Filling the Ark: Animal Welfare in Disasters

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  1. Michelle Davis, Faces of Katrina, http://www.pitbullsontheweb.com/
    petbull/katrina.php.

  2. Animal Protection Organizations Urge Shelters and Rescue Groups with
    Katrina Pets to Extend Holding Time, Louisiana SPCA press release, October 12,
    2005, http://www.la-spca.org/archive/101205requestb.htm.

  3. For more information about Maddie’s Fund, see the organization’s
    home page at http://www.maddiesfund.org/index.html.

  4. The PETS Act became Public Law 109-308.

  5. For a report on the memorial service, see Memorial Honors Katrina
    Animals, Louisiana SPCA press release, August 8, 2006, http://www.la-spca.org/
    archive/memorial080806.htm.

  6. American Veterinary Medical Association, U.S. Pet Ownership, 1–3.

  7. Loseke, Thinking about Social Problems, 75–95.

  8. See, e.g., Heath et al., “Risk Factors for Pet Evacuation Failure”; Heath
    et al., “Epidemiological Study of Cats and Dogs.” These factors were similar
    to those associated with surrender to a shelter in nondisaster settings. See
    Salman et al., “Human and Animal Factors.”

  9. Heath et al., “Human and Pet Related Risk Factors,” 661; see also
    Dynes, “Disaster Event and Community Stress”; Peny, Lindell, and Greene,
    “Evacuation Experiences.”

  10. For a report on the temporary sheltering of animals with confi rmed
    guardians, see “LSU Responds to Care for Animals in the Aftermath of Hurri-
    canes Katrina and Rita,” La veterinaire, October 2005, http://www.vetmed.lsu.
    edu/Web_pdfs/October05LaVet.pdf.

  11. Heath, “Human and Pet Related Risk Factors,” 664.

  12. Ibid.

  13. Further information about increased numbers of animals at shelters
    appears in Irvine, Providing for Pets during Disasters, Part II.

  14. Heath et al., “Human and Pet Related Risk Factors,” 664.

  15. Heath and Champion, “Human Health Concerns,” 69.

  16. See Heath, Voeks, and Glickman, “Epidemiological Features of Pet
    Evacuation Failure.”


Chapter 2



  1. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Livestock Slaughter; idem, Poultry
    Slaughter.

  2. Lawrence, “Neoteny in American Perceptions of Animals,” 46.

  3. Serpell, In the Company of Animals, 5.

  4. For more on the transformation of agriculture, see, e.g., Bowler,
    “Industrialization of Agriculture”; Lobao and Meyer, “Great Agricultural Tran-
    sition”; Molnar, Hobart, and Bryant, “Passing the Cluck.”

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