Shelter and Vet Services Needed for Hurricane Katrina's Equine Refugees
Place Your Facility on the USEF Hurricane Equine Relief List
(Lexington, KY) - As Americans view the newscasts of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina it is clear that both humans and animals require immediate emergency relief from not only official agencies but from the generosity of individuals.
If you have a facility or pasture which you can offer to house refugee horses and ponies, victims of Hurricane Katrina, please email your name, address, phone number and email address to kcadams@usef.org , or at 859-225-6993, (please email if at all possible as we expect a heavy load of calls.) If you can volunteer veterinary services please submit your contact information. The USEF is posting a listing by state of these facilities and services for horses and ponies on our website. The list will be accessed by going to www.usef.org, on the right side of the homepage click on Hurricane Katrina Equine Relief. It is expected to be operational by tonight, August 31st.
We urge the participation of anyone who has the space, licensed veterinary expertise and tenderness of heart to help these equine refugees.
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8 comments:
give me a freakin break. when these people and this city need everything they have people are actually going to waste their time trying to save a bunch of dumb horses???? you can replace an animal, you cannot replace people. I say shoot those horses and use them to feed the homeless unless they are diseased.
lest anyone think I think nothing of animals..that is not true...animals are deserving of kindness and not being treated cruelly BUT...it just pulls my chain when there is so much human need to see help funneled away from human beings by an attempt to save animals. I realize people get attached to their pets and its then not really helping the animals..its helping the people who are attached to the animals. but people are losing a lot of stuff that is important to them....
I dunno..this sort of rubbed me the wrong way.
Man, anonymous, you're a piece of work. Words like yours have a way of coming back to haunt you. Hope you can dip your words in chocolate, 'cause I bet you'll be eating them someday.
i doubt it. because I just am shaking my head every time there is a natural disaster at the huge amount of effort expended to evacuate animals when there is so much to be done for people??? I do have pets and I remember getting a dog magazine and it had an article about what to do with your pets in a hurricane (I believe it was sometime in the wake of Andrew) I could not believe that people would compromise the lives and safety of their human family to help their pets. I would imagine that horses are extremely expensive to rescue and evacuate. if I lived in the vicinity of the gulf coast and had the means to help and assist others my conscience would not allow me to spend my time and energy rescuing and saving animals if that same time and energy could have gone towards human beings. maybe the comment about eating horsemeat was a wee bit crass.
I stand by my words. You're a cold, uptight, piece of work. Who are you to decide what's important to another person? Hey, if I had a chance to save you or a dog from storm surge waters, you'd be fish food, baby.
well, arent you nice? you know I probably would fish even Katie out of the water over a dog.
Hey, I'd feel sorry for the fish that ate you, as bitter and nasty as you are. You have a polluted heart. What a fine example of christianity you are!
um..hello pot...this is kettle. just because someone reacts to someones words doesnt make them "bitter and nasty"....if anything you responded in a lot more "bitter and nasty" fashion than I did. and you seem to have an axe to grind with christianity..perhaps you should explore why that is and if it is truly grounded in reality or just your expectation that christians should be perfect...
as for the animals..you know..I feel for the people who have lost pets. a certain percentage of them are in this fix because they were too stupid to take things seriously when they were told to get out. a certain other percentage obviously couldnt have left if they wanted to. i recognize that. however when I have seen the energy people expend in things like this rescuing animals when there is human life at stake I do question our value system. I realize that for children a pet may have far more importance than it might for a healthy adult with healthy human connections. I felt for the little boy I read about in our paper who had told authorities how to take care of his gecko if they found it. BUT I see our current elevation of animals and our relationships with them in direct relationship to the decline of the quality of relationships among people and the lowering of the value of human life. it is rather interesting that I have heard of many people who volunteer both for "pro choice" and "animal rescue" organizations. do you catch the meaning of this: if a human is unwanted, inconvenient, unplanned for then lets just kill it (of course we will deny that taht is waht we are actually doing) but if an animal is in the same situation then absolutely nothing is too much to keep it drawing breaths of oxygen on this earth. what is wrong with this???? If it sounds cold to say that someone can always get a new dog or cat but you cannot replace a human being, so be it. if that means that you would be so heartless as to watch me die when you could do something about it, then man, do you ahve a twisted outlook on life
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