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New Orleans' animals suffering in aftermath of Katrina

A Norwegian paper ran a story about two of the families that were forced to abandon their pets when they were rescued. One was a family that could bring only one personal item and had to choose the husband's liver transplant medication over their dogs. The other was a small boy who had to leave his dog Snowball behind, screamed the dog's name as they took him away from it, and cried for hours till he threw up.

Pets are not personal 'items' (or shouldn't be, anyway) and how hard is it to have a heart, even in a screwed up situation?

Oh, it seems chatnoire has a link to the English version of the story I read: Katrina Evacuees Distraught Over Lost Pets.

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By the way, there is snow on the mountains today.