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rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> Just talked to my farrier. The American Farrier's Association (or
> something like that) recruited him along with 16 others to go down and
> trim the horses who are still unclaimed from Katrina...230...or was it
> 280? He said at last count. Soon they plan to put them up for adoption. I
> thought that was interesting. Looks like they'd start a website for
> claiming them or something.
>
> Also, just read that for hurricane Rita they said they'd "learned their
> lesson" and are allowing people to take their pets in carriers with them
> as they evacuate in busses...that refusing the pets was what had kept
> many people in New Orleans.
>
> Angie
>  
It's about time. Normally shelters don't take pets and people stay in 
their homes rather than leave their pets.

Hopefully the trend catches on.

Truman

--

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite 
of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."    Niels Bohr 
-- Nobel Laureate, Physics




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