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Feb 21, 2009:
Read all about Best Friends team participating in the 2009 Krew of Barkus parade for the fourth consecutive year.
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Feb 4, 2009:
When Red, a severely disabled dog from Katrina, needed help, Diane McDermott stepped up. Now she needs help, and Best Friends is stepping up.
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Nov 20, 2008:
I've started a journal for Mia's natural and mainstream medical progress.
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Aug 26, 2008:
Memorial service to celebrate life of a hero
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Jun 5, 2008:
Come one, come all!
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Apr 29, 2008:
In Katrina’s aftermath, St. Francis Animal Sanctuary needed to reinvent itself.
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Apr 8, 2007:
A popular Katrina dog is very much at home in Florida
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Mar 9, 2007:
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Feb 13, 2007:
NEW ORLEANS (AP Feb.
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Jan 31, 2007:
By Cathy Scott
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Jan 19, 2007:
By Cathy Scott
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Jan 10, 2007:
By Cathy Scott
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Dec 8, 2006:
A Katrina dog named Lil’ Bit, rescued near the Causeway in New Orleans, is reunited 15 months after the storm, just in time for Christmas.
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Dec 5, 2006:
By Cathy Scott
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Nov 16, 2006:
UPDATE: Rojo has found a forever home with a new family. He's been with them for several days now and is doing great.
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Oct 25, 2006:
For one Katrina pit bull, finding him a new home is not an easy task. That’s because he’s a muscular dog.
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Oct 19, 2006:
A Louisiana Chihuahua mix has a big grin on her face these days.
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Oct 13, 2006:
A white pit bull featured on the cover of Best Friends' latest book
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Sep 19, 2006:
A rescue group that took in more than 200 displaced pets from New Orleans is looking for another facility to house its Katrina animals.
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Sep 18, 2006:
After a grueling 26-hour drive from Kanab, I turned onto a still-destroyed street in St. Bernard Parish, New Orleans.
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Sep 12, 2006:
Carol Hamm will never forget returning to Saint Bernard Parish, walking into her former senior high -- now Beauregard Middle School -- and finding her three dogs dead on the floor from gunshot wounds.
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Sep 11, 2006:
Who can forget the image a year ago of a pit bull in murky floodwaters, the one who dove in and swam after a rescue boat? His face was intent and his purpose clear; he wasn’t going to let them leave without him.
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Sep 5, 2006:
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Aug 30, 2006:
What a difference a few months make
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Aug 30, 2006:
Included in the upcoming September/October 2006 edition of
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Aug 30, 2006:
"Blessed is the person who has earned the love of an old dog."
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Aug 29, 2006:
One Year Later
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Aug 28, 2006:
Where Are They Now?
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Aug 25, 2006:
Hundreds of Katrina strays still in Southern Mississippi are getting a second chance because of the Love Train.
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Aug 23, 2006:
A boy named Peachy goes home
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Aug 23, 2006:
6 Months In Tylertown
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Aug 21, 2006:
Finding Best Friends
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Aug 21, 2006:
Blackie Goes Home
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Aug 20, 2006:
Remembering....
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Aug 18, 2006:
Jezebel and Ruby Jane
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Aug 16, 2006:
Kitrina and Attica...
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Aug 15, 2006:
by Stacy Nelson
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Aug 13, 2006:
Share Your Story.
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Aug 8, 2006:
Read an update on Piglet, the cover girl on the new Katrina book,
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Jul 26, 2006:
Hip, a refugee pet from New Orleans, has been returned to his family almost a year after Katrina.
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Jul 17, 2006:
Veni Harlan and her family fostered sixty-five birds from a New Orleans shelter. One of them was an Amazon parrot they called Satchmo.
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Jul 5, 2006:
Are you an experienced dog handler with a big heart? Then you’ve come to the right place.
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Jun 29, 2006:
Red, a disabled pit bull, is tooling around his neighborhood in a brand-new cart and a new stroller, all to go with his new home.
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Jun 19, 2006:
Nearly ten months after Katrina touched down on the Gulf region, Debra Werling is still hoping to find a lost dog’s owner.
