Category: relief efforts

Katrina Detritus: Animal Style

• Help the foul-mouthed spokesman of Gulfport rebuild his house: The star of the "Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney" video is auctioning it off. [eBay]
• All together now: "No one could have predicted the levees would break." But they knew it was going to be one asshole of a storm: "MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS...AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD...PERSONS...PETS...AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK." [NOAA]
• A psychiatrist goes crazy trying to help at the Reunion Center. [AddieStan]
• The Washington Post immediate hurricane coverage blew. [City Paper]
• Really excellent news tracking from the WSJ. Read the whole thing, as they say. [WSJ]
• Local events and benefits, including one by "The Museum of the American Cocktail." [DCist]
• Express your desire to sit on Trent Lott's porch. [www.trentlottsporch.com]
• NBC correspondents attack puppy-like Scott McCellan, save actual puppy. [FishbowlDC,MSNBC]
• A partial (2/3) explaination of why we're so rabid on the animal rescue front. [The Antic Muse]

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Why People Use the WaPo for House Training

From an online chat with Marc Fisher, empathy-disabled WaPo columnist:

Crofton, Md.: Hi Marc -- Question about human behavior (mine). I am horrified at the destruction along the Gulf Coast. I see bodies in the water and felt terrible but sadly not half as bad as I feel when I see a dog, cat, etc., dead or in distress from the storm! Am I hopeless? I can look at CNN and watch coverage of body removal but I immediately turn the channel when it is an animal! Why?

Marc Fisher: Beats me. But then again, I cannot fathom why all these folks who stayed behind to take care of their pets would risk their lives for an animal that they could easily replace at any pet store.

Anyway: If you want a friend in Washington, sic your dog on Marc Fisher. Meanwhile, we're going to give some more money to the Humane Society, just to piss Fisher off.

RELATED: I've been contacted by a group of people trying to make sure that Joseph and Patches -- the man and his cat rescued from the Superdome last week -- are okay. If anyone has information on the fate of these two survivors, please write.

RELATED: Snowball is okay. And Oreo made it home too. Please consider giving what you can so there are a few more happy endings to this horrible story.

About Those washingtonpost.com Columnists... [PostWatch via The Corner]

[AP Photo/John Amis]

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Creature Comfort

"Joseph Barns, right, carries his cat Patches on his shoulder as he is evacuated from the Superdome in New Orleans Saturday afternoon."

[Bart Boatwright/Greenville Online]

Some Katrina survivors managed the miracle of saving their pets as well as themselves -- a reminder, we think, that not everyone behaves like animals. Since many shelters don't allow four-legged evacuees, please consider giving to one of the organizations that assists pet owners and their companions.

• Noah's Wish
• The Houston SPCA
• The ASPCA is creating a database to connect abandoned pets with their displaced owners and is trying to coordinate temporary shelter space and rescues missions.

UPDATE: Joseph and Patches earlier. We're really happy they made it.

ALSO: More places to help animals and their humans:

• Best Friends Animal Society Hurricane Relief Fund, 435-644-2001 ext. 104.
• Humane Society of the United States Disaster Animal Response Team, 800-HUMANE-1.
• Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

And, not that you needed more reasons to give, but this broke our hearts for the hundredth or so time today:

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals picked up two cats and 15 dogs, including one Kennedy found tied up beneath the overpass next to an unopened can of dog food with a sign that read, "Please take care of my dog, his name is Chucky."

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Tide Turning?

Convoy brings relief supplies to New Orleans [CNN]

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