"Educational" Video

[Tambrey]

I KNOW....I KNOW!!!...but really....it DOES have to do with HEALTH...so I decided that more people would see it here AND in the cat forum...and even though the video has only cats in it, the message is for dog owners as well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMzW3LIkNLA

here is another good one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HTkOfyN4ac

Traci....if you want to move it elsewhere, please feel free.....I will be gone again for a couple of days...more seminars!!

[E's]

These are excellent IMO. On this same subject, there is another really upsetting and sad development: I saw on the news yesterday that the mortgage crisis is causing another huge crisis for pets: people who are losing their homes are abandoning - or having to abandon - their cats and dogs. One foreclosure rep said she regularly takes pet carriers with her when she goes to inspect a vacated home... And the report pointed out that this trend is going to further overburden our already stressed rescue facilities... It is just a heartbreaking situation all 'round, and scary too. Sometimes I wish I didn't have such clear memories of the 1930s...

[Tambrey]

Our local humane society received 34 dogs in a week, which filled them over capacity...

Many people left comments on the online version of the story about how awful they were to abandon them....but you know....when it comes down to feeding your children, or your pets....it is sad that our economy has gotten so bad that people are forced into that kind of a heart wrenching decision...

especially when the headline read that they abandoned their pets...I did reply back asking how the writer knows they were abandoned and just given away...did she talk to those who had to take their pets there and know what the circumstances are?

Anyways....on a positive note...after the story hit....the parking lot and the business next door's lots were FULL and EVERY dog found a new forever home

[E's]

Thanks for input - that is comforting to hear that many people are responding properly. Yes, I am still VERY sensitive an this score because of Katrina: Q became frightened of getting in his carrier after I had a wreck in Aug '03 and he was in the carrier for 24 hrs. In '04 we left him because we could not get him in it, but he was OK. I had run from many hurricanes and my house was always safe... but in '05 I had bought a new top-loading carrier just for this reason, and got little sleep that last night, planning exactly how I was going to get Q in it... And I carried out my plan, popping him in a pillowcase and then into the carrier... but made the mistake of trying to remove the pillowcase: in that instant, he forced his way out, took off for upstairs. It was a crisis situation by then, and the captain of our group, my son, said that we could NOT stay any longer, and assured me it would turn out OK, we'd be back in a couple days, like before... I still get really angry at people who don't understand what happens in situations like that... Oh well, this belongs on another part of the forum no doubt.

[k9Karen]

E's - Katrina was horrible. Nothing we went through here the year before with Charley, Frances, and Jeanne combined even comes close. Q proved he is truly from The Continuum and not only survived, but found his way back to you in spite of all the odds that surely were against him. I know it isn't over and it's been ungodly awful, but please don't beat yourself up about not getting him into his carrier that fateful day. I would have felt the same way you did, thinking I would be home soon, and most likely would have done exactly the same thing if it had happened to me. Anyone who says differently has never had to experience the approach of a category 5 hurricane!