|
Location: Falkirk
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 2,713
|
03-09-2005, 09:27 AM
BATON ROUGE- The Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals (LA/SPCA), the Louisiana Veterinary Medical Association (LVMA),
the Louisiana Animal Control Association (LACA), and the LSU School of
Veterinary Medicine (SVM) are managing animal evacuations and recovery
plans for New Orleans pets and displaced animals.
PETS TRAVELING WITH OWNERS
The LVMA is currently accepting pets at the Blackham Coliseum in
Lafayette, LSU in Shreveport, the Monroe Civic Center for small animals
and the Ike Hamilton Center for large animals in Monroe, the Farmer's
Market in Alexandria, and the LSU Agriculture Center/Parker Coliseum in
Baton Rouge. Owners must be housed in a Red Cross shelter; owners are
responsible for caring for their animals, including feeding and
cleaning. Animals will be accepted 24 hours a day. Veterinarians will
be on hand to handle any medical needs.
While owners are responsible for the feeding and cleaning of their pets
at the Parker Coliseum in Baton Rouge, the SVM, along with volunteers
from the Baton Rouge Veterinary Medical Association, will provide
veterinary care. If for some reason, an owner is unable to care for a
pet sheltered in the Parker Coliseum (e.g., the owner is housed in a
special needs shelter), SVM student volunteers will provide primary
care, such as feeding and cleaning. The East Baton Rouge Animal Control
Center will be taking stray animals.
The Parker Coliseum will be staffed 24 hours a day by a supervising
veterinarian and student volunteers from the School of Veterinary
Medicine. Pets in the Coliseum will be given physical exams and
Bordetella (kennel cough) vaccinations. If a pet requires medical
attention and veterinary monitoring, it will be sent to the LSU School
of Veterinary Medicine's Veterinary Teaching Hospital.
PEOPLE WITH PETS WHO ARE CURRENTLY EVACUATING NEW ORLEANS
The LA/SPCA will transport animals from pick-up points in New Orleans
to the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center. The pick-up points have not yet been
determined and are being coordinated with the agency charged with
transporting people from New Orleans to other areas.
The Lamar-Dixon Expo Center, 9039 St. Landry Rd., Gonzales, La., will
serve as the primary staging area. Once the shelter is full, animals
will be moved to temporary shelters in other areas of Louisiana and
Texas.
The LA/SPCA Dorothy Dorsett Mobile Veterinary Center will be at the
Lamar-Dixon Center to treat incoming animals as needed.
CONFINED PETS STILL IN DISASTER AREA
Beginning on September 1, residents who left pets in their homes may
call a hot line to leave information about the number of animals,
species, and their confined location. As soon as the hotline number is
obtained, we will advise the media. WE CANNOT ENTER NEW ORLEANS UNTIL
APPROVAL IS GRANTED BY STATE OFFICALS.
DONATIONS
Financial donations are being accepted to fund the animals' care
through the Dr. Walter J. Ernst, Jr. Veterinary Memorial Foundation at
the LVMA at 1-800-928-LVMA.
A regional donation center is being established. Our needs include:
large air kennels and metal cages, leashes, disposable bowls, canned
cat and dog food, disposable litter pans, spray bleach, paper towels,
sheets, towels, locks, hoses, bottled water, trash cans, trash bags,
pooper scoopers, cat litter, extension cords, fans. The most urgent
needs are kennels and monetary donations. The media will be advised of
the address once determined. At least 175 animals are currently en
route to Baton Rouge.
For more information or to make donations of the materials listed
above, please call the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine at 225-578-
9900 (www.vetmed.lsu.edu) or the LVMA at 1-800-928-LVMA (www.lvma.org).
ANIMAL EVACUATION AND RECOVERY PLAN CONTACT INFORMATION
Louisiana SPCA contact, Laura Maloney, 225-413-8813
East Baton Rouge Animal Control Center,,Hilton Cole, 225-774-7700
LSU School of Veterinary Medicine, Dr. Becky Adcock, 225-578-9900
Louisiana Veterinary Medical Association, 1-800-524-2996
PLEASE NOTE CORRECTION: THE PHONE NUMBER FOR THE LOUISIANA VETERINARY
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION IS 1-800-524-2996 OR 225-928-5862
|
|
Location: South Wales, UK.
