"InasPawprints.com Urges You to Help Critter Victims of Fires, Floods, Earthquakes and other natural disasters!"

Please help our furry, feathered and slithery friends facing illness, injury and separation in the wake of natural disasters --
it's an ongoing need.

When Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated infrastructure in the Gulf, pet care organizations raced to help, but resources are continually being stretched, around the globe as disaster after disaster strikes. Anytime you can contribute you will be providing much needed help.

This week, the 7.0 earthquake in Haiti has caused enormous human suffering and death. But as always, pets and other animals are also victims. The American Humane Society, The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) have been sending help. Please donate to help them cover costs.

More animal rescue organizations are mobilizing almost daily. Scroll down to find new listings.

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IFAW and WSPA to lead Animal Relief Coalition for Haiti

Dear Ina,

IFAW is mounting an emergency animal relief mission in response to the devastating earthquake in Haiti.

Many people have perished and been seriously injured, and homes and buildings around the capital have been decimated.

Many animals are also suffering, so IFAW is partnering with WSPA (World Society for the Protection of Animals) to mount a coordinated animal relief response.

Once the human relief efforts have taken hold and security is in place - and depending on the needs we find on the ground - our team will deploy to begin treating critically injured animals...vaccinating them against deadly diseases like rabies and leptospirosis...and distributing food, water, and basic medical care.

Please donate now to help. Your donation will be used immediately and where it is needed most to help animals in Haiti and in crisis around the world.

Then forward this message to all your friends and contacts. With your help, we will be able to bring lifesaving care and comfort to so many suffering animals.

American Humane Association

January 2010

Help on the Way for Haiti’s Animals

The world continues to feel the tragic impact from Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti, which caused a horrific loss of life and widespread devastation.

If you’ve asked yourself what you can do as an animal advocate, please consider a donation to our Red Star Animal Emergency Services™ team.

Animal emergency responders do not yet have access to Haiti, as the priority understandably remains on meeting basic human needs. However, livestock vital to Haiti’s recovery, as well as homeless and hurting pets, are in dire need of assistance. Urgent planning is currently under way to help.

In response, American Humane has joined the Animal Relief Coalition for Haiti (ARCH), a group of professional animal welfare organizations working together to achieve the best possible outcome for animals in the region. The coalition is led by the World Society for the Protection of Animals and the International Fund for Animal Welfare.

Currently, our team members are not on the ground in Haiti, due to restricted access in the country, but we are providing significant funding support to the coalition. The coalition’s plans include saving the goats, chickens and cattle crucial to people’s health and livelihoods, providing food and clean water, and vaccinating companion animals against rabies.

Please give today to help us support this crucial effort and other future disasters!

Stay up-to-date on our Red Star team’s role in ARCH
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www.BestFriends.org

Dear Members and Friends,
Best Friends is now a part of ARCH (Animal Relief Coalition for Haiti), and we are working with other groups to do everything possible to get the animals of Haiti the help they need. Our thoughts and prayers are with all of those who are suffering in the wake of this devastation. In the meantime, our work here at home goes on as well. And there’s plenty of good news to share on the Best Friends website this week

Ongoing issues:
In Southern California we have recurring natural disasters -- fires, floods and earthquakes displace wildlife and threaten not only residences but all beings living in the areas. Whenever these strike, please dig into your pocket and give what you can to help organizations listed here send their teams in to help care for frightened and injured animals.

The SPCALA, Humane Society of the U.S. and NewLeash.org are all on the scene in California helping care for stranded and evacuated animals. Money is needed, and in some places, hands-on help. Click here to see what you can do.

Donate to the SPCA-LA

Read about what the HSUS is doing and how to donate to help them by clicking below:

For pictures of animals the HSUS has been rescuing:
https://community.hsus.org/humane/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=16569780
For humans suffering from the effects of the fires, counseling is available in Southern California area. The National Council of Jewish Women-LA has specially trained volunteers to help.
Call Free Counseling Talkline at 877-655-3807. To volunteer for training or to help with one of their community service programs, call 323-651-2930.

Dear Folks ---

UPDATE ON KATRINA-RITA PETS, OCT. 2007: It's far from over in the Gulf. We all know horrible human tragedies are dragging on in Louisiana, my old stomping ground, and also in Alabama and Mississippi, places everybody in the country treasures. But there are also terrible repercussions for animals from these fierce storms, and their rescuers, too, continue to need our help desperately. While the news reported originally that Rita wasn't so bad, it punched through newly bolstered shelter roofs, and separated many more pets from their humans, among other things. And we are now in the midst of a new storm season.

