Hello Everyone,
If you haven’t had a chance yet, please visit www.bestfriends.org and read about our petition. We’re asking people to demand that all national animal welfare organizations who received donations for Katrina Relief release those funds to help the animals and groups in the disaster area! (see Michael Mountain’s e-mail below for more details).
If everyone who cares about the animals joins together in one voice, we can truly change the present and future for the Gulf animals!
Please:
Sign the petition;
Forward the information and petition link to everyone you know;
If you belong to online news groups, forums, groups or blog pages, please post the link there.
Thank you for your help. We can make a difference in the lives of thousands of animals.
With warm regards,
Jill Dennis
Director of Lost and Found/Reunions
Hurricane Relief
Best Friends Animal Society
5001 Angel Canyon Road
Kanab, UT 84741
Tel. 435-644-2001 ext. 212
Fax. 435-644-2701
E-mail: jill@bestfriends.org
www.bestfriends.org
Dear Members & Friends,
Best Friends is asking all the national humane organizations who were involved in hurricane relief efforts to join with us in completing the rescue work that still needs to be done.
And we're asking you, our members and friends, to sign a petition about this on our website at http://www.bestfriends.org.
As you know, Best Friends is still bringing dozens of displaced pets out of New Orleans every day. Although the official center at Gonzales has been closed since early October, people are still rescuing dogs and cats all the time, and we continue to bring as many apossible to the Best Friends relief center - and frothere to foster groups around the country.
Last week, a team of Best Friends staff members, led by our director of ops, Paul Berry, toured the key counties and parishes in the region to do a formal assessment of the situation. You can read Paul's report on the website.
There is clearly a lot of work yet to be done: thousands of animals yet to be rescued and placed in foster/adoption homes, and much help needed in rebuilding devastated shelters and local programs.
YOU GAVE THE ANIMALS YOUR MONEY. NOW GIVE THEM YOUR VOICE
We've launched a petition drive on the Best Friends website for the thousands of pets who are still displaced.
Tens of millions of dollars were donated toward the rescue effort, much of which is still available to complete the work that still needs to be done.
Your voice will help bring the funds and the people back to New Orleans and the Mississippi coast so that we can get pets out to foster homes and then launch a national adoption campaign.
Between all of the national humane organizations, we can get this job done.
But time is running out. Starving, sick dogs and cats are still roaming the streets.
On her blog on the Best Friends website, journalist Cathy Scott notes that cats are sitting on the sidewalks, and dogs are hiding under houses.
"Hundreds and thousands throughout New Orleans are still out there and need to be rescued," she writes. "I spoke with two National Guard officers yesterday and they said the same thing: The animals need help, otherwise they will starve to death on the streets or get hit by cars as they migrate where the food and water sources are."
You can reach the petition from the Best Friends home page at http://www.bestfriends.org. Please add your name to it, and encourage friends and family to do the same. You can also read our full report and the press release we sent out early this morning.
We wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving. And we can all give thanks that so much help, support, and love has gone into the work of rescuing homeless pets this year. Let's join together to complete the work on the Gulf Coast region.
Thank you, as always, for caring.
Michael Mountain
Best Friends