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From: Kinship Circle - kinshipcircle [at] accessus.net
Date: Feb 4, 2008 6:08 PM
Subject: [GLOBAL] Flood Survivors Need Hay, Animals Amid Bombs…MORE

KINSHIP CIRCLE ANIMAL DISASTER RELIEF - PERMISSION TO CROSS-POST
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RELIEF GLOBAL
2/4/08: Flood Survivors Need Hay, Animals Amid Bombs…MORE

IN THIS ALERT:

1. Hay For Horses Who Survived Washington Floods
2. Violence Revisits Lebanon - Global Animal Aid Needed
3. Pause For Hope? Iran’s First Animal Shelter
4. Mortgage Crisis Causalities: Companion Animals
5. In U.S. 870,984 Confined Animals Died In Fires

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1. Hay For Horses Who Survived Washington Floods

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ALERT FROM / REPLY TO:
David Friedman, KE7GOY
Disaster Services Coordinator, MUTTSHACK WASHINGTON
cell: 206 390-9461; hm/office: 360-794-3109; dfnow [at] verizon.net
www.muttshack.org

BACKGROUND (edited for length):

dfnow [at] verizon.net, 2/2/08 — For animals who survived the catastrophic flood in Lewis County [Washington State], the winter looks bleak. Donations of hay or money to buy hay are needed… Families are struggling to remove mud and debris and rebuild their homes… Many went to extreme measures to save their animals from drowning. Families lost all their hay in the flood and don’t have the resources to purchase it again… We’ve distributed hay in Lewis, Thurston and Grays Harbor. Each semi costs about $7500 and the cost increases every month…

www.folcas.org — Housing, feeding and caring for animals in Lewis County affected by the floods will continue through the winter. Donations of hay and grain are still desperately needed. Approximately 30 tons of hay each month for the next 6 months is necessary for farm animals to survive. We need to raise about $7500.00 each month to accomplish this.

READ MORE ABOUT DECEMBER 2007 FLOOD RELIEF FOR ANIMALS:
www.folcas.org/Flood_Relief.html

MONETARY DONATIONS TO BUY FEED FOR FLOOD SURVIVORS:

All monetary donations will go to purchase feed to help these animals. There are no administrative fees, salaries or overhead costs.

1. CREDIT CARD, ONLINE: Friends Of Lewis County Animal Shelter
www.folcas.org * www.folcas.org/Donate.html

2. CREDIT CARD, BY PHONE: Contact Patty Kaija, FOLCAS President,
at 360-508-0151 or pattyk [at] folcas.org

3. SEND DONATION, BY MAIL:
FOLCAS (Friends Of Lewis County Animal Shelter)
PO Box 1421 * Chehalis, WA 98532

Donations can also be made at any Security State Bank. United Way donations may also be directed to Friends of Lewis County Animal Shelter. Friends of Lewis County Animal Shelter is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and all donations are tax deductible. Receipts available on request.

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2. Violence Revisits Lebanon - Global Aid Needed

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ALERT FROM / REPLY TO:

BETA – Beirut for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
CONTACT: beta.team [at] hotmail.com * www.betalebanon.org

BACKGROUND (edited for length):

beta.team [at] hotmail.com — Yesterday a large explosion was reported as targeting a US embassy vehicle. Footage aired on all the major news networks — the smoke, destruction and burning vehicle. There has been a drastic increase in bombings over the last month… Lebanon is without a President since November and elections have been delayed more than ten times.

This does greatly affect BETA, but we are continuing our vital work here. Currently we care for more than 350 dogs and cats in our shelters, as well as provide boarding services, spaying and neutering of stray and feral animals, and rescue of many animals in need… We have no plans to stop.

However, bombings and insecurity make things very difficult for our operations, and specifically our ability to fundraise within Lebanon… Due to instability and concern in the coming months, some of our donors are not able to give as much or, unfortunately, anything. Fundraising events are less successful, need to be postponed, or canceled… In times like this we need to reach out to the international community.

DONATIONS TO HELP ANIMALS IN BEIRUT WAR ZONE:

ONLINE DONATIONS: Beirut For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals
www.betalebanon.org/donate.asp
www.betalebanon.org/sponsor.asp

PHOTOS: Amanda (lt) and Amy (rt), two of BETA’s featured lovables, available for adoption to a secure home anywhere around globe.

DOGS: www.betalebanon.org/adopt.asp?pet_type=dog

CATS: www.betalebanon.org/adopt.asp?pet_type=cat

CONTACT BETA TO LEARN HOW YOU CAN HELP ANIMALS IN WAR ZONE:

adopt [at] betalebanon.org
For adopting one of our cats or dogs or follow-up on rescued animals

donate [at] betalebanon.org
For donating to BETA, our sponsorship program, our fundraising events

volunteer [at] betalebanon.org
For our volunteer program and how to get involved with BETA

contact [at] betalebanon.org
For general information

KINSHIP CIRCLE REFERENCES:

Animals - War’s Unseen Collateral Damage
www.kinshipcircle.org/columns_articles/collateral_damage.html

6/4/07: No Ceasefire For Animals (& Rescuers) In Lebanon
www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters/relief/07-06-04.html

3/28/07: BETA: Back From Beirut War Trenches
kinshipcircle.org/updates/updates_jan-mar_2007.html#2

2/1/07: Diary Of An American Animal Rescuer In War-Torn Lebanon
www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters/relief/07-02-01.html

8/17/06: Please Help: Innocent Faces Of War
www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters/relief/8_17_06.html

7/29/06: [MIDDLE EAST] Panic From The Blast Of Rockets
www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters/relief/7_29_06.html

