http://www.peta.org/

People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals

There was a PETA ad to "Blast Government's Betrayal of Katrina's Animal Victims in Saturday's Washington Post." It was also on Monday's Washington Express which I saw it for the first time. I was quite apalled how many beloved pets were left behind after the federal authorities actually forced the owners to leave their pets behind when evacuate is a must. Click here - link to the ad.

Worse, although the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) guidelines on animal handling in a disaster were carefully crafted years ago in cooperation with PETA and other animal organizations, our government has evidently thrown them out the window, even going so far as to order citizens to abandon their animals under threat of arrest—animals who in many cases were considered members of the family and were all that these people had left."

"Telling these exasperated citizens of our country to abandon the animals they care for so deeply is, in fact, illegal. Chapter 14, Section 102.1(A)(1)(d) of Louisiana's Revised Statutes, for example, states that anyone who abandons an animal is guilty of the crime of cruelty to animals

"A Slidell resident offered her evacuators both her own wedding ring and her mother’s wedding ring in an attempt to gain permission to bring her dogs when she and her ill husband were rescued from a New Orleans hospital. The officials would not budge: She and her husband could only bring one item with them, and her husband, a liver transplant recipient, needed medicine to survive. Their dog was left behind to die."

Yes, there were animal protection agents, but they're sitting duck 'cuz our gov't failed to allow them during that time.

Ok, i understand that people comes first, but forcing their pets to leave behind? That's just plain mean. Even the officials were shooting dogs!

Wanna help animals? send complaints via internet: petition to our nation's chief. Have compassion for human beings AND animals.