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MarkG
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Grand Lord of Apolyton, Owner of all this land as far as the eye can see
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Legislation would require pet to be included in evacuations
More would leave if pets allowed, lawmakers say
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal disaster grants to state and local governments should be conditioned on how they accommodate pets in their evacuation plans, say lawmakers disturbed that some Hurricane Katrina victims refused to leave home because they couldn't take their animals with them.
"I cannot help but wonder how many more people could have been saved had they been able to take their pets," Rep. Tom Lantos, D-California, said Thursday.
Lantos and Reps. Christopher Shays, R-Connecticut, and Barney Frank, D-Massaschusetts, are sponsoring a bill that would require that state and local disaster preparedness plans required for Federal Emergency Management Agency funding include provisions for household pets and service animals.
More than 6,000 pets have been saved in Mississippi and Louisiana, said Michael Markarian, executive vice president of the Humane Society of the United States, but tens of thousands more could still be in New Orleans alone. Texas, he said, has been better at allowing people to take their pets with them ahead of Hurricane Rita but a formal policy is still needed.
"We cannot rely on individual acts of compassion," Markarian said.
Holly Hazard, executive director of the Doris Day Animal League, said there are 4,000 outstanding requests to rescue pets more than three weeks after Katrina hit.
While the legislation may draw attention to the issue, it doesn't "have any real meat in it," said Sara Spaulding, a spokeswoman for the American Humane Association. She said uniform protocols on rescuing and sheltering animals, for example, should be formulated at the federal level with consultation from animal welfare groups.
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Snotty
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However, I don't see why resources should be squandered at places like the Superdome or the Convention Center on pets, which are replaceable |
Thats pretty cold man.
I dont understand why there should be a money/ resource shortage anyway that you have to make the decision that you are only going to save the humans. Its not like this is the third world
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Q Cubed
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t3h y3ll0w p3ril
Apr 1999
time: 23:37
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It doesn't, actually.
If these people are in a position where they must rely on Federal aid for evacuation, then they must also be prepared to follow conditions set. Frankly, it's ridiculous for a pet to be granted space which could go to a human; and if the victims refuse to abide by the terms set, then they are perfectly free to find other methods of evacuation.
There is space in the private sector for people-pet evacuation; however, I don't think that government money should be spent on what are, quite frankly, disposeable and replaceable domesticated animals.
Sure, it'll be sad if people still reject aid and nothing else is there to replace it, but then again, it's their own damn fault, their own damn choice. It's not the Federal government's job to stop people from being idiots, if the only people being harmed are themselves.
Refusing to leave because you have an attachment to an animal that you, quite frankly, could largely replace at the kennel/shelter is a self-defeating idiocy, and if they want to purge themselves from the gene pool, more power to them.
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Snotty
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Originally posted by Wezil
If it is a choice bewteen your neighbour getting in the boat or your pet......?
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I would take turns swimming alongside the boat with the rest of my family, if it meant we could save our dogs
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Reds, Snotty, that's all well and good for you. But I say again, if you want to evac with them, you should pay for it, not government funds. |
I would if I could afford it. If I couldnt afford it, and my dog got refused transit with me, I dont know, but Im pretty sure I would take the risk and stay rather than abandon my dog. Thats the governments choice, the rescue expense is whats truly replaceable, not me and my pet.
Anyway, its got to be a drop in the ocean to provide for pet rescue as well. its probably more economically viable to rescue everything that could die, the stray pets are only going to end up polluting the place with their corpses otherwise
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