Animal Rescue Boats Needed - New Orleans

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Animal Rescue Boats Needed

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hoosierette, 9/9/05 21:44 ET

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Brief: September 9, 2005 : 1:14 PM ETFrom Paul Berry: Concerning New

OrleansWe had two teams out on boats on Thursday. Troy Snow has written

about his crew in an earlier posting. Ours was similar, so I'll keep

this brief. Our team was me and Dr. Debbie Rykoff DVM. Also aboard and

helping out was a crew from the Salt Lake Tribune. Leah Hogsten took

photos for the Trib and gave these to us.(Thanks, Leah.) The thing I

want to say is simply that there are thousands upon thousands of animals

stuck out here, on car roofs, on porches, cats on roofs of houses. We

saw no other animal rescue orgs anywhere. I know they're all doing good

work on the peripheries . but, oh man . you see and hear these fluff

pieces on TV of people being reunited with their pets, and you look

around out here on the boats at this vast, endless wasteland of toxic

water and animals hanging on, 11 days after the hurricane, and their

time is running out. What on earth is going on? Why is no one out here

to help them? We're just on two boats. We heard about a veterinarian who

is on another boat. We need a whole freaking navy! This is the story

that's not being told. Animals clinging to life, and dead human bodies

lying and floating all around. Please call your local media and tell

them to get on to this. We just got a call from German TV - ZDF, and

they're trying to hook up with us for today's marathon on the water. The

only other boat we saw yesterday was an airboat from Fish & Game. They

were scouting the ground behind. Rumors are they're beginning to shoot

the animals today. I believe these stories are now true. That's what's

going to be happening. IMMEDIATE ATTENTION: WE NEED ALL THE OTHER ANIMAL

RESCUE ORGS TO BUY/BORROW BOATS AND FOCUS ON THIS. These animals only

have days at most, and are clinging to life. They are the forgotten

ones. We can only manage about 10 at a time. They're emaciated, starved,

dehydrated. It's literally " water, water everywhere and not a drop to

drink. " Dr. Debbie revives them in the boat as they start to lose

consciousness and gives them fluids. All those we took yesterday have

survived. Keep us in your prayers, Paul. Call Gov Blanco's office

(I-866-310-7617) and ask them to get the National Guard to start

rescuing the animals. I also warned that shooting the animals is

unacceptable will not go over well with Americans. The receptionist

agreed with me. The receptionist taking my call said she was getting " a

lot of requests " to rescue the animals so maybe we can finally get some

action. Keep working on this everyone. We can make this happen if we all

pull together!! Keep up the calls since they refuse to give out the

governor's e-mail address.!!! The governor's web site:

http://www.gov.state.la.us/govemail.asp