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I agree Frankenkitty.
Animals are like taking on a child. They are a life, helpless and innocent. It's our responsibility to take care of them, give them medical attention, make sure they life as comfortably and stress free as possible. People never take their stress into account. They do it with kids, too....oh, kids are so resiliant, they say. Riiiiight, that's why there are so many fucked up adults roaming around! My cats go with me or I don't go. Shoot me then. They are my family, and unlike people, they have never let me down and I will never let them down if I can help it.
posted by
Temple
on September 10, 2005 at 11:26 PM
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Humans should not have domesticated
animals if they didn't want to take on the full responsibility of caring for them. What a bunch of neanderthals. Then again, I see the way some people care for their kids and I wonder how sterilization is more cruel than pedophilia. Sterilization is cruel, but capital punishment is socially acceptable. I don't get it. Anyway, great post! I hope tons of people sign the petition
posted by
Flumpystalls3000
on September 10, 2005 at 8:25 PM
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Quirk
If it makes you feel better, many rescue organizations are coming into those areas after the police and getting the animals...in spite of Nagin's order not to allow them. They have gone rogue. Plus, the National Guard is now rescuing because in one parish they are shooting large dogs, so they have gotten fed up with the police and are helping with human and animal rescue (allowing pet rescue) and doing animal rescue. I, along with a network of people, have been writing and writing news organizations and politicians to put the heat on. We actually have a satellite phone number to one of the Guard members in charge of this, and I believe the General is helping also (the paratroopers). They are angry because they are there for humanitarian reasons and they do not believe this to be in line with that. Plus, on September 3, animals were declared to be members of the family. Then, the city attorney gave the wink to shoot. Very confusing. I'd like to take up a new career in lobbying and make sure all of the people in responsible had to work at McDonalds forever, but I don't know who would pay me. One of the Guard members tried to adopt a dog, but they said they couldn't because they wouldn't let them take the dog out of state....but we are fostering animals all over the country. It's ridiculous. Thank you for signing. The petition should already be submitted by now, not sure when it will go.
posted by
Temple
on September 10, 2005 at 6:25 PM
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temple--
yeah I'll sign--it breaks my heart what has happened/is happening to some of the animals. As I wrote in my post the other day about the couple forced at gunpoint to leave w/o their cats...they'd have to shoot me.
posted by
Julia.
on September 10, 2005 at 4:47 PM
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word.smith
I think in the hurricane so many people just lost their minds and didn't know what to do. Some people just don't think, and some people just don't know what to do. It's really sad.
posted by
Temple
on September 10, 2005 at 4:39 PM
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Temple,
This makes me wonder why people would leave their animals chained up during a hurricane. Guess maybe in all the confusion....
posted by
word.smith
on September 10, 2005 at 8:51 AM
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Offbeat, I think some folks left animals behind for lots of reasons.
They were stupid and thought they'd be back, although if they were leaving I don't know why they thought it'd be safe for the animals. But many were there because their owners were there. Lots of people are trying to help and hopefully if we just keep up pressure we'll get local and state government as well as national media to take us seriously.
posted by
Temple
on September 9, 2005 at 4:25 AM
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TEMPLE
It seems like animals are always the last priority for some people. I couldn't imagine seeing all those poor critters hungry. Yesterday I did see a piece about a make shift animal shelter. You could tell the people were trying real hard to take care of the ones they could, but needed more resources.
I personally would never leave a pet in such a place, but then again, I wasn't in this cane. Last cane I was in, I had to slip my cat a sleeping pill. She rode a couple hundred miles before she woke up. She wasn't happy, but for 200 miles there was no bitching from her.
I already filled out a petition a few days ago, will check and see if it is the same one!
posted by
Offy
on September 9, 2005 at 4:19 AM
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Benzinha, I know, these reporters are idiots.
I want to smack them. All of them. The National Guard has been helping with rescue, and the military has been very clear that they are about being humanitarian only, so often times they will reach out to animals. Hopefully, they will help. I just hope we can get rescue back in there before it's too late. I'm screaming with you, it's breaking my heart.
posted by
Temple
on September 9, 2005 at 3:43 AM
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Spitfire, I knew, of course, you would sign. :)
We have to look out for kitty-lippers everywhere.
