HUMANE
SOCIETY OF THE US
(HSUS)
and
ASPCA
send teams to help animals
stricken by the many natural disasters in the U.S. HSUS also has an
affiliate that helps animals around the globe.
AMERICAN HUMANE
sends teams to countries all over the globe to help
pets stricken by natural disasters and war.
Best Friends
also teamed up with ARCH (Animal Relief Coalition for Haiti)
to provide relief for pets suffering, along with humans, from
earthquakes that struck the island.
You can help!
Please donate whatever you can afford to help these
organizations pay for materials, training and
other costs urgently needed to help rescue frightened and injured
animals. To find out more about their work, and donate, click the links
above. And here are more valuable organizations that need help:
International Fund for Animal Welfare www.IFAW.org
Red Rover/United Animal Nations https://redrover.org/
DISASTER PREPAREDNESS CHECK LIST
What you can do to keep your pets safe in case of disaster:
Disaster Preparedness
Special info for those wishing to find local help for
pets in distress from disasters, or to help in person
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To go to any disaster site for the Humane Society or ASPCA, you must take special
training. If you are interested in receiving information on training to be a
member of The HSUS’s Disaster Animal Rescue Teams (DART), please send an email
to disaster@hsus.org
with "DART Training Information" in the subject line.
For ASPCA, contact your local organization.
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For help
with other groups, such as the New Orleans SPCA,
https://www.la-spca.org/
you can visit online to see what's needed, and donate direct.
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In Texas, which housed
the first
New Orleans pet refugees, the Texas SPCA site
is
https://spca.org/
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American Kennel Club Companion Animal Recovery
helps owners get back in touch with companion animals and other pets
who have been lost or separated during natural disasters.
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Also helping people
match pets with owners:
https://www.PetFinder.org
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The Humane Society of the U.S. is providing services to the areas
where pets were left to fend for themselves, or otherwise left to their own
devices, swimming in filthy water, becoming very ill, as well as
psychologically hurt. They have teams specially trained in disaster
relief, and have many expenses to train, maintain their services and supplies,
and transport people and animals. You can find out more and donate direct
to
HSUS.org.
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ASPCA's are also being called up to provide
help to the Gulf. Contact your local shelter to see if they
are taking pets in or going to any towns in the Gulf and need
financial help for this urgent work.
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SPCA-LA DART
needs donations to pay for emergency trips for animals
trapped/abandoned/lost all over the U.S.
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To go to any disaster site for the Humane Society or ASPCA, you must take special
training. If you are interested in receiving information on training to be a
member of The HSUS’s Disaster Animal Rescue Teams (DART), please send an email
to disaster@hsus.org with "DART Training Information" in the subject line.
For ASPCA, contact your local organization.
On behalf of animals caught in these
perilous circumstances, many thanks!
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