Volunteers required, save pets lives with Orleans Animal charities

Teen joins New Orleans Animal Rescue Mission - If Ben aged 14 can help so can you.
There are thousands of animals that need rescuing, so more volunteers are required.

http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2005/09/30/news/local/heights0930.txt
Heights teen joins animal-rescue mission
By: DOUGLAS J. GUTH Senior Staff Reporter

Volunteers from across the country are descending upon Tylertown, Mississippi, to join the Humane Society of Louisiana's effort to rescue pets stranded by Hurricane Katrina.

One of these volunteers is Cleveland Heights resident Ben Miller, 14. On Sept. 22, Ben left for Mississippi in an RV driven by Dr. Linda Mitchell of the Rainbow Vet Clinic in Cleveland Heights. This "mobile clinic" is equipped with medical supplies and other donations, explains his mother Jean.

Ben, an animal lover who has volunteered in the past with Mitchell's mobile vet unit, will be staying for a week in the small town, which is about 60 miles from New Orleans, on a tract of rural land dubbed "Camp Katrina." Ben, who is home-schooled, will assist in giving rescued animals food, refuge and emergency veterinary care.

Jean admits she is a bit nervous for Ben but is proud of her son's decision to join the mission. "This is an amazing opportunity for him," she says.

For information on how to donate to the animal rescue mission, call the Rainbow Vet Clinic at 216-291-3931.


VOLUNTEER CONTACTS
http://disaster.petfinder.com/emergency/

PET RESCUE CHARITIES THAT YOU CAN VOLUNTEER WITH
http://www.alleycat.org/katrina.html Alley Cat
http://www.pasadosafehaven.org/RESCUES/Rescue.htm Pasado Safe Haven rescues
http://news.bestfriends.org/index.cfm?page=specialreports&mode=cat&catid=04061773-BDB9-396E-9001EF6EC01318A4&stid=5 Best Friends
http://www.bestfriends.org
http://www.uan.org/ears/ Emergency Animal Rescue Service (EARS)
http://www.noahswish.org Noah's Wish
http://www.americanhumane.org/site/PageServer?pagename=pa_disaster_relief_Katrina_log American Humane

* Because there are many animals to feed, and not enough shelter space, so some animals have been fed where they are found. More Volunteer Rescuers would mean more animals will not starve to death.

NEWS October 1st 2005: WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO SAVE THESE ANIMALS IN NEW ORLEANS from Pasado Safe Haven rescuers in New Orleans:
http://www.pasadosafehaven.org/NEWS/NEWS.htm
* The "happy endings" are coming, one by one. Above, a mother and her daughter are reunited with the cat they thought for sure had died.
* Fewer animals are found alive now by our rescuers. They will stay in New Orleans for as long as it takes to find every last animal. And to help those tragically-starved animals residents will find on their own, and may not be able to afford to treat.
* Pasado Safe Haven: All of the animals we have found have needed emergency fluids, they are so dehydrated. And yet still, many remain inside houses waiting for us to come. THIS is what compels us to NOT give up.

VOLUNTEER in Louisiana to save animals.