:)
posted by
Temple
on September 9, 2005 at 3:40 AM
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Temple, I almost lost my mind today when a reporter said that a 'pack of
"wild" dogs' was threatening people. Wild dogs? I don't think so, hungry dogs, yes. I don't want to talk about what they're eating either, or what they will try to eat, but, if they, the people with guns, police, National Guard?, kill those "wild" dogs, they will have, once again, compounded their calumny. I want to scream.
I am speechless...
posted by
benzinha
on September 9, 2005 at 1:59 AM
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I'm going to sign it right now.
Thanks for supporting the furry ones. We humans ARE there voice.
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 8, 2005 at 11:18 PM
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Vane
Yes, pets are part of the family...there should be provisions made for them as rescues/evacuations are made. I know when things get desperate, desperate things happen, so it is hard to judge things that have happened. But, I don't imagine I would ever leave someone behind either, although people did have to separate for practical reasons. I hope I never have to find out. I'd like to think I'd just evacuate ahead of time with my loved ones and my animals, but things don't always go as planned.
posted by
Temple
on September 8, 2005 at 5:25 PM
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Benzinha, you are SO right. Indeed.
There was no uniformity, as I mentioned to Libertine, that some got out with their animals all the way through (even in helicopter rescues) and some had to leave them in the house. Many were left behind when people evacuated early, which I don't understand. The problem is, these people don't have the money to go back and even if they do, the police and National Guard have blocked off the city. To get out of the Superdome, which we know was horrible, you had to abandon them. I would have walked to Houston. I don't know, I just could never do it, but they were so thirsty and desperate....it just breaks my heart. I've been writing, too, and it works. I have a group of us that have been, so you guys keep going. We have to keep it in the media, tell that Mr. Ray Nagin that he doesn't get to sentence those babies to die. I'm like your Mom, it would be the final blow....at least to my mental health. I couldn't take it. I've been in that situation, not this severe, and I couldn't handle it. The people who don't get it should be allowed to have pets! Every time I see these poor babies on the news I have to go kiss Petie and Scrapper.
posted by
Temple
on September 8, 2005 at 5:17 PM
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Whacky -- YAY!
Thank you! I thank you, my kitties thank you, the animals of New Orleans and all of my fellow advocates thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
posted by
Temple
on September 8, 2005 at 5:10 PM
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Libby, the petition signatures have far exceeded the goal!
I hope we can make a difference. I know the letter writing has made such a difference in press coverage and the pressure on the state and local government to allow animal rescue. One thing I hate is the that some people were allowed to take their animals and others weren't....if some were, how come not all? I'm like that man you mentioned and his dog. When I had nothing, no one, no light, no joy, I had my fuzzikids. You'd have to kill me to take me away from them. No one should have to live with memory that they had to leave their animal to a potentially horrible death or to be so very scared. Spitfire and I were talking about that, I'd never recover from that. Ever.
posted by
Temple
on September 8, 2005 at 5:09 PM
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it's very sad that people have been made to choose to leave their pets behind. I can't imagine having to leave someone I loved behind, even if that someone was of the quadruped kind
posted by
Vanidad
on September 8, 2005 at 7:50 AM
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TEmple, yes, it seems like the final death blow to a human being who has
lost everyone and everything and who will now be forced to lose his or her last contact with unconditional love,their pet. I HATE the people who say, "Your suitcase or your pet," which they said in the beginning.
They would have to subdue me with a Taser gun to get me to let go of my dogs' leashes. And then, when put down somewhere, I would go back to my home and to my dogs. Fascisti, my word for the insensitive brutes who insist upon this policy.
My family has been writing everyone about this for days. If my mother had to leave her dogs behind, it would kill her and that is no exaggeration. It would be the final killing blow.
posted by
benzinha
on September 8, 2005 at 3:34 AM
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OK I'll sign.
posted by
Whacky
on September 7, 2005 at 11:31 PM
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Thanks for posting/sending that. I can't imagine being asked to leave my dogs behind to starve to death, or worse. I'm really glad that the Louisiana SPCA, HSUS, Houston SPCA, SPCA of Texas (mine!), Best Friends from Utah, Noah's Wish, North Shore and others are down there helping out. It will be too late for many, and so many will be separated from their owners even if they are saved. It's so sad that there are people refusing to leave those conditions because they're being told to leave their best friends behind. Like one man said "I lost my job, my home, family, friends. I'm NOT going to lose my dog too. He's the only one I can trust."
posted by
Holy_Grail
on September 7, 2005 at 3:17 PM
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