Times-Picayune & Stealth Volunteers ad

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For Immediate Release
January 9, 2006
 
Times-Picayune Provides Weekly Space for Stealth Volunteers, a Grassroots Organization Quietly Responsible for More Than 650 Reunions, to Advertise Found Katrina Pets.
 
NATIONAL - The Times-Picayune, recognizing the importance of animals in the lives of their owners, has partnered with Stealth Volunteers to post a weekly ad featuring animals still hoping to be reunited with their owners. 
 
One week ago, the all-volunteer group from all over the country, took out an ad in the paper featuring nearly 200 animals who have yet to be reunited with their owners.  The response has been overwhelming. 
 
These were the tough cases, animals with very little information attached to them.  In some instances, we really only had areas within New Orleans where the animals were rescued from, says Stealth Volunteers founder, Marilyn Knapp Litt. 
 
Litt, a retired Federal Webmaster, created the online group called Stealth Volunteers just days after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast region. Originally aimed at reuniting evacuees with family members, Litt saw the potential reward in combining her online stealthing skills with the information on PetFinder.com. This effort to search for the owners of thousands of pets rescued in the months following the storms became Stealth Volunteers.
 
Stealth Volunteers is urging all owners still searching for pets to review the list published in the Times-Picayune for a potential match and then contact the group.
 
If you, or someone you know, are searching for a lost animal, please look at the ad and if you think you see your pet, call us toll free at: [phone].  Leave your name, phone number, the address you are calling about, the PetFinder number listed with the pet in the ad and a description of your lost pet.  A Stealth Volunteer will return your call within 24 hours.  Remember, your pet may have wandered a significant distance from its home.  Even if you cannot have your pet live with you at this moment, there are many people willing to foster animals until you are able to be reunited with your pet.
 
 
Please visit us on the web at: http://www.StealthVolunteers.com