7/22/06: [LEBANON] Same Eyes, Same Fear
www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters/relief/7_22_06.html

7/17/06: [MIDDLE EAST] More Forgotten Victims
www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters/relief/7_17_06.html

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3. Pause For Hope? Iran’s First Animal Shelter

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ALERT FROM / REPLY TO:
THE CENTER FOR ANIMAL LOVERS, www.cal.ir
ph: +98 21 22900118; email: info [at] cal.ir or fatemehmotamedi [at] hotmail.com
Flat 2, 1st FL, No. 785, Khayam Ave.
1161934157
Tehran, Iran

BACKGROUND:

fatemehmotamedi [at] hotmail.com — The Center For Animal Lovers (CAL) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Iran. CAL runs a shelter for dogs called: VAFA. Vafa is a word that means “loyalty.” A few months ago, we were accepted as a member of World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA). www.wspa-international.org/members/IRAN.HTM

CAL’s website is not available in English. If interested in supporting this group, and welfare for animals in Iran, contact CAL directly:
ph: +98 21 22900118
email: info [at] cal.ir or fatemehmotamedi [at] hotmail.com

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4. Mortgage Crisis Causalities: Companion Animals

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PHOTO: A dog looks from an enclosure at the Queen Anne’s County Department of Animal Service in Queenstown, Maryland, 1/24/08. The most pitiful victims of the subprime mortgage crisis are the family pets as people forced out of their homes are giving up their pets. FROM: Baileygirl [at] charter.net

HIDDEN VICTIMS OF MORTGAGE CRISIS: PETS

EDITED FOR LENGTH. FULL: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22900994/

STOCKTON, Calif. - The house was ravaged — its floors ripped, walls busted and lights smashed by owners who trashed their home before a bank foreclosed on it. Hidden in the wreckage was an abandoned member of the family: a starving pit bull. The dog was too far gone to save — another example of how pets are becoming the newest victims of the nation’s mortgage crisis as homeowners leave animals behind…

Pets “are getting dumped all over,” said Traci Jennings, president, Humane Society of Stanislaus County, northern California. “Farmers find dogs dumped on grazing grounds, while house cats are showing up in wild cat colonies…”

The first people to enter an abandoned house, such as property inspectors and real estate brokers, have discovered dogs tied to trees in backyards, cats in garages, and turtles, rabbits and lizards in children’s bedrooms.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that forsaken animals are becoming a problem wherever foreclosures are climbing. Stockton and Modesto have some of the nation’s highest foreclosure rates…

PHOTOS: (lt) Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP. In Stockton, Modesto and other nearby cities with some of the highest foreclosure rates in the nation, animal shelters and rescue groups are inundated. (rt) Feral cats are fed a supply of cat food at a park in Stockton, Calif.

The situation has become so widespread that the Humane Society urged home owners faced with foreclosure to take their animals to a shelter. Shelters are trying to keep up, but the spike in abandoned pets comes at a time when fewer people are adopting animals. Home sales are plunging to their lowest level in decades, and new homeowners are often the most likely to seek a pet. [But] even people who are buying homes are not adopting pets…

Bloggers are furious with the “foreclosure pet” phenomenon, especially after seeing photos of emaciated animals on the Internet. Some critics say the pet owners have already proved they are irresponsible by buying houses they could not afford or mortgages they did not bother to understand… Abandoning animals is illegal in most states under anti-cruelty laws, but the laws are not rigidly enforced…

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5. In U.S. 870,984 Confined Animals Died In Fires

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ALERT FROM / REPLY TO:
CONTACT: Laurie Loveman, Fire Safety in Horse Barns
www.laurieloveman.com * 440-543-1640

2007: In U.S. Alone, 870,984 Confined Animals Died in Preventable Fires

January 12, 2008 (FPRC) — CHAGRIN FALLS, OHIO As reported to the media in 2007, the United States suffered 203 barn and other animal facility fires in which animals perished. This does not include the hundreds of companion animals and birds who died in house fires. Of the 203 fires, only 4 were arson or suspicious. The remaining 199 fires were probably all preventable, since the fires in which the causes were determined were all preventable.

The largest numbers of animals killed, per fire, occurred in factory farms:
*57,500 turkeys and turkey chicks
*35,820 ducks, ducklings, geese and goslings
*619,882 hens and chicks
*4,902 pigs and piglets

In other livestock facility fires, these animals died:
*304 horses
*423 dogs (pets, farm dogs, puppy mill dogs, dogs in animal hospitals, shelters, pet shops)
*387 cats (pets, barn cats, cats in animal hospitals, shelters, pet shops)
*664 cattle and calves
*103 sheep and lambs
*202 goats and kids

In pet shop fires, 487 small mammals, 70 birds, and 220 reptiles died. Twenty wild animals died in zoo fires. In an unusual incident, 150,000 fish were killed in a barn fire at a fish farm.

Can we save animals from death by fire? Absolutely! Every government jurisdiction should adopt as an Ordinance, the National Fire Protection Association’s 2007 Edition of NFPA 150 Standard on Fire and Life Safety in Animal Housing Facilities for use in all new construction of livestock facilities, and everyone who cares about keeping animals safe from fire should visit my website for the latest information on fire safety in barns.

I’m an officer in the Highland Hills (Ohio) Fire Department, a state-certified fire inspector and I have a B.S. degree in Fire and Safety Engineering from the University of Cincinnati. But more important, I have more than 40 years experience in the horse industry and over 20 years in the fire service, and I know first hand the tragedy of preventable fires…

CONTACT: Laurie Loveman, Fire Safety in Horse Barns
www.laurieloveman.com * 440-543-1640

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