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URGENT:
Tell Your Federal Representatives to Demand Animals’ Safe
Evacuation From New Orleans!
Daniel Paden, Domestic Animal and Wildlife Rescue & Information
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Dear Friend,
Your immediate attention and response is
requested. No animal rescue groups have been allowed into New
Orleans to help animals, who have been left stranded on their
own. Sending money is not solving the animals’ problem, which is
worsening by the hour.
Meanwhile,
federal authorities are forcing everyone—including elderly
residents who have stayed in water-logged residences for five
days just to safeguard their beloved animals—to leave their
animals behind to starve. In some cases, people are told
that they must choose between bringing vital medicine and
bringing their dog when they are evacuated. This is
illegal and it must stop.
PETA has issued a
media advisory stating that we will prosecute any known
violators, but that is not stopping federal evacuators from
insisting that animals be left to die. Today,
Rue McClanahan wrote to President George W. Bush, calling on
him to order officials to allow people to evacuate with their
animals.
Please, immediately call your
member of Congress today to ask that people be allowed to
evacuate with their animals. Leave messages
for them in Washington and at their home offices and get
everyone you know to call. The names of—and contact information
for—your
representative and
senators can be found online. Please
forward this alert to others willing to lend their voices to
help with this emergency.
Thank you for your compassion for animals
and for your willingness to act today.
Posted on Thursday,
September 08, 2005 @ 06:23 CDT
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