Bush hates Blacks and Animals
Well....that's sad. Looks like alot of people were missing out on free meals. In times of lean..even the devil will eat flies...
The Humane Society is asking for donations for the pet victims of the hurricane. I have already donated to this good cause.
Animals do not matter in the face of the immediate life or death of humans.
This is true of any person, be they conservative, independent, or liberal.
We are stewards of animals and have dominion over them. They must suffer for our good when necessary.
Most dogs can swim -- the cargo problem might have been solved by tethering the dogs to the boat.
I have three cats and either they come with me or we starve together. I don't care if that's psycho or not. But then, again, I'd have scooped up my three cats and all the cat food I've stockpiled and gotten out of there before the #$%^& hurricane.
I'm sorry that I can't get back to all of the people that have emailed me with regards to this order. You have been great in sending the call out. It is a true order. I just received another phone call from my husband, 1 am, the second one in a week. He's getting about 2 to 3 hours of sleep a night. If other families have loved ones working there, I want to pass this information on first, as I am sending this to several emails.
The Westbank of New Orleans, Algiers, my home, has become command central for the entire city. Between the nursing home housing the firefighters, they are making use of the surrounding buildings, Holy Cross College, another nursing home that replaced the one my husband is in and others. There is a full contingency of Firefighters now, the 2nd platoon out of 3 platoons came in today. A platoon works 24 on and 48 off. But not anymore. Out of our 1700 Police officers, there are only 500 officers left. Whether they evacuated or left when the rioting began is not known. The balcony that my husband had to stand on outdoors to make this call was the same one that a 2nd district police officer committed suicide by his own gun. He had lost his entire family. Another female Police officer shot and killed her first assailant. She is practically in a state of shock, there are counselors and ministries to help our men and women of New Orleans who wear the badge, police or fire. All operations by our local forces are ceased at night, and the National Guard takes the night shift. To those families of the National Guard, thank you from the bottom of our hearts for supporting us now, the city is becoming more stable every hour. We should have sent our SOS sooner, but that's politics there.
The shoot to kill order is coming from our "illustrious" Mayor Ray Nagin, who couldn't implement a swift evacuation of everyone in the city. Or possibly our Governor Kathleen Blanco, who's only evacuation command to the citizens was "Please be friendly to others on the road, we can't have road rage at this time....." That contraflow out of the city is the only thing that has worked in our city. Not everyone was too poor to leave, though the ones that were, should have been bused out using every school bus or RTA bus available. The shoot to kill does apply to dogs and other animals too, beside armed humans. And I do not think of them as human anymore. They are another species entirely.
Some of the dogs, and cats, are becoming feral, they are starving, they are drinking heavily contaminated water, we have bodies in the water tied to stop signs, on the streets, and in attics. They are being pulled out dead and the count is going to rise significantly when the water recedes.
There are packs of dogs especially in Eastern New Orleans, that was hit hard by the flood. They are all over the city, both the Eastbank and the Westbank. I've received many emails that if it were their dog, they would want them humanely killed. And I have to agree, if my dog was out in those conditions, no matter how much it hurts me to say this, I would want him/her humanely euthanized. Quickly. But they are not being humanely killed!!!! There are people and children who enjoy shooting animals, shooting them multiple times, and personally, I hope there are officers out there that will stop them with a City of New Orleans bullet. It is serious when Firefighters and other city workers besides the Police have to carry a gun. Their main priority is to rescue people. And it's finally happening.
Whoever posted the contact for getting animals out of specific addresses, thank you. I made use of it for a dear friend, who was married to a Police Officer who was shot in the line of duty, 3 years ago, who was forced to leave 3 cats behind in her home. Now someone will get them out with the instructions I was told to have someone break into her house. There are people in there recovering animals. I know that several people have made it back to their homes, or what was left of them. I don't know how they are getting in, but they are. Probably the back door. New Orleans, as well as the entire state of LA, is a hotbed of dog fighting. But we aren't the only state that is. There are a lot of very vicious animals out there that need to be euthanized by shooting. It's a dangerous situation to those who are trying to help us.
