posted on September 16, 2005 10:36:05 PM new
FEMA is nowhere for them, it's like they don't matter & they do.
These pets are suffering terribly from the loss of their families. Imagine how frightened & confused they are. They deserve as much help as anyone.
I will never get the image of that little dog, Snowball, left at the side of the road.
People suffered enough & then they had to suffer more by having to abandon their pets.
To me it would be like leaving one of my kids behind.
posted on September 17, 2005 06:31:21 AM new
glassgrl
We have a no-kill animal rescue shelter across the street from where I work. She has taken in some animals from the hurricane whose owners could not be found. They are holding onto those dogs while the owners are searched for. The shelter is a non-profit and wonderfully run. In order to get an animal from them you are interviewed and your home inspected just like if you were adopting a child. You have to own your home and have a fenced in yard. You sign a contract stating that if you can no longer keep the animal, you'll give it back to the shelter. Ken and I are getting a dog from there. They have a three-legged German Shephard that I want. No one else will take it. You'd never guess this dog has three legs the way it runs around.
I really feel for those lost pets. They are members of families and it's a shame that this has happened to them. I could just cry.
posted on September 17, 2005 08:42:15 AM new
animals in the wild have better survival instincts than we do,it is only when they become pets,they seem to lose that ability to survive on their own.
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posted on September 17, 2005 09:56:48 AM new
The Kennel Club where I register my dogs is in New Orleans helping out with the rescue - they say there are several breeders boarding pets for evacuated families. Even the airlines are pitching in giving free rides to the animals in crates to their locations.
I tried to contact them to offer to take a few Boxers, since my last puppy just left, but I've been unable to get through.
Cheryl - we had a three-legged lab years ago - he was such a doll! His only problem was that after he lost his leg (he was hit by a car), everytime he tried to pee, he'd try to lift his leg and fall over. Eventually he learned to squat.
The German Shepherd sounds like a great dog!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Caroline
posted on September 17, 2005 01:24:19 PM new
Caroline:
LOL, on the falling over. Not that it was funny to the dog. It just hit me funny. Glad he's figured out a way to handle it. My brother now has three dogs that he's rescued from the streets. He called me today to tell me about the third one. I think we're going to take him. He's a husky-shepherd mix. I think I can handle two dogs!
Cats seem to survive just fine on their own when they have no home. Dogs don't seem to fare as well. I'm amazed at the stray cats around here that survive our terrible winters. Well, at least they keep the mouse population down.
posted on September 17, 2005 07:12:49 PM new
Fuzzy and Kitty Are doing a FABULOUS job of keeping Rodents under control.....Three kills this week, THAT I know of,,,,,ONE BIG RAT! They nailed that sucka Good! Chomp! Off springs of my beloved,,,Tweedy,,,RIP, Tweedy, You were the BEST......Tweedy was my friend....She was killed in the street....Broke me up for months.....I Still miss her. She was a little kid in a cats body,,,SMART! I loved her....
Edited to say,,,,SHE Loved ME and that's what screws up a mind.....She really loved Me. She gave LOVE......
posted on September 17, 2005 08:32:48 PM new
Cats are great for catching mice... story time lol about 5 months ago we had a mouse in the house cause it was nibbling on our loaf of bread at night..wake up and go grr cause the bread has to be thrown away. I set a trap and that same night and around 4 am I heard SNAP from the kitchen... yeah ! but I didn't get up to look cause it was so late.The next morning I heard Jason holler from the kitchen to come look.The mouse (rather large I say rat,Jason said no large mouse cause of the face) was caught in the trap but only by his tail ,close up to his rear and had got himself in a mess lol he was hanging out the draw I set the trap in and the cats were taking turn swatting at it...poor thing was in shock just about when Jason found him...teach him to eat my bread. We flipped the trap in a box and Jason took him way way down the road and turned it lose in the woods. The cats were like WHAT? wasn't that a toy for me
posted on September 17, 2005 08:55:57 PM new
Carolyne...What is so unusual about the Lab falling over? In fact, scientific research proves that 97% of all human males who try to heist their leg to pee will fall flat on their ass.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on September 17, 2005 10:09:12 PM new
I understand Jack & I feel so bad for you.
No one will love ever love us as much as our pets do.
Go to the pound & save another kitty's life.
There are so many Tweedys waiting there to love someone.
