safely catching birds); Mosquito netting; Cuddle things (such as Birdy Buddy); Copy paper reams

MONETARY DONATIONS:
Cash or check donations to order needed items from
(Bank deposit slips, order receipts and shipping documentation will be available, to ensure transparency in dealing with these donations.) Make checks payable to “For The Birds.”

ONLINE DONATIONS: www.911parrotalert.com

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10.) KATRINA / RITA: HAVEN FOR HORSES

CONTACT:
Debra Barlow, 318-286-3116, hopefulhaven [at] yahoo.com

LOCATION:
Hopeful Haven Equine Rescue Organization
Shreveport, Louisiana

SITUATION:
Room for evacuees with horses. Arenas and foster homes available. If evacuees have an RV or living quarters in their horse trailer, they will be able to stay with their horses. VOLUNTEERS: Cross-post and refer evacuees with horses.

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11.) HELP IN WAVELAND, MISSISSIPPI

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
HSUS animal rescue unit established in Waveland. Volunteers needed.

ROUGH DIRECTIONS (Bring a map!):
Take Route 90 to Route 603.
Follow signs along Route 603 to Waveland; you will see the town.
Continue through several stop lights.
You’ll see a blue tarp with a sign, on your left, that reads: “Animal Shelter.” Turn left at sign.
Follow road until it ends. Turn left.
Follow signs to Animal Shelter.

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12.) ADMINISTRATIVE VOLUNTEERS - LSU CENTER

CONTACT:
Volunteer coordinator Sharon Ricciardo, lsupetvol [at] gmail.com

LOCATION:
Hurricane Katrina Emergency Animal Shelter
LSU AgCenter’s John M. Parker Coliseum
School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University
Skip Bertman Drive; Baton Rouge, LA 7080

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
From: sltw2005 [at] earthlink.net
LSU Emergency Animal Shelter will stop accepting new animals on September 30, 2005. Operation will close on October 15, 2005. Owners must reclaim animals by September 30, or give consent for foster care or adoption.

Many kind and generous families in the Baton Rouge area have offered to temporarily foster pets from the Parker Coliseum Emergency Animal Shelter. …Once you have re-established your own residence, you can contact the fostering family directly to bring your pet home. Please inquire at the Foster Homes desk in the Entrance Hall of the Parker Coliseum or visit the Animal Emergency Response Network, disaster.petfinder.com/emergency/ and click: “I need to find a FOSTER HOME or temporary care for my pet.” Or use the link: “Show me people offering FOSTER HOME or temporary care” to browse the list of people who have offered foster care.

FOSTER DAY: Sunday, September 25, at the LSU Union. Owners can meet potential foster caregivers. For more information, http ://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/foster_day.htm.

If you wish to relinquish your pet for adoption, please come by the Foster Homes desk at Parker Coliseum or call 225-578-6111 to make arrangements. www.vetmed.lsu.edu/shelter_closing_information.htm

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13.) STAGING AREA IN DOTHAN, ALABAMA

CONTACT:
Maria Church, Director of Staging Area Operations
home: 334-793-3943; cell: 334-685-0522; staging area: 334-615-4620
mamaloveslabs [at] netzero.com

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Pet Care, Veterinary Care, Grooming, Transportation, Clerical, Laundry, Warehousing, and Volunteer Support, Foster Homes, and Donations.

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14.) SUPPLIES: DROP/DISTRIBUTION SITE

If you are bringing supplies with you, one option is is to utilize our centralized drop/distribution point in Mobile, Alabama. Supplies move in and out of this site, with items sent where they are needed. This supply option is organized by Grassroots Effort for Animals of the Storm [Kinship Circle and Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF)].

*We will never have too many supplies. We will continue to distribute items to overtaxed shelters long after initial rescue effort ends.

CONTACT:
Grassroots Effort for Animals of the Storm
Julia Fischer / home: 251-645-8605; cell: 251-455-9377; ggnu [at] bellsouth.net

CALL BEFOREHAND TO TELL:
-DAY/TIME YOU’LL ARRIVE.
-WHAT YOU’RE BRINGING.
-SOMEONE WILL NEED TO MEET YOU AT THE STORAGE SITE.

Alternate Storage
5809 Larue Steiner Road; Theodore, Al 36582
(In Mobile off of I-10)
West off 65 onto I-10 take exit 15A.
Circle under interstate and stay on this road (Hwy 90).
Turn right at second stop light and this is Larue Steiner Road.
Travel about .3 miles down this road and it will be on this street.
52, 54, 55 are the units we have at this moment.

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15) PERSONAL SUPPLIES LIST

2.) Have magnetic signs printed at Kinkos or another copy store for both sides of your vehicle. Suggestions for text on sign:ANIMAL RESCUE or ANIMAL DISASTER RELIEF

WHAT TO BRING:
current Hepatitis vaccinations
(Hepatitis A most important)
current Tetanus shot
pepper spray
hand sanitizer
insect repellent
sunscreen
first aid kits
thick “bite-proof” work gloves
sturdy, waterproof (rubber) work boots/shoes
change of shoes
hip-waders (if possible)
long sleeve shirts (for coverage, but lightweight)
long pants (for coverage, but lightweight)
extra socks
belt (to hang gears/supplies from)
mouth coverings (surgical masks, bandannas)
eye protection (sunglasses)
flashlights
D batteries
containers full of gasoline
cash
cell phone & car charger
phone cards (cell phones work, but not well)
waterproof walkie talkies
toilet paper
pillows, blankets, sheets, towels
water, Gatarade, snacks
other personal-care items
SHELTER: Bring a tent or trailer/RV type vehicle to live in.
Air mattress or cot

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Brenda Shoss, Kinship Circle
314-863-9445; 314-795-2646

“We feel relief to the bone when we get an IV line in,” says Rita, one of the rescuers. “You can see the color come back to their gums, their eyes - it’s like bringing them back to life.” Pasado

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GRASSROOTS EFFORT
FOR ANIMALS OF THE STORM

KINSHIP CIRCLE
7380 Kingsbury Blvd.; Saint Louis, MO 63130
Katrina relief contact Brenda Shoss:
(desk) 314-863-9445; (cell) 314-795-2646
www.kinshipcircle.org

ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION (ARF)
771 Holcombe Ave.; Mobile, Alabama 36605
Katrina relief contact Julia Fischer:
(cell) 251-455-9377; (home) 251-645-8605
www.animalrescuemobile.org

—– Original Message —–
From: In Defense of Animals
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 9:27 AM
Subject: IDA Volunteers Urgently Needed for Hurricane Katrina Animal Relief Effort

Thousands of Animals Remain Trapped Without Food or Water in Abandoned Homes

IDA’s Project Hope animal relief team continues to rescue animals in Mississippi and place them safely in shelters and foster homes. Working closely with Randy Grim and others from Stray Rescue of St. Louis, the group took in 20 dogs with particularly aggressive temperaments last week. They transported the dogs back to Stray Rescue’s shelter in Missouri, where they will be cared for until claimed by their guardians or placed in new homes. Additional IDA staff also flew down south this week to help with the relief effort.

The Project Hope team is just one of many groups working on the ground in areas of the South devastated by the most destructive storm on record ever to hit the U.S. Jane Garrison leads the food and water program at the makeshift animal shelter at the Lamar Dixon Expo Center in Gonzales, the central staging area for animal rescue in the state of Louisiana. In the weeks she has spent in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina hit, she has personally rescued hundreds of animals trapped on rooftops and inside locked houses without food or water while organizing relief and rescue teams.

Armed with a list of over 3,000 residential addresses where guardians say their animal companions remain trapped, Garrison and her volunteers are bringing food and clean water to animals who are dying of malnutrition because they have not eaten for over two weeks. Rescuers find that animals have survived in about half the houses they visit. There are also thousands of homes where animals remain barely alive that have not been reported to rescue organizations, and volunteers sometimes enter houses only after hearing barking inside. Even though they are working as fast as they can, Garrison’s team is only able to visit about 300 houses per day. At that rate, they will never be able to save all of the animals now on the verge of starvation.

- Volunteers are needed in Gonzales to help save animals still trapped in houses throughout the New Orleans area. Timing is critical, and every day counts for these starving animals. If you can join the relief effort in Gonzales, you will save the lives of animals every day that you are there. You do not need to be a “certified disaster rescuer” to help, and even one day of volunteering can make a huge difference, whether you join the search and rescue operations, work with animals at the shelter or do data entry of field notes. If you are willing to rough it for the duration of your stay (that is, sleep in a car or tent) and work hard, please contact IDA President Dr. Elliot Katz for more information at (415) 388-9641, ext. 225 or by email at hurricanekatrinainquiries [at] idausa.org.

- IDA’s Project Hope animal relief team needs medical supplies to provide basic health care for many of the animals at the Jackson staging area. Please ask your veterinarian to donate medical supplies for this urgent cause.

Project Hope
Rt. 1 Box 128
Grenada, MS 38901
(662) 237-0233

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: 1 Kinship Circle
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 1:01 PM
Subject: 9/27/05-Rescuers Needed NOW In Rita-Flooded Areas!

With everyone worried about HSUS Lamar-Dixon and Hattiesburg sites winding down by October 5—here is an immediate need for rescue. Other suggested sites that still need rescue/shelter volunteers follow the Rita-Flooded Areas information.

PLEASE SEND THE FOLLOWING TO info [at] kinshipcircle.org :
(If you have already sent this, DO NOT SEND AGAIN)
Your full name
Name of organization (if applicable)
Full street address
Cell phone, land phone
Email
Brief description of what you can provide

DUE TO THE VOLUME OF VOLUNTEER INQUIRIES, PLEASE:

-Type “KATRINA VOLUNTEER” in the subject line of emails.

-We cannot answer requests about where to donate money or find a specific animal to foster/adopt at this time.

- For directions to a volunteer site: www.mapquest.com/directions/main.adp

Thanks, Brenda Shoss
Kinship Circle/ARF Grassroots Effort
314-863-9445; 314-795-2646

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1.) RESCUERS NEEDED RIGHT NOW TO ENTER RITA-FLOODED AREAS!

CONTACT:
Primary: Patty Meehan, Lafayette Animal Aid: 337-344-2829
Secondary: Marie Bossard, St. Martin Humane Society
337-879-6600, 337-277-9538, stmartinhumane [at] hotmail.com

LOCATION:
Abbeville Shelter
Cecil McCrory Building
(on Port Rd., next to Clyde Prejean’s DMV office)
Abbeville, Louisiana 70510
Fly into Lafayette, LA airport. Rent a car to drive to nearby Abbeville.
No gas shortages reported at this time.

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Rescues are underway for cows, horses, pigs and other farm animals in Vermillion Parish and Southwest Louisiana Rita-hit areas. However IMMEDIATE HANDS-ON RESCUE NEEDED for dogs, cats, pets. Unlike New Orleans, families may still be in area unable to inhabit their homes. If you have a BOAT, bring it! Some areas are walkable, others aren’t. Animals brought back to Abbeville Shelter and Sugarena in Iberia. Both temporary shelters may remain open for just one week (approx. next Tuesday or Wednesday). After that, animals go to area shelters, some of which are kill shelters. (See information about Foster/Adopt from the Iberia Humane Society).

FOSTER/ADOPT
Dogs, cats, geese, goats, cows, horses…rescued from Iberia parish, LA, are sheltered at:
Sugarena Acadiana Fairground
Hwy 3212; New Iberia, LA
(US 90 To New Iberia, Hwy 3212 - Signs read Acadiana Fairgrounds)
337-365-7539

Dr. White, the “hero veterinarian” who has rescued some 300 pets of his own volition, is working with seven other veterinarians at the Sugarena Shelter.
His wife Marilynn’s contact information is: white [at] giftsetc.com and 337-380-2481.

Companion animals are then transferred to Iberia Humane Society.

TO FOSTER/ADOPT:
Iberia Humane Society
1314 Troy Road; New Iberia, Louisiana
337-365-1923; IberiaHu [at] IberiaHumane.com
MAP: www.iberiahumane.com/map.htm
*Volunteers also needed at Iberia Humane Society,If you can stay after rescue effort.

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/27/05):
HAY & GRAIN!
As posted yesterday, most stocks are contaminated by flood waters.
If you or someone you know can transfer hay/grain to Abbeville or Sugarena Shelters,
Go directly to addresses listed above, or contact:
Patty Meehan, Lafayette Animal Aid: 337-344-2829
Marie Bossard, St. Martin Humane Society: 337-879-6600, 337-277-9538
Marilynn White: 337-380-2481

FOR INCOMING DOG/CAT RESCUES:
Dog/Cat Toys, Collars, Shampoo, Flea Treatment (not Hartz!), Food, Treats, Bowls, etc. *Stock up at PetSmart

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2.) HUMANE SOCIETY OF LOUISIANA IN TYLERTOWN

CONTACT:
Shelter director, Jeff Dorson: 901-268-4432
To confirm your arrival date, email: humanela [at] gmail.com
(Send email before you show up)
Onsite contacts: Ask for Johnna Harris or Jeff Dorson

LOCATION:
The Humane Society of Louisiana Emergency Shelter
115 Obed Magee Rd.
Tylertown, Mississippi 39667
(next to St. Frances Animal Sanctuary)

FOSTER/ADOPT
You need definitive approval from a local New Orleans animal protection charity, before heading down. 501c3 no-kill sanctuaries or rescue groups that want to adopt animals through Humane Society of Louisiana,CONTACT:
Jen Daley, Katrina Adoptions Coordinator: jndaley [at] yahoo.com.

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/28/05):
Long list: www.humanela.org/
(scroll toward bottom of page)

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3.) MUTTSHACK M.A.S.H. UNIT – NEW ORLEANS

CONTACT:
Sharon Gorski: 877-727-9343; 586-727-9815; possecop [at] msn.com
To obtain security authorization papers

LOCATION:
Lake Castle School
8400 Hayne Blvd.; New Orleans, LA

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
MuttShack has established a haven for immediate triage and temporary shelter. A waystation for rescued animals, this animal M.A.S.H. unit provides emergency veterinary care and shelter, with the ultimate goal of reuniting companion animals with their families. Need veterinarians, vet techs, rescuers and shelter workers. Muttshack will coordinate some rescue/transport efforts with Mandeville Rescue/Shelter Task Force (see preceding listing).

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/25/05):
-BOATS
-TRANSPORTERS
-Veterinary/medical supplies
-Generators
-Ice
-Golden Malrine (fly bait; serious fly problem due to polluted water)
-Needs fluctuate. Check with Sharon Gorski (586-727-9815)

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4.) PASADO’S RACELAND, LOUISIANA TRIAGE AREA

CONTACT:
Volunteer email: cstaylor [at] frontiernet.net
*Send email AFTER flight and other travel arrangements are made*

LOCATION:
PasadoRescue Triage Area
Raceland, Louisiana

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
9/25/05–PasadoRescue gained Homeland Security/FEMA approval to enter Texas for animal disaster relief. A triage area is established at Huntsville Fairgrounds (3925 Hwy. 30-West, Huntsville, TX 77340). HOWEVER, TEXAS STORM AREAS APPEAR TO BE MANAGEABLE AND NO ADDITIONAL HELP IS NEEDED AS OF TODAY. (We will let you know if this changes).

