OT: help save pets from the next disaster

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Dear Friend,

 

Don't you think it's terrible that people were forced to leave

their pets behind during Hurricane Katrina?

 

Please ask your U.S. Representative to support the PETS Act,

H.R. 3858, which would require state and local authorities to

plan for evacuating people with pets the next time a disaster

like Hurricane Katrina strikes.

 

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I have real mixed feelings about this. While I do

think it's terrible many animals were left behind, I

think I'd feel a little miffed if they couldn't get my

ailing mother out in time because some goverment

figure (IF they were even in the area in time) was

forced to save their quota of dogs before helping me.

 

 

Kirstin

(owner of five beloved parrots, a labrador and 3 couch

potato cats)

 

 

 

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> Don't you think it's terrible that people were

> forced to leave

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Human Cruelty-- To Animals and Each Other! by Claire Wolfe

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Friends,

I have rarely read anything which encapsulates so well the

heartbreak we all feel as we watch the once humane, freedom based

American culture, the culmination of 6000 years of the " upward reach "

in the hearts of mankind, being destroyed around us. What have we

allowed to happen to us?

Al Burns

P.S. The title is one I added to the article, not Claire Wolfe.

 

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Human Cruelty – To Animals and Each Other

 

by Claire Wolfe

 

 

I CRIED MYSELF TO SLEEP LAST NIGHT. Then I woke up several times

during the early hours, each time with the same unendurable image in

my mind's eye. While researching for my upcoming Hardyville column,

I'd run across a single paragraph describing an unforgivable cruelty

to an animal and a human after Hurricane Katrina, and I just couldn't

stand it any more. It was more heartbreaking than the images of that

bloated, uncaring cop ripping Snowball from a crying little boy.

I can't even stand to describe it this morning. But I have to so

you'll know what I mean: some stories are almost unbelievable in a

civilized nation. One man survived for five days in a tree with his

16-year-old dachshund--Chihuahua. His rescuers would not let him

carry the dog onto a boat. He killed his beloved companion rather

than leave her to starve in the tree.

It's from this article. Maybe you already knew, but I hadn't

heard about it until last night. This morning, I verified it and

found details.

For me, that one spare paragraph, that one bland, banal, business-

as-usual bureaucratic cruelty, encapsulated everything that's wrong --

and increasingly wrong, I fear -- with the human race. If " one death

is a tragedy, a million deaths a statistic, " then for me the single

unspeakable refusal to rescue a tiny animal -- forcing a desperate

man to kill the creature he'd loved and saved -- drew all the

cruelties of institutionalized culture into one Goya-like image in my

mind's eye. And I simply haven't found a way to go on conducting the

ordinary business of life when I'm a member of a species that

routinely behaves with such rottenness.

This one tiny horror built on top of a world of horrors and I'd

had all I could bear. Yet, once again, the utterly unnecessary

ugliness of the world contrasts with the decency of my own world.

Yesterday, as he did last week, my friend the Pyramid Man came over

and helped me roof my garden shed. We got it totally done, except for

a few small finishing details that I can easily do. A project that

had weighed heavily on my mind all summer is done. Thanks to his

help, it's safely roofed over before the fall rains come. I felt

wonderful. I had a great, good day -- until I learned about that one

tiny horror.

Pyramid Man also loves dogs and never, ever could I imagine him

telling a survivor of five days of terror and torment that a

chihuahua -- a chihuahua, forchristsake! -- is too much of a burden

to rescue after a desperate man had clung to her with such love. He

gave her so much -- as she gave him. But that bond of love mattered

nothing to The Institution. Only The Rules matter.

I'm embarrassed to bleed all over you. I really am. And yet I'm

having increasing trouble living in a world where government cruelty

is becoming ever more dominant, while trying to live a life of

personal peace and decency. I can't find a way to reconcile what is

with what should be. I can't find my place; the world increasingly

has no place for people like me. This is a world that would replace

helpful, decent people like Pyramid Man with faceless, soulless

bureaucrats. A world that would force a man to choose between dying

himself and killing a beloved 10-pound dog because The Rules -- the

Holy ******* Rules -- require it.

The historic individual cruelty of human beings pales before the

cruelty of humans who subsume themselves within institutions. And

those are the humans of our future. Background checked, rule-ridden,

numbered, stamped, chipped, tracked, surveilled, regimented, more

loyal to The Institution than to their own conscience or their own

heart ... and ultimately lacking in everything that makes human life

worth living.

 

How can anyone bear it?

