Animal Rescue Alerts 02-21-2006

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1 Tuesday February 21, 2006

1.1 Pasados Safe Haven needs donations QUICK
1.2 ARNO UPDATE: Housing Project Sweeps & Other News
1.3 Group Departing For Gulf Coast Animal Rescue Transport
1.4 Southeast Louisiana spay/neuter projects planned for 2006
1.5 NOLA still needs help, desperately

2 Other Animal Rescue Pages

Tuesday February 21, 2006

Pasados Safe Haven needs donations QUICK

Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:41:12 -0800
From: "Beth Thompson" <thompson @sohalang .com>
Subject: Pasados Safe Haven needs donations QUICK
Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Katrina-Pet-Rescue-info/

Please go to the Pasados Safe Haven site and donate -- they had two heaters for their dog cabins burn out and they need to replace them. The heaters cost more than $400 each, and they will take any donations, no matter how small. It has been really cold in the Pacific Northwest, so these dogs need some help. Pasados did a great job helping with the Katrina Rescue -- let's help them back.

The website is pasadosafehaven.org.

Thank you all!

Beth Thompson,

Seattle, WA

ARNO UPDATE: Housing Project Sweeps & Other News

Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:46:23 -0800 (PST)
From: JoAnne <sierragal95 @yahoo .com>
Subject: Fwd: ARNO UPDATE: Housing Project Sweeps & Other News
Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulfcoast_rescue_n_transport/

Kinship Circle <info @kinshipcircle .org> wrote:

Kinship Circle Hurricane Rescue Alerts will continue to post updates/alerts for resident-run ARNO. However, on February 15 the original Animal Rescue New Orleans—with co-founders Jane Garrison, Pia Salk and David Meyer—transitioned to a local program under new leadership.

For information on how to volunteer for resident-run ARNO,

Contact <info @kinshipcircle .org> for a general alert only.
Contact <ARNewOrleans @cox .net> for details about out-of-town or resident volunteers.
Or visit http://www.AnimalRescueNewOrleans.com/ .

UPDATE: ARNO HOUSING PROJECT SWEEPS

Thanks to everyone for their support. We’ve cleared all of the St. Bernard Projects which were boarded up and we are about 1/3 of the way through Lafitte. Although we have not rescued any live dogs or cats, we discovered 2 gas leaks, 1 water leak, and 1 live tarantula, 2 live turtles and 1 live goldfish! Amazing these creatures were able to survive such a long time.

The tarantula has gone to Celebration Station where Craig fed him 3 live crickets and will be taking him under his wing, so to speak. Cadi [Schiffer] has the turtles in her very capable hands and is already treating them. The goldfish is the new ARNO mascot and recovering at the warehouse. We have named him/her, Hamburg, after the project address where found. Computer Lisa and Trapper Lisa are giving him oxygen therapy and he seems to be responding. Will keep you updated on that as we go.

We will sweep Lafitte Projects again on Friday, 8:30 a.m. 2101 Lafitte St. If we have a good turnout, we may be able to finish in only a few more days, so tell everyone. I am putting together a schedule for more projects in the coming weeks and will keep you updated.

UPCOMING MAYORAL ELECTION IN NEW ORLEANS

On another important note, there will be a mayoral election here in New Orleans in the next few months. Several candidates have announced and more will announce soon. As we move into the long term recovery phase, we must make sure the voices of the animals are heard through us in the political arena. Please pick a candidate, support them, and educate them on humane treatment of animals. If we ban together on this issue, we can make our voices heard. It doesn't matter if we support the same candidates or not, we must get involved and move the animal cause to the forefront.

On Wednesday, February 23, at 2:00 p,m., Mitch Landrieu will be announcing his candidacy for Mayor of New Orleans on the riverfront behind the New Orleans Hilton. If you should choose to attend this or any event we announce, please try to wear any Animal Rescue or animal cause t-shirt. Let us be seen and heard! If you know of any political events like this, please contact me so that I can post them for all of the animal people.

Thanks to all,

Robin Beaulieu, ARNO

Group Departing For Gulf Coast Animal Rescue Transport

Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:56:29 -0800 (PST)
From: JoAnne <sierragal95 @yahoo .com>
Subject: Group Departing For Gulf Coast Animal Rescue Transport
Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulfcoast_rescue_n_transport/

Today's New Messages
Please visit your group's message board if you would like to reply.
http://groups.msn.com/DisasterResponseAnimalRescue/messageboard

Group Departing For Gulf Coast Animal Rescue Transport Needs Help To Pull It Off

From: CompanionAnimalNetworkTV

Hi everyone-

As you well know most animal rescue operations in the Gulf have now ended. Most shelters around the country are full. However, we have located two major shelters who have room as they never took any Katrina animals. Several of us are leaving around the first of March to drive down the East Coast to New Orleans to bring hay to horses and farm animals, reunite animals, and bring back 1-2 dozen dogs and cats to two major east coast shelters for adoption. These two shelters have opened up new areas just to absorb Katrina animals and if we do not go and bring them a terrific opportunity will be lost. WE NEED YOUR HELP TO PULL THIS OFF AS WE ARE AN ALL VOLUNTEER GROUP.

This is the third major rescue trip we are making to help surviving Gulf Coast animals. In the past we took groups of 6 and then 12 volunteers, and brought back over a dozen dogs and cats. Most of those animals have now been adopted. Details are available on our web site at http://www.CompanionAnimalNetworkTV.org/ .

