As you can probably imagine, I follow animal rescue news during times of disaster.
Code 3 Associates, Denver Dumb Friends League, Humane Society of Missouri, Noah's Wish and SPCALA (Yay, Los Angeles!) have all deployed to aid Houston SPCA in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike.
Conspicuous by their absence are Best Friends Society and Pasado's Safe Haven; both were very active in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and deployed early to Louisiana in preparation for Hurricane Gustav.
Pasado's web site carries a short statement about why they have not responded to Hurricane Ike.
I don't know what bureaucratic feathers might have been ruffled (Pasado's ~was~ pretty intense in their Katrina efforts), but I think it's a damn shame that ready, willing and able hands are turned away.
UPDATE 9/17: Best Friends is now on the scene.
UPDATE 9/24: After reading SRM's comment, I am adding a link to MuttShack's web page with updates on their hurricane resuce actions.
I'm guessing that they can use all the help they can get it looks like not many building survived I can't imagine how the pets are dealing with the devastation
Though Texas was hard hit by Hurricane Ike, parts of Louisiana also sustained serious damage as well as cumulative damage as a result of Hurricane Gustav that hit there the week before. I am trying to publicize he need of the many small animal rescue/shelter groups for support to deal with the animals and damage from these hurricanes both in Louisiana as well as Texas (the big groups already get the word out about their needs). I am not affiliated with any of these animal rescue/shelter groups and only post the requests sent out by those groups to help the animals. (I am also not involved in the
fundraising and don't even post paypal addresses as donors should never go through a third party like me). Please read about some groups needing help at http://hurricaneikeanimalrescues.blogspot.com
SRM .. Thank you for posting the link to your blog! I'm glad for the reminder that MuttShack was involved. I'd inadvertently left them out of my list. Thanks again.