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A site listed in the story has much information about the pet rescue and pet/owner searches in the Gulf region. For those interested, that site is ericsdogblog.com.
In addition to the petfinder disaster web search page, pet harbor and other similar sites, there is also a web site with pictures and stories of lost pets being sought desperately by their owners at www.lostkatrinapets.com .
For those who may want to help-- there is a group called Stealth Volunteers who work from a displaced pet toward finding an owner. There is another group called Buddy System who work from the owner side toward finding a pet.
And another good forum related to this is at the pet rescue forum of nola.com: http://www.nola.com/forums/animals/index.ssf
In addition to those people desperately seeking pets lost during Katrina, there is another side to this story. There are still many pets loose on the streets of New Orleans and surrounding parishes.
There are animal rescue groups still working to set up feeding and watering stations, and to rescue those pets.
Does anyone know if that litte boy ever got his dog, "Snowball" back?
It tears me up to think about having to get on a bus and not being able to take my 3 dogs with me. I know there are lots of dogs in shelters and vet kennels around Houston who are still lost from their owners. I guess some owners are making no effort to find them but you know that others are searching.
At this point, I certainly hope they are adopting dogs out without hesitation about sleuthing who and where owners are... if they haven't claimed them by now, they've given them up for dead.
This is horrible. I saw the film of the man with the little white dog who was told to leave it when he got on the bus. He kissed the dog, then set it down.
Now, I'll tell you. If it was a choice of bus or walk, I would walk and carry my dog. There is NO WAY I would leave my companion dog. I'd crawl if I had to. I would not leave my dog to become a statistic.
Now, North Georgia has gotten two or three groups of animals and have adopted them all out. I don't think any of the animals are "fostered" until their owners can be located. They "belong" to the new owners.
Just like everything else that comes out of Louisiana, there was no reasonable plan to evacuate people who had pets. THERE IN lies the problem.
Pet lovers may want to work toward a solution to the issue of evacuation of pets with the ASPCA so that there is a National Plan for anything in the future.
After I retire (next year), I'll be volunteering at the County Animal Shelter and I'll be working with them to come up with protocol for abandoned and rescued pets as a result of a disaster.