"Gunner Asch" wrote in message
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On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 11:55:55 -0500, "RAM^3"
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"Gunner Asch" wrote in message
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On 3 Sep 2005 15:37:01 -0700, "CanopyCo" wrote:

I had a moment of terror and sadness today, when I thought of all the
pets left on chains, left in homes as the waters rose. Phydoux staked
to a chain..the water rising...he can only swim for so long..

The cat and dogs left closed up in houses.the water inside rising,
swimmiing and swimming in panic until there was no room left at the
ceiling.

All wondering where their people are as they drown, trapped, alone,
afraid....

In such an event..I think it would be kinder to kill your pets
outright before you flee, if you cant take them all with you.

I suddenly have a strong urge to get drunk.

Gunner

There may not be quite as many lost as you fear: many of those who heeded
the evacuation order took theirs with them and quite a number of others
have
been rescued.

The Houston SPCA is housing a large number of those rescued as are other
ASPCA locations.


For some time, my sister Lori was midwest regional director of EARSs

http://www.uan.org/ears/

She related more than one horror story..the dog found burned to death
in its masters bed after a wild fire. It apparently went to the one
place it felt secure in.

Ive personally seen the bitch and her litter of pups burned to death
while she was left chained..her teeth gone from trying to bite the
chain in half as the flames got closer and closer...the pups huddled
under her charred body..black briquettes

Ill not go any farther.

Gunner

The number of these accounts is, I'll agree, far higher than I'd like to
see. [ZERO is my "preferred number"!]

I'd suspect that the number of cases of the type you've related may well be
in the hundreds [I hope not the thousands] as unthinking owners simply
abandoned their cats, dogs, birds, et. al., in their rush to high ground.
Those headed for the Civic Center and Superdome would, quite likely, be
prohibited from taking with them any "non-human family members".

Hopefully, though, the large number of "rescued" critters that have already
been relocated to ASPCA centers will include many of the potential
casualties.