Hurricane Animal Rescues - Katrina and New Orleans

[Die Fledermaus]

This is the link to the PBS story shown on television.

Also, www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/katrina/

Also, animalrescueneworleans.com/

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>> Experts are calling it the largest animal rescue operation in history. When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Louisiana, the city's human residents weren't the only ones trying to cope with flooded and devastated homes. More than 250,000 pets -- from cats and dogs to parrots and fish -- were left stranded by the storm's destruction. Owners, expecting to return a few days later, left food and water for their pets. But days turned into weeks, and pets had to struggle to survive without supplies or the love and care of their owners.

NATURE's KATRINA'S ANIMAL RESCUE tells the remarkable and heart-wrenching story of those who came to the aid of these abandoned animals. Rescue workers venture into polluted floodwaters and break into abandoned homes to rescue dehydrated, starving dogs. Vets work nonstop to provide medical treatment to rescued animals. At shelters, volunteers help families comb through thousands of cages. Will there be a happy reunion?

Follow volunteers on NATURE's KATRINA'S ANIMAL RESCUE as they rescue animal survivors and reunite them with their families. <<

Those links are worth checking out. What a great job they did.

[Hamsters82]

That's great that they went back to collect all the animals. I didn't see this website, but on Animal Planet they talk about rescuers going down there to get the animals & they're showing how one zoo is coping with three storms hitting it and one of those storms was Katrina. I'm glad all the animals are being rescued and being reunited with their owners.

I was talking to my Mom one day & said if I lived somewhere like Florida or a state where there can be damage inflicted by natural causes, I would grab my pets first (that is if I didn't have children). But even if I did have children, I would get them first & then go back for my pets. I don't understand how people could leave them. I'm guessing they'll think they'll be back or something?

[Die Fledermaus]

I don't know. I would have to be in imminent and certain danger of death before I would consider leaving mine.