Pets From Katrina Disaster Reunited

[PurdyBear1]

I hope the Katriana disaster taught a lot of nations around the world, that owners MUST take their pets with them. Here in the Uk, we are now recommended to have an emergency kit for both ourselves and pets, so when we evacuate we can do it fast. Yep mine and my dogs is packed and ready to roll as I type.

[Navvakkaji]

It's not fair to demand reasons from everyone for why the pets weren't taken. If they evacuated ahead of the disaster, there's no excuse. During or after, though, it's hard to keep HUMANS moderately organized, let alone pets. Add to that that some people DID grab their pets, then were told they couldn't come with them. The laws ensuring a place for displaced pets are a result of Katrina, but far too many had to die to get those laws.

[pudzzy1]

watch & google nTom McPhee's An American Opera: The Greatest Pet Rescue Ever! is a multi- award winning documentary film chronicling the events following Hurricane Katrina ... IT WILL GIVE YOU SOME INSITE INTO WHAT HAPPENED

[bethhannahdjmommy]

this brought tears to my eyes and a lump in my throat, I couldn't go without my babies! I would be bawling if I went through this. God bless them

[Baseshocks]

@bethhannahdjmommy the question you have to ask did these owners abandon their pets as they drove off to safety........

[Tcbmap]

@Baseshocks

Most of them were ordered by authorities to leave their pets behind. Some stories have come out that even as people were leaving with their pets, police and other authorities made them give their pets up or leave them were they stood. Pathetic.

[Baseshocks]

@Tcbmap Really........... Thats fucked up, why on earth is it a problem for people to take their pets with them....... even for people filling in buses could they not get their pets to sit on their laps.... or sit under their seats with the animals head sticking out the side...

[Tcbmap]

@Baseshocks

I know. Sad but true.

[ladylauraanne]

thank you so much for the good cry this video just gave me..

[punkchica321]

I'm surprised by how calm these people are. If I was reunited with my dog after not knowing if he was alive or dead I would be bawling.

[7jshelto]

they were forced to leave their pets behind. guys with guns on the road were forcing people to stop and leave pets if they had them with them. There really wasn't anything those people could do. :/

[mujkocka]

i couldn't leave without my cats. i am just reading chernobyl. they shot so many animals during the disasters. these little guys are our family members! how could they be left behind!

[reymatt76]

@mujkocka I didn't hear about that. But perhaps because they couldn't take their pets for whatever reason they decided to end the animal's life right then and there rather than have it suffer alone, starving in an exclusion zone that won't be inhabitable for who knows how long. It's a difficult decision, but if those are the only two choices, it was the most humane. I would sit there and die with my animal but I guess you never know what you'd do until you're placed in that situation.

[TwoSet]

way to leave your dog behind in a hurricane..

[Tcbmap]

@TwoSet

Not really the case....

[DragonNighthowler]

It's so nice to see some of the pets reunited with their owner. Unluckily too many were lost, too, too many. More than 100,000 pets affected, and only about 2000-3000 pets reunited, and other 8000 were rescued and are up for adoption. 90,000 dogs and cats perished in the disaster.

And I can't stop asking myself, why? why won't goverments understand the importance of pets to people? why didn't people fight harder for them? Why?

[happymike44]

The governor made sure no one could take a pet with them.

So people were forced to leave them behind.

I lived down there and the police arrested people who refused to leave a pet behind.

Now the federal government now says shelters must accomodate pets due to the tragedy of katrina and the loss of thirty to fifty thousand pets.

Mary lou and the group stole my heart.

Thank god for the good and loving rescue people.

[reymatt76]

@DragonNighthowler Because animals don't have voices and animals can't sue them. If animals were able to hire attorneys or speak up, unfortunately, then and only then would pets be looked upon as more than just possession.

[CDLver]

This is a most heartwarming story, and characteristic of the goodness inherent in PETA's work.

Thank you for posting!

[AnimalzCryToo]

I have NO idea. Good question. :) Panic and short amount of time is my best guess. Of course I would have collected all my animals FIRST THING. Screw the clothes, books, papers and pictures. The Living ones in my life are much more important them the dead ones especially if you weren't alive to begin with!

:)

[sohcsarewicked]

@AnimalzCryToo Are you watching the japanese go out of their way to rescue the dogs, its pretty impressive

[shottiguy]

how could you leave your dogs behind most dogs can easily be carried with ease.

[happymike44]

Because the evacuation orders told people they could not bring a pet with them.

These are the lucky one many pets were taken away at evacuation points and left to die right there.

Anyone who didn't do as they were told was arrested.

So now you know why so many pets perished and some were even shot to death later by the police. who never faced a charge and were recorded laughing doing it.

The rescue people can't be thanked enough for rescuing the animals of katrina.