And please, if anyone wants to tell me that New Orleans should never be rebuilt, just keep your email to yourself. If Los Angeles or San Francisco were struck by the big one today, do you think they would be rebuilt? If a tornado destroyed an entire city in Kansas, Oklahoma, anywhere, do you think it wouldn't be rebuilt? There are natural disasters worldwide. The United States is rebuilding Iraq, a country, not a town, the world is rebuilding several nations struck by tsunamis. New Orleans has been standing for over 500 years. Did you see any devastation in our French Quarter, the original site of New Orleans? It was practically immaculate. What did they do without levees back in the 1600's? We do contribute to this nation in many ways.
My husband is Captain Richard Szymurski of the New Orleans Fire Dept for almost 30 years. He is housed with all of the commanders of the Police and Fire Depts. I don't know the name of the person who called for this order, all I know is that my husband is a man of integrity, who gave up his sick leave to stay and weather a violent hurricane. And he is only one of many. He is not the only person to know of this order, but does it matter? Rescue needs to be done for the animals if possible, and I think it is possible. Unfortunately we aren't the ones living in conditions that our great grandparents had to live in. Emergency generators only do so much.
As always, Siberianly, Lynn Szymurski Richlynn Siberians New Orleans, LA lynn @richlynn.com www.richlynn.com PERMISSION TO CROSSPOST:LS
I would not have people leave their pets. They've lost everything for heaven's sakes...their beloved pets are all they have left. My pet would sit on my lap no matter how big he was. I wouldn't leave without my pet. I coudl not look him in the eye and leave him behind not when he would give his life for me. No way, no how. If we had to die so be it...we would die together cause I could nto abandon him in his time of need either.
This organization devoted solely to rescuing pets during disasters:
http://www.noahswish.org
Recommended by one of the big donors to the pet relief effort.
Here is the Katrina update page:
http://www.noahswish.org/Hurricane%20Katrina.htm
Where is PETA? why don't they dispense boats and gather up the animals?
Thanks to all you compassionate people out there who think those animals are worth saving. I needed to hear that today....
Pray for the people, pray for the innocent animals.
So sad. I would miss my dog more than any of my neighbors, and most of my possessions.
Understand were I’m coming from. If I saw my nephew and my cat drowning in a flood, or a stranger’s child or any adult human (assuming that they weren’t firing shots at me or intending to rape me) it would be my first priority to save the humans at any cost.
However I would also do everything in my power to save and keep safe my three cats. The oldest one a gentile female, Zeda who was named after a late season hurricane at the time I found her and to whom I absolutely credit with keeping my father alive and sane for the year and half he lived after my mother died.
I have reoccurring dreams about tornadoes (I don’t know why living in MD like I do) but a constant theme in these dreams is that I have to rescue children and my cats, bringing them all to safely in the basement of my house.
When Hurricane Isabel hit Maryland, I had my kennels out and ready to go and a plan to get them to safety just in case a tree came crashing down on my home.
My cats stayed with me after my husband left me, after friends I had had for years stopped calling after the separation and divorce. Dear Zelda roamed the house searching and cried for days after my father died. When I had a major bout of conjunctivitis with high fever that nearly had me hospitalized and could have cost me my vision, my cat Willie laid day and night with me, cuddled and pawed me gently as if he just wanted me to know he was there for me. They don't care what my politics are, if I gain weight or lose weight, if I go to church or not, how much I make or how I dress.
I don’t put human life before animal life but then “the more I see of people, the more I love my cats”.
If I lost all my wordly possession I could replace them, but if I lost my beloved freinds, it would possibly be more than I could take. I will donate to human releif efforts first but I will not forget the animals.
Does anyone know a good (definately not PETA or their ilk) animal relief agency?
Quite honestly, I do understand the emotion tied to pets - especially dogs. They can be "just like" part of the family. BUT - sometimes hard decisions have to be made - and the life of a human SHOULD come before the life of a pet. Period.
And my heart would be broken if I had to abandon one of our dogs in an emergency. If possible, I would take them with us. But again, if it's a case of their lives, or human life - I will go with human life.