Right now, Pasado is the only shelter open to animals in South Louisiana. They need help cleaning kennels, walking dogs, and other duties. Rescues will resume when animal units are allowed to reenter New Orleans.

NEED VETERINARIANS DESPERATELY. If you are a vet, please follow the directions below and then email where noted.

WHAT TO DO:
-Book a flight to Baton Rouge, LA or New Orleans
-Book a campsite (found one!) or hotel early - they book up fast.
LIST OF HOTELS/CAMPSITE: www.pasadosafehaven.org/NEWS/NEWS4.htm
-There is no space to sleep, shower, go to bathroom at Pasado triage site. Cannot endanger losing triage facility by asking for these amenities.
-Rent a vehicle

Once you have done the above,
Email: cstaylor [at] frontiernet.net
If you email BEFORE booking flight and living quarters, Pasado will not answer your email. (“Sorry, we’re swamped!”)

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/25/05):
-CANNED ID Prescription dog food. Dogs coming in are so emaciated that canned ID is the only food they’re able to digest. Please get your vets on-board to help. Ship to:
Law Offices of Louis St. Martin
ATTN: PASADO RESCUE TEAMS
#1 Church St.
Houma, LA 70364
-Walmart Gift Cards, Gatorade always welcome
-Buy a hot meal for rescuers in LA. Order vegetarian & vegan (no cheese or dairy) mix for 40. Call either Domino’s (Raceland) 985-532-3005 (they deliver) or call a localcaterer who does great dinners for cheap ($3.38 pp)
C’est Cajun’ Ask for Penny 985-532-8273
-Check Pasado website,
www.pasadosafehaven.org/NEWS/TO%20VOLUNTEER%20ALT.htm, a day or so before you leave to bring what is requested No room for extra supplies.

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FOR OUR LATEST COMPREHENSIVE VOLUNTEER ALERT, SLIGHTLY UPDATED SINCE ISSUED ON 9/25, EMAIL: info [at] kinshipcircle.org
*If you are already on Kinship Circle’s Katrina Alerts List, indicate this so we don’t record your email address a second time!

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GRASSROOTS EFFORT
FOR ANIMALS OF THE STORM

KINSHIP CIRCLE
7380 Kingsbury Blvd.; Saint Louis, MO 63130
Katrina relief contact Brenda Shoss:
(desk) 314-863-9445; (cell) 314-795-2646
www.kinshipcircle.org

ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION (ARF)
771 Holcombe Ave.; Mobile, Alabama 36605
Katrina relief contact Julia Fischer:
(cell) 251-455-9377; (home) 251-645-8605
www.animalrescuemobile.org

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: 1 Kinship Circle ; 2 Kinship Circle
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 3:56 PM
Subject: 9/26/05: Hay & Grain for Rita Victims

9/26/05: Needed: Bales of Hay, Sacks of Grain for Rita Victims

CONTACT:
Julia Fischer, Grassroots Effort for Animals of the Storm
home: 251-645-8605
cell: 251-455-9377
ggnu [at] bellsouth.net

NEEDS/SITUATION:
We’d like to begin stockpiling hay and grain at our drop/distribution supply site in Mobile, Alabama.

Hay fields and graineries are destroyed across flooded states. Any stores exposed to moisture are contaminated and toxic to animals who consume it.

Areas hit by Hurricane Rita are largely rural. We have spoken with The Iberia Humane Society www.iberiahumane.com/ which has established shelter for rescued animals from Vermillion Parish, Abbeyville, etc. They are currently housing everyone from horses, goats, pigs, sheep, and a goose, to guinea pigs and 40-60 dogs (brought in yesterday).

Dr. White and his wife Marilynn are still assessing needs for this new effort. We will keep you posted about specific volunteer/supply requests.

FYI:

From: Marie St Martin Humane - stmartinhumane [at] hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005
Subject: RESCUED RITA pets in Vermillion & Iberia parishes, LA

Animals rescued from the Vermillion parish, LA, are being sheltered at the Cecil McCrory Building, on Port Rd. (next to Clyde Prejean’s DMV office) in Abbeville.

Animals (dogs, cats, geese, goats, cows, horses… anything you can think of) rescued from the Iberia parish, LA, are being sheltered at the Sugar Arena in New Iberia. Companion animals are then transferred to the Iberia Humane Society (337-365-1923), located at 1314 Troy Road, New Iberia.

Marie Bossard
337-879-6600 337-277-9538
St. Martin Humane Society
www.stmartinhumane.org

In the meantime, they mentioned need for A LOT of hay in the upcoming weeks. Julia Fischer, who handles our supply drop/distribution site in Mobile, Alabama, says this will become a pressing need throughout storm states.

WHAT TO DO:
If you can transport (or arrange to have transported) bales of hay and/or sacks of grain to our supply site, please contact Julia Fischer (Animal Rescue Foundation).
Tell Julia:
-DAY/TIME SUPPLIES WILL ARRIVE.
-WHAT YOU’RE BRINGING.
(SOMEONE WILL NEED TO MEET YOU AT THE STORAGE SITE).

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Hopeful Haven’s Equine Rescue Unit is sending a convey into Rita-effected areas this Saturday. Anyone who needs HAY or FEED, please call Debra Barlow:
318-286-3116

CONTACT:
Debra Barlow
318-286-3116 * hopefulhaven [at] yahoo.com

LOCATION:
Hopeful Haven Equine Rescue Organization
Shreveport, Louisiana

SITUATION:
Saturday, 10/1/05:
5:00 a.m. - Convoy leaves Shreveport, LA from the
Summer Gove Baptist Church

8:30 a.m. - Meets in Lafayette at the OMNI Energy Building
4500 NE Evangeline Thruway
At I-49 exit 4

Convoy travels to Lake Charles, Vermillion Parish and Port Arthur areas.

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GRASSROOTS EFFORT
FOR ANIMALS OF THE STORM

KINSHIP CIRCLE
7380 Kingsbury Blvd.; Saint Louis, MO 63130
Katrina relief contact Brenda Shoss:
(desk) 314-863-9445; (cell) 314-795-2646
www.kinshipcircle.org

ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION (ARF)
771 Holcombe Ave.; Mobile, Alabama 36605
Katrina relief contact Julia Fischer:
(cell) 251-455-9377; (home) 251-645-8605
www.animalrescuemobile.org

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: 1 Kinship Circle ; 2 Kinship Circle
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 11:33 AM
Subject: *9/25-LAMAR DIXON UPDATE*

These messages came in late last night, after we posted our comprehensive 9/25 Volunteer Update. Apparently, staging areas in Gonzales, LA (Lamar-Dixon) and Hattiesburg, MS are winding down with plans to foster animals or send them to existing shelters in Mississippi and Louisiana.

Please read messages below carefully. There is no precise date as to when these shelters will stop accepting volunteers, however this may begin to occur in early October. If you intend to volunteer at Lamar-Dixon or Hattiiesburg, you ought to leave very soon:

From HSUS Volunteer Boards:

“By 10/5 we should be operating with a just a limited number of shelter and veterinary staff to process and care for any remaining rescued animals. Of course, the nature of disaster response work is always unpredictable and things frequently do not go as planned, so we may continue to need full staffing for a longer time period than expected.”

NOTE: Animal Rescue Foundation/Kinship Circle are tracking area shelters that absorb Katrina/Rita rescues. As rescue efforts slowly wind down, we will provide contact information for area shelters asking for volunteers and/or foster/adopt.

Brenda Shoss, Kinship Circle
Julia Fischer, Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF)

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From: Sharon Gorski - possecop [at] msn.com
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 22:55:35 -0400
Subject: Fw: Lamar Dixon Volunteer Update 7:17PM PST, 9/25/05
www.snspetsupply.com
www.Muttshack.org

—– Original Message —–
From: Kate Danaher - katedanaher [at] animalearthhuman.org
9/25/05 7:17PM

I JUST GOT OFF THE PHONE WITH JANE GARRISON. BACK WHEN THEY FIRST SET THE LAMAR DIXON EMERGENCY SHELTER UP HSUS WAS GIVEN A DEADLINE TO BE OUT BY SEPTEMBER 30TH. THEY ARE TRYING TO GET AN EXTENSION DUE TO THE DELAYS THEY EXPERIENCED WITH RITA.

JANE URGES YOU ALL TO NOT DELAY YOUR PLANS BUT TO GET DOWN THERE AS SOON AS YOU CAN TO HELP DROP FOOD AND WATER AND RESCUE. SHE IS THRILLED WITH THE RESPONSE SHE IS GETTING (45 TWO-PERSON TEAMS WENT OUT THIS MORNING) AND IS SO SORRY THAT ANYONE IS BEING TREATED UNKINDLY UPON THEIR ARRIVALS. THANKS
TO PERSEVERING VOLUNTEERS ANIMALS CONTINUE TO BE PULLED FROM HOMES ALIVE.

DUE TO REPEATED REPORTS OF PEOPLE BEING TREATED INAPPROPRIATELY AT VOLUNTEER CHECK-IN, JANE RECOMMENDS THAT YOU NOT CHECK IN AT THE VOLUNTEER DESK AT BARN 5 AND THAT YOU REPORT DIRECTLY TO HER AT 5:30AM OUTSIDE THE “PROWLER” RV ON THE FAR SIDE OF BARNS 1 & 2. (THE VOLUNTEER FOOD TENT WAS MOVED WHEN THEY WERE HUNKERING DOWN FOR RITA.)

GODSPEED!

KATE DANAHER SAN RAFAEL, CA 415-459-1149

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From: RAVS Disaster Response - disaster [at] kattrap.net
Organization: Rural Area Vet Services
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005

HSUS/RAVS Disaster Response Schedule Update 9/25/05

If you are receiving this message you are currently scheduled as a disaster response volunteer with HSUS/RAVS in either Mississippi or Louisiana sometime after or including 10/5/05.

The word today is that we will be aiming to demobilize both the Lamar-Dixon facility and the Hattiesburg, MS facility within the next 1-2 weeks, moving all of the remaining animals to foster/adoption at various shelters around the country. As this occurs our volunteer needs will begin to decrease. By 10/5 we should be operating with a just a limited number of shelter and veterinary staff to process and care for any remaining rescued animals. Of course, the nature of disaster response work is always unpredictable and things frequently do not go as planned, so we may continue to need full staffing for a longer time period than expected.

What all of this means is that those of you scheduled to deploy after 10/8 should delay finalizing travel plans for the next week or so until we know more. If you are making flight plans, I would recommend purchasing refundable tickets as it is difficult to predict how conditions will develop.

We do apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, but if there is one constant in this work it is change . . I will be sending out email updates when I hear of any updates/changes to this plan.

THANK YOU for your flexibility and willingness to help. –Windi

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GRASSROOTS EFFORT
FOR ANIMALS OF THE STORM

KINSHIP CIRCLE
7380 Kingsbury Blvd.; Saint Louis, MO 63130
Katrina relief contact Brenda Shoss:
(desk) 314-863-9445; (cell) 314-795-2646
www.kinshipcircle.org

ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION (ARF)
771 Holcombe Ave.; Mobile, Alabama 36605
Katrina relief contact Julia Fischer:
(cell) 251-455-9377; (home) 251-645-8605
www.animalrescuemobile.org

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: 1 Kinship Circle
Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 7:15 PM
Subject: *9/25-Katrina Rescue: Post-Rita Update*

If you receive this twice, we apologize. Kindly delete duplicate messages.

IMPORTANT NEW INFORMATION
Due to increased security in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita, our Grassroots Effort for Animals of the Storm is now working with coordinator Sharon Gorski. We ask that all volunteers contact Sharon to acquire proper authorization papers before traveling South. These papers are to help YOU move more freely through security checkpoints.

You may tell Sharon where you want to volunteer, based on information in our alerts. OR, ask Sharon where your skills are most needed.

CONTACT:
Sharon Gorski
877-727-9343; 586-727-9815
possecop [at] msn.com; volunteers [at] muttshack.org

9/25/05—Katrina Rescue: Post-Rita Update

IN THIS ALERT:
1.) Pasado’s Raceland, Louisiana Triage Area
2.) MuttShack M.A.S.H. Unit – New Orleans
3.) Mandeville, LA Rescue/Shelter Task Force
4.) Lamar-Dixon In Gonzales, Louisiana
5.) Hattiesburg, Mississippi Site Needs Help
6.) Katrina/Rita: Haven For Horses
7.) Help In Waveland, Mississippi
8.) Volunteers Wanted At LSU Center
9.) St. John Parish Animal Shelter
10.) Staging Area In Dothan, Alabama
11.) Disaster Rescue Response - Winn-Dixie Site
12.) Supplies: Drop/Distribution Site
13.) Personal Supplies List

DUE TO THE VOLUME OF VOLUNTEER INQUIRIES, PLEASE:

-Type “KATRINA VOLUNTEER” in the subject line of emails.

-Read alerts carefully. Contact Sharon Gorski for authorization papers. Contact name(s) listed within specific effort for more information.

-Before traveling, print out Kinship Circle’s most recent alert so phone numbers and driving directions are with you.

-We cannot answer requests about where to donate money or find a specific animal to foster/adopt at this time.

- For directions to a volunteer site: www.mapquest.com/directions/main.adp

Thanks, Brenda Shoss
Kinship Circle/ARF Grassroots Effort
314-863-9445; 314-795-2646

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1.) PASADO’S RACELAND, LOUISIANA TRIAGE AREA

CONTACT:
Volunteer email: cstaylor [at] frontiernet.net
*Send email AFTER flight and other travel arrangements are made*

LOCATION:
PasadoRescue Triage Area
Raceland, Louisiana

NEED VETERINARIANS DESPERATELY. If you are a vet, please follow the directions below and then email where noted.

WHAT TO DO:
-Book a flight to Baton Rouge, LA or New Orleans
-Book a campsite (found one!) or hotel early - they book up fast. LIST OF HOTELS/CAMPSITE: www.pasadosafehaven.org/NEWS/NEWS4.htm
-There is no space to sleep, shower, go to bathroom at Pasado triage site. Cannot endanger losing triage facility by asking for these amenities.
-Rent a vehicle

Once you have done the above,
Email: cstaylor [at] frontiernet.net
If you email BEFORE booking flight and living quarters, Pasado will not answer your email. (“Sorry, we’re swamped!”)

