Refuges groups retirement homes still searching for Katrina: Pets

If Bill Woods, Kathy and Little Rock went to Tylertown, Miss, a city in a few hours outside New Orleans, helping rescue animals, Hurricane Katrina, Kathy decided to come to the house with a new dog.The Woods’ last dog, a 13-year colley / shepherd mix named Gizmo, had died two months earlier, and the couple has always feel the pain of their losses.

One day, as Bill Woods was soaking about 20 dogs in a pen, a reddish complexion dogs suffering and wrapped their front legs for the poor.

“When I reached, she got up and wrapped my arms and I said:” Well, this is one, “said Bill Woods, his dog, a border colley named Mix-Cayenne , After the cajun seasoning generally in foodstuffs in the lower South. “You have chosen me, I guess.” Two years after thousands of human beings and animals have been forced to flee, New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, the surface of animals and rescue operations are still at home, a refugee few pets.

The Humane Society of Saline County, who are saved over 100 animals from the New Orleans area, still has seven dogs, survived the hurricane, “said director Ann Sanders.

Little Rock’s Feline rescue and repatriation Katrina organization currently has three cats. Brick and Ronald were rescued from a Trailer Park destroyed the city of New Orleans. Katie Glenn, named after the assurance of an adjustment screw named Glenn found and fed, she was saved from downtown New Orleans, said Susan Loesch, FuRR a member of the board of ‘hotel, now encourages the calico cat.

Although Arkansas shelters do not take in many animals of Hurricane Katrina, because most were already full, because there are still animals refugees in emergency shelters is that there are too many animals, authorities say.

“I would say probably 200 animals came to Arkansas,” said Desiree Bender Conway, Director of the State Humane Society of the United States. At a certain day of the Humane Society of Pulaski County, the largest rescue operation animals in Arkansas, there are 300 animals receive roof over his head, “she added.

The Humane Society of the United States admission of an animal in place in the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center, a center of the event Gonzales, La, about an hour north-west of New Orleans, little after the hurricane. More than 10, 000 animals were rescued and is entitled to the heart.

Volunteer, it adopted the descriptions of animals and where they would be in the case of the owner is ripe for it, “said Bender. Images of animals from hypothermia were Petfinder. com, a website, displays pictures and descriptions of the domination of animals lots. Volunteer a telephone line for owners to find their missing animals, “she said.

“Many people think to leave their homeland, as always,” we are again in two days, “said that all animals left behind,” said Bender.

The Woodses worked with Best Friends Animal Society of Kanab, organization, the Humane Society groups with Germany to try to stop animal testing homeless people, according to its website.

“We were also forced to drive … what to do something, “said Kathy Woods.

Several volunteers animals, such as animals, she Woodses at home and log as promotion of the mansion, in the case of animals’ original owner sought.

It is difficult to say how many animals from Hurricane Katrina are in shelters in Arkansas, because many actions to rescue not to conduct statistics on the number of animals come and go, and it there is no government agency to monitor the animals, Bender said.

The Beebe Humane Society in White County, six dogs of the hurricane, but sends the last two to a rescue in Iowa, Beebe because the facility is too full, said Jaxie Heppner, protection of the founders.

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