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09/30/05 21:53:03

 

Re: OT: help save pets from the next disaster

 

I have real mixed feelings about this. While I do

think it's terrible many animals were left behind, I

think I'd feel a little miffed if they couldn't get my

ailing mother out in time because some goverment

figure (IF they were even in the area in time) was

forced to save their quota of dogs before helping me.

 

 

Kirstin

(owner of five beloved parrots, a labrador and 3 couch

potato cats)

 

 

 

--- rastapoodle <mccoy wrote:

 

> I received this from a friend, and I signed up. Just

> enter your

> contact information, and it will send this message

> to your local US

> representative:

>

> Dear Friend,

>

> Don't you think it's terrible that people were

> forced to leave

> their pets behind during Hurricane Katrina?

[Guest guest]

, Kirstin Key <kirstinkey>

wrote:

> I have real mixed feelings about this. While I do

> think it's terrible many animals were left behind, I

> think I'd feel a little miffed if they couldn't get my

> ailing mother out in time because some goverment

> figure (IF they were even in the area in time) was

> forced to save their quota of dogs before helping me.

>

>

> Kirstin

> (owner of five beloved parrots, a labrador and 3 couch

> potato cats)

>

 

Here is my .02 cents worth on this topic.

 

It has come to my attention that we as a society in whole (not

wanting to pick on any one in particlular) are getting more and more

concerned over our animal pets then we are over our ederly members of

the human race. We are placing laws in place to protect the animals

and forgetting about our own families. There is more done when a dog

is shot for the dog then to a child that has been mauled by a dog.

People seem to have their priorities all mixed up. Dogs must be on

leashes and yet cats are allowed to roam at will. And I could go on

for pages on other issues. Please do not get me wrong I love my

animal friends. They too have souls and can be of tremendous healing

powers. But my human family must take first place in a crises.

 

So my .02 cents worth is that I agree with Kirstin. When a human's

fate takes second place to an animal we have missed the boat all

together. After all most disasters are not an hour's notice away.

Most of them give you time to get out of the way.

 

 

Barbara

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I would do for humans as I would do for my animals. I won't go

there!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Julia

 

Graber Girl By Julia

Julia Graber Cregger

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Barbara -

 

I agree 110%. I do however, feel sorry for the poor

soul that stands between me and my parrot, or my

labrador/cats, etc. However, I just have to wonder -

if we as a society placed HALF the energy/money into

worrying about our own, we wouldn't be in the

situation we're in now, and our country wouldn't be

contemplating opening up state-run orphanages again

due to the huge volume of street kids and wards of the

state. While my heart goes out to the man (if the

story is even TRUE and not some fabricated tale

rendered to tug the heart strings) who ended his dog's

life rather than to see her suffer, how many kids were

orphaned by the hurricane? How many people had to

live on their rooftops with corpses of family members

swirling in the waters at their feet? How much more

can we as a society, endure... while a select handful

of our countrymen keep getting richer, and better tax

benefits. If we chose to care for our own for a short

while, we'd see that we need to focus our energies

just on that, rather than continuing to spread

ourselves too thin. Instead, we'd rather

 

Just my opinion

Kirstin

 

 

> > I have real mixed feelings about this. While I do

> > think it's terrible many animals were left behind,

> I

> > think I'd feel a little miffed if they couldn't

> get my

> > ailing mother out in time because some goverment

> > figure (IF they were even in the area in time) was

> > forced to save their quota of dogs before helping

> me.

> >

> >

> > Kirstin

> > (owner of five beloved parrots, a labrador and 3

> couch

> > potato cats)

> >

>

> Here is my .02 cents worth on this topic.

>

> It has come to my attention that we as a society in

> whole (not

> wanting to pick on any one in particlular) are

> getting more and more

> concerned over our animal pets then we are over our

> ederly members of

> the human race. We are placing laws in place to

> protect the animals

> and forgetting about our own families. There is

> more done when a dog

> is shot for the dog then to a child that has been

> mauled by a dog.

> People seem to have their priorities all mixed up.

> Dogs must be on

> leashes and yet cats are allowed to roam at will.

> And I could go on

> for pages on other issues. Please do not get me

> wrong I love my

> animal friends. They too have souls and can be of

> tremendous healing

> powers. But my human family must take first place

> in a crises.

>

> So my .02 cents worth is that I agree with Kirstin.

> When a human's

> fate takes second place to an animal we have missed

> the boat all

> together. After all most disasters are not an

> hour's notice away.

> Most of them give you time to get out of the way.

>

>

> Barbara

>

>

>

 

 

 

 

 

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