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 14,620
|
03-09-2005, 11:46 AM
Michael Moore wrote him a letter... here's a copy:
Originally Posted by Michael Moore in a letter to Bush
Friday, September 2nd, 2005 Dear Mr. Bush:
Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.
Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with?
Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!
I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?
And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!
On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that.
There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.
No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this!
You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.
Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
www.MichaelMoore.com
|
|
|
Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland
Joined: May 2004
Posts: 4,963
|
03-09-2005, 02:54 PM
Snorri
|
|
|
Location: Co. Durham, UK
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 11,213
|
03-09-2005, 03:35 PM
Originally Posted by Snorri the Priest
I find it truly amazing that the US (the richest, and possibly the most technologically-advanced nation in the world) can fly loads of bombs halfway round the world, to drop on Iraq, but cannot, apparently, drop a loaf of bread on one of its own cities. Maybe it's not so surprising - they do have a president whose major talent seems to be falling off his mountain bike and putting UK policemen in hospital Snorri
). I used to think the same thing until my Sis went to live over there and she told me how far behind they are! They still have all there electric cables over ground so everytime theres the slightest hint of a strom everyone looses power! 
Agree about the president bit too, everytime I see him on TV I just see him in that cartoon 2dTV!
|
|
|
|
Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland
Joined: May 2004
Posts: 4,963
|
03-09-2005, 03:54 PM
Originally Posted by Ripsnorterthe2nd
Believe it or not we're worlds ahead of the US in terms of technology :
If you lived where I live, you wouldn't be so sure of that! Up here, the locals seem to consider that electric light is pretty advanced. Mind you, a lot of them think that the current Queen is Boadicea!Snorri
(Traveller in Time)
|
|
|
Location: Dogsey and Worcestershire
Joined: May 2004
Posts: 49,483
|
03-09-2005, 03:57 PM
Originally Posted by Snorri the Priest
I find it truly amazing that the US (the richest, and possibly the most technologically-advanced nation in the world) can fly loads of bombs halfway round the world, to drop on Iraq, but cannot, apparently, drop a loaf of bread on one of its own cities. Maybe it's not so surprising - they do have a president whose major talent seems to be falling off his mountain bike and putting UK policemen in hospital Snorri
...it would be funny if it was not so sad..I watched Bush talking to the people and patting those black girls on the back..and making a stupid remark about the senator having his house flooded too (like he wouldn't have got out in time
) and was struck by how inarticulate/puppet like/lacking in sincerity Bush seemed 
He should have declared a national emergency/commandeered every available transport/set up a support centres/ferried everyone out hours after the event..
|
|
|
|
Location: Co. Durham, UK
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 11,213
|
03-09-2005, 04:03 PM
Originally Posted by Snorri the Priest
If you lived where I live, you wouldn't be so sure of that! Up here, the locals seem to consider that electric light is pretty advanced. Mind you, a lot of them think that the current Queen is Boadicea!Snorri
(Traveller in Time)
You poor poor man, you have my sympathies!
|
|
|
|
Location: Falkirk
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 2,713
|
03-09-2005, 04:29 PM
...it would be funny if it was not so sad..I watched Bush talking to the people and patting those black girls on the back..and making a stupid remark about the senator having his house flooded too (like he wouldn't have got out in time
) and was struck by how inarticulate/puppet like/lacking in sincerity Bush seemed He should have declared a national emergency/commandeered every available transport/set up a support centres/ferried everyone out hours after the event..
I can't believe its been handled sooo badly
|
|
|
|
Location: Falkirk
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 2,713
|
03-09-2005, 05:52 PM
Emergency Animal Rescue Services, “EARS heads into
Louisiana.” The rescue group was given permission to
enter New Orleans to evacuate 175 animals at a
Metairie animal hospital.
We learned this morning that due to human error the
air wasn’t turned on in the truck. All 175 animals
suffocated.
These were all people’s pets.
Please keep these people and their lost friends in
your thoughts.
|
|
 |
«
Previous Thread
|
Next Thread
»
| Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
|
|