With your help, progress has been made! But the ongoing threats to pets and wildlife from an uneasy Mother Nature persist.

What you can do:

Donations are the most urgent need, most organizations report. We're urging people to help those that are caring for stranded pets, often left because owners were not allowed to bring them on buses or into shelters. Donations to all in our pages are tax deductible, and so very needed. Find out more.

URGENT UPDATE NOV. 3, 2006 STILL URGENT OCT. 2007 -- Urgent plea for funding for spay-neuter of Katrina pets in Gulfport, Humane Society of South Louisiana. How you can help.

Become a Foster Parent to a Displaced Furry Loveball

Foster parenting is a huge need. The shelters were overwhelmed before Katrina, and needs are much more urgent now. For information on what's involved, and a place you can sign up, click the rescued purring kitten above.

OCT. 2005 UPDATE: PERMANENT HOMES ALSO NEEDED FOR DISPLACED GULF PETS. Wonderful adoption events in L.A. and N.Y. yesterday helped secure homes for the most amazing, loving and funny dogs and cats. As more of these heroes of the storms find homes, the rescue organizations have room to bring more pets up from the Gulf and make room for more of those stranded and needing shelter in the south.

OCT. 2007: YOU CAN STILL HELP BY ADOPTING.

Find places where hands-on help is needed

URGENT UPDATE NOV. 11 2005 AND CONTINUING OCT. 2007: Despite earlier cries there are enough people down here, don't come, help is urgently needed in the Gulf. Stranded pets are all over towns, still, and untrained helpers and trained vets, vet techs are needed desperately. Find out more about what is needed today.

More Information on what is needed in terms of help, and supplies,
and what you can do.

HELP US GET THE WORD OUT

Join Pawprints for Katrina-Rita as we help animal rescue groups care for stricken pets in the wake of these heart-wrenching catastrophes. We are looking for volunteers who can help us with fund raising, field calls and emails and coordinate work with with local organizations here and in Mississippi and Louisiana. Check opportunities through the Volunteer Match button above.

WEHO OCT. 2 HELPED US HELP, AND OUR RECENT JAZZ BENEFIT RAISED A BIT FOR HSSM. THANKS ALL WHO ATTENDED AND DONATED!

To find out more, click the feather.

GET INFO ON HOW TO INCLUDE YOUR PETS
IN DISASTER PLANNING
What if a disaster strikes your area? We urge you to be sure to include your pets in your planning. Click here.

HOW TO PROVIDE FOR YOUR PETS IN THE EVENT YOU BECOME INCAPACITATED, OR YOUR PET OUTLIVES YOU
How to Provide for Your Pet

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The human tragedy unfolding from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita are stunning, as we all know, but our furry and feathered friends really need our help, too. To find places you can make a difference click here or copy and paste link in your browser window:
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Our wonderful pooch donate now button courtesy of Ted Blaisdell. Many, many thanks!

A big thank you also to Mr. B. J. McMorrow, General Partner of Brentwood Square, for donating free parking for us.

Nip, nip hoorah for these guys and all who help the pets and other critters in the Gulf!

IN NON-KATRINA URGENT NEWS, APRIL 1, NO FOOLING: From Michael Mountain, Best Friends Society: Dear Members and Friends, The Great Bunny Rescue of 2006 is now a race against time. LAST WEEK, WE EVACUATED 1,000 RABBITS from a backyard in Reno, Nevada, where they’ve been living in desperate circumstances, and where babies are still being born at the rate of 50 every day. (Most of the new litters are born underground in warrens that the rabbits have dug. So we have to wait for them to surface before we can rescue them.)

We’ve leased a 65-acre ranch nearby, which will serve as the Best Friends Rabbit Rescue Center for the next few months. We’ve set up a surgical facility, with the essential medical supplies, to provide triage care and to handle spaying and neutering, which is now going into high gear. And once the bunnies are stable, we’ll be embarking on the biggest rabbit adoption program anywhere ever. Over the weekend, the story appeared in newspapers all over the country.

AND NOW YOUR HELP IS URGENTLY NEEDED. AS A VOLUNTEER: If you live nearby, or are able to travel to Reno, we need veterinarians, vet techs, caregivers, fence-builders, equipment handlers, cooks, assistants, and others to continue moving this effort forward. DONORS AND ADOPTERS ALSO URGENTLY NEEDED. Please go to http://network.bestfriends.org and click on the "Donate," “Volunteer” or "Adopt" button or call us at 435-644-3965 ext. 4723.

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