That is not at all the point here.
People are as attached to their pets as they are to their families.
The entire scene here is an ongoing tragedy that gets worse and worse instead of better and better.
Aside from the fact that 9-11 was a deliberate attack on the U.S., this dwarfs 9-11 a thousandfold.
That is irrelevant right now. The priority is to rescue people. Animals be damned. They are not family, not in this situation.
All personnel and equipment needs to be directed at helping PEOPLE.
A sure sign of mental illness in a situation such as this.
Non-life threatening situations make it easy to place as much emphasis on animals as humans. In New Orleans, one ounce of effort saving animals before every human has food, water, and shelter, is criminally stupid!
Animal rescuers will be, at minimum, another set of eyes and ears to HELP FIND humans, even if they don't have the right kind of equipment to save humans.
Then they can let the Coast Guard, National Guard etc. know where to find them by pinpointing the humans' locations.
And this is all being done with PRIVATE money, with privately supplied equipment, and with volunteers. Why would you want to stop them - or even more absurdly, punish them?
21 posted on 09/02/2005 11:41:01 AM EDT by shhrubbery! (The 'right to choose' = The right to choose death --for somebody else.)
I agree Shhrubbery