>From: Kesrael Vacchon <[log in to unmask]>
>
>You guys can attack me all you want, it's not the first time it's
>happened here and for all I know, it probably won't be the last. It
>seems that almost every time I post something here, I get it back
>from you people. *I* would not leave without my pets. PERIOD. There's
>NEVER any reason to. If it came down to it and they said I had to
>leave my pets in order to be rescued then I'd say 'see ya, I'll go
>it on my own.'

Tammy, I don't know who you are, don't recall seeing your screen name,
and in any case I don't go around attacking people. Posting what I
heard and saw in New Orleans after Katrina is not an attack against
you. It's just fact.

People DON'T always disbelieve what authorities tell them. Just last
year a town in the Midwest was evacuated after a chemical spill. The
mayor and everyone else promised the townspeople they'd be home in a
few hours, 1-2 days at the most. Three days later the police began
finding tracks in the snow as people sneaked home at night to rescue
their pets. The mayor received death threats. Even after Katrina,
few people are as prepared or as skeptical as they should be.

I hope you never experience a disaster on the scale of Katrina, or one
where law enforcement officers will shoot your animals right in front
of you as they forcibly haul you onto the boat or helicopter. I wish I
never heard of or saw a lot of these things, but that's the ugly side
of animal rescue.

Susann Thiel

[Posted in FML 5707]