Filling the Ark: Animal Welfare in Disasters

10 / Introduction Valley to assist in the sheltering operation at Lamar-Dixon Exhibi- tion Center in Gonzales, Louisiana. The fo ...

Introduction / 11 rials, and other similar materials. In addition, I have analyzed the content of over nine hundred articles rel ...

12 / Introduction by local fi re, police, animal control, or other entities. When the inci- dent exceeds the capacity of local r ...

Introduction / 13 The National Response Plan categorizes the kinds of assistance needed into emergency support functions, such a ...

14 / Introduction Who Responds? What Happens to Animals during Disasters? There is no Red Cross for animals. The U.S. Department ...

Introduction / 15 eradication efforts. When meat processing was suspended, workers employed in slaughterhouses lost jobs. Haulin ...

16 / Introduction through the World Organization for Animal Health. As a member of the World Trade Organization, the United Stat ...

Introduction / 17 I agree that not treating animals as our property would solve many of our existing human-animal confl icts, in ...

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1 Companion Animals Let us not, however, fl atter ourselves overmuch on account of our human victories over nature. For each suc ...

20 / Chapter 1 up or left in crates.^1 The lessons learned after Hurricane Katrina, when thousands of animals were abandoned, se ...

Companion Animals / 21 hurricane season, transfers of this size would become common- place as rescue organizations sought to fi ...

22 / Chapter 1 fatalities.^7 By Monday, August 29, several levees had been breached and the city was experiencing widespread fl ...

Companion Animals / 23 mals are not permitted on public transportation. Numerous media accounts brought the animals’ plight to p ...

24 / Chapter 1 by September 3, about twenty thousand people had sought shel- ter there, amid violence and unsanitary conditions. ...

Companion Animals / 25 recalled: “The deputies told us, ‘If you want to get out alive, you have to go now. We’re saving people, ...

26 / Chapter 1 a massacre at the school. “It’s the worst memory I’ll ever have,” she said. “The bodies were being removed. It wa ...

Companion Animals / 27 the days following the evacuation, hundreds of evacuees had called hotlines at animal welfare organizatio ...

28 / Chapter 1 sent there and needed help with the challenge of housing the over- whelming number of animals. The group would fl ...

Companion Animals / 29 The Humane Society of the United States had leased fi ve large barns for sheltering rescued animals. The ...