Ketzel Levine, a reporter for National Public Radio (NPR), has an excellent report entitled ‘Search for Lost Pets Continues in Louisiana’. (Friday 15 Oct 2005). In the course of her story, she reveals the speciesism and false dilemmas that plague decisions to separate human and non-human family members during a disaster.
If you would like to contribute to the search, rescue, evacuation, reuniting or adopting of companion animals in this disaster, I recommend you visit the following websites.
International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), www.ifaw.org.
Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), www.hsus.org.
United Animal Nations (UAN), www.uan.org.
If you would like to contribute to helping the human survivors of Katrina, please see the posts that preceed this essay.
Bill
Photo: From NPR website.
