A stupid question that needs answering
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FEMA is now taking a national petition to see how many Americans want to allow hurricane survivors to be allowed to take their pets with them as they evacuate or pet rescue agencies to be allowed to come into ravaged areas and rescue pets. The number is 1-202-646-2763. Everyone call this number and let them know that all life is valuable. When you have done calling, let everyone you know know about this number. Even as I type, the ASPCA is readying a truck convoy to head for New Orleans and the thousands of animals dying there. It's coming down as something of a paramilitary operation. Again, please call FEMA. 1-202-646-2763. Besides donating to any of the charitable organizations out there, this is one of the more important things we can do.
msminlr tried calling and didn't even get an answering machine and recommends waiting till business hours Monday to try.
To me this is a no-brainer. Who wouldn't want to allow folks to evacuate their non-human family members? If I had to evacuate, Lady would be the first "thing" to go into the car (her "doggie Dramamine" would be second, followed by supplies).
kayshapero who ganked it from ataniell93, who ganked it from somewhere else....FEMA is now taking a national petition to see how many Americans want to allow hurricane survivors to be allowed to take their pets with them as they evacuate or pet rescue agencies to be allowed to come into ravaged areas and rescue pets. The number is 1-202-646-2763. Everyone call this number and let them know that all life is valuable. When you have done calling, let everyone you know know about this number. Even as I type, the ASPCA is readying a truck convoy to head for New Orleans and the thousands of animals dying there. It's coming down as something of a paramilitary operation. Again, please call FEMA. 1-202-646-2763. Besides donating to any of the charitable organizations out there, this is one of the more important things we can do.
msminlr tried calling and didn't even get an answering machine and recommends waiting till business hours Monday to try.To me this is a no-brainer. Who wouldn't want to allow folks to evacuate their non-human family members? If I had to evacuate, Lady would be the first "thing" to go into the car (her "doggie Dramamine" would be second, followed by supplies).
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Date: 2005-09-11 03:36 pm (UTC)- someone bringing their vicious abused guard dog into a shelter full of little kids.
- A shelter full of normally-well-behaved pets going nuts under the stress.
During the Okanagan Mountain Fire, the local animal shelters volunteered to take in animals, and rescue squads went into the evacuated areas to find animals that had been left behind or gone missing in the chaos; that's reasonable. Spending tax dollars allocated to saving people to saving pets is not.
In any case, as was already pointed out, this thing has HOAX written in big flashing neon letters all over it. FEMA has better things to do right now, we would hope, and any policy change this expensive is not going to be settled by a knee-jerk call-in number.
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Date: 2005-09-12 02:44 am (UTC)There have been actual calls and the other end of the line did not say it was a hoax, so it's not someone wishing a lot of excess calls on FEMA. And at least one person was referred to that on-line petition, so it could also be an attempt to drum up support for it.
Or it could actually be for real, as a public good will gesture, having nothing to do with whatever they're doing.