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From: Kinship Circle - kinshipcircle [at] accessus.net
Date: Dec 27, 2007 4:33 PM
Subject: Rebuilding Lives In New Orleans/A New Year…

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FROM ANIMAL RESCUE NEW ORLEANS
12/27/07: Rebuilding Lives In New Orleans / ARNO REPORT
www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters/

PHOTO: Lakeview, New Orleans — Kinship Circle, 2007

IN ARNO’S REPORT:

1. News From ARNO
2. ARNO Shelter Undergoes A Makeover!
3. Moratorium And Ongoing Need For Volunteers
4. We Need Your Help To Keep Going…
5. Sponsor A Pet Through “Spot’s Fund”
6. Pet Retention Program
7. Kudos To Brad Pitt And Steven Bing For Helping New Orleans!

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1. News From ARNO

SOURCE: Charlotte Bass, table25 [at] bellsouth.net

ANIMAL RESCUE NEW ORLEANS

4,000 in the last 20 months: That’s every animal spay/neutered, heartworm and veterinary treated…so each leaves our shelter as healthy as possible. Even feral cats are treated for wounds, upper respiratory infections, etc.

Bonaparte was flown to his new home in California this fall. Caring people from around North America (including Canada) adopt ARNO pets. Our home visits are accomplished through rescue partners in the adopting cities.

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2. ARNO Shelter Undergoes A Makeover!

ARNO Warehouse, 271 Plauche St., New Orleans, LA 70123

Everyone is excited about a major “makeover” for ARNO’s Plauche St. shelter. Our front office complex now has a clean, hospital-like appearance and cat breezeway areas are reconfigured. Modern shelter protocols for disinfecting and housing are underway. While ARNO’s inoculation protocols already meet contemporary shelter medicine protocols, our entire operation will now function at peak protocols for cleaning and disinfecting.

ARNO’s new daily shelter hours from 3:00pm to 7:00pm give animal care volunteers less interruption during the first part of the day. The roughly $3,000 makeover is funded from a slim checkbook… Since August, we’ve run an in-house lab to read fecals, conduct our own parvo tests, and more. ARNO trains volunteers to evaluate these slides, under the guidance of Ohio State University volunteer vet students. An on-site lab not only saves money, but also relieves labor, time and stress to animals from transport to clinics.

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3. Moratorium And Ongoing Need For Volunteers

VOLUNTEER FOR ARNO:
www.animalrescueneworleans.org/volunteer.html
504-571-1900, ar-no [at] cox.net

ARNO, an all-volunteer organization, needs helping hands constantly. We recently placed a temporary moratorium on intake and trapping — until our shelter population is reduced to manageable numbers through concentrated adoption efforts, transfers, etc. Though grateful for our strong, small core of regular volunteers, ARNO has operated in emergency mode for two years…15-hour days, seven days a week.

OUT-OF-TOWN VOLUNTEERS are still needed. In fact, since resident-fun ARNO’s inception, out-of-town volunteers have been our lifesavers — particularly when just two or three regulars are caretakers to approximately 250 animals!

A reduced shelter population and refurbished environment will ultimately attract more volunteers and let us focus on jobs beyond daily animal care, such as adoption drives and enhanced relationships with humane organizations that result in adoption transfers and other coordinated endeavors.

VOLUNTEER FOR ARNO:
www.animalrescueneworleans.org/volunteer.html
504-571-1900, ar-no [at] cox.net

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4. We Need Your Help To Keep Going…

ARNO’S WISHLIST: www.animalrescueneworleans.org/donate.html

Monetary donations are essential to ARNO’s survival…but not everyone can afford this. Still, you can help by cross-posting our wish list needs to raise awareness about ARNO’s work post-Katrina to the present.

Donated pet food from manufacturers is scarce…and we have to drum-up funds for transport when available. One load may cost $4000 - $2800, depending upon its geographic origin. This money covers fuel and fuel surcharges. Driver and truck are supplied via our volunteer trucking agent, FreeHaulNPC.

Donated food is mandatory for shelter animals AND homeless animals roaming streets in barely (or not at all) repopulated areas with depleted food/garbage sources to forage.

During the holidays and beyond, perhaps you can host a get-together, asking guests to bring a check for ARNO instead of a hostess gift. Or, hold a birthday party for your dog (or you) and do the same instead of gifts.

Many people nationwide have held fundraisers for ARNO with incredible results — from social gatherings in the Hamptons to Sweet 16 parties. Kindergartener and first-graders have raised hundreds of dollars through “Collect Your Coins” drives. Let us know if you can help raise funds for ARNO and we’ll send you bookmark/brochures to hand out at your event.

DONATE TO ARNO:
1. ONLINE: www.animalrescueneworleans.org/donate.html
2. MAIL: Animal Rescue New Orleans, 1219 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
3. PETSMART GIFT CARDS: www.petsmart.com
4. PETCO GIFT CARDS: www.petco.com/Shop/Product.aspx?R=462&sku=948675&Nav=14
5. SUPPLIES: Ship/Drop Off - ARNO Warehouse, 271 Plauche St., New Orleans, LA 70123

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5. Sponsor A Pet Through “Spot’s Fund”

Meet Spot, a wonderful dog shot and left to die in New Orleans East:
www.animalrescueneworleans.org

Spot’s Fund is a permanent fund for donors to sponsor a pet who needs extraordinary care. Donations to Spot’s Fund directly cover costs associated with Spot’s surgery, medical treatment and rehabilitation. Any additional funds are earmarked to help us save the lives of other animals, who like Spot, have no options without ARNO… Animals like Aubrey, the pitiful sarcoptic mange dog who needed long-term treatment and removal of tumors.

Spot lay bleeding for at least 8 hours before found and rushed to a veterinary clinic where he was stabilized with fluids and pain meds. RIGHT PHOTO: Spot after his surgery, made possible by donors!

www.animalrescueneworleans.org

If you can help financially, even with a small donation, please consider donating now using our PayPal link on our homepage. Happy Holidays to you all… and bless you for helping the animals in any way you can.

UPDATE ON SPOT!

Spot has been adopted by a veterinary medicine student from Ohio State University and went home with her for Christmas! We are thrilled Spot is probably one of the sweetest dogs we have had at our shelter (course you know we say that about all of them!) He is beautiful, intelligent, loving and super sweet! This is the best Christmas present ARNO could ever get…

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6. Pet Retention Program

More than two years after Katrina, citizen still struggle daily…

…if not physically, at a minimum, emotionally. ARNO strives to work with those left indigent after the storms by fulfilling medical needs for their pets. Our goal is to prevent surrender to overcrowded municipal shelters where adoption rates are low.

We salute volunteers assigned to Katrina-affected people. They’ve become “family,” assisting with grocery purchases, finding lost relatives to help, and even moving dogs to new homes via volunteer transport. Please support ARNO so we may continue to aid the human and animal survivors of Katrina.

DONATE: www.animalrescueneworleans.org/donate.html

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7. Kudos To Brad Pitt And Steven Bing For Helping New Orleans!

An art installation in the Lower 9th Ward, crafted in pink fabric, depicts homes in varying degrees of “dismemberment” after Katrina. Some of dwellings are lit from within, with a light to represent each person who died there. The effect is beautiful, chilling and touching…and worth seeing. To learn more about this “green project” portrayed in pink, visit: www.makeitrightnola.org

New Orleans is still rebuilding, with much left to do. We remain thankful to all who contribute their support, money and sweat toward rejuvenating this one-of-a-kind, nowhere-else-in-the-world city. She’s worth every effort!

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