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/25/05):
-CANNED ID Prescription dog food. Dogs coming in are so emaciated that canned ID is the only food they’re able to digest. Please get your vets on-board to help. Ship to:
Law Offices of Louis St. Martin
ATTN: PASADO RESCUE TEAMS
#1 Church St.
Houma, LA 70364
-Walmart Gift Cards, Gatorade always welcome
-Buy a hot meal for rescuers in LA. Order vegetarian & vegan (no cheese or dairy) mix for 40. Call either Domino’s (Raceland) 985-532-3005 (they deliver) or call a local caterer who does great dinners for cheap ($3.38 pp) C’est Cajun’ Ask for Penny 985-532-8273
-Check Pasado website, www.pasadosafehaven.org/NEWS/TO%20VOLUNTEER%20ALT.htm, a day or so before you leave to bring what is requested No room for extra supplies.

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2.) MUTTSHACK M.A.S.H. UNIT – NEW ORLEANS

CONTACT:
Sharon Gorski: 877-727-9343; 586-727-9815; possecop [at] msn.com
To obtain security authorization papers

LOCATION:
Lake Castle School
8400 Hayne Blvd.; New Orleans, LA

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
MuttShack has established a haven for immediate triage and temporary shelter. A waystation for rescued animals, this animal M.A.S.H. unit provides emergency veterinary care and shelter, with the ultimate goal of reuniting companion animals with their families. Need veterinarians, vet techs, rescuers and shelter workers. Muttshack will coordinate some rescue/transport efforts with Mandeville Rescue/Shelter Task Force (see preceding listing).

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3.) MANDEVILLE, LA RESCUE/SHELTER TASK FORCE

CONTACT:
1.) Sharon Gorski: 877-727-9343; 586-727-9815; possecop [at] msn.com
To obtain security authorization papers

2.) For more information,
Kendra Williams: 985-246-9388
Owner of Lansas Kennels in Mandeville

Cris Stevens/Terri Kelley: 219-608-4112, 219-326-8887
Sarah Stevens: 219-608-1735, sarah [at] mixedupmutts.org
Past & returning task force leaders

LOCATION:

Lansas Kennels
C/O Kendra (if mailing supplies)
23015 Kilgore Street; Mandeville, LA 70471

PLEASE WEAR DARK BLUE T-SHIRT to appear as a unified rescue unit.

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/25/05):
-TRANSPORTERS, TRANSPORT TRAILERS & TRUCKS!
-Needs fluctuate. Check with Kendra Williams (985-246-9388)

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4.) LAMAR-DIXON IN GONZALES, LOUISIANA

LOCATION:
9039 St. Landry Ave.; Gonzales, LA 70737; 225-621-1700
*This location is vehicle accessible.

DIRECTIONS:
FROM THE WEST: Take I-10 East to Exit 177 * At bottom of ramp take a right
Go through traffic light and take second left into the Lamar Dixon Equestrian Center Ask for the volunteer registration area

FROM THE EAST: Take I-10 West to Exit 177 * At bottom of ramp take a left
Go through traffic light and take second left into the Lamar Dixon Equestrian Center Ask for the volunteer registration area

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Prior to Hurricane Rita, a Lamar-Dixon contact advised volunteers to not come to the Gonzales shelter until the worst of Rita had passed, citing gas shortages, traffic problems and security issues. Today (9/25) one of our volunteers informed us that Lamar-Dixon is operating with a scaled down crew but plans to return to full volunteer capacity on Monday. When you arrive, report to volunteer stations. Help is still needed.

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5.) HATTIESBURG, MS SITE NEEDS HELP

LOCATION:
Forrest County Multi Purpose Center
952 Sullivan Drive; Hattiesburg MS 39401

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
One of our volunteers called from the Hattiesburg site today (9/25) to report “walk in” volunteers are utilized. Or you may follow advice forwarded from the Humane Society of Etowah County where Vicki Meeks is assigned as supervisor/team leader for one the pavilions containing 1000+ animals.

From: Jama Singley jamasingley [at] alabamahumanefederation.org
FORWARDED FROM: Jolie Entrekin, LVT, Assistant Executive Director Humane Society of Etowah County; 1700 Chestnut Street; Gadsden, AL 35901

Vicki Meeks requests animal care/shelter workers at the HSUS-Hattiesburg shelter for any amount of time. Accommodations include air conditioned military tents and all food/drinks. The camp is very safe with armed military on site at all times.

To carpool or caravan, use the Alabama Humane Federation website volunteer message board: www.alabamahumanefederation.org. Post where you are leaving from and when.

Need people who can clean kennels, answer phones, walk dogs…

DIRECTIONS:
No need to call ahead any longer. Go to the Forest County Multiplex (fairgrounds) in Hattiesburg, MS–across the street from the University of Southern Mississippi. Highway 49 at Highway 98.

Find the animal volunteer table, tell them Mindy Gilbert of HSUS sent you.

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6.) KATRINA / RITA: HAVEN FOR HORSES

CONTACT:
Debra Barlow
318-286-3116 * hopefulhaven [at] yahoo.com

LOCATION:
Hopeful Haven Equine Rescue Organization
Shreveport, Louisiana

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7.) HELP IN WAVELAND, MISSISSIPPI

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
HSUS animal rescue unit established in Waveland. Volunteers needed.

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8.) VOLUNTEERS WANTED AT LSU CENTER

CONTACT:
Email volunteer coordinator Sharon Ricciardo, lsupetvol [at] gmail.com:
Complete name / Contact information / Skills / Availability
Put “volunteer” in subject line

LOCATION:
Hurricane Katrina Emergency Animal Shelter
LSU AgCenter’s John M. Parker Coliseum
School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University
Skip Bertman Drive; Baton Rouge, LA 7080

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Looking for volunteers to walk dogs, care, feed, work reception desk, etc.
The facility is starting shift work from now till mid-October. Volunteers need to be self sufficient (food/housing/transportation), adults, and preferably experienced with animals.

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9.) ST. JOHN PARISH ANIMAL SHELTER

MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Sharon Gorski: 586-727-9815, possecop [at] msn.com

LOCATION/CONTACT:
124 Water Plant Rd; LaPlace, LA 70068
Linda Allen, Shelter Director: no email/cell phone available
shelter phone: 985-651-7387
alternate contact/rescue volunteer Dina Becnel: 985-210-9422

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/21/05):
St. John Parish Animal Shelter to stockpile supplies for St. Bernard Parish. Any flea treatment (KC: NOT HARTZ! It kills cats and dogs), toys, treats, and medical/vet supplies (i.e., vaccines, strongid-T, albon, nutri-cal)

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10.) STAGING AREA IN DOTHAN, ALABAMA

CONTACT:
Maria Church, Director of Staging Area Operations
home: 334-793-3943; cell: 334-685-0522; staging area: 334-615-4620
mamaloveslabs [at] netzero.com

Rescue coalition formed by SAVE-A-PET, at the Dothan Animal Shelter, the
Wiregrass Humane Society, and the Southeast Alabama Kennel Club
NOTE: Coalition supported and funded in part by the Florida Association of Kennel Clubs and the American Kennel Club

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Pet Care, Veterinary Care, Grooming, Transportation, Clerical, Laundry, Warehousing, and Volunteer Support, Foster Homes, and Donations.

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11.) DISASTER RESPONSE RESCUE - WINN-DIXIE SITE

CONTACT:
Shannon and Mark Martin: 706-769-7701

LOCATION:
4600 Chef Menteur Hwy staging area at N. Louisa Street

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Volunteers needed. Many dry areas, but bring rubber boots. Need rescue groups to get dogs off porches, etc.

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/13/05):
Crates, Boats (inflatables needed to hold full crates on the water), Trucks, SUVs, Sticks with loops to get reluctant dogs

Stay on S. Causeway Blvd. all the way to Jefferson Hwy, 90 E. (You’ll cross over Veterans Blvd.)
Stay on Jeff Highway east to N.O.. until it turns into S. Claiborne Ave.
Take a right on Monticello Ave, which turns into (dead ends) at Oak St. Go left on Oak.
Bear right on Leake Ave. (You will be paralleling the Mississippi river)
Stay on Leake for 10 or so blocks and then take a left onto St. Charles Ave.
Continue past Tulane on your left, Audubon Park on your right. Cross over Napoleon and Louisiana Aves. Stay on St. Charles until you dead end.
Follow signs to reach I-10 E. (i.e. go left at the end of St. Charles)
Take I-10 E to Louisa St. N (the 2nd exit). Go left on Louisa.
Go through several red lights to Chef Menteur Hwy and go right.
Immediately see Winn-Dixie on right in the first block.

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12.) SUPPLIES: DROP/DISTRIBUTION SITE

*We will never have too many supplies. We will continue to distribute itemsto overtaxed shelters long after initial rescue effort ends.

CONTACT:
Grassroots Effort for Animals of the Storm
Julia Fischer / home: 251-645-8605; cell: 251-455-9377; ggnu [at] bellsouth.net
Sarah-Jayne Brown / 954-712-9900; oceanpromotion [at] msn.com

CALL BEFOREHAND TO TELL:
-DAY/TIME YOU’LL ARRIVE.
-WHAT YOU’RE BRINGING.
-SOMEONE WILL NEED TO MEET YOU AT THE STORAGE SITE.

Alternate Storage
5809 Larue Steiner Road; Theodore, Al 36582
(In Mobile off of I-10)
West off 65 onto I-10 take exit 15A.
Circle under interstate and stay on this road (Hwy 90).
Turn right at second stop light and this is Larue Steiner Road.
Travel about 3 miles down this road and it will be on this street.
52, 54, 55 are the units we have at this moment.

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13.) PERSONAL SUPPLIES LIST

1.) Contact Sharon Gorski to acquire security authorization papers. Bring with you. 877-727-9343; 586-727-9815; possecop [at] msn.com

2.) Bring documentation, i.e., your animal organization’s nonprofit status; DART or other animal disaster relief training; veterinarian/vet tech or animal control credentials; animal rescue/shelter experience credentials; animal transport, etc.

3.) Have magnetic signs printed at Kinkos or another copy store for both sides of your vehicle. Suggestions for text on sign: ANIMAL RESCUE or ANIMAL DISASTER RELIEF

SHELTER: Bring a tent or trailer/RV type vehicle to live in.
Air mattress or cot

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Brenda Shoss, Kinship Circle
314-863-9445; 314-795-2646

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GRASSROOTS EFFORT
FOR ANIMALS OF THE STORM

KINSHIP CIRCLE
7380 Kingsbury Blvd.; Saint Louis, MO 63130
Katrina relief contact Brenda Shoss:
(desk) 314-863-9445; (cell) 314-795-2646
www.kinshipcircle.org

ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION (ARF)
771 Holcombe Ave.; Mobile, Alabama 36605
Katrina relief contact Julia Fischer:
(cell) 251-455-9377; (home) 251-645-8605
www.animalrescuemobile.org

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: Kinship Circle
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 7:02 PM
Subject: RITA / KATRINA: Impact On Animal Rescue

9/22/05—RITA / KATRINA: Impact On Animal Rescue

In this alert:
What Can I Do Now To Help Animals In The Path Of Rita?
How Does Hurricane Rita Effect Katrina Animal Rescue?
How Bad Is Hurricane Rita? Will I Be Safe?

Many of you have sent what we lovingly refer to as “screaming emails” about how you can help Texas animals facing Rita, a hurricane the size of Georgia poised to strike Galveston, surrounding areas, and Houston. Still reeling from Katrina, it is difficult to believe this is happening.

Here is what we know as of early evening, 9/22/05:

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WHAT CAN I DO NOW TO HELP ANIMALS IN THE PATH OF RITA?

1.) There is no response from major organizations that we are aware of at this time. However, this means nothing. Rescue teams on the ground since Katrina struck may already have plans underway to extend relief into Texas. Still, we cannot direct you anywhere because the facts are not in.

2.) We will post information as we receive it.

3.) Denise Wilson, a volunteer coordinator who lives in Texas about 200 miles from Galveston, informs us:
–You cannot drive into Galveston. Roads are closed and the city has evacuated.
–Houston evacuations are also underway.

4.) Some evacuees have left their pets at temporary shelters in Nacogdoches and Lufkin. These are small Texas towns off Hwy 59 with big expo-type centers housing pets. These shelters may need help. We have no one at these shelters to verify this.

5.) From volunteer coordinator Sharon Gorski, possecop [at] msn.com: “Best thing you could do would be to bring crates to animal shelters north of the storm, and hope they can go rescue any pets left behind. The more crates they can stockpile, the better off they will be when and if they can or need to rescue any stranded animals. If they do not need to use the crates, the crates can be donated to La.”

6.) TRANSPORT ANIMALS TO HOUSTON SPCA

——-forwarded——–
The Houston SPCA has agreed to take the Whiskerville Animal Sanctuary animals. Now the critical issue is transport. Whiskerville is located in Texas City, which is on the Texas coast but not actually on Galveston Island. All city and county government has been shut down. They desperately need help from outside their community to get the animals moved to the Houston SPCA.

If you are near enough, with vehicle to help
If you have contacts in Houston area who can arrange transport
CALL: Whiskerville Animal Sanctuary, 409-682-5584
(Only call with actual offer; need lines open)

Police will let people into Texas City, at least through today
Almost 400 animals (300 cats, 100 dogs) at Whiskerville
Have donated funds to pay for arranged transport, if necessary

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HOW DOES HURRICANE RITA EFFECT KATRINA ANIMAL RESCUE?

Nothing definitive. We are sharing with you various reports we’ve had today.

1.) NEW ORLEANS:
We have heard mandatory evacuations are ordered, by 6:00 pm, for the New Orleans area. Some independent rescue groups have already been asked to leave. Our rescuers cannot gain access into Plaquemines Parish today, but have sent people to New Orleans (including two fireman) to get as many animals as possible. If the levee breaks again it could potentially cause more damage than the first break.

2.) MISSISSIPPI: We have NOT heard anything about mandatory evacuations from Mississippi and animal staging areas some 30-40 miles inland. Mississippi expects rainfall that could exacerbate already flooded areas, resulting in closed highways and impassable security points.

3.) LAMAR-DIXON: Sources indicate -
NEW VOLUNTEERS: Do not book flights or drive cross country until the worst of Rita has passed. You will encounter even more gas shortages and standstill traffic due to departing evacuees. Increased security measures may prevent access.

VOLUNTEERS ALREADY IN GONZALES AREA: (2:30 pm, 9/22/05) Report to Lamar-Dixon volunteer stations. Help is still needed.

4.) The volunteer opportunities listed in our last alert (9/22/05 - Katrina: Latest Volunteer Update) are most current. However, we do not know how long or if these efforts will be suspended due to Hurricane Rita’s evacuations.

5.) YOUR OPTIONS?
Postpone your journey until next week when (hopefully) Rita is behind us—without major impact on Louisiana.

Travel as planned, entering and working in Mississippi until able to access Louisiana areas. *NOTE: Lamar Dixon has not yet stated it is rejecting volunteers. They have recommended new volunteers do not come at this time. If we learn of any changes, we will post them.

We cannot tell you what to do. We offer information only. Conditions could CHANGE over the next hours or days.

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HOW BAD IS HURRICANE RITA? WILL I BE SAFE?

SOURCE: HURRICANE LOCAL STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE, from Lake Charles, LA, Thursday:

…Rita now a category 4 hurricane, but still an extremely dangerious storm.

