Kinship Circle: For Shannon Moore, In Our Prayers
June 4th, 2006 5:28 pm by Kelly Garbato———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Kinship Circle
Date: Jun 3, 2006 3:38 PM
Subject: For Shannon Moore, In Our Prayers
To: 3 KINSHIP CIRCLE
Permission to cross-post
Our colleague and friend Shannon Moore has ended her life. For any in the Gulf Coast trenches — at your computer or wading through the muck — Shannon was alongside you in some way. Her dedication was unsurpassed.
Please keep Shannon and her family in your prayers.
Candlelight Site
www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=shann
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From: ARNewOrleans [at] aol [dot] com
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006
Subject: Shannon Moore
www.AnimalRescueNewOrleans.com/
We are all deeply saddened by Shannon’s death and our thoughts are with her, Robert and their families.
We are all shocked by Shannon’s death. The only thing we can do now is to honor her memory and continue the work that was her passion.
We don’t know where Shannon will be buried or if there will be a local service for her — we’re assuming there will be some type of memorial at least.
As sad as we all are we have kittens and dogs to care for and being around the animals is somehow comforting, knowing at least we can help them. We are very concerned for everyone affected since no one can easily handle the shock, grief, guilt, sorrow, and other emotions bound to emerge as we deal with this loss.
I know you will keep Shannon and Robert and her family in your thoughts.
Shannon will be remembered and her loss will be felt for a very long time.
Robin Beaulieu
Assistant Director
Animal Rescue New Orleans
Charlotte Bass Lilly
Executive Director
Animal Rescue New Orleans
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I Forgot To Tell You…
June 3, 2006
Dearest Shannon,
Today I awoke in a sun-filled room. I’d dreamed about my trip to New Orleans to finally meet you and stay in your home. In that hazy rift between sleep and wakefulness, I did not remember you were gone.
I forgot to tell you: When we worked on Louisiana’s Pet Evacuation Bill materials, you were so patient and kind. I was the stress machine. You thanked me many times for the PSAs, releases, and letter campaigns. That was your way, at least with me… I began to look forward to our conversations. Because, as women do, we’d passed from “professional” to personal. A bond had formed. I miss you Shannon and have this insane urge to call you.
I forgot to tell you: Thank you for your help when my puppy, rescued from a Missouri puppy mill, came home with a parvo-like condition, coccidia, giardia, and two little legs with missing bones. While Mandy was hospitalized on IV fluids, you called and called. You consulted your veterinarian uncle for advice. You were just there, unconditionally and completely. I wish you could see Mandy now. She is a spastic fluffball. We call her the walking “hair-do.”
I forgot to tell you: We were kindred spirits, you and I, with that precarious dose of passion and pain. Needing approval, but forging ahead, obsessively so. The last time we talked at length, I wanted to share a hundred more stories. You were a comfortable ear. I could open up, as you did with me. I don’t connect easily. I grieve the friendship we lost and the one that would have grown.
For you Shannon, that line between valor and sorrow was thinly etched. People who practice compassion — not on a whim, but as their core – waken to daily questions: Can I save just one? How many can I speak for today? The fragile heart feels too much. Sees too much. Hears too much. Empathy gives way to anger and confusion. To experience the fear and pain of infinite animals can break the soul. Without a lifeline, isolation becomes unbearable.
I can never know the depth of your despair in those final hours Shannon. Like many who knew you, I am plagued with a thousand What-If’s. I do know the world has lost an imperfect angel. A gentle spirit who could no longer find reason for hope.
Sleep among angels, sweet Shannon. And bring your love to the animals we couldn’t save…
I know you’d think this letter is a mush-fest and it would probably embarrass you. But the thing is, I forgot to tell you how much I cared.
Your friend,
Brenda
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ANIMAL LAW COALITION
IN MEMORIAM: SHANNON MOORE
Best Friends Article
network.bestfriends.org/animallawcoalition/news/4553.html
June 2, 2006
It is appropriate that the Louisiana Pet Evacuation bill, S.B. 607, has passed the state Senate unanimously without debate, as it should have. What is not appropriate is that SHANNON MOORE has died. Shannon, founder of Save our Pets and volunteer for other animal rescue groups, worked hard for the passage of this bill. She organized the rally on the Capitol steps that took place the day before the bill was first heard by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The picture that accompanies this story is of Shannon’s dog at the rally. I remember she was so excited that a Best Friends Animal Society photographer had captured her dog at that moment.
Shannon worked on other fronts to organize support for this bill. She rallied rescue groups. She asked me and many others to help with a letter writing campaign she had started to generate support for the bill from the Judiciary Committee, the governor and the Finance Committee. Many of you may have used her sample letter posted on this site to write your own appeals for the Louisiana senators and governor to support this bill.
We will greatly miss her voice as this bill now goes to the Louisiana state House Judiciary Committee.
You may not know that Shannon was herself a Katrina survivor. She lost all of her possessions in Katrina. Though she had lost her home, she rescued and found homes for numerous stranded or abandoned animals in the aftermath of Katrina. At the time of her death Shannon and her organization were caring for literally hundreds of Katrina kittens. Shannon is another of the heroes, the unsung heroes, of Katrina.
If you can help Shannon’s kittens, write me and I will put you in touch with her organization.
As for the bill, for Shannon, for the animals, please write the House Judiciary members below and urge their support. Another hurricane season has begun. There is no more time.
A hearing is scheduled for June 8. Rep. Jack Smith is the bill’s sponsor in the House. A copy of the bill is in our Resources section and for more information on the bill, go to
network.bestfriends.org/animallawcoalition/news/3544.html ;
network.bestfriends.org/animallawcoalition/news/4152.html
For more information on Shannon’s rally in support of the bill and the emotional hearing that followed, go to:
network.bestfriends.org/animallawcoalition/news/2477.html
Thank you, Laura
The address for the House Judiciary Committe is:
P.O. Box 94062 (900 North Third Street)
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70804
larep085 [at] legis.state.la.us; larep072 [at] legis.state.la.us; larep089 [at] legis.state.la.us; larep002 [at] legis.state.la.us; larep051 [at] legis.state.la.us; larep067 [at] legis.state.la.us; larep027 [at] legis.state.la.us; larep057 [at] legis.state.la.us; larep011 [at] legis.state.la.us; larep066 [at] legis.state.la.us; larep049 [at] legis.state.la.us; larep081 [at] legis.state.la.us; larep006 [at] legis.state.la.us; larep101 [at] legis.state.la.us; larep048 [at] legis.state.la.us; larep088 [at] legis.state.la.us; larep064 [at] legis.state.la.us; larep024 [at] legis.state.la.us
Toomy, Joseph F.
Carter, Robert J. “Robby”
Burns, Timothy G.
Burrell, Roy
Dartez, Carla Blanchard
Dorsey, Yvonne
Farrar, Rick
Faucheux, Jr., Robert R.
Gallot, Jr., Richard “Rick”
Greene, Hunter
Hebert, Troy
LaBruzzo, John
Powell, Mike
Richmond, Cedric
Romero, Errol “Romo”
Smiley, Jr., M.J. “Mert”
White, Mack “Bodi”
Salter, Joe R.
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Caring about innocent animals caught in Katrina’s wrath doesn’t diminish human suffering. It makes us human.
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