"We'll stay as long as the need is there, as long as authorities will allow us to be there, as long as there's a chance that pets can be found." They're resourceful, she said, and resilient. They are family as well."Īnd even five days after the tornado struck, Jae said its likely that more pets are out there, possibly hiding or skittish. "Once you've found all your family, your pets are the very next thing. Still, she said, getting those animals back to their people is best. In that case, the Humane Society works to get the animal to a loving second home. However, she said, not all families will be able to care for their animals when they themselves don't have homes or jobs. Jae thought that even more animals will be reunited with their families in Joplin, and reunification is the first priority. "But that means that a huge number, 70 percent, reunited, which is kind of amazing when you consider the destruction." After Katrina, which had much more widespread destruction, Jae said, about 30 percent of animals weren't able to be reunited with their owners. In Missouri, the Humane Society of Missouri is the lead agency in rescue, recovery and reunification of animals. A year later, Jae said, the federal government mandated that animal rescue be part of emergency response plans with the PETS act, or Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards of 2006. "Even this morning."Īfter Hurricane Katrina, the Humane Society of the United States rescued 10,000 animals, according to the agency, but many more couldn't be saved. "We're still in that phase," Williams said on Friday. Six teams a day are working in the community. He said the number of animals rescued so far is in the mid-hundreds and the last count he heard was that about 400 animals had been brought into the emergency shelter at the university.
In addition to feeding, walking and caring for the animals of people in the Red Cross shelter, a 23-person team is now working in Joplin with rescue and reunification, said Jeane Jae, vice president of communications with the Humane Society of Missouri.īrian Williams, of Lake of the Ozarks, is chief statewide animal cruelty investigator with the Humane Society and has been in Joplin since Monday night. "They're just as grateful as can be that we're able to take care of their animals for them," O'Donnell said. During that time, she said, people who've lost so much have a few minutes of normal with their pets. But she has seen a few people get reunited with their animals, and others, who are staying at the shelter, get a little relief on their daily visits.
O'Donnell said she went straight to the university and hasn't seen much of what's left from Sunday's tornado that left 152 missing and 132 dead so far. Louis-based Humane Society volunteer who's been in Joplin since Tuesday. "We're together," Lawrence said over the phone from that shelter run by the Humane Society, where she'd gone to visit Izabella. There, people and animals are being sheltered in separate spaces The next day, though, more help came and this time it was for both Lawrence and her dog, who are still together at an emergency Red Cross shelter at Missouri Southern State University. Lawrence and her dog slept a few short hours in their home that night, she said on Friday, because all of the volunteers who came by said she'd have to leave her dog. In her arms, Izabella shivered and shook.Īfter the storm, after two young men helped shovel Lawrence out of the wreckage, Izabella kept shaking.
As the tornado that tore through Joplin that night raged all around, pieces of her home fell down on her back. Louis Beacon, - On Sunday evening, Elizabeth Lawrence ducked down in her wheel chair, half in the bathroom of her duplex, holding tight to her small, warm pomeranian, Izabella. Well-socialized dogs on leashes are welcome (please NO RETRACTABLE LEASHES).This article first appeared in the St. All proceeds support the Joplin Humane Society. Virtual 5K (you choose when & where you run/walk) includes Finisher Medal that will be mailed to you the week following the race.
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