pet shelter update
and now for a post regarding the earlier post about rescuing katrina-affected pets, which i was certain i posted (this update, not the original) and which i DO seem to have actually composed, judging by the fact that the subject line popped up as if i'd used it before:
this post from sharon pritchard of CARA puts things in a whole different light:
"There has been a BIG misunderstanding regarding the need for foster homes at CARA. We have a few pets that were owner give-ups due to their home situations. The mention of 240 dogs & 100 cats is incorrect. These are the numbers of CARA's shelter animals, not the evacuees. We would love for people to adopt them as well as the evacuee pets. We are expecting more pets to come to the shelter, so please keep checking back with us. As for the delivering of these foster pets, there are only a few women & men that run the shelter. We don't have enough people nor vehicles for transporting. We are sorry for the confusion and hope this will help clear some of it up."
if that's not an option, this petfinder.com page has info from many different sources regarding rescued pets.
CARA is, actually, where the sister wound up going early this week and bringing back many dogs and cats to be housed at a no-kill shelter in michigan and adopted out from there. hopefully, she writes about it at length and allows me to post same, along with pictures of some of the adorable dog- and cat-ness. *grin*
it was also she who claimed never to have gotten the email saying this (which i DO know i sent, because myself got a copy of it) and informed me helpfully if snarkily that i did not, in fact, post this update in my live journal (although i did post it in cleolinda's). sorry. SORRY! geez.
i think that's all for now. there's more to be babbled about later (having nothing to do with pets - for instance, i will un-private the incomplete list of "the rules") but, meh. not now. groggy.
this post from sharon pritchard of CARA puts things in a whole different light:
"There has been a BIG misunderstanding regarding the need for foster homes at CARA. We have a few pets that were owner give-ups due to their home situations. The mention of 240 dogs & 100 cats is incorrect. These are the numbers of CARA's shelter animals, not the evacuees. We would love for people to adopt them as well as the evacuee pets. We are expecting more pets to come to the shelter, so please keep checking back with us. As for the delivering of these foster pets, there are only a few women & men that run the shelter. We don't have enough people nor vehicles for transporting. We are sorry for the confusion and hope this will help clear some of it up."
if that's not an option, this petfinder.com page has info from many different sources regarding rescued pets.
CARA is, actually, where the sister wound up going early this week and bringing back many dogs and cats to be housed at a no-kill shelter in michigan and adopted out from there. hopefully, she writes about it at length and allows me to post same, along with pictures of some of the adorable dog- and cat-ness. *grin*
it was also she who claimed never to have gotten the email saying this (which i DO know i sent, because myself got a copy of it) and informed me helpfully if snarkily that i did not, in fact, post this update in my live journal (although i did post it in cleolinda's). sorry. SORRY! geez.
i think that's all for now. there's more to be babbled about later (having nothing to do with pets - for instance, i will un-private the incomplete list of "the rules") but, meh. not now. groggy.