Don't forget the pets
Sep. 6th, 2005 06:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asherisEverybody knows about the need for donations to the Red Cross, America's Second Harvest, Mennonite Disaster Service, United Way, and so many more.
A lady in Florida is running a site called KatrinaFoundPets.com, to help try to reunite pets and their owners who were separated buy the hurricane. They're also trying to arrange for foster homes for pets, donations of money and goods to help with the rescue, recovery, and survival work.
Other organizations helping rescue and house pets, and reunite them with their owners:
Pet Finder
Noah's Wish
and of course, The Humane Society of the United States
PetFinder has a long list of links to other groups also working to rescue animals across the Gulf Coast.
If you are putting together items to donate to survivors, please remember that many of them have pets, and consider things you have that could help the animal survivors, too.
The pet rescue organizations need things such as: food and water dishes, collars, harnesses, leashes, crates, toys, pretty much anything that a pet needs, please check these sites to see where to donate. If you or anyone you know can donate pet food, it is greatly needed.
They also need things like disposable cameras and polaroid film, to help get pictures of the pets out into the temporary housing and other shelters so people have a chance to find out if their pets are okay.
Remember that it's not just dogs and cats- shelter and care items are needed for hamsters, gerbils, ferrets, and other rodent/small mammal pets; birds; snakes and lizards; horses, goats, and other farm-type animals; etc.
If you live in the region (or even outside of it) and can foster a pet for a while, please contact these organizations. Your home might be too small to offer housing to any of the people who are currently homeless, but if you can take care of a cat or dog or a caged pet for a while, please consider doing so.
Many of the people who escaped with their pets are having a hard time finding a place to stay where they can keep their pets with them - knowing their pets are fostered in a safe home while they are getting back on their feet again would be a huge relief.
A lady in Florida is running a site called KatrinaFoundPets.com, to help try to reunite pets and their owners who were separated buy the hurricane. They're also trying to arrange for foster homes for pets, donations of money and goods to help with the rescue, recovery, and survival work.
Other organizations helping rescue and house pets, and reunite them with their owners:
Pet Finder
Noah's Wish
and of course, The Humane Society of the United States
PetFinder has a long list of links to other groups also working to rescue animals across the Gulf Coast.
If you are putting together items to donate to survivors, please remember that many of them have pets, and consider things you have that could help the animal survivors, too.
The pet rescue organizations need things such as: food and water dishes, collars, harnesses, leashes, crates, toys, pretty much anything that a pet needs, please check these sites to see where to donate. If you or anyone you know can donate pet food, it is greatly needed.
They also need things like disposable cameras and polaroid film, to help get pictures of the pets out into the temporary housing and other shelters so people have a chance to find out if their pets are okay.
Remember that it's not just dogs and cats- shelter and care items are needed for hamsters, gerbils, ferrets, and other rodent/small mammal pets; birds; snakes and lizards; horses, goats, and other farm-type animals; etc.
If you live in the region (or even outside of it) and can foster a pet for a while, please contact these organizations. Your home might be too small to offer housing to any of the people who are currently homeless, but if you can take care of a cat or dog or a caged pet for a while, please consider doing so.
Many of the people who escaped with their pets are having a hard time finding a place to stay where they can keep their pets with them - knowing their pets are fostered in a safe home while they are getting back on their feet again would be a huge relief.
