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September 09, 2005
That's nice
al.com: NewsFlash - Alabama shelters open their doors to pets displaced by Katrina
However, I have to object to the Humane Society's call for the government to use military and police resources in animal rescues. There are too many other things that need doing, and too much risk of harm to the people doing the rescuing.
Posted by Mac Thomason at September 9, 2005 02:39 PM
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I think "resources" was too broad. HSUS has their own volunteers down there, but they want to be allowed to ride along with military and police to rescue animals along with people. (So they aren't really asking the military to get down in the muck after the dogs and cats.)
They also want the rescuers to allow people they evacuate now to be able to bring out their animals with them. (There is one reported case of the military not wanting to evacuate a *seeing eye dog* with a blind woman. There was a reporter there at the time. The rescuers changed their minds and came back for them both.) Even if the evacuees have to go to a no-animals-allowed shelter, their pets can go with HSUS for safekeeping and medical treatment.
Remember that a lot of these animals weren't strays before the storm. Many of the evacuees have lost everything, and it would be doing them a huge kindness to save their pets.
Posted by: jaclyn at September 12, 2005 09:34 AM