I just donated to the Humane Society disaster relief fund (please read)

[truth2power]

after reading this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1751607



"ATLANTA (AP) - As Valerie Bennett was evacuated from a New Orleans hospital, rescuers told her there was no room in the boat for her dogs. She pleaded. ``I offered him my wedding ring and my mom's wedding ring,'' the 34-year-old nurse recalled Saturday. They wouldn't budge. She and her husband could bring only one item, and they already had a plastic tub containing the medicines her husband, a liver transplant recipient, needed to survive. Such emotional scenes were repeated perhaps thousands of times along the Gulf Coast last week as pet owners were forced to abandon their animals in the midst of evacuation.

In one example reported last week by The Associated Press, a police officer took a dog from one little boy waiting to get on a bus in New Orleans. ``Snowball! Snowball!'' the boy cried until he vomited. The policeman told a reporter he didn't know what would happen to the dog.

At the hospital, a doctor euthanized some animals at the request of their owners, who feared they would be abandoned and starve to death. He set up a small gas chamber out of a plastic-wrapped dog kennel.

``The bigger dogs were fighting it. Fighting the gas. It took them longer. When I saw that, I said 'I can't do it,''' said Bennett's husband, Lorne."



Here's the Humane society website. It's easy to donate. The money goes specifically to helping rescue these animals. Please help. This breaks my heart.

http://www.hsus.org/



Moobu2: I hope you don't mind that I posted your info over here. This is a sickening state of affairs.


Mods: If this is considered cross-posting, feel free to delete. I just wanted everyone to see this. I don't know what else to do. :cry:

[donco6]

1. I just gave, too.

HSUS is an org I give to regularly. Thanks for the link.

[truth2power]

3. thank you, Don. n/t

[donco6]

4. Can't imagine my two girls being stuck in that situation.

They would have no idea what was happening or why. Those poor people down there who had to leave their animals.

[Individualist]

2. Another good organization

for animal rescue is www.noahswish.org

[rox63]

5. I just sent them some cash

Just sent them $50. So now I've contributed to help both the humans (Red Cross) and the animals. (HSUS) I know I'd be miserable if I'd had to leave my pets behind.

[truth2power]

6. I'm kicking this. Sorry...

I'm just on the edge of insanity today. I'm gonna need therapy. Just can't take any more of this shit!!!