Posted on 10/06/2005 11:13:24 AM PDT by green pastures
OMG, what cute pix! Are all the buff/orange&white the same cat?
He's beautiful! (I'm a sucker for male buff/orange&white - by experience, they've been the best cats!)
You can find out more about the search for Snowball and the Oily dog here:
http://www.katrinafoundpets.com/
and also some info on the oily dog at www.oilydog.org
Neither have been found yet.
There are rewards for each.
Love the pic! Thanks for posting it!
:-)
There was also a happy ending for a poodle named Max. He has been found and is to be reuinited with his family. Here is the family's story, from Katrina-Pets-Rescue-Info:
"Please read their story below - and know that I cried when Dianne called today to say that Max had been found!
This family has lost everything - their landlord in New Orleans called to tell them that the house they had rented had burned to the ground - with their car in the driveway.
Dianne tells us that none of that matters to them - they are all safe tonight - including Max.
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Original Post of 9/30/05:
We received the most heartbreaking call anyone can imagine. Diane Brown, a Louisiana resident, called us after seeing our group listed as one who received a Katrina poodle in the hopes that it was her dog. She told the horror story of how she, her husband and their young daughter were stuck on the freeway and the buses were sent in to rescue people. The national guard and police were shoving people on the bus with no concern for families beings separated and of course not allowing pets. They passed up the first couple of buses not wishing to risk being separated from each other and desparately wanting to take their 8 year old poodle.
Max was a rescue from a shelter a couple of years earlier when they lived in Michagan. They sold everything they had and moved to Louisiana in May!
They spent the night on the wet grass on the side of the freeway with many other stranded people) and she told of how Max protected them all night and would bark anytime someone came near them.
That morning another bus came and she pleaded with the driver to let them take their small poodle on. He consented and the family got on the bus with Max in her husband's arms behind her. She walked past a national guardsman down the aisle and as her husband got on the bus, he said "I'm not giving up my seat for that dog!" He refused to let the husband on with the dog. When Diane tried to get off the bus with her daughter they refused to let her off and while standing in the doorway of the bus with other people crowded behind him, the husband had to make the onerous choice between his wife and child and his beloved Max. A man standing behind him said, "hand him to me." Feeling he had no choice, he handed over Max and got on the bus. That was the last they saw of him.
Max was wearing Michigan tags still and is an apricot neutered poodle about 8 years old with cloudy eyes. He was shaved pretty short unlike this picture when they first got him. She has been searching through thousands of pics in an attempt to find him and they are now back in MI staying temporarily until allowed back to their home which is most likely completely destroyed.
Hearing her story and the anguish in her voice AND the recounting of the callous treatment they received ripped my heart out. I stillcan't stop crying every time I think about. It's one thing to read all the stories and to know hers is but one of a thousand similar tragedies....it's another to talk to a person and feel that kinship.
When I told her with tears in my voice that I was SO VERY SORRY for all she lost, she said quite simply that all they wanted was their dog back - everything else can be replaced, but not Max. She told me her husband feels horrible and is terribly depressed because he let Max down. He had promised him that night on the wet grass that they would get through this.
Please, help her find out if Max is alive somewhere. She knows about Petfinder database and mentioned another. What are all the sources that she can look to? Attached is a flyer she made with the picture. Can this be posted ...... where?? Please tell me how to get the word out EVERYWHERE and I'll help this person in any way I can.
Bichons and Buddies will make all arrangements to fly Max to his family in Michigan
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Posted 10/5/2005
Max travelled to Houston with the young man who promised to take him to safety - this young man certainly kept his word. He never let go of Max until he arrived at the Red Cross shelter in Houston - where Animal Control was set up to log in each arriving animal.
Max is currently living in a foster home in Houston - Bichons and Buddies is arranging to fly to Houston to get Max, and then continue on to Kalamazoo, Michigan where Max's family is now staying.
Dianne and Rob lost EVERYTHING in Katrina - except for Max - thanks to a good Samaritan.
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Good suggestions! I have no idea why they don't like each other. They will tolerate each other most of time, but if one gets into the "space" of the other one----well, not fun. My husband thinks it's a game between them, maybe he's right. In fact I've caught one of them hiding around the corner laying in wait for the other one to show up. I've also caught one of them sitting on the floor about 12" away, staring at the other one who is sound asleep waiting for him to wake up.
As far as keeping them active, since they're indoor/outdoor cats they're gone most of the times prowling the neighborhood, so most of this happens at night when they've come in for dinner and bedtime.
I won't even mention the RD MALE cat that my neighbor dumped on all of us in the neighborhood after she move away and left him. Guess who's taking care of him also. This one though I can look after in our office which is away from the main house, so not quite so bad.
Gee, all I ever wanted was a sweet, funny lovable cat who'll play with me, and all I've gotten are 3 males who don't particularly like being fussed over by me, and as an added bonus don't even like each other. Lucky, lucky me :-)
that is how it seems to go. I have MANY outdoor cats that are drop offs. varying degrees of friendliness.. but they are strays & would NOT let me touch them,yet alone pick them up & cuddle.
My indoor/outdoor population grows by leaps & bounds. I have many friendly cuddly ones & they are a joy. My cali(see profile page) is now on my lap & struggles to sit on keyboard. Have had her since 1988 & she is a sweet. loving cat.. but I have had many males that are much warmer & cuddly.
your male cats sound like a typical male dominance/territory thing.
Thanks Green Pastures, not sure I want to read about them, though. I can't even look at his picture without tearing up. I had heard that the photographer who took the picture of oily dog was going back and try to find him. I just pray someone found him and just hasn't written about it.
The photographer did go back, and claimed to have found him. A Dallas newspaper printed a big story of how they found him and rescued him. But the picture of the second dog didn't match up.
A number of people pointed out that those were NOT the same dog, and the paper had to print a retraction.
The photographer stands by his story and says the only difference was the first time he photographed the dog, the dog did not have tags. The second time he photographed it, the dog had tags.
(No explanation provided as to how *that* might have happened.)
There are many, many people working to find Oily dog and Snowball. And there are some prospects showing up online in various found pets/shelter photos just now getting posted, so there is still hope.
Thanks again, green pastures. Don't know when a pet has touched me that much so really appreciate the potentially positive outcome.
Kazoo is not far from me
Yup - those are all my same kitty.... he is cool. And I've also found that there is something about the orange tom that is mellower and easier going than other types. I think it's too coincidental to be just coincidence. ;~D
Hadn't seen that one mupcat. That's so sad.
Thanks so much green pastures. Hope they're (especially Snowball) reunited with their families.
I take it that you've now seen the picture. I swear when I saw his little upturned oily face and those little squinty eyes I just lost it. Dear God I hope he was saved!
Me too! I have a soft spot in my heart for critters of all kinds especially dogies.
Usually two of the same neutered gender don't get along as well as if they were opposites. Two females might even be little more problematic than two males. My personal experience is limited, though.
Well, since the existing cat is a male, I figured two littermates that are female would be best - if there is a best :~D
Sounds great but WI is a long trek. Good luck finding homes for them though ;~D
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