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Jun 12, 2006:
UPDATE: Susie Duttge has heard from a dozen people wanting to help Missy get home. It's good news. We'll keep you posted on the progress.
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Jun 7, 2006:
For one New Orleans woman, getting one of her dogs back and knowing that the other is in a good home is news enough for her.
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Jun 1, 2006:
Red, a friendly, partially paralyzed refugee pit bull from New Orleans, has gone to a permanent home.
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May 26, 2006:
A laid-back Basset Hound mix named Redbean and her eleven pups are being doted on at the St. Francis Animal Sanctuary.
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May 18, 2006:
Remember Himie, a Rottweiler with a message in a bottle taped to his collar to help him find his way home? He has, indeed, found his way back.
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May 17, 2006:
Angel, a Katrina survivor whose real name is Sassy, has found her owner and is home once again.
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May 10, 2006:
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May 8, 2006:
Anybody remember these two? The two Bobbies (so named because they both have bobbed tails) who arrived together from Celebration Station? If not, here’s a refresher.
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May 5, 2006:
Sarge, a pit bull and chow mix missing since September, has been spotted not far from where his people left him.
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Apr 17, 2006:
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Apr 7, 2006:
Red, a partially paralyzed pit bull from New Orleans, is basking in the attention at a pet resort, where he’s been getting five massages a day and doing daily stretching exercises.
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Apr 5, 2006:
For the pets and workers at St. Francis Animal Sanctuary, life is changing.
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Mar 30, 2006:
For a dog named Haley, a pending reunion with her people has taken a different twist.
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Mar 24, 2006:
When Betty and Gregory Speyrer returned to their New Orleans home in September, their six cats were nowhere to be found.
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Mar 24, 2006:
Petunia, a senior pit bull seemed to decide it was her turn to be chosen.
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Mar 23, 2006:
For one New Orleanian, a visit to her storm-damaged neighborhood turned into a rescue and an eventual reunion for a special dog named Zoey.
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Mar 23, 2006:
Grumpy Whisperer Al melts, gets home, new name
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Mar 20, 2006:
Gary Karcher needs help to bring his message-in-a-bottle dog back home, and a volunteer is doing just that.
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Mar 17, 2006:
Jenny Fourcade is still looking for her two dogs, Tera and Sarge.
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Mar 15, 2006:
Red, one of the last dogs to leave a temporary triage center at Celebration Station in the New Orleans area, is now in Texas and on his way to a fresh start.
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Mar 14, 2006:
Brutus Beefcake scrambled into a crate wedged in the packed vehicle. Hopefully, this trip out of Tylertown will be his last.
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Mar 11, 2006:
It’s 7 a.m. and a warm spring breeze blows through the camp in Tylertown.
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Mar 10, 2006:
One of two pets returns to Louisiana to his person.
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Mar 9, 2006:
Fifty sixth-graders from Ursuline Academy in New Orleans did their part for the animal rescue effort.
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Mar 6, 2006:
During the six months veteran trapper Corolla Fleeger spent rescuing displaced Hurricane Katrina pets, she never intended to take home a dog for herself. That is, until she met Bruiser. Her chosen adoptee, however, was not your ordinary canine.
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Mar 2, 2006:
Owner paves the way to get Himie, Precious and Pudgy back home.
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Feb 28, 2006:
Evacuee dog at high school still looking for home
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Feb 27, 2006:
Last Katrina dog rescued by Best Friends Animal Society.
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Feb 27, 2006:
Dog raised working at animal shelter helped in New Orleans rescues
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Feb 27, 2006:
Groups across the country have opened their arms and hearts to the Katrina pets rescued by Best Friends Animal Society.
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Feb 24, 2006:
Owners want answers on why their pets were shot to death
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Feb 23, 2006:
Bear seemed to know he was going home.
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Feb 22, 2006:
It’s been a long six months for Cupcake the cat who has been missing since Hurricane Katrina.
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Feb 22, 2006:
UPDATE as of June 26, 2006: Our Training Partner dogs are no longer located at Tylertown. The majority of the dogs are now at our Sanctuary in Kanab.
