September 8, 2005—On September 4, 2005, U.S. Air Force Lt. Nathan Brosheal held a kitten that had been rescued and airlifted to Louisiana's New Orleans International Airport in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which struck the city on August 29.
Posted on 09/09/2005 6:58:09 AM PDT by yankeedame
September 8, 2005—On September 4, 2005, U.S. Air Force Lt. Nathan Brosheal held a kitten that had been rescued and airlifted to Louisiana's New Orleans International Airport in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which struck the city on August 29.
Near New Orleans a small oil-slickened dog was seen wandering in Chalmette, Louisiana, as cleanup crews recovered oil from a ruptured refinery tank on September 6, 2005. Tens of thousands of barrels of oil had spilled and mixed with receding floodwater from Hurricane Katrina.
Three dogs waited for rescue in Pass Christian, Mississippi, on August 31, 2005, one day after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast town. The dogs were later saved by a local police officer.
Surrounded by litter left by refugees, a dog remained tied to the railing of a highway ramp in New Orleans on September 3, 2005, six days after Hurricane Katrina. Like many of the city's newly stranded pets, the dog may have been refused passage by rescuers as they evacuated its owners.
A dog consumes a man's corpse near a breach in a New Orleans levee on September 6, 2005.
Jeff Eyre, a volunteer with the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), leashes a pig found beneath Interstate 10 in New Orleans on September 6, 2005. The lost swine was taken to a facility for abandoned animals in the city.
A New Orleans resident waded along Canal Street with a dog he rescued on August 30, 2005, the day the local levee system failed and flooded the city.
Two dogs played on top of a pool table at Cajun's Pub in New Orleans on September 6, 2005. Despite Hurricane Katrina and the susequent flooding of much of the city, the pub still had not closed its doors and continues to serve drinks to the few customers that remained in the neighborhood.
Wow, how can people forget these little guys?I guess they feel they can do for themselves.
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....I want the one in the second picture.
Though you can't really tell what the dog is actually doing, I might have put a graphic warning on your thread. Not sure people want to see a corpse.
I kept thinking that in the future maybe more thought should be given to rescuers coordinating with the ASPCA.
So many people were kept from rescue by concern for their pets, and the ones that left were tormented by the thought of their animals being left behind.
I saw a skinny cat crying on FOX yesterday, it broke my heart. If I didn't have children, I don't know if I could separate from my animals, knowing they would starve to death.
It's just a body, but not living.
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
There are some brave and dedicated people down their risking their lives to pull these animals out of harms way. Let's support them!
I understand that.
It is one of the true blessings on this earth from God.
The dog eating on a corpse is not really a grotesque picture (thought), but it is a fact of nature in instinctive action for survival. Think about the jet that crashed in the Andres a few years back with the soccer team aboard.
In NYC, after 9/11, various animal rescue groups went through downtown Manhattan with NYPD officers. There were residential buildings where the residents were not allowed back for a week or so, so the groups went from apartment to apartment to feed stranded pets.
Sad. The human toll is terrible, but humans could have done a better job of planning ahead for such a disaster. Animals are totally blameless victims.
I had seriously thought about that, or even to not post the picture at all. In the end, I decided not to post the "Warning:Graphic" notice b/c it was "only" one picture (though that's more than enough!) and the warning might have potential readers imagining...well, particular things and situtations, shall we say?
Not when they're tied to a railing of a concrete highway overpass.
You probably did right, as I've thought about it. The graphic warning would have probably only ~attracted~ people.
The picture of the oil covered dog breaks my heart.
I know.... There was a thread about that dog, and a report that rescuers had been sent to find it. Since the reporter that took the pic found it twice, they were hopeful.
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