…Hurricane warnings in effect for portions of TX and LA coastline.

…A hurricane warning in effect along the coast from Port O’ Connor, TX to Morgan City, LA. Preparations to protect life and property should be rushed to completion.

…Inland hurricane warning in effect for counties/parishes between Interstate 10 and the coastline: Jefferson and Orange Counties of SE Texas, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, Acadia, Vermilion, Lafayette, upper and lower Saint Martin, Iberia and Saint Mary Parishes in SW and S Central Louisiana.

…Inland Hurricane watch in effect for counties/parishes North of Interstate 10: Hardin, Tyler, Jasper and Newton Counties of SE Texas, Beauregard, Allen, Evangeline, Saint Landry, Vernon, Rapides and Aoyelles, parishes of SW Louisiana.

Rita moving toward West-Northwest 9mph. Gradual turn to NW expected over next 24-36 hours. This track would bring center of storm ashore along extreme upper TX coast early Saturday morning.

CURRENT EVACUATION ORDERS FOR SE TEXAS AND SW LOUISIANA: Mandatory Orange and Jefferson Counties; Mandatory Cameron and Calcasieu Parishes; Mandatory Jefferson Davis Parish (S of Interstate 10 and all low lying areas); Vermilion Parish (Mandatory S of Hwy 14 and people in mobile homes, with special needs / Voluntary for others); Acadia Parish (Mandatory S of Hwy 92 / Voluntary for others in low lying areas); Mandatory St. Mary Parish (S of intracoastal canal); Lower St. Martin Parish (Mandatory for special needs patients / Voluntary everyone else); Voluntary Iberia Parish (S of Hwy 90 and 14); Voluntary Lafayette Parish (people in mobile homes, low-lying areas, medical conditions requiring electricity)

SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA / TROPICAL STORM WATCH FOR PARISHES: Assumption, LaFourche, Terrebonne, Jefferson, Orleans, St. Tammany, Washinton, St. John the Baptist, St. Charles, St. Bernard, Plaquemines…

SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE expected across region due to extreme winds and lengthy duration. Numerous trees, power lines downed. Widespread, extended power outages likely. Some structures will fail. Isolated tornadoes possible across SE Texas and SW Louisiana beginning Friday night as Rita approaches coastline. Extreme rainfall, 8-12 inches expected. 10-15 inches possible.

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GRASSROOTS EFFORT
FOR ANIMALS OF THE STORM

KINSHIP CIRCLE
7380 Kingsbury Blvd.; Saint Louis, MO 63130
Katrina relief contact Brenda Shoss:
(desk) 314-863-9445; (cell) 314-795-2646
www.kinshipcircle.org

ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION (ARF)
771 Holcombe Ave.; Mobile, Alabama 36605
Katrina relief contact Julia Fischer:
(cell) 251-455-9377; (home) 251-645-8605
www.animalrescuemobile.org

—– Original Message —–
From: DawnWatch - news [at] dawnwatch.com
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 6:27 PM
Subject: DawnWatch: AP on bill that would require animal evacuation, NY Times on New Orleans animal situation and tip for PBS “Now” — 9/22/ 9/23/05

While the Thursday, September 22 New York Times has a story on abandoned dogs running in packs in New Orleans, and the PBS series “Now” plans a show on the New Orleans animal situation (Friday, September 23, see below) an Associated Press story, available on the CNN, CBS, San Francisco Gate, and some other websites, discusses a bill that would require state and local disaster preparedness plans to “include provisions for household pets and service animals.” It is being sponsored by Reps. Tom Lantos, D-California, Christopher Shays, R-Connecticut, and Barney Frank, D-Massachusetts.

The AP article quotes Lantos: “I cannot help but wonder how many more people could have been saved had they been able to take their pets.”

You’ll find the article on line at www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/22/katrina.pets.ap/
and at
sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/09/22/national/w093817D59.DTL

You can respond with a letter to the San Francisco Chronicle: letters [at] sfchronicle.com

I will forward more information on the bill when I have it.

The September 22 New York Times article (p 26) is headed, “Workers Trying to Rescue Pets Abandoned in New Orleans.” It describes packs of dogs in New Orleans:

“They roam this city gaunt and uncomprehending, at turns frightened and menacing, loping directionless between ruined buildings, drinking the muck, staring at cars, waiting to die. They are omnipresent. A week ago, their self-appointed rescuers spoke of the odds of rejoining them as pets to masters, but that talk has ended. Now these dogs make for an infestation, untold thousands unwell, unrestrained, unrecognizable and left to their devices. ”

We read:

“More than 400 rescuers are based at the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center in Gonzales, La., 60 miles away, said Julie Morris, director of national outreach for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. With credentials from New Orleans, they enter the city to chase animals, and they have captured about 7,000. How many remain no one knows. Based on human demographics, the American Veterinary Medical Association has estimated that 50,000 to 70,000 dogs were kept as pets in New Orleans.”

You can read the whole article on line and view heartbreaking photos at www.nytimes.com/2005/09/22/national/nationalspecial/22dogs.html

It presents a great opportunity for letters on the importance of animal evacuation, perhaps in support of the new bill. The New York Times takes letters at letters [at] nytimes.com

Always include your full name, address, and daytime phone number when sending a letter to the editor. Shorter letters are more likely to be published.

Finally, the PBS show “Now,” which airs on Friday nights (check your local listings for the time on your local PBS station) advertises the following for September 23:
“Also: a look at the public-policy debate about evacuating pets from New Orleans.”

And Anne Sullivan has sent me this more detailed outline from her station:

“Friday, September 23, 2005

In New Orleans, an estimated 50,000 household animals left behind after the evacuation have become a major health concern as the clean up moves forward. Today, with Rita bearing down on the Gulf, Texas officials are evacuating pets with their owners, because they believe it will save lives. On Friday, September 23, 2005 at 8:30 p.m. on PBS in ‘Left Behind,’ NOW reports on rescue efforts in New Orleans where surviving animals are starving and beset by disease.”

(Note: “Now” airs on my local station, KCET, at 8pm so please do check your local airtime.)

“Now” takes comments at www.pbs.org/now/feedback.html

Please thank the show. Positive feedback for animal friendly coverage will encourage more of it.

Yours and the animals’,
Karen Dawn

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: Kinship Circle
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 2:58 AM
Subject: *KATRINA 9/22: Latest Volunteer Update*

If you receive this twice, we apologize. Kindly delete duplicate messages.

9/22/05—Katrina: Latest Volunteer Update
Like you, we are waiting to see what havoc Hurricane Rita will wreak in animal emergencies AND limited access for rescuers. We have decided to issue this alert anyway. As of today, 9/22, we have no reports of animal rescue units shutting down. However, this situation may quickly change.

IN THIS ALERT:
1.) Lamar-Dixon in Gonzales Wants You
2.) Rabbit Rescue Group Needed
3.) Katrina / Rita: Haven for Horses
4.) MuttShack M.A.S.H. Unit – New Orleans
5.) Independent Effort: Plaquemines Parish
6.) Help In Hattiesburg, Mississippi
7.) Help in Waveland, Mississippi
8.) Volunteers Wanted at LSU Center
9.) St. John Parish Animal Shelter
10.) Staging Area in Dothan, Alabama
11.) Winn-Dixie Staging Area in New Orleans
12.) Supplies: Centralized Drop/Distribution Site
13.) Personal Supplies List

DUE TO THE VOLUME OF VOLUNTEER INQUIRIES, PLEASE:

-Type “KATRINA VOLUNTEER” in the subject line of emails.

-Read alerts carefully and contact people listed under a specific effort.

-Before traveling, print out Kinship Circle’s most recent alert so phone numbers and driving directions are with you.

-We cannot answer requests about where to donate money or find a specific animal to foster/adopt at this time.

- For directions to a volunteer site: www.mapquest.com/directions/main.adp

Thanks, Brenda Shoss
Kinship Circle/ARF Grassroots Effort
314-863-9445; 314-795-2646

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1.) LAMAR-DIXON IN GONZALES WANTS YOU

LOCATION:
9039 St. Landry Ave.; Gonzales, LA 70737; 225-621-1700
*This location is vehicle accessible.

FROM THE EAST: Take I-10 West to Exit 177 * At bottom of ramp take a left
Go through traffic light and take second left into the Lamar Dixon Equestrian Center
Ask for the volunteer registration area

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Comments from Jane Garrison (edited for length), a veteran rescuer directing the food/water program from the Gonzales shelter, should dispel your fears about this primary staging area for New Orleans animals. We support DawnWatch’s excellent presentation and urge you to heed Jane’s words:

FROM DAWNWATCH, news [at] dawnwatch.com

1.) FROM JANE GARRISON
If you want to help please go to the Lamar Dixon Expo Center in Gonzeles, LA (one hour outside of New Orleans). You can either fly into New Orleans or Baton Rouge. There is no one available to pick you up so rent a van or car… My cell coverage down here is horrible but you may call me for EMERGENCIES ONLY at 843-343-8887. Please help…time is running out!

2.) FROM JANE GARRISON:
I have been at the hurricane scene in New Orleans for over two weeks. In this time I have organized search and rescue teams and food and water teams (for the animals on the streets). I have personally pulled hundreds of animals from roof tops, attics and houses… I got a dog off a roof a few days ago who should have weighed 90 pounds but was down to 40 pounds from being stuck on that roof with no food and water. These animals want to live and are showing us this everyday.

Here is the problem. We still have 3,000 addresses of homes where animals are trapped. These are addresses where people have called either HSUS or LASPCA and asked for us to rescue their animals. I know that there are thousands of other homes where animals are trapped that no one called about… CONSIDER THIS: Amazingly we are finding that half of the homes we get into have animals still alive. With a MINIMUM of 3,000 addresses that is at least 1500 animals who are waiting behind closed doors for a loving hand to rescue them. With the current teams we have now we can only get into approximately 300 homes each day. The animals will NEVER be alive if we continue at this rate. I am begging everyone of you to get to New Orleans to help. It does not take a “certified disaster rescuer” to break into a house and at last provide fresh food and water (to sustain that animal until someone qualified can get them out). We only have a week at most to save some of these desperate animals. Please do your part…we are all the animals have. JaneGarrison [at] comcast.net
(END OF JANE’S NOTE)

SHOW UP:
Food/water volunteers should report to Jane Garrison outside the volunteer food tent by barns 1 and 2. There is a 6am briefing every morning…

EMAIL HSUS & THEN SHOW UP:
To follow HSUS’s suggestion of self-deployment:
Send email to Disaster [at] hsus.org, with a subject line of:
Re: PLEASE HELP US HELP THE ANIMALS IN LOUISIANA

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2.) RABBIT RESCUE GROUP NEEDED

CONTACT:
Shaun Palmisano
985-783-5010, 985-785-9136

LOCATION:
St. Charles Animal Shelter
13830 River Road; Luling, LA 70070
Lee Ann Matherne, Shelter Director: 504-559-4779

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
One of our volunteers called us, while onsite at this shelter. This is legitimate, as of 9/21/05. At least 7, possibly more, rabbits need rescue from a qualified rabbit rescue group able to handle their special needs. Please contact Shaun Palmisano right away if you can help.

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3.) KATRINA / RITA: HAVEN FOR HORSES
CONTACT:
Debra Barlow
318-286-3116 * hopefulhaven [at] yahoo.com

LOCATION:
Hopeful Haven Equine Rescue Organization
Shreveport, Louisiana

SITUATION:
Red Alert!! Room for evacuees with horses fleeing Rita. Available by cell phone for next two days. Arenas and foster homes available. If evacuees have an RV or living quarters in their horse trailer, they will be able to stay with their horses. VOLUNTEERS: Cross-post and refer evacuees with horses.

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4.) MUTTSHACK M.A.S.H. UNIT – NEW ORLEANS

CONTACT:
Volunteer Coordinator Sharon Gorski
586-727-9815, possecop [at] msn.com
volunteers [at] muttshack.org

LOCATION:
Lake Castle School
8400 Hayne Blvd.; New Orleans, LA

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/21/05):
Veterinary/medical supplies
Needs fluctuate. Check with Sharon Gorski (586-727-9815)

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5.) INDEPENDENT EFFORT: PLAQUEMINES PARISH

CONTACT:
Cris Stevens/Terri Kelley: 219-608-4112, 219-326-8887
Sarah Stevens: 219-608-1735, sarah [at] mixedupmutts.org

LOCATION (where volunteers meet to leave for rescue missions):
Lansas Kennels
C/O Kendra (if mailing supplies)
23015 Kilgore Street; Mandeville, LA 70471

PLEASE WEAR DARK BLUE T-SHIRT to appear as a unified rescue unit .
Organizers wear RED CAPS OR VISORS.

MANDATORY: Wear well-treaded, high boots. Up to 4 inches of oil covers the ground in some places.

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Volunteers convene at Lansas Kennels in Mandeville, LA to scout and establish aid in other storm areas. Currently, we send rescue units into Plaquemines Parish, where there has been no organized rescue.

IMPORTANT: If you arrive at the kennels in Mandeville and rescuers are not there, they are out on a mission. You may help with Katrina dogs at the kennels or travel to another site and check back at Mandeville later.

PLAQUEMINE ANIMAL SHELTER RESCUE UPDATE:
We had gained authorization from the New Mexico National Guard for rescue units to enter Plaquemines Parish. Volunteer rescue units work under the auspices of Dr. Habert, the parish veterinarian originally established at the Belle Chase Animal Shelter. Dr. Habert has since moved to a Senior Center to accommodate more animals.

THE PLAN:
3 teams of 4-5 rescuers enter Plaquemines Parish daily.
A separate team of baiters accompanies them.
NO ANIMALS MAY LEAVE PLAQUEMINES PARISH.
All animals are treated. Dr. Habert’s crew wants to reunite them with guardians.

THE (temporary) PROBLEM:
On 9/20 evacuations were ordered due to Hurricane Rita. The Plaquemines Parish president denied rescue teams entry, despite our established relationship with the parish vet. Still, rescuers managed to return for a night mission. We are working on smoothing this transition. Please check in with us, especially if en route to the Lamar-Dixon Shelter in Gonzales. Mandeville is only an hour away from Gonzales.

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/21/05):
-Needs fluctuate. Check with Cris/Terri (219-608-4112) or Sarah (219-608-1735).

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6.) HELP IN HATTIESBURG, MISSISSIPPI

CONTACT:
Sarah-Jayne Brown: 954-712-9900, oceanpromotion [at] msn.com

LOCATION:
Forrest County Multi Purpose Center
952 Sullivan Drive; Hattiesburg MS 39401

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
1000 dogs harbored in Hattiesburg Multicultural Center. Only 6-7 dog-walking volunteers. Urgently needed: People to walk dogs, water and feed. They are 112 cots for volunteers to sleep in. Towels are needed.

Volunteers may show up at the center. Say you are part of the Gaultier Group with Carol Childs. The powers that be may say that they have moved. Just ask where they are. Carol Childs is with the National Humane Society.