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Feb 22, 2006:
Photographers Carol Guzy and Barb Davis volunteered their talents at Barkus 2006 to chronicle Best Friends Animal Society's Katrina dogs.
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Feb 21, 2006:
Best Friends Katrina dogs wow them at Barkus
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Feb 21, 2006:
This is Maggie Sheer, a volunteer at Celebration Station who moved to New Orleans shortly before the hurricane. Here's her view of Barkus 2006:
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Feb 16, 2006:
An update on an injured yet happy dog
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Feb 16, 2006:
Best Friends invited to14th annual Barkus parade in New Orleans
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Feb 14, 2006:
Celebration Station Pet Adoption Festival had them waiting in line
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Feb 14, 2006:
Dog massage therapist volunteers at Celebration Station
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Feb 13, 2006:
Zoey, a Rottweiller-German Shepherd mix, is found safe at the St. Francis sanctuary
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Feb 13, 2006:
Puxley, a little dachshund mix pup, was recently picked up in New Orleans after she led trappers to her litter mates and their mom in a rescue that would take nearly 20 hours.
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Feb 13, 2006:
There are several people who remember seeing the lost pet report on a cat and a dog with bobbed tails
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Feb 10, 2006:
There is a very lucky cat who survived a dog attack in New Orleans and is lounging at home in Atlanta now.
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Feb 10, 2006:
Ann Klocke, in her third year of study at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, recently spent about two weeks at Celebration Station’s temporary triage center.
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Feb 9, 2006:
It took Mr. Pete the dog exactly one split second to realize that was his dad coming up to him at Celebration Station.
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Feb 9, 2006:
The McGee family of Jefferson Parish fled in front of the eyewall of Hurricane Katrina to New Iberia with the family dog, Frankie in tow.
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Feb 9, 2006:
Puppies. They’re the post-Katrina population born in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans.
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Feb 8, 2006:
Best Friends final month of Hurricane Katrina pet rescue:
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Feb 8, 2006:
Jellybean, a severe heart-worm positive pit bull who spent two months recovering at the MASH clinic at Best Friends hurricane relief center, has gone home to North Carolina.
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Feb 6, 2006:
It’s getting more and more difficult to find and trap Katrina dogs and cats loose on the streets of New Orleans.
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Feb 6, 2006:
Best Friends Pet Adoption Festival Feb. 11 and 12
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Feb 5, 2006:
Let us tell you a story of a man who wouldn’t give up, of a dog who was true and rescue workers who knew every life has value.
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Feb 5, 2006:
There are more than 100 reasons why you should volunteer
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Feb 3, 2006:
We are in search of a family missing an unusually bonded cat and dog.
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Feb 3, 2006:
Two pit bulls separated for months from each other and their family are together again.
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Jan 30, 2006:
Operation-Save-A-Pet Katrina.com’
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Jan 30, 2006:
A tale of deliverance for a rescuer and a displaced Katrina dog
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Jan 28, 2006:
It was late September when Best Friends rescuers Laurel, Chuck, Chipa and Al were about to call it a day. As they prepared to leave St.
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Jan 26, 2006:
Every time you think you have heard the last of the miracle survivor stories out of Hurricane Katrina, here comes another one.
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Jan 25, 2006:
It took several days, but for one New Orleans mama dog and her pup, life is now safe.
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Jan 25, 2006:
Doctor Jo Feldman only had five days to volunteer at Celebration Station, but in those five days she was able to save several frightened housecats from being released into feral colonies.
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Jan 25, 2006:
He’s a red boy with a big heart. Maybe we should nickname him Valentino.
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Jan 19, 2006:
For the first time since a car hit him in late October, Red, a Staffordshire Terrier, is running again.
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Jan 14, 2006:
Check out some of the great dogs still awaiting placement through our Tylertown Katrina Rescue Shelter.
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Jan 13, 2006:
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Aug 31, 2008:
Visit the Rapid Response community for up-to-date details.
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Nov 26, 2007:
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Oct 30, 2007:
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Oct 2, 2006:
Video by Pam Levy
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Sep 21, 2006:
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Sep 11, 2006:
A Thank You from ARF for Waveland efforts
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Aug 29, 2006:
by Karen Dawn
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Aug 29, 2006:
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Aug 17, 2006:
Here's one of those ahhhh moments.
