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Date: September 8, 2005
From: Michael Ellis, AWARE
AWARE, Atlanta Wild Animal Rescue Effort, is in the process
of building a center and we aren’t in a position to give
money, equipment or supplies to the centers that have been
devastated by Katrina. What we can do is provide a staging
and transport site for the Southeast to deliver rebuilding
materials and animal care equipment for eventual shipment
to the centers in need. There are many more items that will
be needed but each center differs in its type of equipment
and design. The items listed below are of use to any and all
facilities so these and only these items are the ones that
we will be accepting. I have not included lumber due to possible
lag times and variances in design. When these facilities provide
us with a list of lumber needs, we will attempt to help with
that also.
Please include a “Shipment List” showing all items
included and keep a copy for your records. We are just three
miles off of Interstate 20 just east of Atlanta, Ga.
When we have a truckload, we will be looking for a kind soul
to make the trip so keep your ears open for truckers willing
to help.
I wish we could do more, but with your help we can be of
some service to the effort.
BUILDING MATERIALS
Hardware Cloth - 1/4 inch, 1/2 inch, 1 inch
DeckMate Screws - all increments from 3/4 inch to 3 inch
Corrugated PVC Panels 2' x 8' Clear, Green or Brown
Cage Clips and Cage Clip Pliers
Hog Rings (med) and Hog Ring Pliers
Welded Wire, Coated Fencing (black or green) - 1 inch x 1
inch x 6 ft. rolls.
Shade Cloth - Lowest density
Generators
Cordless Power Tools
Plug in Power Tools
Extension Cords
ANIMAL CARE EQUIPMENT
Heating Pads - Human and waterproof animal
No-tip pet bowls
Pet Carriers (cardboard)
Pet Carriers (plastic) - All sizes, disassembled with fasteners
(inside ziplock) and door placed between two halves stacked
inside each other.
Michael Ellis
Founder/director
AWARE
4158 Klondike Rd
Lithonia, Ga. 30038
www.awareone.org
(678) 418-1111
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Date: September 5, 2005
From: Valery Smith, Mississippi Wildlife Rehabilitation, Inc.
We have been working very hard and steady trying to find
staging areas for supplies.
Will the people that have called by phone or emailed with
offers of supplies and frozen mice, please email me at wlrehab@earthlink.net
with:
1. Your name, address, phone number and email at the bottom.
2. Types of supplies; medical, formulas, general rehab or
frozen mice.
We aren't able to tell everyone to just send your trucks
because the area on the coast is so devastated. We're going
to have to coordinate and send a few trucks at a time to the
areas that we can get to at the moment and where we will have
a safe dry barn and of course electricity.
We're getting maps ready of the drop off areas as we speak.
Thank you.
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Date: September 5, 2005
From:
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) is a place
for those who are trying to get wildlife out of New Orleans
to consider for assistance and coordination. IFAW already
has a rescue effort going for abandoned pets and may be able
to help in terms of infrastructure, lines of communication
and transport etc. This organization does help wildlife. Their
website is at www.ifaw.org.
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Date: September 5, 2005
From: Valery Smith, Mississippi Wildlife Rehabilitation, Inc.
Hi Penny and all,
I apologize for not sending updates to you about our Mississippi
rehabilitation colleagues. It has been absolutely crazy here.
I am very far north of the coast, about 400 miles. We received
minimal damage, trees down, power out for 2 days. I didn't
lose any of my ed birds or rehab animals and none of our volunteers
or anyone lost cages. My flight is intact.
The power was out all over Ms. When I got power back I started
trying to find people from WRANPS and WCRC, Alison Sharpe.
Alison lives in Biloxi. I found out that WRANPS was under
water and lost everything. Alison, WCRC, was totally demolished,
her house (which she was in at the time) totally demolished
also. She was lucky she was not killed.
It took me 3 days trying to get Alison on her cell phone.
Just a lucky hit when I did. I was just glad she was alive.
It has been emotional to even talk to Alison.
I have been deluged with telephone calls and emails. I haven't
left my house in 4 days because I wanted to be here in case
we got word we could get supplies through. Search and Rescue
efforts came first as they were still pulling bodies out on
the 2nd day. They are just now beginning to open up a few
roads. We were told to hold off sending supplies, no roads
open, no houses left, no power, no gasoline. So we are sitting,
waiting for the word.
Alison got through to me this morning again with great news.
Roads are opening, her mice people salvaged some of their
mice and brought her some for her ed birds, huge helicopters
dropped boxes and boxes of water. A neighbor down the road
got a generator somewhere and the whole neighborhood, whose
freezers have by now thawed completely out, were building
fires and cooking!! I had to smile, she was so happy to be
able to build a fire and cook their food up so it won't ruin.
(:))
Things are looking up, the community is all pitching in together
and helping clean up and help other people. Most houses were
destroyed in her community but everyone is banding together,
helping each other. The Red Cross is giving out credit cards
for people to get gas and other items. Gasoline trucks are
coming in refueling 'some' gas pumps. So, it doesn't seem
as bleak as it has been. Things are beginning to improve.
I received a call from Wendy Fox, a NWRA board member the
day I got power back on. She has called every day to try to
coordinate and just find out when the roads are opening and
how the rehabbers in Ms. are. The power is still off as far
up as Jackson and some of the Jackson groups have lost all
of their raptor food and other formulas and such.
I've been inundated with emails and calls from the general
public from Central Ms. all the way up here where we are regarding
baby squirrels and birds. Since the power is out in most areas
heading toward Jackson and the coast, I've been giving out
correct nutritional info to people. We don't have a choice
in these circumstances and nobody can afford the gas prices
to drive 200 miles to me.
I belong to NWRA and IWRC both. Lee Watt called me yesterday
to see if we needed anything. I haven't looked at the IWRC
site but feel they will probably work with NWRA on these efforts.
There does need to be a central location to tell people to
send money for the victims. You have to be extremely cautious
with these matters, plus you better be good stewards of the
general public's generous donations.
IWRC & NWRA are both wonderful organizations and need
to be our leaders and organizers with this relief effort for
all 3 states that were hit hard.
I haven't heard much about Alabama except Anne Miller's place
was spared.
I'm going to try to post updates on my website www.mswildliferehab.org
as the news trickles in.
Val
Valery E. Smith, Director
Mississippi Wildlife Rehabilitation, Inc.
Lake Cormorant, Mississippi
State & Federal Permits
IWRC, NWRA, Cornell
University Lab of Ornithology
wlrehab@earthlink.net
http://www.mswildliferehab.org
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September 2, 2005
From:
The Humane Society of the United States is responding to
hurricane victims. Their main focus at the moment is pets
and displaced domestic animals. http://www.hsus.org/
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Date: September 1, 2005
From:
Status reports on zoos and aquariums can be found at www.aza.org
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