DIRECTIONS:
I-10 to I49 just before Hattiesburg, see Forest Multicultural Center.

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7.) HELP IN WAVELAND, MISSISSIPPI

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
HSUS has an animal rescue unit established in Waveland. Volunteers are needed. Bring any documentation you have, i.e., your organization’s nonprofit status; DART or any other animal disaster relief training; veterinarian/vet tech or animal control credentials; animal rescue/shelter experience, etc.

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8.) VOLUNTEERS WANTED AT LSU CENTER

CONTACT:
Email volunteer coordinator Sharon Ricciardo, lsupetvol [at] gmail.com
Complete name / Contact information / Skills / Availability
Put “volunteer” in subject line

LOCATION:
Hurricane Katrina Emergency Animal Shelter
LSU AgCenter’s John M. Parker Coliseum
School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University
Skip Bertman Drive; Baton Rouge, LA 7080

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9.) ST. JOHN PARISH ANIMAL SHELTER

MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Sharon Gorski: 586-727-9815, possecop [at] msn.com

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/21/05):
St. John Parish Animal Shelter to stockpile supplies for St. Bernard Parish.any flea treatment (KC: NOT HARTZ! It kills cats and dogs), toys, treats, and medical/vet supplies (i.e., vaccines, strongid-T, albon, nutri-cal)

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10.) STAGING AREA IN DOTHAN, ALABAMA

CONTACT:
Maria Church, Director of Staging Area Operations
home: 334-793-3943; cell: 334-685-0522
staging area: 334-615-4620
mamaloveslabs [at] netzero.com

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Pet Care, Veterinary Care, Grooming, Transportation, Clerical, Laundry, Warehousing, and Volunteer Support, Foster Homes, and Donations.

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11.) WINN-DIXIE STAGING AREA IN NEW ORLEANS

CONTACT:
Shannon Martin: 706-769-7701

LOCATION:
4600 Chef Menteur Hwy staging area at N. Louisa Street

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Volunteers needed. Many dry areas, but bring rubber boots. Need rescue groups to get dogs off porches, etc.

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/13/05):
Crates, Boats (inflatables needed to hold full crates on the water), Trucks, SUVs, Sticks with loops to get reluctant dogs

Stay on S. Causeway Blvd. all the way to Jefferson Hwy, 90 E. (You’ll cross over Veterans Blvd.)
Stay on Jeff Highway east to N.O.. until it turns into S. Claiborne Ave.
Take a right on Monticello Ave, which turns into (dead ends) at Oak St. Go left on Oak. Bear right on Leake Ave. (You will be paralleling the Mississippi river)
Stay on Leake for 10 or so blocks and then take a left onto St. Charles Ave.
Continue past Tulane on your left, Audubon Park on your right. Cross over Napoleon and Louisiana Aves. Stay on St. Charles until you dead end.
Follow signs to reach I-10 E. (i.e. go left at the end of St. Charles)
Take I-10 E to Louisa St. N (the 2nd exit). Go left on Louisa.
Go through several red lights to Chef Menteur Hwy and go right.
Immediately see Winn-Dixie on right in the first block.

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12.) SUPPLIES: CENTRALIZED DROP/DISTRIBUTION SITE

If you are bringing supplies with you, one option is is to utilize our centralized drop/distribution point in Mobile, Alabama. Supplies move in and out of this site, with items sent where they are needed. This supply option is organized by Grassroots Effort for Animals of the Storm, Kinship Circle and Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF).

*We will never have too many supplies. We will continue to distribute itemsto overtaxed shelters long after initial rescue effort ends.

CONTACT:
Grassroots Effort for Animals of the Storm
Julia Fischer / home: 251-645-8605; cell: 251-455-9377; ggnu [at] bellsouth.net
Sarah-Jayne Brown / 954-712-9900; oceanpromotion [at] msn.com

CALL BEFOREHAND TO TELL:
-DAY/TIME YOU’LL ARRIVE.
-WHAT YOU’RE BRINGING.
-SOMEONE WILL NEED TO MEET YOU AT THE STORAGE SITE.

Alternate Storage
5809 Larue Steiner Road; Theodore, Al 36582
(In Mobile off of I-10)
West off 65 onto I-10 take exit 15A.
Circle under interstate and stay on this road (Hwy 90).
Turn right at second stop light and this is Larue Steiner Road.
Travel about 3 miles down this road and it will be on this street.
52, 54, 55 are the units we have at this moment.

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13.) PERSONAL SUPPLIES LIST

LOGISTICS & SELF-CARE: Be willing to move around. Bring a tent or vehicle you are prepared to sleep in. Travel self-sufficient. Carry a cell phone to network with others in the area.

1.) Bring any documentation you have, i.e., your animal organization’s nonprofit status; DART or any other animal disaster relief training; veterinarian/vet tech or animal control; animal rescue/shelter experience credentials; animal transport, etc.

2.) Have magnetic signs printed at Kinkos or another copy store for both sides of your vehicle. Suggestions for text on sign:
ANIMAL RESCUE
ANIMAL DISASTER RELIEF
Use bold, dark lettering and display from your vehicle at all times.

WHAT TO BRING:
current Hepatitis vaccinations
current Tetanus shot
pepper spray
hand sanitizer
insect repellent
sunscreen
first aid kits
thick “bite-proof” work gloves
sturdy, waterproof (rubber) work boots/shoes
change of shoes
hip-waders (if possible)
long sleeve shirts (for coverage, but lightweight)
long pants (for coverage, but lightweight)
extra socks
belt (to hang gears/supplies from)
mouth coverings (surgical masks, bandannas)
eye protection (sunglasses)
flashlights
D batteries
containers full of gasoline
cash
waterproof walkie talkies
toilet paper
pillow and blanket
water, Gateraid
other personal-care items

SHELTER: Bring a tent or trailer/RV type vehicle to live in.air mattress or cot

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Brenda Shoss, Kinship Circle
314-863-9445
314-795-2646

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GRASSROOTS EFFORT
FOR ANIMALS OF THE STORM

KINSHIP CIRCLE
7380 Kingsbury Blvd.; Saint Louis, MO 63130
Katrina relief contact Brenda Shoss:
(desk) 314-863-9445; (cell) 314-795-2646
www.kinshipcircle.org

ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION (ARF)
771 Holcombe Ave.; Mobile, Alabama 36605
Katrina relief contact Julia Fischer:
(cell) 251-455-9377; (home) 251-645-8605
www.animalrescuemobile.org

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: 1 Kinship Circle
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: 1) GALVESTON, TX. - EMERGENCY FOR ANIMALS RIGHT NOW

NOTE from Kinship Circle/ARF Grassroots Effort:

Sorry. No time for “pretty” organized messages. Galveston/Texas pleas are so urgent, due to Hurricane Rita evacuations, we will post them as we get them. Our comprehensive Katrina Volunteer Alerts will continue.

We have just learned Lamar-Dixon is evacuating thousands of animals, for immediate foster. If you know anyone currently in New Orleans/Baton Rouge/Gonzales area who can transport animals from Lamar-Dixon to the no-kill shelter Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF) in Mobile, Alabama,

PLEASE CONTACT JULIA FISCHER IMMEDIATELY:
Julia Fischer, ARF
home: 251-645-8605
cell: 251-455-9377

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1.) TEXAS ANIMALS IN DIRE NEED OF TRANSPORT

Please get the word out that the animals of Texas are in dire need of transport, if they are not helped, we will have another Katrina mess going on in Texas.

If anyone can help, have them contact me, Sharon Gorski, either by phone or email. My number 586-727-9815 or possecop [at] msn.com

Need crates cages, anything to transport animals away from the storm, horse trailers, welcome.

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2.) TEXAS: 3 HOURS LEFT TO REMOVE DOGS FROM KATRINA THAT WILL DROWN!

From: DRCTBD [at] aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 3:19 PM

WE HAVE ONLY 3 HOURS AND THERE WILL BE A MANDATORY EVACUATION.
THESE DOGS WILL CERTAINLY BE DROWNED!

FABIAN BOARDING KENNELS
13720 STUART RD
GAVELSTON TX 77554

TRUCK DRIVER AND CRATES NEEDED NOW

CALL NOW THIS IS AN URGENT SITUATION!!
TONYA FABIAN: 409- 739- 0318

TOM FABIAN: 409- 739- 3465

MONEY IS OFFERED FOR RESCUEING THESE DOGS 100 DOLLARS PER DOG!

CIVIC CENTER WILL LET PEOPLE BRING ANIMALS, BUT THERE IS NOT ENOUGH TRANSPORTATION TO GET THEM THERE. WE NEED 30 CRATES AT LEAST AND TRUCKS!

NATIONAL GUARD WILL NOT HELP NO NEED TO EVEN CONSIDER FEMA AFTER THEY DROPPED THE BALL ON THE LAST HURRICANE SOME OF THESE DOGS ARE ACTUALLY FROM THE KATRINA HURRICANE. PLEASE HURRY WE NEED SOME HELP.

WONDERING IF HSUS IS IN THE AREA OR IF THEY CAN GET IN.

I AM TOLD THEY HAVE MADE CALLS, BUT SAID ARE NOT GOING TO HELP.

I DON’T KNOW IF THEY SIMPLY ARE NOT ABLE, POSSIBLY DO NOT HAVE THE MANPOWER.

TAMMY ESPINOZA
SISTER OF FABIANS:
520- 792- 8023

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3.) SAME SHELTER AS #2 / DIFFERENT WAY TO HELP

Desperate Situation for Boarding Kennel at 13720 Stuart Road

Galveston TX 77554 ( FM 3005 ) close to ocean NO SEAWALL to protect them aprox 55 dogs and cats are being left behind they do not have crates or transport !……to get them out, they WILL be the first to die. All doors left unlocked dogs in/out runs.

Needed, a truck, open or AC full with the extra crates from Lamar Dixon, Drive to Kennel pick up pets and Transport them to Huntsville Animal Shelter…TX.

Get documentation from HSUS to do this (get into Galveston) and help, we will fund this rescue at $100 per animal you save……up to $5000

Extra Crates from HSUS Lamar should be dropped off at the

Galveston Community Center
4700 Broadway
Galveston, TX 77550
for people trying to get on buses out with animals.

Whiskerville Animal shelter
1112 6th Street
North Galveston, TX
needs help also waiting for them to call me back.
www.whiskerville.org/

PLEASE crosspost, if you have a connection with HSUS PLEASE let them know they are needed In Galveston NOW!!!!!!!!!

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GRASSROOTS EFFORT
FOR ANIMALS OF THE STORM

Kinship Circle
7380 Kingsbury Blvd.
Saint Louis, MO 63130
Katrina rescue contact Brenda Shoss:
(desk) 314-863-9445; (cell) 314-795-2646
www.kinshipcircle.org

Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF)
771 Holcombe Ave.
Mobile, Alabama 36605
Katrina rescue contact Julia Fischer:
(cell) 251-455-9377; (home) 251-645-8605
shelter phone: 251-478-9743
www.animalrescuemobile.org

—– Original Message —–
From: In Defense of Animals - www.idausa.org/
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 12:50 PM
Subject: IDA Volunteers Urgently Needed for Hurricane Katrina Animal Relief Effort

Thousands of Animals Remain Trapped Without Food or Water in Abandoned Homes
IDA’s Project Hope animal relief team continues to rescue animals in Mississippi and place them safely in shelters and foster homes. Working closely with Randy Grim and others from Stray Rescue of St. Louis, the group took in 20 dogs with particularly aggressive temperaments last week. They transported the dogs back to Stray Rescue’s shelter in Missouri, where they will be cared for until claimed by their guardians or placed in new homes. Additional IDA staff also flew down south this week to help with the relief effort.

Project Hope
Rt. 1 Box 128
Grenada, MS 38901
(662) 237-0233

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Visit the web address below to tell your friends about this.
Tell-a-friend!

ga0.org/indefenseofanimals/join.html

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: Kinship Circle
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 6:28 PM
Subject: ACT/ Mr. President, Save Our Animals Now

9/20/05–Mr. President, Save Our Animals Now
KINSHIP CIRCLE LETTER CAMPAIGN
www.kinshipcircle.org

SOURCE OF INFORMATON
The Humane Society of the United States
BEST FRIENDS REPORT
news.bestfriends.org/index.cfm?page=specialreports&catid=04061773

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CONTACT INFORMATION
Sample letter follows
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President George Bush
Comments: 202-456-1111; Switchboard: 202-456-1414
fax: 202-456-2461
email: comments [at] whitehouse.gov, president [at] whitehouse.gov,
vice_president [at] whitehouse.gov, firstlady [at] whitehouse.gov
web email: www.whitehouse.gov/contact

Kathleen Blanco, Governor of Louisiana
225-925-1938, 866-310-7617
email: contact [at] gov.state.la.us
web email: www.gov.state.la.us/govemail.asp

Haley Barbour, Governor of Mississippi
P.O. Box 139
Jackson, MS 39205
ph: 601-359-3150, 1-877-405-0733
fax: 601-359-3741

Secretary Michael Chertoff, Department of Homeland Security
202-282-8000, 202-282-8495
web email: www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/contactus

Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Department of Defense
703-428-0711
email: www.dod.mil/faq/comment.html

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SAMPLE LETTER
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Dear President Bush, Govenors Blanco and Barbour, Secretary Chertoff, and Secretary Rumsfeld:

With human evacuations and aid underway, I implore the White House, the Defense Department, the Department of Homeland Security, and the states of Louisiana and Mississippi to immediately assist the Hurricane Katrina animal rescue effort.

Mr. President: Please authorize National Guardsmen and other responders under the command of the U.S. government to conduct animal rescue and relief missions.

Governors Blanco and Barbour: Please direct rescue boats, air-conditioned trucks, medical personnel and other available resources to help retrieve stranded pets and other animals.

Secretary Chertoff: Please order relief units and other responders under the command of the Department of Homeland Security to carry out animal rescue and relief missions.

Secretary Rumsfeld: Please mobilize more than 72,000 active and reserve component troops involved in hurricane operations to implement animal rescue and relief missions.

Sixty percent of American families have “pets” who are loved and cherished. How can responders and relief workers be so disconnected from the people they are supposed to help?

Ask the citizens of Plaquemines Parish, south of New Orleans. They departed before Katrina struck. Like most storm evacuees, they expected to return in several days.

Now their homes are flattened. Their farms, sheds and trees are tossed along highways and shorelines. Plaquemines Parish is nestled between levies. One barricades the Gulf Coast and another the Mississippi River. The eye of the storm hit Plaquemines with category-5 ferocity, destroying its protective levies.

Still, life perseveres. Dogs are marooned on rooftops. Hundreds more swarm Guardsmen, begging for food and water. Cats devour MRE’s from kind soldiers. Bewildered horses are submerged in water. One Plaquemine’s resident hired a helicopter to airlift her horses.

The domestic animals we call “pets” are coated in oil from smashed storage tanks. Millions of gallons of thick, black crude blanket the ground and river.

