Posted on 09/27/2005 8:12:43 AM PDT by Former Military Chick
South Carolina - A group of Lowcountry Animal Lovers is back from New Orleans with 25 furry survivors in need of a home.
The Humane Net Team is made up of volunteers from several Lowcountry Rescue Organizations.
The group spent 9 days in New Orleans rescuing animals left behind and distributing a truck load of supplies.
"We handed out food and crates, towels and they're begging for more. They don't have anything left, nothing. We brought 25 animals back that we rescued out of houses were people couldn't take them with them," says Barbara Bryant of the Humane Net Team.
If you'd like to become a new pet owner, contact Joy Davis with Lowcountry Animal Rescue at 821-3175.
Though many hurricane pets are finding a happy ending others are not.
A Hurricane Katrina Evacuee had to flee his Mississippi home but the shelters would not allow one of his family members to enter, Shuma, the family dog.
The family had no choice but to choose the shelter over their pet, and took Shuma to an animal shelter in Independence.
John Wyrick is trying to start a new life in Missouri but he may have to do it without Shuma.
That's because a woman who volunteered to take in the German Shepherd has refused to give it back.
Wyrick has a serious back injury that limits his abilities.
He raised and trained Shuma to help him with his daily routine.
A volunteer convinced Wyrick to sign the dog over to her for the time being.
But just weeks later, Lynn Nevills refuses to give the Shuma back saying her family is now attached to the dog and Wyrick should get a new one.
Local, Kansas City, residents have tried to help the Wyricks get Shuma back but Nevills refuses to negotiate.
Nevills was recently spotted on a Golden Retriever rescue board looking for GRs to "breed and sell".
Looks like she got herself a different breed but probably for the same purposes.
She is an unethical rip with bad intent, whether she has the dog "legally" or not.
She is also NOT the person to whom Wyrick "signed the dog over".
6-10 pups a litter, at least twice a year, probably about $250 a pup without papers.
Do the math.
She's knows what she's doing and it's NOT out of "love".
I wish Wyrick would definitively say whether the dog was ever neutered or not.
I look forward to the pics of your new dog :~D
You're doing great things, thank you.
I continue to send e-mails.
So sorry to hear that Ms. Nevills still hasn't done the right thing...
Thanks for posting this update.
Good lessons in your post for us human beans...
I don't know... We'll see what the next turn of events is.
Do we even know if the dog is male or female?
The dog was signed over to a shelter and then adopted to Nevills, is that true?
Is there a transcript from this radio station?
Not according to what's come out most recently.
The shelter was initially approached but another woman who was visiting the shelter "volunteered" to take Shuma and the shelter staff told them to take the "transaction" off shelter property.
The woman who took Shuma from Wyrick was NOT Nevills, according to the description he gave.
How Nevills got hold of the dog is the question.
The shelter, per se, never had custody of the dog.
Some opportunist who just "happened to be there" took the dog in the first place.
Pickers.
Shelters get them "visiting" all the time.
They offer a "loving alternative" to those who are bringing their dogs to the pound, for whatever reason and the owners see the picker as a "better" chance for the animal to get a home when in reality, the pets often end up as breeders or pit bull bait.
Our shelter patrols the lot for people like that and runs them off.
and remember she said Mr.Wyrick was NOT an evacuee...and she was proven wrong when Chief Investagator Steve Champaz contacted FEMA.
Well, that's as murky as what he said she said while drunk.... ;~\
I'd be in that 1%, if I could get a breeder to sell me an unspayed Maine Coon queen at all. There aren't nearly enough Maine Coons in the world and I would love to breed & sell pet-quality ones at cost, but "real" breeders don't even want to talk to you unless you're into showing.
It's just a current/general synopsis.
Sorry if it wasn't especially well done.
Geeez,
I am guilty of being a 'picker', sort of...I ended up bringing home a cat that the owner had planned to leave at the county pound...just happened to meet her in the lobby and walked out with her cat...that cat was my beloved J.J.who was with us for 12 years--I was crazy about that cat!
She should adopt one of the dogs who has not been claimed. That would teach her family a valuable lesson and save a dog's life.
P.S.
I had no idea this terrible "picker" thing you detailed exists...glad you brought it to our attention.
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