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Kenroy Donating Member (768 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 06:43 PM
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Did you see that dog in a tree on CNN?
A big, beautiful white dog, stuck up in a tree, just standing. Cooper said they've tried to approach some trapped dogs, but they just recoil in fear. It's heartbreaking.

www.noahswish.org
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Olney Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 06:44 PM
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1. Yes, I saw it. It had a really sweet face.
Edited on Sun Sep-04-05 06:45 PM by Olney Blue
:cry:

I couldn't tell if it was tied up or tangled. It just stood there very serenely.
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 06:51 PM
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2. I'm glad to know that I wasn't the only one thinking about the poor animal
Of course human needs will come first--that goes without saying.

I sent my donations to second harvest and habitat for humanity--and also some money to help with animal disaster relief--

Animal disaster relief benefits people as well..
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Kenroy Donating Member (768 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 06:52 PM
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4. thanks
of all the sad stories coming out of the Gulf, one of the saddest is the little boy who had saved his small dog through the worst of it all, and when finally was allowed on a bus, was told he couldn't bring him. He cried so hard he vomited, and was led onto the bus screaming "Snowball! Snowball!"
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 07:03 PM
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7. Yes... I fear what happened to poor Snowball...
this is the most unnecessary cruelty. These people have lost everything. The bit of extra steps to secure their pets along with them would reap mental health benefits for years to come. It should be a priority, no matter who wants to give the sanctimonious line on "people first." Saving their pets IS people first.
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 06:52 PM
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3. Poor baby
:( An uncle of mine once had this beautiful white dog who was the sweetest thing. Heh, for some reason my uncle called him Killer but he was so sweet to me. :) I was a little toddler and the dog always loved to play with me. :)
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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 06:56 PM
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5. I know people can't bring pets to shelters, but
What about service animals? I used to participate on a listserv of people who used service animals for medical alert; many of them would be in deep trouble if they couldn't have their animals with them. Do shelters accept people with service animals?

Tucker
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 07:04 PM
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8. Bullshit... Several shelters in MI and AL allowed dogs to come in...
the kids were tremendously comforted, quiet and this has not been a problem. It is that we haven't questioned or demanded a change in policy that it remains.
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bring_em_home_bush Donating Member (263 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 07:20 PM
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14. Near the Cajundome they set up a special shelter for pets
All supplies were provided, the folks just have to walk, feed, medicate.

It can be done and in a first world country, like Canada or Germany, it would be routine.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 07:01 PM
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6. I keep thinking about that little boy who had his dog snatched away
from him before he got on the bus. He cried, "Snowball! Snowball!" and cried so hard he vomited. But no dogs were allowed, period. I'm still crying to think of the trauma that poor kid has suffered...along with his dear pet.

How I'd love to search the streets of New Orleans for his little dog right now... :cry:
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Kenroy Donating Member (768 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 07:04 PM
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9. I'm with ya Goddess...
how can anybody further traumatize a kid who's been through so much already? If any reporter wants the ultimate human-interest story, he'd have saved Snowball and reunited him with the kid.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 10:41 PM
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24. Good news!
Edited on Sun Sep-04-05 10:42 PM by GoddessOfGuinness
They may have found Snowball!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4636839
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 07:15 PM
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10. These postings on animal relief has me feeling good about DU tonight
Edited on Sun Sep-04-05 07:16 PM by Douglas Carpenter
I contrast this with a posting someone made over on the Daily Kos about animal disaster relief--It brought out some really nasty flaming:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/4/17331/10766

I'm glad there has been nothing but concern expressed here on DU
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Kenroy Donating Member (768 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 07:16 PM
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11. there's been some flaming here...
people who think we're advocating saving animals at the expense of humans. But they're just dull-witted folk.
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 07:20 PM
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13. well thank God I missed it
My little Japenese Spitz is in a clinic tonight fighting for her life--I must admit it was largely her fault--she kept wanting to fight with dogs four times her size--So I'm feeling extra concerned for animals tonight
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Kenroy Donating Member (768 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 07:23 PM
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16. Oh I'm sorry...
good luck with your dog. She sounds like a scrappy thing.
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 07:24 PM
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17. indeed she is -- I was always afraid it would happen
Edited on Sun Sep-04-05 07:25 PM by Douglas Carpenter
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Booster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 07:32 PM
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18. I have one of those scrappy little dogs and, frankly, she scares
the Hell out of me because I'm afraid she's going to kill something. One night I was walking her and a pit bull on the other side of a cyclone fence growled at her. Before I knew what was happening she lunged and they went at it. The pit bull caught her by the nose through the fence and you should have heard her scream. ha I kicked the chain link fence which caused both of them to let go and she bled all the way home. Think that cured her? Hell, no.
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 02:09 AM
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26. ya, my Mico is so loving to me and the whole family--but no one else
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bring_em_home_bush Donating Member (263 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 07:22 PM
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15. They hit my ignore list pronto. Anyone who doesn't see how important
a pet is to a person, especially a child or elderly person, at this time, is not worth reading.
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 07:16 PM
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12. oh we have a few here that don't care for the compassion for animals
sadly. :(
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earthboundmisfit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 07:38 PM
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19. I bet when we begin hearing survivors' stories there will be more
than a few that tell of heroic pets saving their people...
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Rhiannon12866 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 07:40 PM
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20. Yes, I did. Ripped my heart out, as well as what Cooper said.
And this isn't the first dog I've seen, even today. That's an excellent site that you posted for helping the stranded animals. And here's another. I e-mailed both HSUS and the ASPCA when I read a DU thread on the big cats in the Baghdad Zoo who were abandoned and starving during "Shock and Awe." A woman from HSUS replied to me very promptly about their plan to go in to rescue the animals, just as soon as it was safe enough to do so. That impressed me a lot, so I also recommend HSUS.

https://secure.hsus.org/01/disaster_relief_fund_2005
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B Calm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 07:43 PM
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21. It was a Pit Bull....
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 07:47 PM
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22. and?
??
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Splatter Phoenix Donating Member (626 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 07:54 PM
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23. And pitbulls are evil, vicious dogs.
Pitbulls are dogs bred specifically by Hitler to tear human beings limb from limb.

Heavy on the :sarcasm:
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blonndee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 10:45 PM
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25. Whew. I almost freaked when I read your subject line. That dog
was beautiful. Poor thing.
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