With each passing hour, another animal dies in Plaquemines Parish, New Orleans, and many Gulf Coast towns. They are emaciated, dehydrated and poisoned.

“We should not have to rely on the compassionate instincts of individual Guardsmen to save animals,” said one rescuer with the Humane Society of the U.S. “We need the full commitment of the government.”

I call upon authorities to act now. Tomorrow may be too late.

Thank you,

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—– Original Message —–
From: DawnWatch - news [at] dawnwatch.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 12:45 AM
Subject: DawnWatch: Katrina animal shelter update — from Jane Garrison at the Gonzales shelter 9/19/05

Television specials, such as last night’s Dateline, focus on the happy reunions. Below is a letter, a plea, from Jane Garrison, who is heading up the food and water program from the Gonzales shelter for New Orleans. It tells a different story — animals dying daily for lack of people to get to them and feed them. I forward her letter knowing that many of you, bless you, have contacted the major organizations saying you wanted to volunteer but have been told that your unskilled services aren’t needed. Jane’s letter, from the front lines, makes it clear that if you can get yourself to Gonzales, and are willing to sleep in uncomfortable conditions in a tent or car or RV, you will be saving lives every day you are there.

Below her note I will paste the shelter address and a list of supplies recommended. I do recommend going through the official means, such as volunteering through the HSUS website, www.HSUS.org. But their volunteer web-page, which still includes questions such as, “Can you stay in the area for five days?,” (as if a three day stay would not mean life or death to however many animals you can feed in three days) still has a tone likely to discourage people. Please don’t let it discourage you. And if the HSUS office is overwhelmed and cannot get back to you quickly, please don’t let animals die while you are caught in red tape. I am sure Jane’s letter below will convince you that if you show up willing to help without having successfully jumped through all the right hoops, she will not turn you away.

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FROM JANE GARRISON:
Subject: I am begging the animal community

Dear Friends:

I have been at the hurricane scene in New Orleans for over two weeks. In this time I have organized search and rescue teams and food and water teams (for the animals on the streets). I have personally pulled hundreds of animals from roof tops, attics and houses. It has been amazing to me that these animals are still alive. I got a dog off a roof a few days ago who should have weighed 90 pounds but was down to 40 pounds from being stuck on that roof with no food and water. These animals want to live and are showing us this everyday.

Here is the problem.

We still have 3,000 addresses of homes where animals are trapped. These are addresses where people have called either HSUS or LASPCA and asked for us to rescue their animals. I know that there are thousands of other homes where animals are trapped that no one called about. I know this b/c I have rescued hundreds of animals from homes after hearing barking that were not on our lists.

CONSIDER THIS: Amazingly we are finding that half of the homes we get into have animals still alive. With a MINIMUM of 3,000 addresses that is at least 1500 animals who are waiting behind closed doors for a loving hand to rescue them. With the current teams we have now we can only get into approximately 300 homes each day. The animals will NEVER be alive if we continue at this rate. I am begging each and everyone of you to get to New Orleans to help. It does not take a “certified disaster rescuer” to break into a house and at last provide fresh food and water (to sustain that animal until someone qualified can get them out). We only have a week at most to save some of these desperate animals. Please do your part…we are all the animals have.

Jane Garrison
JaneGarrison [at] comcast.net

(END OF JANE’S NOTE)

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GONZALES SHELTER CONTACTS:

Louisiana SPCA Shelter established at:
9093 St. Landry Rd.
Gonzales, LA 70737
225-647-0712 (This number may not be answered.)

Food and water volunteers should report to Jane Garrison outside the volunteer food tent by barns 1 and 2. There is a 6am briefing every morning.

Note: Large air-conditioned vehicles in which animals can be transported are still needed. But Jane’s note makes it clear that anybody with transport for him or herself, who can go to houses and feed animals, regardless of being able to transport them, is needed. If you don’t have your own transport, but can get yourself to Gonzales, you will be paired up at the daily 6am briefing meeting with somebody who has transport. OR — the shelter desperately needs people to work there.

FEMA now has a large air-conditioned tent in which volunteers can sleep. (Though it is safest to bring a tent just in case.)

VOLUNTEER PERSONAL SUPPLIES LIST (IDEAL)
Some dogs on the ground have become dangerous. Some risks are due to
contaminated water. Animals who have consumed this or stood in the water for
long periods may be sick. You may also be exposed to water/mud yourselves. You
also need protection from mosquitoes and wild animals. Overall, depending
upon where you travel, you need to come self-sufficient, as if preparing for
a camping trip.

current Hepatitis vaccinations
current Tetanus shot
pepper spray
hand sanitizer
insect repellent
sunscreen
first aid kits
thick “bite-proof” work gloves
sturdy, waterproof (rubber) work boots/shoes
waders
long sleeve shirts
long pants
belt (to hang gear/supplies from)
mouth coverings (surgical masks, bandannas)
eye protection (sunglasses)
flashlights
containers full of gasoline
waterproof walkie talkies
D batteries
toilet paper
other personal-care items

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Kate Danaher, who has just come back from Gonzales, has sent the following note:

“I just returned from 7 days on-site at the Lamar Dixon Expo Center in Gonzales, LA. Volunteers are desperately needed to clean shelter cages and walk dogs, to drop food and water to feed animals in the streets and stuck in houses, to do data entry of notes from the field, to clean crates, and do general site organization and clean-up. If you are interested please call me. I can brief you on my experience and give you directions on what to expect and how to get right to work when you arrive.

Do not need supplies. Need strong loving and patient people to work very very hard under very challenging circumstances.

You are NEEDED.

Please consider this call for help.

I look forward to hearing from you.”

Kate recommends bringing spray paint, for marking and dating houses with food and water drop dates (what you did at the house) and also water markers to mark your vehicle as LASPCA, pad and pen for field notes, a crowbar for breaking in if necessary, and maps of New Orleans. She is happy to provide guidance for anybody ready to go.

Her number is: 415-459-1149
katedanaher [at] animalearthhuman.org

Brenda Shoss at Kinship Circle is also an excellent resource for information on volunteer efforts at the various shelters.
Her email is info [at] kinshipcircle.org
desk: 314-863-9445
cell: 314-795-2646

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—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: Kinship Circle
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 8:23 PM
Subject: KATRINA: Missing Pets & Shelter Directory

Please cross-post to all people looking for lost pets.

Especially items #1 and #2. These resources are what led us to Spike.

If an evacuee asks for help finding a missing animal, please don’t cross-post their message and leave it at that. While circulation is great, you can give hands-on help by making a report and following through with these resources. Many storm victims have no access to computers.

9/19/05–MISSING PETS & SHELTER DIRECTORY

In tribute to Spike, 15 pounds of Yorkie love, found alive in evacuee Brenda Johnson’s New Orleans apartment more than two weeks after his family fled.

1.) FILE MISSING/FOUND PET REPORTS
2.) GET WORD TO PET RESCUERS ON BOATS
3.) SEARCH LOST PET DATABASES
4.) ANIMAL SHELTERS
5.) PAWNOTES
6.) KINSHIP CIRCLE/ARF GRASSROOTS EFFORT FOR ANIMALS OF THE STORM

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1.) FILE MISSING/FOUND PET REPORTS

ALL MISSING PET REPORTS SHOULD INCLUDE:
1.) Full name of pet(s) guardian
2.) Address where pet(s) are trapped
3.) Contact phone numbers for pet(s) guardian
4.) Contact phone numbers for person searching on behalf of pet(s) guardian
5.) Permission to enter home, including breaking doors or windows.
6.) Pet’s name, species, breed, special markings or other unique characteristics
7.) Where pet(s) might be found once in the house
8.) How much food/water left for pet(s)
9.) Pet(s) age and any special medical needs
10.) If guardians can reclaim pet(s) who are found

disaster.petfinder.com/emergency/
Maddie’s Fund, Petfinder.com, American Humane Association, Pets911, Humane Society of the United States, ASPCA, Best Friends Animal Society, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine, United Animal Nations (EARS), IFAW and Code 3 Associates, Noah’s Wish, Alley Cat Allies

www.pets911.com
national hotline to report lost animals: 1-800-PETS911(1-800-738-7911)

HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES
1-800HUMANE1

BEST FRIENDS
435-644-3965 ext. 4455; hurricane [at] bestfriends.org

ASPCA
Hurricane Hotline: 212-876-7700, ext 4700
www.aspca.org

NOLA.COM
www.nola.com/

HUGS FOR HOMELESS ANIMALS
www.h4ha.org/wlf/
h4ha.securesites.com/ssl/lostfound/

KATRINA-PET-HELP
www.katrina-pet-help.modposh.com/pet_news.htm

IFAW
www.ifaw.org/us/missingpets

LINKS TO KATRINA SUPPORT SITES
katrinapets.zapto.org

LINKS TO KATRINA SUPPORT SITES
www.katrinapetsneedhelp.com

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2.) GET WORD TO PET RESCUERS ON BOATS

LSPCA EMERGENCY RESCUE LINE: 1-225-647-0712

225-578-6111, 888-773-6481
Laura’s Mahoney cell: 225-413-8813

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY (LSU)
People reporting stranded animals or have found an animal
In Louisiana: 888-773-6489
Outside Louisiana: 225-925-3980
missing pet info: katrina [at] ldaf.louisiana.gov
The LSU Veterinarian’s Office is now coordinating all information about animals stranded in Louisiana. Louisiana Dept. of Agriculture & Forestry:
www.vetmed.lsu.edu/

PASADO ANIMAL RESCUE
Susan Michaels, Co-Founder, Pasado’s Safe Haven: susan [at] pasadosafehaven.org
Magda Hitzroth, pasadotransport [at] yahoo.com
www.pasadosafehaven.org/

KELSEY RIVERA RESCUE
337-519-5239
She will take a boat and get your animals.

NATALIE YAFET
908-354-2537; yafet [at] erols.com
An individual with connections. Somehow, she orchestrated a police and fire department escort for a “Gail” and a “Ronnie,” the people behind Spike’s rescue after 2 weeks in a flooded home.

TIM GORSKI
954-673-5331
Currently (9/19) volunteering at Winn-Dixie staging area, has boat. Tim has been traveling back and forth from his home in Florida. He may be able to help you while on the water, or know another rescuer who can.

LILLA WHITEHEAD
225-753-8462; home: 225-753-8462
FIRST, EMAIL INFORMATION TO: lilandneal [at] hotmail.com

IBERIA HUMANE SOCIETY / BEST FRIENDS
fax: 337-828-4319
337-560-0003; iberia [at] iberiahumane.com
Dr. White: white [at] giftsetc.com

The Iberia Humane Society www.iberiahumane.com/ is meeting up with Best Friends of New Orleans to rescue left-behind pets. We will need ‘permission slips’ to go into peoples homes to retrieve their pets.

Please fax written permission on 1 letter: Iberia Humane Society and Best Friends and Kelsey Rivera and Dr. Eric White giving them permission to break into homes and retrieve pets. We may not all be together all of the time, so please make sure all 4 are given permission.

PETS & ANIMALS IN DISTRESS
contact [at] petsandanimals.org; 954-202-9991
Will pass info of trapped pet to affiliate relief organizations, shelters, volunteers.

CAN RESCUE UPTOWN
Meda Colvin; 1323 Burdette; cell: 504-319-8578
She is staying, has a generator, and credentials to get in and out of town freely. She can feed pets in accessible homes in her area. She will get me an address later where keys can be sent overnight. Please offer to compensate costs, and don’t call with requests to look at houses.
Becky 917-250-8576

NEED CAT RESCUE?
Call Alley: 240-482-1997; ALLEYCAT [at] ALLEYCAT.ORG

PARAMEDICS IN NOLA ARE GOING HOUSE TO HOUSE
919-259-0281

FOUND ON CRAIG.LIST / PASS ON INFO ABOUT YOUR PET
617-921-1411
If you have seen or heard, or read or know of any dogs, cats etc. that are stranded in New Orleans please contact me at 617-921-1411 and leave a message. I can pass this information on to someone currently driving around in New Orleans searching and saving stranded pets and bringing them to a shelter. Leave a detailed message/email with regards to the location of your animal(s) and I will pass this information on. -Kate

IT’S WORTH A TRY…
Johnny White’s Pub & Grill
504-581-9200
718 Bourbon St.; New Orleans, LA 70116
There are people there sometimes who will help rescue your pet (private citizens).

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3.) SEARCH LOST PET DATABASES

PETFINDER.COM
disaster.petfinder.com/emergency/rescue/searchForm.cgi?type=found

LA HURRICANE PETS AT GONZALES, LA SHELTER (LAMAR-DIXON)
www.petfinder.org/pet.cgi?action=1&pet.Shelterid=LA154&stat=H&preview=1

PET NEIGHBOR NET
www.petneighbor.com/katrina.php

PET HARBOR
www.petharbor.com/

HURRICANE KATRINA LOST PET REGISTRY
katrinapets.shanonandmelanie.com/

HUGS HOMELESS ANIMALS
h4ha.org/wlf/index.php?action=searchpage

DOG DETECTIVE
dogdetective.com/lost-katrina-dogs.cfm

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4.) ANIMAL SHELTERS

*PLEASE NOTE: Shelter names with asterisk (*) in front indicate expressed need for foster/adopt help (as of 9/19/05). All available contact information is listed. Kinship Circle cannot guarantee working phone numbers or emails.

TO FIND SHELTERS IN ANY AREA OF THE COUNTRY:
www.petfinder.com/pet.cgi
Enter City, State (i.e. New Orleans, LA) or zip code for list of shelters/rescue in the area.

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY (LSU)
For animals who may be at shelter: 225-578-6111
To report stranded or found animals in Louisiana: 888-773-6489
Outside Louisiana: 225-925-3980
missing pet info: katrina [at] ldaf.louisiana.gov

EMERGENCY ANIMAL SHELTER AT LAMAR-DIXON (Horse ExpoCenter)
9039 St. Landry Road; Gonzales, LA 70737
Exit 177 off I-10. (Louisiana SPCA)
225-621-1700; 225-647-0712
small animals: 225-647-0712; horses: 225-773-2930
Primary staging area. Once shelter is full, animals moved to temporary shelters in other areas of Louisiana and Texas.

