Those of you who have pets understand how gut-wrenching it would be to have to leave them for any period of time. MSNBC is keeping up with the alas, so-far fruitless search for Miss Kitty, who saved the life of her owner, Bill Harris.
Noah's Wish is trying mightily to provide shelter space for the pets of those displaced by Hurricane Katrina, so that these pet owners have one less thing to worry about. Here:
Zona Marchand hugs her dogs Game (left) and Kira before leaving them at the Noah's Wish emergency animal shelter in Slidell, La. Wednesday. The Marchand family's home was completely destroyed and they have moved into a motel in Baton Rouge, where 10 people share their room. "It's like having to leave my children," she says. Marchand was unsure when they would be reunited and the shelter will care for the pets until then. (Andrew Locke / MSNBC.com)
Please, if you can, donate to Noah's Wish and help them do this work. If you don't believe in "wasting money on animals", then do it for their owners. These people have enough to worry about and grieve over and have lost enough without wondering if their pets will still be there when they begin putting their lives back together.
UPDATE: No news on Miss Kitty, but "Snowball", the dog taken from a weeping boy as he and his family boarded an evacuation bus, has been located at the Gonzalez Louisiana SPCA and will be reunited with the boy.
One small happy ending in a sea of misery...
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