Help Hurricane Katrina's Animal Survivors

Okay, I knew there was a reason I started this page and then waited to use it. Here are some resources for people who want to help Hurricane Katrina's Animal Victims. I am getting calls for help from the disaster location and will update this area with news so tell your friends and keep checking back.

Below I've also included ANIMAL RESCUE REQUEST contact information below for those of you finding me via Google.

• Donate to the American Humane Association Hurricane Katrina Animal Rescue Fund
• Read the daily hurricane Katrina animal rescue update here.
• Donate to Humane Society of the Unite States Hurricane Katrina Animal Rescue Fund
• Donate to United Animal Nations Emergency Animal Rescue Group

ANIMAL RESCUE NUMBERS

(for Hurricane Katrina rescue workers, pet owners and those involved in rescue in disaster zones)

American Humane Association
Effective 9/2/05 call: (303)925-9484 Group is working from Jackson, Mississippi. Read the daily hurricane Katrina animal rescue update here. Be warned--it won't be pretty. This group ROCKS!

Humane Society of the United States
Disaster Assistance Email: disaster@hsus.org or click here: Animal Disaster Rescue Request
The following activities are already underway by HSUS:
The HSUS Disaster Response Unit is stocked and headed to Mississippi. The four-wheel drive truck and 38-foot air-conditioned trailer is equipped with rescue, sheltering, and communications gear as well as pet food and supplies. Trained disaster relief personnel will travel from a staging area in the Florida panhandle into Mississippi today.

Laura Bevan, who has responded to disasters going back to Hurricane Andrew in 1992, is leading The HSUS' field response with assistance from professionals and trained personnel experienced in animal handling.

The HSUS is supporting the evacuation of animals from the Louisiana SPCA to shelters throughout Texas for adoption.

The HSUS Southeast Regional Office located in Tallahassee is partnering with the Florida State Agricultural Response Team to assess animal needs and to provide rescue and sheltering of animals in south Mississippi.

The HSUS is also readying response teams from Texas to provide assistance on the west side of the impact area.

United Animal Nations Emergency Animal Rescue
Indicate clearly in your email that you are REQUESTING ANIMAL RESCUE. Send the message to headquarters@ears.org or click here: REQUESTING ANIMAL RESCUE

Be prepared to provide the following:
Address, City, State & Zip code where animal is located
Number, species and description of animal
Directions to the house and landmarks
Permission to enter the house.
Name and contact information of caller.

Hurricane Tips: How To Help Hurricane Katrina's Animal Victims

Just thought this would be useful to you. It is from my breaking news area for the media located at http://www.dianalguerrero.com. Please feel free to distribute:

Welcome to Ark Animals Answers!
Today’s Critter Chat concerns Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina devastated areas in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida--and animal rescue teams are standing by to assist pets and wild animals survivors. Here are a few things you can do to help:

-Donate funds to the main animal disaster rescue organizations like the American Humane Association, the Humane Society of the United States, and United Animal Nations. You’ll find direct links to their donation channels at arkanimals.com (above)

-Conduct fundraising for pets in your local area and send those in…while you also volunteer to establish disaster management plans for animals in your region.

-Use this time to prepare an animal disaster kit for your pets and develop a crisis plan for your family and neighborhood. A little bit of prevention goes a long way.

This is animal behaviorist, Diana Guerrero inviting you to take an armchair safari into the animal kingdom at www.arkanimals.com. Thanks for joining me for today’s Ark Animal Answers and feel free to contact me with your questions.


Podcast is available at: http://arkanimalanswers.podblaze.com please feel free to distribute via RSS from there.

WARNING:
I've only listed those agencies I KNOW work directly in rescue and whose funds go to animal rescue and related efforts. This email arrived in my box this am:

"This note is to ISOs, CIOs, and other interested parties on our email list. In the aftermath of the hurricane damage, many people are eager to help by sending donations to various charities. There are many good and reputable charities, but this is a heads-up that some disaster relief donation requests are not legitimate.
Please be advised that there are numerous scams already in place to take advantage of potential givers. Some of these are email and phishing scams, some involve fake web sites, and some are phony charities (and various combinations of all of these). In some cases the scammers are after credit card numbers or other personal information to be used for identity theft; in other cases they just want to take your donation. (Not all of the disaster relief scams are internet based - you may see people collecting money on street corners and in front of markets and I don't know of any way to identify which ones are there for what reasons.)

There are numerous legitimate web sites and mail addresses for disaster relief donations. Please use your good judgment in deciding what to do. (There is a link below to the FEMA web site, with a list of reputable charities.)

Below is a clip from the SANS Institute's web site, indicating that there may also be a danger of worms, viruses, and spyware in hurricane-related emails.

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Fake Hurricane emails Like after similar events in the past, we do expect scams and viruses to take advantage of this situation. Please be careful with e-mails containing 'hurricane videos' as attachments, or e-mail asking for donations. Refer to fema.gov for a list of reputable agencies (http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18473) or donate to organizations you trust and have past experience with.
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Please encourage your department's computer users to avoid opening hurricane video attachments and to be cautious about email solicitations for donations. These represent not only a privacy risk to the computer users, but possibly a security threat to the state."