ST. BERNARD ANIMAL SHELTER
8201 W. Judge Perez; Chalmette, LA 70043
504 278-1535; fax: 504 278-1536; sbpanimal [at] aol.com

ST. BERNARD PARISH ANIMAL CONTROL CENTER
115 Agriculture Road; Chalmette, LA 70043; 504 278-1535

ST. TAMMANY HUMANE SOCIETY
20384 Harrison Ave.; Covington LA 70433; 985-892-7387
sthumane [at] yahoo.com

*ST. TAMMANY PARISH SHELTER
Hwy 36, Abita Springs, LA; 985-809-0183; shelter [at] stpgov.org

NORTHWEST LOUISIANA HUMANE SOCIETY
Nancy: 318-219-7387; 504-366-8972

LOUISIANA RED CROSS THAT ALLOWS PETS
NW Louisiana Chapter Red Cross, Michelle Davidson: 318-865-9545

HUMANE SOCIETY OF MONROE
Danine: 318-387-9553

HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA
318-641-0458

CADDO COMMISSION ANIMAL SERVICES
Anita Mills: 318-222-6624

LAFAYETTE PARISH ANIMAL CONTROL
337-291-5644

LAFAYETTE, LA / BLACKHAM COLISEUM
The Cajundome shelter for humans only; pets are housed a block away at Blackham Coliseum: 444 Cajundome Blvd.; Lafayette, LA 70506; 337-265-2100 Blackham Coliseum located one block from the Cajundome at corner of Cajundome Blvd. and Johnston Street. Dr. Renee Perrier, veterinarian in charge of Homeland Security setup for the animals: 101 Idlewood Blvd.; Lafayette, LA; 337-981-8387

*TANGIPAHOA PARISH ANIMAL CENTER
15487 Club Deluxe Road; Hammond, Louisiana
985-543-0215; fax 985-230-0337
Betsy Pittman: 985-543-0215; after hours: 985-429-1877
JNASimmons [at] aol.com

TANGIPAHOA PARISH ANIMAL CONTROL
15487 Club Deluxe Rd.; Hammond, LA 70403; 985-543-0215; tpac20 [at] tangicouncil.com

JEFFERSON PARISH / WEST BANK ANIMAL CONTROL SHELTER
1869 Ames Blvd; Marrero, Louisiana; 504-349-5112

*JEFFERSON PARISH ANIMAL SHELTER
1 Humane Way, Jefferson, LA; 504-736-6111
www.jeffparish.net/pages/index.cfm?docid=1149

*ST. JOHN PARISH SHELTER
124 Water Plant Rd.; LaPlace, LA 70068
Linda Allen, Shelter Director: no email/cell phone available
shelter: 985-651-7387
alternate contact/rescue volunteer Dina Becnel: 985-210-9422

*HUMANE SOCIETY OF WEST LOUISIANA
P.O. Box 1751; DeRidder, LA 70634; Rita: 337-462-3321
HumaneSocietyofWestLouisiana [at] yahoo.com

*DENHAM SPRINGS SHELTER

30200 Barnette Rd.; Denham Springs, LA 70803
225-667-2667

*ST. CHARLES ANIMAL SHELTER
13830 River Road; Luling, LA 70070
Lee Ann Matherne, Shelter Director: 504-559-4779

*HOUMA, LA / TERREBONNE PARISH ANIMAL SHELTER
131 Plant Rd, Houma, LA; 504-873-6709

LAKE CHARLES, LOUISIANA / CALCASIEU PARISH ANIMAL SERVICES
5500 A Swift Plant Road; Lake Charles, LA 70615
David Marcantel: 337-439-8879, ordmarcantel [at] cppj.net
Pets accepted: Calcasieu Parish Animal Services, Lake Charles Civic Center.

ABBEVILLE, LA
Joelle Rupert, home: 337-893-0235; cell: 337-277-4239
For anyone in Abbeville area who needs housing for their pets and themselves.

SLIDELL, LOUISIANA / Noah’s Wish-Slidell Animal Control emergency shelter
1325 Bayou Lane (next to Heritage Park); 985-656-4267
Noah’s Wish Foundation: 530-622-9313; pagers: 877-575-0128 or 800-746-9390
info [at] noahswish.org, Terricrisp [at] msn.com

MISSISSIPPI RESIDENT HOT LINE: 800-252-0923

HATTIESBURG, MISSISSIPPI
James Lynn Cartlidge Forrest County Multi Purpose Center
952 Forest Boulevard; Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Mississippi animal disaster/lost pets hotline: 888-722-3106
MISSISSIPPI, HATTIESBURG: 1-888-722-3106

TYLERTOWN / ST. FRANCIS ANIMAL SANCTUARY
115 Obed Magee Rd.; Tylertown, MS 39667; 601-222-1927
stfrancis [at] bellsouth.net
www.stfrancisanimalsanctuary.com

*PEARL RIVER COUNTY SPCA
1700 Palestine Rd.; Picayune, MS 39466
601-798-8000; 601-799-1541
maria_diamond [at] yahoo.com

MISSISSIPPI ALLIANCE
228-216-7729

GULF COAST SPCA
228-872-5659

GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY
Melissa Hull, operations director: mhull [at] gbhs.org
Jackie/Melissa: 205-942-1211, 205-290-0055, 205-682-8894

HOUSTON SPCA
900 Portway Drive; Houston, TX 77024
713-802-0555; hspca [at] hspca.org, operations [at] hspca.org
Heidi Brasher, Community Outreach Manager: 713-802-0555
www.houstonspca.org

HUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTH TEXAS
Fort Worth, Texas
817-332-4768

AUSTIN, TEXAS
Austin Humane Society SPCA SP124
West Anderson Lane, Austin Convention Center
500 East Cesar Chavez Street
512-646-7387

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5.) PAWNOTES

KATRINA ANIMAL SLIDE SHOW TO MUSIC
www.forpitssake.org/katrina.html

PET LOSS SUPPORT PAGE
www.pet-loss.net/katrina.html

Caring about animals caught in Katrina’s wrath does not diminish human suffering. It makes us human. –Kinship Circle

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6.) KINSHIP CIRCLE/ARF GRASSROOTS EFFORT FOR ANIMALS OF THE STORM

In early September Kinship Circle, a 501c3 animal advocacy organization, and Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF) a nonprofit no-kill shelter in Mobile, Alabama, initiated a grassroots effort for the animal victims of Hurricane Katrina. We mobilize veterinarians, vet techs, rescue groups, transport services, trained animal disaster relief workers, and concerned individuals to staging areas and stricken communities throughout Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

ARF and Kinship Circle also manage a centralized drop/distribution site for supplies. Items such as food, cages/crates, veterinary medicines, equipment, and much more are delivered and circulated to storm areas in need.

The Kinship Circle/ARF effort scouts and reports volunteer opportunities in overlooked communities. In addition, we send volunteers and supplies to areas where organized animal rescue has already been established.

Kinship Circle
7380 Kingsbury Blvd.
Saint Louis, MO 63130
Katrina rescue contact Brenda Shoss:
(desk) 314-863-9445; (cell) 314-795-2646
www.kinshipcircle.org

Animal Rescue Foundation
771 Holcombe Ave.
Mobile, Alabama 36605
Katrina rescue contact Julia Fischer:
(cell) 251-455-9377; (home) 251-645-8605
shelter phone: 251-478-9743
www.animalrescuemobile.org

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: Kinship Circle
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 3:30 AM
Subject: KATRINA: 9/18 Volunteer Update

9/18/05—Katrina Volunteer Update

PLEASE SEND THE FOLLOWING TO info [at] kinshipcircle.org:
Your full name
Name of organization (if applicable)
Full street address
Cell phone, land phone
Email
Brief description of what you can provide

FRIENDS, IT’S ALL ABOUT RESCUE IN THESE FINAL DAYS.

Due to the volume of inquiries, please:

-Always type “KATRINA VOLUNTEER” in the subject line of emails.

-Read alerts carefully and contact people listed under a specific effort. Do not call us until you have investigated the volunteer opportunities compiled below.

-Certainly you may contact Brenda Shoss, Kinship Circle, with unanswered questions or problems.

-Accept our apology for delayed responses.

-Before traveling, print out Kinship Circle’s most recent alert so phone numbers and driving directions are with you.

-Our primary focus is RESCUE/SUPPLIES RIGHT NOW.
WE CANNOT ANSWER REQUESTS ABOUT WHERE TO DONATE MONEY.
WE CANNOT ANSWER SPECIFIC FOSTER/ADOPT REQUESTS.

-Owner-surrendered animals at shelters are most in need—not displaced Katrina animals. We will provide more information for foster/adopt in the future.

Thanks,
Brenda Shoss
314-863-9445; 314-795-2646

IN THIS ALERT:
1.) General Information
2.) Help in Hattiesburg Now
3.) Independent Volunteer Effort (formerly Pearlington, Mississippi Effort)
4.) Help Needed in Waveland, Mississippi
5.) Lamar-Dixon Expo Center
6.) Volunteers Wanted at LSU Center
7.) St. John Parish Animal Shelter
8.) Animal Staging Area in New Orleans
9.) Winn-Dixie Staging Area in New Orleans
10.) Staging Area in Dothan, Alabama
11.) PERSONAL SUPPLIES LIST

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1.) GENERAL INFORMATION

LOGISTICS & SELF-CARE: Be willing to move around. Bring a tent or vehicle you are prepared to sleep in. Travel self-sufficient. Carry a cell phone to network with others in the area. SEE TIPS PERSONAL SUPPLIES LIST AT END OF ALERT.

SUPPLIES: Needs change DAILY. If you are bringing supplies with you, one option is is to utilize our centralized drop/distribution point in Mobile, Alabama. Supplies will move in and out of this site, with items sent where
they are needed.
CONTACT:
Sarah-Jayne Brown
954 712-9900
oceanpromotion [at] msn.com

Julia Fischer
home: 251-645-8605
cell: 251-455-9377

CALL BEFOREHAND TO TELL:
-DAY/TIME YOU’LL ARRIVE.
-WHAT YOU’RE BRINGING.
-SOMEONE WILL NEED TO MEET YOU AT THE STORAGE SITE.

Alternate Storage
5809 Larue Steiner Road
Theodore, Al 36582
(In Mobile off of I-10)
West off 65 onto I-10 take exit 15A.
Circle under interstate and stay on this road (Hwy 90).
Turn right at second stop light and this is Larue Steiner Road.
Travel about 3 miles down this road and it will be on this street.
52, 54, 55 are the units we have at this moment.

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2.) HELP IN HATTIESBURG NOW

CONTACT:
Sarah-Jayne Brown
954 -12-9900, oceanpromotion [at] msn.com

LOCATION:
The Forest Multicultural Center
952 Forest Boulevard
Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Volunteers may show up at the center.
Say you are part of the Gaultier Group with Carol Childs.

The powers that be may say that they have moved.
Just ask where they are.
Carol Childs is with the National Humane Society.

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
1000 DOGS HARBORED IN HATTIESBURG MULTICULTURAL CENTER. ONLY 6-7 DOG-WALKING
VOLUNTEERS. Urgently needed: People to walk dogs, water and feed. They are 112 cots for volunteers to sleep in. Towels are needed.

DIRECTIONS:
I-10 to I49 just before Hattiesburg, see Forest Multicultural Center.

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3.) INDEPENDENT VOLUNTEER EFFORT
(formerly Pearlington, Mississippi Effort)

CONTACT:
Cris Stevens/Terri Kelley: 219-608-4112, 219-326-8887
Sarah Stevens: 219-608-1735, sarah [at] mixedupmutts.org
Regina/Sal: 561-347-8121

LOCATION:
Lansas Kennels
C/O Kendra - Sam
23015 Kilgore Street
Mandeville, LA 70471
With the mission in Pearlington stabilized, rescue groups, transporters and volunteers may continue to meet at address above to coordinate ongoing relief for animals in MS and LA areas.

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
A.) RESCUE/RECONNAISSANCE
Meet at the Mandeville site to scout/establish aid for animals in other Miss. towns and in Louisiana.

PLEASE WEAR A DARK BLUE T-SHIRT to appear as a unified recon/rescue unit as you travel into other areas. Volunteer organizers will be wearing RED CAPS OR VISORS.

B.) PLAQUEMINE ANIMAL SHELTER RESCUE
URGENT NEED: People who can arrive in Mandeville by 9/19 and are able to stay for a minimum of one week.
Organization is underway for Lansas Kennels in Mandeville, Louisiana to serve as a base of operations where independent volunteers can convene. Kinship Circle gained authorization from Colonel Wommack, Major Kim Liley and Colonel Dick Almeter (New Mexico National Guard) for volunteer units to enter Plaquemines Parish. Under the auspices of Dr. Habert, the parish veterinarian established at the Belle Chase Animal Shelter, volunteers will work with coordinators Cris and Terri.

3 teams of 4-5 volunteers will enter Plaquemines Parish daily to rescue animals.
A separate team of baiters will also go.
Dr. Habert is working with citizens to feed/water cats, dogs, horses, cows, etc.
Volunteers MUST understand Dr. Habert is ultimately in charge.
NO ANIMALS MAY LEAVE PLAQUEMINES PARISH.
All animals are treated. Dr. Habert’s crew wants to reunite them with guardians.

***Up to 4 inches of oil covers the ground in some places.***
MANDATORY: Wear well-treaded, high boots.
NEEDED: A portable x-ray machine

C.) WORK WITH RESCUED DOGS IN MANDEVILLE
Plenty to be done at the Mandeville shelter itself in terms of caring for animals already there.

Kendra Williams of Mandeville, LA has worked tirelessly with Sam Baily of
Ponchartrain Humane Society in Pearlington Mississippi. Kendra’s kennel, 60 miles East,is serving as a holding facility. A dawn to dusk curfew is enforced in Pearlington.

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/17/05):
-Portable x-ray machine
-Check with Cris/Terri (219-608-4112) about supplies—needs fluctuate daily.

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4.) HELP NEEDED IN WAVELAND, MISSISSIPPI

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
HSUS has an animal rescue unit established in Waveland.
Volunteers are needed.
Bring any documentation you have, i.e., your animal organization’s nonprofit status; DART or any other animal disaster relief training; veterinarian/vet tech or animal control credentials; animal rescue/shelter experience, etc.

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5.) LAMAR-DIXON EXPO CENTER
9039 St. Landry Road
Gonzales, LA 70737
*This location is vehicle accessible.

DIRECTIONS:
FROM THE WEST
Take I-10 East to Exit 177
At bottom of ramp take a right
Go through traffic light and take second left into the Lamar Dixon Equestrian Center
Ask for the volunteer registration area

FROM THE EAST
Take I-10 West to Exit 177
At bottom of ramp take a left
Go through traffic light and take second left into the Lamar Dixon Equestrian Center
Ask for the volunteer registration area

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
From Pasado Rescuers: Volunteers desperately needed at Lamar-Dixon Center in Gonzales, LA where rescued animals from around state are taken. The Center is in a state of utter chaos. There are so many animals and not enough people to help. The animals are not being cared for properly. Pasado Rescuers have slept in their cars for nights now–just so they are there for as many hours as they can be. PLEASE go to help!!!! Pasados Safe Haven, New Orleans rescue updates: www.pasadosafehaven.org/NEWS/NEWS.htm

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6.) VOLUNTEERS WANTED AT LSU CENTER

CONTACT:
Sharon Ricciardo, volunteer coordinator
EMAIL SHARON, lsupetvol [at] gmail.com:
Complete name
Contact information
Skills
Availability
Put “volunteer” in subject line

LOCATION:
Hurricane Katrina Emergency Animal Shelter
LSU AgCenter’s John M. Parker Coliseum
School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University
Skip Bertman Drive
Baton Rouge, LA 7080

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Sharon Ricciardo, volunteer coordinator at the LSU, is looking for volunteers to walk dogs, care, feed, work the reception desk, check-in, etc. The facility is starting shift work from now till mid-October. Volunteers need to be self sufficient (have their own food/housing/transportation), adults, and preferably experienced with animals.

