National Geo. Photo Gallery: "Pets, Hurricane Katrina's Other Victims"

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[television is just wrong]

Wow, how can people forget these little guys?I guess they feel they can do for themselves.

[apackof2]

Pic ping

[HairOfTheDog]

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[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Best soap to clean oil-slicked animals is Dawn dishwashing detergent. No kidding. It's been used to clean birds at oil spill sites.

Dawn Ducks

[shiva]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....I want the one in the second picture.

[HairOfTheDog]

A dog consumes a man's corpse near a breach in a New Orleans levee on September 6, 2005.

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 still care]

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.

[baystaterebel]

Best photogs in the biz. The isolated shot of the oil slicked dog is awesome. Great DOF and dramatic angle.

[The Red Zone]

It's just a body, but not living.

[The Red Zone]

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

[Trust but Verify]

My husband and I have been verytouched by the pictures and the stories about the poor abandoned and forlorn pets left behind. In addition to donating $ to the Salvation Army, we have given money to bestfriends.org and we urge others to donate to one of the pet rescue agencies as well.

There are some brave and dedicated people down their risking their lives to pull these animals out of harms way. Let's support them!

[HairOfTheDog]

I understand that.

[RSmithOpt]

It's amazing how much more calmness a demeanor the pets show in the wake of Katrina than most politicians and evacuees have shown. I truly feel for all those pets and hope they are soon reunited with their owners. Pets, and dogs especially, that they have (choose) an undying loyalty to their owners and to mankind.

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.

[Modernman]

I kept thinking that in the future maybe more thought should be given to rescuers coordinating with the ASPCA.

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.

[yankeedame]

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 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?

[GovernmentShrinker]

Not when they're tied to a railing of a concrete highway overpass.

[HairOfTheDog]

You probably did right, as I've thought about it. The graphic warning would have probably only ~attracted~ people.

[Beaker]

The picture of the oil covered dog breaks my heart.

[HairOfTheDog]

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.