coffeepotkeepers
09-12-2005, 07:56 AM
ASPCA Hurricane Katrina Volunteer Registration
http://www.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pagename=hurricane_volunteer
* Please contact JoAnne Reints in Alabama. SHE IS DESPERATE for
volunteer help.
Her number 251 621 5103 cell 251 895 1376 -
JoAnne said Mississippi is being forgotten and they need volunteers.
* Best Friends of Utah has set up a rescue site at the St. Francis
Animal
Sanctuary in Tylertown, Ms. The number to reach Cyrus or Jason is
--
(435) 644-3695 ext. 4242
* Volunteers (minimum age: 16) are needed to work in the pet shelter
at John M. Parker Coliseum. In Baton Rouge, please come directly to
the
Coliseum and ask for the Volunteer Coordinator to sign up. Or you
may
call toll-free (888) 773-6489 between 8:00 am and 6:00 pm or
e-mail Katrina@ldaf.louisiana.gov for more information.
* If you live outside the Baton Rouge area and would like to volunteer
your time to work in
one of the Emergency Animal Shelters, please call toll-free (888)
773-6489 between 8:00 am
and 6:00 pm, or send an e-mail to Katrina@ldaf.louisiana.gov with
your name and contact
information, level of experience (e.g., veterinarian, veterinary
assistant/technician, animal control worker,
lay volunteer, etc., and please indicate any specialized skills you
may have), your level of
self-sufficiency, when you can travel to Baton Rouge, and how long
you can stay.
* Any animal handling professionals or animal control officers who
wish to assist with
search and rescue missions going into flooded areas, please visit
the Louisiana Animal Control Association Newsblog at
http://www.lacanews.blogspot.com/ for more information.
Please note: this will be a dangerous, dirty job and no members of
the general public can assist us.
ONLY TRAINED PROFESSIONALS CAN BE USED FOR THIS TASK.
* Anyone in the Memphis area wanting to foster or volunteer with
Katrina animals should contact the
Memphis Shelby County Humane Society 901-276-7770 or go online &
fill out a foster application
at www.memphishumane.org
MSCHS is coordinating everything. Volunteers are urgently needed!!
You can also contact Elain Harvey at House of Mews
www.houseofmews.com or
email houseofmew@aol.com
* There is a desperate need of help in Waveland and/or
Diamondhead Mississippi. Nobody is there. They are working on a
staging area.
We really don't know what the situation is there other than there
are
animals there that need help! Please contact alleycat@alleycat.org
for
more information if you can help. They prefer to be emailed but if
not
you can call them at 240-482-1997. They will be the focal point for
this operation until something gets set up.
http://www.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pagename=hurricane_volunteer
* Please contact JoAnne Reints in Alabama. SHE IS DESPERATE for
volunteer help.
Her number 251 621 5103 cell 251 895 1376 -
JoAnne said Mississippi is being forgotten and they need volunteers.
* Best Friends of Utah has set up a rescue site at the St. Francis
Animal
Sanctuary in Tylertown, Ms. The number to reach Cyrus or Jason is
--
(435) 644-3695 ext. 4242
* Volunteers (minimum age: 16) are needed to work in the pet shelter
at John M. Parker Coliseum. In Baton Rouge, please come directly to
the
Coliseum and ask for the Volunteer Coordinator to sign up. Or you
may
call toll-free (888) 773-6489 between 8:00 am and 6:00 pm or
e-mail Katrina@ldaf.louisiana.gov for more information.
* If you live outside the Baton Rouge area and would like to volunteer
your time to work in
one of the Emergency Animal Shelters, please call toll-free (888)
773-6489 between 8:00 am
and 6:00 pm, or send an e-mail to Katrina@ldaf.louisiana.gov with
your name and contact
information, level of experience (e.g., veterinarian, veterinary
assistant/technician, animal control worker,
lay volunteer, etc., and please indicate any specialized skills you
may have), your level of
self-sufficiency, when you can travel to Baton Rouge, and how long
you can stay.
* Any animal handling professionals or animal control officers who
wish to assist with
search and rescue missions going into flooded areas, please visit
the Louisiana Animal Control Association Newsblog at
http://www.lacanews.blogspot.com/ for more information.
Please note: this will be a dangerous, dirty job and no members of
the general public can assist us.
ONLY TRAINED PROFESSIONALS CAN BE USED FOR THIS TASK.
* Anyone in the Memphis area wanting to foster or volunteer with
Katrina animals should contact the
Memphis Shelby County Humane Society 901-276-7770 or go online &
fill out a foster application
at www.memphishumane.org
MSCHS is coordinating everything. Volunteers are urgently needed!!
You can also contact Elain Harvey at House of Mews
www.houseofmews.com or
email houseofmew@aol.com
* There is a desperate need of help in Waveland and/or
Diamondhead Mississippi. Nobody is there. They are working on a
staging area.
We really don't know what the situation is there other than there
are
animals there that need help! Please contact alleycat@alleycat.org
for
more information if you can help. They prefer to be emailed but if
not
you can call them at 240-482-1997. They will be the focal point for
this operation until something gets set up.