Tag: Natural disaster

Japan’s Animals are in Peril

The recent earthquake and consequential tsunami in Japan has kept people all over the world asking how they can help.  When a disaster like this strikes the devastation is enormous, not only to our human friends, but to our animal friends as well. Animals left in the quake of a

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Wendy Diamond

New York’s Finest Help Man’s Best Friends

Jeff Eyre is Director of Humane Services at Spring Farm CARES, an animal sanctuary in  Clinton, New York. Eyre volunteers as a member of the National Disaster Animal Response Team of the Humane Society of the United States. He was deployed as part of the HSUS disaster response to Hurricane

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Wendy Diamond

IFAW Teams Reunite Lost Dogs

After Hurricane Katrina hit, IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) scrambled animal rescue teams across the Gulf coast. In New Orleans teams worked off a master address list going door-to-door in boats and trucks looking for lost, abandoned and displaced pets.   Katrina displaced an estimated 30,000 animals. Most pets

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