[While Hurricane Katrina's impact on people remains a] national and international trauma, ... the animal situation is another massive saga that's still unfolding. |
Animals are trapped by the thousands in their homes, and the clock is ticking. |
Cheney has a real history of questionable hunting behavior. He is apparently obsessed with hunting and is a regular patron of canned hunts. We don't like to see the Vice President of the U.S. providing pretty explicit endorsement of this practice, because canned hunting violates all the rhetoric that hunters use to justify themselves. Hunting is supposed to involve a fair chase with the animal having an opportunity to evade the hunter. But this eliminates the possibility of failure. |
Given the industry's reliance on trucks as the primary means of transporting farm animals, the USDA's failure to apply the Twenty-Eight Hour Law to trucks renders the act virtually useless, ... Transporting farm animals for 28 or more hours without rest, food, or water is clearly inhumane, and the USDA's failure to place any time limit whatsoever on truck transport is indefensible. If the USDA doesn't understand the definition of 'truck,' we would be happy to send over a dictionary. |
I can't for the life of me see any issue here. |
I think (the storms) have crystallized this issue for the public. |
If you don't account for the pets in disaster, you undermine the effectiveness of the human rescue operation. |
It was obviously worse than anyone imagined. |
Most ethical hunters see that as an objectionable way to act. This is not hunting, it is an open-air abattoir (slaughterhouse). |
People are frantically calling and telling us their cat is on the third floor of an apartment in New Orleans, or their horses were left in a pasture. |
People were staying because they wouldn't leave their animals. |
Puppy mills create misery for dogs and pain for the unwitting purchasers of the animals, and they indirectly deny suitable homes for animals in need. There are millions of healthy, adoptable animals available from shelters and breed rescue organizations. |
some shelters don't take [pets], and that is really a major problem. |
That rate of mortality and illness is absolutely unconscionable. |
The animals we are finding now are emaciated and sick and lonely, but we are still finding them alive. |