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More Rescues to do from the Aftermath of Katrina
There are hundreds or thousands of companion animals who have been left behind, and no authorities are going after them. They're dying of the same things the humans did, dehydration, starvation, medical neglect, and an utterly toxic environment that will take months if not years to clean up.
Some brave, compassionate people are organized to go rescue the surviving animals. Pasado Safe Haven has some heartwrenching stories to tell.
One rescue of a man and his dogs, including a week old litter of puppies.
They turned a corner, and there stood a man, ragged, and beaten. He wouldn't leave, because his dog, a pure-bred Husky, had had a litter of puppies a week ago. He wouldn't leave them behind. He broke into tears, and our rescuers told us, so did they.Our rescue crew had already rescued 40 dogs, many cats, and birds, and needed to start transport back to the triage station. But they HAD to get this man, and his dogs, out of there.
"We begged him to leave. We told him, 'Your life has ended here. There is a new beginning out there. Let us take your dogs, we will care for them.' He was steadfast. He feared he'd never see them again.
The mama dog's milk had already run dry. She was dehydrated, as were two other 10-month-old Husky's who were also living with the man. "We just wouldn't leave him there," Hayden told us last night. "We were going anywhere until we got him out of there and got those dogs."
Our rescuer's persistence worked.
To get around the military (who will not let anyone take their animals), the Pasado crew managed to sneak the man into one of our vans, with all of the dogs. He would be join a family member in Baton Rouge. Then, we learned, the family would not allow the dogs to come.
Mama dog, is now on IV fluids, as are the pups and the two 10-month-olds, at our triage location South of New Orleans. They will recover. Our rescuers, slept with them last night.
We need homes for these little ones now, and for the mama and her two friends. Who would want to adopt them? But says Hayden, "They'd have to keep the name we gave to the mama, who we wept over, seeing her try to nurse her babies, but couldn't...it's Katrina."
In addition, the authorities are refusing access to a shelter they consider filled up. So the animal rescuers are scrambling to find another shelter for them.
I don't put animals before humans. This isn't an either or proposition. Part of what makes us fully human is how we deal with the helpless. And these animals are helpless to fend for themselves in that environment.
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It is now time to pray more than ever before. The universe as we know it
is constant movement and energy. For far too long we have filled it with
negativity...Gangsta rap, corrupt political practices, families that have
no FATHER head, inappropriate sexual orientations, the list goes on and on
and on...the only counter to negativity is the power of an
almighty....Love. We have within every one of us the power to reverse the
vibration that is in current constant motion with an equal and opposite
vibration...Love. If we are to live up to the teachings of being created
in HIS image then surely we have the ability to manifest beauty out of all
of this madness.
Love...Love...LOVE. Collectively we must all raise up the power of LOVE
and send that vibration out to the rest of the world.