Cheryl, do you have an address or email address for the no kill shelter. I would like to send them a contrabution.
I didn't contribute anything for the people, they will be taken care of. It's the animals I want to help.
posted on September 17, 2005 10:23:05 PM new
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA,,,,,,,,,No Way!!!!!! These two guys are ENOUGH,,,,,,but I'd donate too,,,,,give an address and I'll Help....
Speaking of PEOPLE.......You would NEVER believe, how I was treated on Craigslist for offering FREE clothes,,,,,,,Verbatim,,,,,
Subject: fuk ur free clothes,,,,,
watch ur back, ur pile of clothes will be burned overnight....
ARSON!!!!!!!! Threats! Because I offered FREE Clothes, the world is sic,,,,,,
Never mind, it's not worth going into details,,,,,Sic people are out there,,,,,
posted on September 18, 2005 05:46:18 AM new
Jack - maybe you should adopt the three-legged German Shepherd for protection!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Caroline
posted on September 18, 2005 09:53:13 AM new
Jack, when I read what happened to Tweedy I completely overlooked the first line of your post forgetting you still had two kitties.
posted on September 18, 2005 07:12:50 PM new
caroline,
at least the lab only fell over! i awoke this morning to find that the top of my sectional sofa - the best one i've ever had and so comfy, everyone loves it - was ***missing about a one square foot area*** of cloth!!! fuming!
this was due apparently to psycho puppy...i fall asleep on the sofa a lot with my two dogs but i had the nerve to sleep in an actual bed last night. my large dog jumped up there with me but 6-month old psycho puppy is too short, so she hopped up onto the top of the sofa where it's in corner by a window. (they both like to lay up there on top of the sofa and catch a breeze and watch what's going on outside.)
for some reason, i even woke up briefly in the middle of the night, remembering how my older dog had an anxiety attack spell, around that six-month age that the puppy is now, and if i even left to go to a neighbors, she'd find some of my clothes - preferably new of course - and chew a hole in them. i started to crate her when i left for even a few seconds, and she overcame the habit. unfortunately, i fell asleep again rather than listen to my instincts.
evul little puppy. she knew she did wrong. my hubby screamed at her all morning and she huddled up next to my leg as i sat at the puter. hubby says the puppy isn't going to a dog psychiatrist and that a 50-cent bullet would do the trick. (he's just kidding.) i think i'll sprinkle a few drops of hot sauce into that area of my denuded sofa, that works wonders with dogs.
i can't believe she ATE my sofa. she weighs all of maybe 8 pounds.
posted on September 18, 2005 07:59:42 PM new
Vintage...You think that's bad? My Rottweiler ate a small tree in our back yard. I'm not talking about chewing a few leaves or biteing off a few twigs. He ate the whole damn tree!!!
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on September 18, 2005 09:00:32 PM new
BTW Vintage...The damage to the sofa is not as serious as it looks. Contact a couple large moving companies in your area and get the names of the upholstery shop they use to bail them out on O/S claims. A good upholsterer will take a piece off the back and use it to repair the damage to the front side. If the material is still available, he'll order enough to patch the backside where he robbed the material to repair the damage.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on September 19, 2005 06:08:20 AM new
When 2 of my boxers were puppies - they ate almost a WHOLE COUCH! It was a beautiful leather Chesterfield that I had finally found at an affordable price at auction $500 for a $2,500 couch.
They dug out the tufted buttons and tore out the foam. We took it to the dump. That is why we had 2 litters of puppies - those monsters owed me $500 and that was the only way they could pay up.
Now they are paid in full.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Caroline
posted on September 19, 2005 07:23:01 AM new
My brother named the new dog T.J. He put T.J. in his rooomate's bedroom so he could get the house cleaned. When he returned to the room, T.J. had eaten everything he could get his mouth on: socks, balsa wood art, blankets, shoes. LOL!! It took Tommy 45 minutes to clean up the mess T.J. left behind. You can't expect anything else out of a 10 month old puppy! Of course, when John came home he wasn't laughing at first. Once he saw how rattled Tommy was and how exhausted he was from cleaning up the mess, John couldn't stop laughing.
I notified Liz and let her know your donation would be coming.
I was reading their section called Happy Tails (at the bottom of the main page). It was sad to read about the abuse some of these animals have suffered, but was great to see that many were adopted by loving families!
Caroline 
