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September 10, 2005
Happy Pet News
Like many pet lovers, my anguish over the Katrina disaster has been compounded by the dog-and-cat situation there. I have sympathized with the plight of people who were faced with the choice of abandoning their pets or staying to face the flood. And in addition to my horror over the human lives lost or destroyed, I have been sickened by the media images of luckless pets trapped on roofs and balconies. The government failure to prevent and then respond to this disaster has meant that human bodies have been left to rot and pets have been left to die, while the too-late government assistance has had to focus on saving live humans. So images like these do provide scraps of comfort. Some pets survived, and some were reuinted with their people.
Update: And now there's some systematic efforts being made to rescue stranded pets.
Posted by senioritis at September 10, 2005 06:41 AM