Pets: the most helpless victims of Hurricane Katrina
Animal Officers Return From Pet-Rescue Trip - Yahoo! News:
"Officers from Brevard County Animal Services returned home on Wednesday after spending two weeks on the Gulf Coast saving some of the most helpless victims of Hurricane Katrina -- pets left without homes or owners. They were among the few animal specialists to respond to the storm. They rescued more than 200 pets from wrecked buildings and torn-up streets, WESH 2 News reported.
They said each one had its own sad story. In one storm-damaged house in Mississippi, the officers found 40 cats and no one to take care of them. It was a theme repeated on the streets of Biloxi and other Gulf Coast towns..."
Will they take lessons learned from the incompetent handling of the Louisiana hurricane disaster to do things right with the next one coming ashore in Texas with hurricane Rita? I know FEMA and state/city officials are supposed to put people's safety first, but this was a horrible lack of foresight. With still thousands of pets stranded in Lousiana, they're very slow to make any kind of policy change. Would it be so hard to provide some kind of basic facility for pets to take shelter along with their owners? There were countless stories of people having to leave their pets behind because "there just wasn't room for them in the shelters and evacuation vehicles... "
We would never accept this kind of scenario with our pets. They're our kids. You don't leave family behind.
It does make you think about what you'd do if something like this happened to you. Would you be prepared? Do you have a disaster plan? Maybe hurricanes aren't anything for you to worry about, but wherever you are, you could experience any kind of equally devastating experience like an earthquake, fire, tornado, or whatever.
"Officers from Brevard County Animal Services returned home on Wednesday after spending two weeks on the Gulf Coast saving some of the most helpless victims of Hurricane Katrina -- pets left without homes or owners. They were among the few animal specialists to respond to the storm. They rescued more than 200 pets from wrecked buildings and torn-up streets, WESH 2 News reported.
They said each one had its own sad story. In one storm-damaged house in Mississippi, the officers found 40 cats and no one to take care of them. It was a theme repeated on the streets of Biloxi and other Gulf Coast towns..."
Will they take lessons learned from the incompetent handling of the Louisiana hurricane disaster to do things right with the next one coming ashore in Texas with hurricane Rita? I know FEMA and state/city officials are supposed to put people's safety first, but this was a horrible lack of foresight. With still thousands of pets stranded in Lousiana, they're very slow to make any kind of policy change. Would it be so hard to provide some kind of basic facility for pets to take shelter along with their owners? There were countless stories of people having to leave their pets behind because "there just wasn't room for them in the shelters and evacuation vehicles... "
We would never accept this kind of scenario with our pets. They're our kids. You don't leave family behind.
It does make you think about what you'd do if something like this happened to you. Would you be prepared? Do you have a disaster plan? Maybe hurricanes aren't anything for you to worry about, but wherever you are, you could experience any kind of equally devastating experience like an earthquake, fire, tornado, or whatever.
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