Nature ~ Katrina's Animal Rescue
Nov. 21st, 2005 12:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kambrielI watched this show tonight on PBS, and it was absolutely heartbreaking. I can't say much that comes on tv can bring me to tears, but this did:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/katrina/
Keep an eye out for it if it airs on your local station. One of the lessons learned from this storm should be that people need to bring their pets with them if evacuating in the future. I hope our government listens and learns, and never feels the need again to tear families apart, or force people to put their loved ones in such unnecessary desolation and danger.
It was inspiring to see the people who uprooted their everyday lives to travel into New Orleans after the storm and volunteer to help find and rescue these abandoned pets. I love the way they would remove the masks they were forced to wear due to the toxic vapours when entering a house so as not to intimidate the already scared pets. That kind of compassion gives me such hope in the caring side of our collective humanity, which in these days often seems to be frequently outweighed by the darker side of human possibility.
Thankfully, we are not all directly affect by such a disaster, but it does bring to mind that there is never a shortage of help needed no matter where we live. It is just up to us to determine where our passions are, and find a way to do something with whatever it is we can give because when it comes down to it, the compassion we show others and this world we were born into is the truest, longest legacy any of us will ever have.
~ Kambriel
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/katrina/
Keep an eye out for it if it airs on your local station. One of the lessons learned from this storm should be that people need to bring their pets with them if evacuating in the future. I hope our government listens and learns, and never feels the need again to tear families apart, or force people to put their loved ones in such unnecessary desolation and danger.
It was inspiring to see the people who uprooted their everyday lives to travel into New Orleans after the storm and volunteer to help find and rescue these abandoned pets. I love the way they would remove the masks they were forced to wear due to the toxic vapours when entering a house so as not to intimidate the already scared pets. That kind of compassion gives me such hope in the caring side of our collective humanity, which in these days often seems to be frequently outweighed by the darker side of human possibility.
Thankfully, we are not all directly affect by such a disaster, but it does bring to mind that there is never a shortage of help needed no matter where we live. It is just up to us to determine where our passions are, and find a way to do something with whatever it is we can give because when it comes down to it, the compassion we show others and this world we were born into is the truest, longest legacy any of us will ever have.
~ Kambriel
[Kambriel.com ~ Etsy ~ Bluesky ~ Twitter ~ Tumblr ~ Facebook ~ Instagram]
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Date: 2005-11-21 07:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-21 11:55 am (UTC)That is so true.
My mom has been working to relocate pets and owners. I know she managed to put one pair back together!
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Date: 2005-11-21 04:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-21 04:53 pm (UTC)Pets
Date: 2005-11-21 09:34 pm (UTC)I also heard they divided people up by ages too. So if you were a 6 year old kid living with your Grandma, you weren't allowed on the same evaculation bus with her. Someone pure evil must have come up with these assinine rules.
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Date: 2005-11-27 01:03 pm (UTC)I was browsing petfinder yesterday, ( i long for a doglet in the house once more) and there's so many displaced pets from Katrina. So many whose owners are gone. Having owned a shelter rescue once before, I hope these animals all find good homes again. Lucky humans who do adopt shelter dogs, it's something I'm firmly a believer in.
My husband's family adopted a rescue the SPCA has taken in, and she was completely neurotic from her early traumatic years, but made me, a non dog person, completely a mush head.
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Date: 2005-11-29 07:36 am (UTC)I hope you find a dog that will bring huge amounts of joy into your life ~ even better if they can be one who's in true need of a loving home after going through such a traumatic experience.
I've found the best pets in the world often come from shelters... who needs fancy breeding or pedigree anyway!