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7.) ST. JOHN PARISH ANIMAL SHELTER

MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Sharon Gorski
586-727-9815, possecop [at] msn.com

LOCATION/CONTACT:
124 Water Plant Rd
LaPlace, LA 70068
Linda Allen, Shelter Director: no email/cell phone available
shelter phone: 985-651-7387
alternate contact/rescue volunteer Dina Becnel: 985-210-9422

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
45 dogs/22 cats in this rural shelter with maximum capacity for 15 dogs/19 cats. More animals on the way. No mail or FedEx service. No veterinarians
Medications cannot be shipped, must be transported in with volunteers.

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/15/05):
-Digital camera
-Building materials (current “shelter” is a slab with a tin building over it, like an old barn. Old trailer serves as office. Lost both storage sheds. Need replacement.)
-50 each: plastic crates, kennel leads, shampoo, and food (canned for puppies/dry for adults)
-100 vaccines / Must have animal vaccination (7-way), Bordetella, antibiotic.

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8.) ANIMAL STAGING AREA IN NEW ORLEANS

CONTACT:
Lilla Whitehead
225-753-8462; home: 225-753-8462
lilandneal [at] hotmail.com

LOCATION:
James N. Singleton Charter Middle School
1924 Philip Street; New Orleans
*Near the intersection of Philip St. and Daneel St.
For directions, call Ronnye Randall, Collier County Humane Society:
239-298-6243

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
Need for supplies and volunteers. Phone communication is hit and miss. Lilla Whitehead, in Baton Rouge, has communicated with this staging area and stays supplies below were requested today. More needs will arise in future.
*Write “Animal Rescue” on your car windows and wear animal rescue related shirts, if possible.

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/13/05):
Canopy tents with sides, Towels, Water, Hand sanitizer, Disposable bowls, Generators with fuel

VETERINARY SUPPLY NEEDS (9/13/05):
*If you have connections with any vets willing to donate medical supplies, below is a list of immediate needs. Please let Lilla Whitehead know if you can get a donation. Have it overnighted to her, if possible.
-Albon (or SMZ)
-3 cc syringes
-1 cc syringes
-Heparin
-waterproof tape
-Endosorb (or Kaopectate)
-Eccofoam (prescription flea and tick treatment)

DELIVER OR SHIP SUPPLIES TO:
*OVERNIGHT SHIP VETERINARY SUPPLIES
Lilla Whitehead
17228 E. Rockbridge Avenue
Baton Rouge, LA 70817

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9.) WINN-DIXIE STAGING AREA IN NEW ORLEANS

CONTACT:
Sharon Gorski
586-727-9815, possecop [at] msn.com

LOCATION:
4600 Chef Menteur Hwy staging area at N. Louisa Street

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/13/05):
Crates, Boats (inflatables needed to hold full crates on the water), Trucks, SUVs, Sticks with loops to get reluctant dogs

DIRECTIONS TO WINN-DIXIE STAGING AREA:
Take I-12 E (from Hammond) towards N.O. and I-10.

Around Covington, LA, take US Hwy 190 South, which takes you to N. Causeway Blvd. and the bridge over Lake Ponchatrain into N.O.. Be sure to stay on Causeway Blvd. to go over bridge! You will be in Metarie once over the bridge.

Stay on S. Causeway Blvd. all the way to Jefferson Hwy, 90 E. (You’ll cross over Veterans Blvd.)

Stay on Jeff Highway east to N.O.. until it turns into S. Claiborne Ave.

Take a right on Monticello Ave, which turns into (dead ends) at Oak St. Go left on Oak.

Bear right on Leake Ave. (You will be paralleling the Mississippi river)

Stay on Leake for 10 or so blocks and then take a left onto St. Charles Ave.

Continue past Tulane on your left, Audubon Park on your right. Cross over Napoleon and Louisiana Aves. Stay on St. Charles until you dead end.

Follow signs to reach I-10 E. (i.e. go left at the end of St. Charles)

Take I-10 E to Louisa St. N (the 2nd exit). Go left on Louisa.

Go through several red lights to Chef Menteur Hwy and go right.

Immediately see Winn-Dixie on right in the first block.

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10.) STAGING AREA IN DOTHAN, ALABAMA

CONTACT:
Maria Church, Director of Staging Area Operations
home: 334-793-3943; cell: 334-685-0522
staging area: 334-615-4620
mamaloveslabs [at] netzero.com

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR: Pet Care, Veterinary Care, Grooming, Transportation, Clerical, Laundry, Warehousing, and Volunteer Support, Foster Homes, and Donations.

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/17/05):
Tents, Cat/Dog Food, Generators, Cat/Dog Treats, Heavy Duty Extension Cords, Cat/Dog Toys, Temporary Lighting, Kitty Litter, Wading Pools, Large Garbage Cans & Liners, Crates (all sizes), Adjustable Dog Collars, Heavy Duty Hoses with Nozzles, Filing Cabinet, Leashes, Office Supplies, Foldup Tables & Chairs, Hand Sanitizer, Laptop, Dawn Dishwashing Liquid, Water Gallon Containers, Spray Bottles, Laundry Soap, Paper Towels, Bleach Towels, Toilet Paper

Gift Cards to Jeffers Pet, PETsMART, Wal-Mart, Office Max, Office Depot,
Gasoline & Telephone Cards
Monetary Donations:
SAVE-A-PET
P.O. Box 9323
Dothan, Alabama 36304

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11.) PERSONAL SUPPLIES LIST

2.) Have a magnetic signs printed at Kinkos or another copy store for both sides of your vehicle. Suggestions for text on sign:
ANIMAL RESCUE
ANIMAL DISASTER RELIEF
Use bold, dark lettering and display from your vehicle at all times.

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Brenda Shoss, Kinship Circle
314-863-9445
314-795-2646

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Kinship Circle is a 501c3 non-profit organization.
We accept online donations at: www.kinshipcircle.org/donation/donations.html
We are grateful for your support!

—– Original Message —–
From: Kinship Circle
To: Kinship Circle
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 4:55 AM
Subject: KATRINA: New Volunteer/Rescue Resources

9/15/05–KATRINA: New Volunteer/Rescue Resources

Kinship Circle’s Katrina Volunteer Alerts are ongoing. This is a long effort. It could stretch into months. If you cannot volunteer immediately, you are likely needed down the road.

PLEASE SEND THE FOLLOWING TO info [at] kinshipcircle.org:
Your full name
Name of organization (if applicable)
Full street address
Phone numbers, including cell
Email
Brief description of what you can provide

1.) General Information
2.) Three Louisiana Shelters in Dire Need
3.) Help Needed in Waveland, Mississippi
4.) New Animal Staging Area in New Orleans
5.) Winn-Dixie Staging Area in New Orleans
6.) Pearlington, Mississippi & Surrounding Areas
7.) Lamar-Dixon Expo Center
8.) FOSTER - Humane Society of Louisiana
9.) FOSTER - Tangipahoa Parish Animal Center
10.) Personal Supplies List

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1.) General Information

LOGISTICS & SELF-CARE: Be flexible and willing to move around. You need a car or vehicle that you are prepared to sleep in, if necessary. We suggest you bring a tent. We just spoke to two of our volunteers in Waveland. They are camped in tents alongside the HSUS animal rescue unit in Waveland. Hotel rooms are not an option right now. In terms of personal needs, travel self-sufficient. Carry a cell phone to network with others in the area. SEE TIPS AT END OF EMAIL FOR PERSONAL SUPPLIES LIST.

FOSTER/ADOPTION: We will continue to list specific foster/adoption needs as we confirm them. There will be MANY MORE down the road. Right now, animals already in shelters before Katrina hit face euthanasia to make room for storm victims.

SUPPLIES: Needs change EVERYDAY. If you are bringing supplies with you, one option is is to utilize our centralized drop/distribution point in Mobile, Alabama. Supplies will move in and out of this site, with specific items sent where they are needed.

CONTACT:
Julia Fischer
home: 251-645-8605
cell: 251-455-9377
CALL JULIA FISCHER BEFOREHAND
-TELL HER DAY/TIME YOU’LL ARRIVE.
-TELL HER WHAT YOU’RE BRINGING.
-SOMEONE WILL NEED TO MEET YOU AT THE STORAGE SITE.

Alternate Storage
5809 Larue Steiner Road
Theodore, Al 36582
(In Mobile off of I-10)
West off 65 onto I-10 take exit 15A.

Circle under interstate and stay on this road (Hwy 90).
Turn right at second stop light and this is Larue Steiner Road.
Travel about 3 miles down this road and it will be on this street.
52, 54, 55 are the units we have at this moment.

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2.) Three Louisiana Shelters In Dire Need

MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Sharon Gorski
586-727-9815
possecop [at] msn.com

Shelters A, B, and C (below) have no organized aid due to location, inaccessibility, and intermittent phone service. All shelters communicate with each other. If you cannot reach one, you may call another.

SUPPLIES:
Yvette LeBlanc
225-964-2764
If you are unable to transport supplies to one shelter, you may drop them off at Yvette LeBlanc’s location, for distribution. *Yvette cannot make outgoing calls, but can receive incoming calls. During the day, she is busy with over 1200 dogs sheltered at LSU Agriculture Center/Command Post for Parker Coliseum Animal Shelter in Baton Rouge.

A. St. John Parish Animal Shelter
124 Water Plant Rd
LaPlace, LA 70068
Linda Allen, Shelter Director: no email/cell phone available
shelter phone: 985-651-7387
alternate contact/rescue volunteer Dina Becnel: 985-210-9422
*One hour drive from Denham Springs Animal Shelter (Shelter #B)

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
45 dogs and 22 cats are in this rural shelter with maximum capacity for 15 dogs/19 cats. More animals are on the way. No mail or FedEx service. No veterinarians available. Medications cannot be shipped, must be transported in with volunteers. (If willing to travel, contact Julia Fischer– 251-645-8605 / 251-455-9377–about transporting supplies from Mobile, Ala. to this shelter).

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/13/05):
-Digital camera
-Building materials (current “shelter” is a slab with a tin building over it, like an old barn. Old trailer serves as office. Lost both storage sheds. Need replacement.)
-50 each: plastic crates, kennel leads, shampoo, and food (canned for puppies/dry for adults)
-100 vaccines / Must have animal vaccination (7-way), Bordetella, antibiotic.

B. Denham Springs Animal Shelter (DSAS)
30200 Barnette Rd.
Denham Springs, LA 70803
shelter phone: 225-667-2667
alternate contact Yvette LeBlanc: 225-964-2764
(Yvette can receive calls but cannot make outgoing calls)
*DSAS is more accessible. Other shelters can pick up supplies from this location.

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
80 dogs and 50 cats are in this rural shelter with maximum capacity for 50 dogs. More animals are on the way.

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/14/05):
*Home Depot is about 15 minutes from shelter. May use HD gift card to purchase items such as washer/dryer.
-50 dog beds, 50 towels or more
-50 cat size wire crates
-kitty condos for housing cats/kittens
-dog food/cat food
-50 stainless steel (ONLY) bowls for food
-50 large stainless steel (ONLY) buckets for water
-100 vaccines
-4 kennel runs/chain link type
-1 washer/dryer

C. Saint Charles Animal Shelter
13830 River Road
Luling, LA 70070
Lee Ann Matherne, Shelter Director, cell phone: 504-559-4779

This shelter is also helping surrounding tiny, pop/mom rescuers, owners with their dogs/cats for supplies .

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
All local PetSmart stores are closed due to hurricane damage. Mail delivery is sketchy. Must check to see if the zip code is released for delivery before shipping. Or, send supplies to shelter #B (Denham Springs Animal Shelter).

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/14/05):
-vaccines for cats and dogs (100 units)
-plastic crates of any size (we have only two or three cat size crates at this time)
-100 kennel leads (easier than collars and leashes)
-100 bowls for food and water
-dog and cat food (canned for puppies, kittens, dry for dogs/cats)
-30 Kitty condos for housing cats/kittens

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3.) Help Needed In Waveland, Mississippi

HSUS has an animal rescue unit established in Waveland.
Volunteers are needed.
Bring any documentation you have, i.e., your animal organization’s nonprofit status; DART or any other animal disaster relief training; veterinarian/vet tech or animal control credentials; animal rescue/shelter experience, etc.

ROUGH DIRECTIONS (Bring a map!):
Take Route 90 to Route 603.
Follow signs along Route 603 to Waveland; you will see the town.

Continue through several stop lights.
You’ll see a blue tarp with a sign, on your left, that reads: “Animal Shelter.” Turn left at sign.
Follow road until it ends. Turn left.
Follow signs to Animal Shelter.

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4.) New Animal Staging Area in New Orleans

CONTACT:
Lilla Whitehead
225-753-8462
home: 225-753-8462
lilandneal [at] hotmail.com

*Write “Animal Rescue” on your car windows and wear animal rescue related shirts, if possible.

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/13/05):
most urgent:
-canopy tents with sides
-towels
-water
-hand sanitizer
-disposable bowls
-generators with fuel

DELIVER OR SHIP SUPPLIES TO:
*OVERNIGHT SHIP VETERINARY SUPPLIES
Lilla Whitehead
17228 E. Rockbridge Avenue
Baton Rouge, LA 70817

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5.) Winn-Dixie Staging Area in New Orleans

4600 Chef Menteur Hwy staging area at N. Louisa Street
No contacts available at present time.
Just go.

VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
From rescuer on front lines: You CAN get in along a protected, non-flooded route to the new staging area at Winn-Dixie (directions below). Volunteers needed NOW. Many dry areas, but bring rubber boots (See Kinship Circle’s personal supply list at end of email). People needed to get dogs off porches, etc. NEED RESCUE GROUPS to come get them. You CAN and WILL get in.

1) Have magnetic sign printed at Kinkos (or any copy store) for both sides of your vehicle. It should read: DISASTER RELIEF ANIMAL RESCUE / BEST FRIENDS.ORG (or PET SUPPLIES PLUS or your organization)

2) At National Guard checkpoints, they WILL wave you through if you have these signs. (If you are stopped for some reason, you are working with Best Friends at 4600 Chef Menteur Hwy staging area at N. Louisa Street). The Guard has been very rescue friendly…

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/13/05):
-crates
-boats (inflatables needed to hold full crates on the water)
-trucks, SUVs
-sticks with loops to get reluctant dogs

DIRECTIONS TO WINN-DIXIE STAGING AREA:
Take I-12 E (from Hammond) towards N.O. and I-10.

Stay on S. Causeway Blvd. all the way to Jefferson Hwy, 90 E. (You’ll cross overVeterans Blvd.)