LAT: Owners to Sue over Katrina Pet Shootings

[DeepModem Mom]

Some, myself included, can't deal with stories like this. I'm providing the LAT link. If someone has another link, or a non-registration-required link, please post it.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-pets9sep09,0,5001798.story?coll=la-home-nation

[shireen]

1. link to St. Bernards Parish massacre at Pasado's website

http://www.pasadosafehaven.org/KATRINA/DOGSHOOTING/HISTORY.htm

I could not get to the LA Times article, but according to Pasado's website, as of August 2006, "Clark & Associates, a Gulf law firm, has agreed to take on the case as a civil action, listing Pasado's Safe Haven and six victims as plaintiffs."

IMPORTANT: IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION THAT CAN HELP WITH THE PROSECUTION OF THOSE HEARTLESS MURDERERS, PLEASE CONTACT PASADO'S.

[DeepModem Mom]

2. Thank you, shireen. Tears in my eyes. nt

[NorthernSpy]

3. I've read that Cuba evacuates pets with the people...

Farm animals too.

I think Cuba has a lot to teach the world about civil defense. They don't have a lot of resources, but they do have really good emergency preparedness.

We shouldn't just automatically assume that "our way" of doing things in the United States is always superior, no matter what. That's the kind of pride that goeth before a fall. And Katrina truly was a fall for our society -- an extremely serious fall, in fact.

[Vidar]

18. Cuba cares more for its people than the bottom line.

[xchrom]

4. i hate -- loathe news like this --

it's beyond heartless.

but getting the police to prosecute one of their own for perversions like this is difficult if not impossible.

[CountAllVotes]

5. I got this much of it ...

>> Some owners pleaded "please save them." Others, like Bozes, begged that their pets not be shot. "These people knew their animals were in danger," said Mark Steinway, Pasado's co-founder and an investigator for the shelter.

Sheriff's deputies said last year that some dogs had been shot on the street after the hurricane because they were vicious. Animal activists said this did not describe the dogs at the schools because their owners left food and water, and, in some instances, had tied them up.

Comiskey said witnesses overheard sheriff's deputies talking among themselves just before the owners were evacuated, asking whether the owners were aware their pet were going to be killed.

In late September, Marilyn McGee, a local volunteer animal rescuer, was in search of a service dog that had reportedly been left at Beauregard by its hearing-impaired owner. She and her husband discovered a grisly scene on the school's second floor. <<

I hope the find who done it but I'm not particularly hopeful given what the article says.

:kick:

[Pavulon]

6. I can stomach

a good bit. I have seen unpleasant things and can tolerate them. But for some reason people who kill kids and pets is something I can not speak about in a rational way.

Those guys were acting outside the law. If they were in uniform they were out of line. If they were out of uniform they were putting their lives at risk. Driving around in a car shooting a gun is something that could draw return fire.

[DeepModem Mom]

7. Oddly, kids and animals are my undoing also. Not that I don't care...

about adults. I have empathy for my fellow human beings. But I wonder if it's something about the utter helplessness of children and animals that affects me so strongly.

[Pavulon]

8. I think so

people who prey on the defenseless are sick.

[CountAllVotes]

9. animals are so defenseless against someone with a gun

How can a dog wandering in a street do anything to defend itself? They are the beast of burden for mankind too many people. I am sickened by the animal abuse that occurs in the USA. Why the hell doesn't someone do something about it? The reason is money in part and also, pets aren't considered to be that important to some people.

I agree, it is sickening and awful. However, we know about this now and now that we know, it is up to us to follow-up on these cruel acts committed for no good reason.

[Solon]

10. Of course, sometimes, poetic justice happens...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5950304/

[mnhtnbb]

15. These a$$holes never think of spaying/neutering their pets

[roguevalley]

11. they have no voice, honey. this stuff destroys me. i hope they get

some sense of relief from this. one guy sat in a tree with his elderly lab and when they came for him, they told him to leave her. she was so old and confused, he had to shoot her himself. he's haunted by it. I cry and cry and cry for this debacle.

[peacebuzzard]

12. The killers need to burn in hell and suffer on earth.

Whoring Frickin Bastards.

[RangerSmith]

13. self delete

[mnhtnbb]

14. Given the disregard for human life post-Katrina, this is not a surprise

Our pets are so much a part of our family, that we don't even board them when we go out of town. I always hire a pet sitter.

Just one more example of "compassionate conservatism". What a bunch of BS

[OneBlueSky]

16. this turns my stomach even more than the human tragedies . . .

of Katrina . . . at least humans have the power of reason to help them through even the worst circumstances . . . these poor animals had nothing but love for their humans, and trust of humankind . . . and some assholes blew them away . . .

I can understand these folks wanting to sue . . . animals (and especially dogs) are as much a part of one's family as brothers, sisters, neices, nephews, and in-laws . . . and, unlike their human counterparts, they are loyal and never judge their humans . . . they just love us unconditionally . . .

p.s. . . dogs are great spiritual advisors . . .

[pecwae]

17. Good, sue the shit out of them all! nt

[Vidar]

19. I hope they succeed in bankrupting the fuckers.