Anyone who wants to participate in a group effort like this but prefers to fly to N.O. instead of driving down with us can be picked up at the N.O. airport. Everyone can set their own return date and method. However, we need help in the return part of this trip as two dozen dogs are extremely difficult to drive 1300 miles.

This is going to be a brutal summer for Katrina-surviving Gulf Coast animals. We need to support our animal friends through one more summer season. On our agenda are all of the following:

a) work with the local rescue efforts

b) walking and rehabilitating dogs

c) feeding and watering street cats and dogs

d) trapping and adoption.

Many of us have suffered enormous personal sacrifice for Katrina surviving animals. However, we will have prematurely withdrawn the life support for our animal friends if we do not keep up our collective efforts in the Gulf for at least one year after Katrina. I want to remind everyone that it has ONLY been six months since Katrina hit. We need to put out our love and energy one more summer season. Just one more summer season! After that enough people will have returned to at least provide some support for these animals. But this summer will be brutal down there. If we do not step up to the plate no one else will either. Please contact <garo @CompanionAnimalNetworkTV .org> OR CALL 718-544-PETS to help us make this happen.

Southeast Louisiana spay/neuter projects planned for 2006

Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:19:42 -0600
Subject: Southeast Louisiana spay/neuter projects planned for 2006
From: "Julie Becker" <julie @spaylouisiana .org>

Spay/Louisiana is stepping up our commitment to providing increased access to spay/neuter assistance in Louisiana with an aggressive schedule for 2006.

The first project on our schedule is a spay/neuter voucher program that will provide assistance for cats and dogs that are permanent residents of certain households in St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Orleans and Jefferson. For a limited time, all current residents of Plaquemines and St. Bernard Parish will qualify for this program. Hurricane-impacted and low-income residents of Orleans and Jefferson Parish will also be eligible. Caretakers of feral and free-roaming cats within the four-parish area will be invited to use spay/neuter vouchers as part of responsible colony management and TNR efforts. We hope to launch the voucher program in late spring, and are working hard to nail down all the details.

We're pleased to be able to add to the important efforts of existing spay/neuter programs, and look forward to working with the animal care, control and welfare community to ensure that our combined efforts result in an increased number of surgeries performed, and a decreased number of animals becoming entering our community shelters and rescue programs.

We are very pleased to have the support and participation of the Southeast Louisiana Veterinary Association for this project. This organization represents nearly 200 veterinarians across southeast Louisiana, and has a long history of compassionate service. This project will be funded through a generous grant from the ASPCA.

Future projects also planned for 2006 include spay/neuter efforts specifically targeting the feral and free-roaming cat population, and a high-volume, long-term project that will deliver high-quality spay/neuter services for animals in shelters and foster care programs.

If you'd like to receive more information about this project as it progresses, or if you would like to learn more about how your shelter or rescue agency may become a voucher distribution partner, just visit the Spay/Louisiana web site to add yourself to our mailing list: http://spaylouisiana.org/mailinglist.html

ABOUT SPAY/LOUISIANA - Spay/Louisiana's mission is to help end pet overpopulation in Louisiana by increasing access to high-quality sterilization surgery for cats and dogs that are most likely to add to our state¹s homeless pet population. Spay/Louisiana began in 2002, as a grassroots effort to identify spay/neuter and animal care, control and welfare resources across Louisiana. The results of that on-going effort are used to provide referrals to spay/neuter assistance programs across Louisiana, and are published in the Louisiana Animal Welfare Directory.

For more information, visit http://spaylouisiana.org/

Julie Becker

Spay/Louisiana

Box 11149

Jefferson, LA 70181

http://spaylouisiana.org/

NOLA still needs help, desperately

From: "dljacks10" <djackson @scoutworx .com>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 02:38:49 -0000
Subject: NOLA still needs help, desperately
Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Katrina-Pet-Rescue-info/

All:

I've been working on an all-volunteer ARNO caretaking effort. 70 or so volunteers from all over the country are taking information from on-ground feeders and putting it into spread sheets that are then uploaded to a central database, printed out and mapped for the next group of feeders. We track animals seen, critical cases, packs, puppies, kittens, pets with collars, list all food/water stations, paw prints around food bowls, amount of food eaten so the next feeder will know where to go and what to do. Then the cycle with NEW information starts all over again.

I have seen the maps generated with 'dots' for all animals in the city. IT WOULD MAKE YOU SICK. I'd guess there are 2000 or so cats and 1500 dogs still walking the streets, hiding under houses, dogs 'packing up' and killing cats, getting hit by cars. Maybe more than that.

We are out of food, out of feeders. It takes 5 tons of food for these animals and there are a few hundred pounds left in the warehouse.

The current situation has nothing to do with the new locally-run ARNO. It's just that the situation is 'OLD NEWS'.

In the past few months mountains have been moved by people on boards like this one.

CAN ONE MORE BE MOVED?

anyone with contacts at the big pet food companies?
anyone with a rich uncle?
anyone who can go down and feed?
anyone who knows a fraternity, sorority, church group, bridge club who can come down and feed

Alex and Cocoa and maybe many other animals we have been searching for are STILL DOWN THERE.

Please help if you can.

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