Some Hounds from St. Bernard (and some cats)

I don't blanket email, but this is as close as it comes. The St. Bernard Parish animal shelter, just east of New Orleans, has run out of room, and a lot of dogs and cats either have to be adopted or....you know the rest. They will provide out-of-state transportation for some of the animals. I've been listening to my wife looking at the pics and calling me in to look at Brutus and Elvis...

St. Bernard, for those of you new to the New Orleans story, is the suburban county next to New Orleans which shared in the horrific flooding. All the housing stock of the parish (county) was destroyed. It's slowly rebuilding, but, in that setting, the animals are definitely in need of some outside friendship.

Here's the URL.

UPDATE: At Michelle Pilecki's sound suggestion, here are photos of some of the animals:www.flickr.com/photos/sbpshelter/sets/72157603921945483/detail/

And here's the website of the shelter itself:
http://sbpanimal.homestead.com/

Comments

[FreeThinkn1]

It's heart breaking what the pets and people have had to endure in St. Bernard Parish. Here's a link to the what the local law enforcement did to the dogs and cats in St. Bernard Parish.

http://www.pasadosafehaven.org/KATRINA/STREETSHOOTINGS.htm

[JAUG]

Harry, please remind the students of Tulane, Loyola, UoNO, that a pet is Forever. Quite a few of them leave their animals behind (dumped either outside or at a shelter) when they graduate, thus contributing to more problems. Makes me wonder what the youth of today will be like tomorrow.

[FreeThinkn1]

It's not a generational problem; it's a lack of knowledge. I grew up in a small University town in the southeast and pets would be dumped every semester. With the help of Maddie's fund, local organizations have been able to educate the students and decrease the kill rate of adoptable pets to zero.

[Sciguy]

If I didn't already have 14 cats and 7 dogs, I'd give them a call. I did offer (to the HSUS) to take in any livestock or poultry that needed a temporary or permanent home after Katrina, but I never heard anything. Do you know if they need still homes for livestock?

[kingshmoopy]

Thanks you for drawing attention to this continuing crisis. I have a friend who went to New Orleans to rescue animals right after Katrina, he and the shelter he ran went several times. He told me that, after all his experience with animal rescue (he has been working with animals for many years and been many different places in the world, including to developing nations) he had never, never seen anything like what he saw in New Orleans.

[HearNoWeasel]

The people at the St. Bernard Shelter are amazing. They rebuilt the completely destroyed shelter after the storm with next to no funds. I volunteered there during my trip to New Orleans and learned about the plight of the four-legged post-Katrina orphans. They are the lowest of the low on the rebuilding totem pole, and the condition in which these animals arrive at the shelter is often absolutely heartbreaking. Since the vast majority of strays aren't spayed or neutered, the overpopulation problem is completely out of hand. If you can't help by adopting one of these little critters, please send some money to the Shelter. You can be absolutely assured that every penny goes to the care of the animals.

[haleywins]

Thanks for drawing national attention to St. Bernard(and the good people there), went online yesterday, and saw a couple of beauties.

[RPLinNYC]

thank you for doing this.