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Feb 27, 2006:
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Feb 22, 2006:
Photographers Carol Guzy and Barb Davis took a veritable plethora of great shots at Barkus 2006.
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Feb 8, 2006:
Shannah Lemieux was reunited with her cats Cheetah and Rush at Celebration Station.
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Feb 1, 2006:
Jane Bewster volunteered at the Best Friends/St. Francis hurricane relief center beginning last fall.
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Jan 29, 2006:
Jumper has had all of the great outdoors she can stand.
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Jan 27, 2006:
You never know what you'll find on the streets of New Orleans these days, like Bruiser here -- a paper tiger if there ever was one.
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Jan 23, 2006:
For Brita Yaksich and Cathy Ramsey, traveling to New Orleans to help the animals rescued after hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit the Gulf region has been an experience they won’t soon forget.
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Jan 19, 2006:
Bonnie Otillio got the surprise of her life when “Extreme Makeover” host Paul DiMeo walked into Celebration Station with Capt.
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Jan 18, 2006:
A three-person rescue team -- made up of Rachel Laskowski, Alex Farr and Barb Davis -- were dispatched to a New Orleans area address to check on a pit in need of medical attention.
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Jan 16, 2006:
A white dog and her newborn pups, dubbed Snowflake and the Seven Dwarfs (so named because they were rescued on Flake Avenue) were recently removed from under a vacant condemned house just before it was scheduled to be bulldozed.
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Jan 15, 2006:
Prince, a buff-color Cocker Spaniel who was away from his family for four months, is now back home.
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Jan 14, 2006:
For those of you who thought that Ross Hartill, Tylertown volunteer coordinator, occasional cook and Scottish fire keeper had a secret life, well, you were right! Bill Jones, TT volunteer and professional diver came across this suspicious character on a recent visit to a Florida theme park. Arghhhhhhhh!
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Jan 13, 2006:
It was party time Thursday night at Celebration Station.
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Jan 12, 2006:
The urgency to pick up as many of the remaining displaced Katrina pets is stronger than ever, according to Cadi Schiffer, food and water coordinator at Celebration Station, a triage center in Metairie, La.
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Jan 12, 2006:
Anne Welling, a volunteer at Celebration Station, spent a week trapping and rescuing animals in New Orleans.
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Jan 11, 2006:
From trapping to reunions, it was a busy day at Celebration Station, a triage center in Metarie, La.
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Jan 10, 2006:
Volunteers are urgently needed in New Orleans to help in the final drive to rescue pets displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
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Jan 10, 2006:
Lawanda and George Davis lived on Elysian Fields in New Orleans.
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Jan 9, 2006:
A different sort of reunion took place last night at Celebration Station. It was between a mother chihuahua-miniature pinscher mix and her babies.
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Jan 8, 2006:
As volunteers headed out this morning from Celebration Station, a triage center in Metarie, a call came in from a passerby in St.
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Jan 7, 2006:
“Mister Francis, I have something to share with you.” It was St.
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Jan 5, 2006:
By early this morning, 12 more cats arrived at Celebration Station, a triage and staging center in Metarie.
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Jan 5, 2006:
Dear Members and Friends, Back in November, a Best Friends assessment of Greater New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast concluded that while most official rescue efforts had ended, there were still thousands of displaced pets roaming the region.
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Jan 3, 2006:
On New Year’s Eve, 138 stranded pets from the Gulf Coast began a journey to the East Coast to new homes.
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Jan 3, 2006:
At Celebration Station when people put their heads together, it’s always about the animals and volunteers.
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Jan 1, 2006:
Windy Wood from Atlanta got her holiday wish: To rescue the animals stranded by Hurricane Katrina.
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Jan 1, 2006:
OK, it’s official. Tylertown is scaling back its operation…a little.
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Dec 31, 2005:
William Smith has been reunited with his missing dog Kobe.
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Dec 30, 2005:
Reed, a volunteer who has been on the streets trapping displaced pets in New Orleans, stumbled across a litter of newborn pups.
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Dec 29, 2005:
Volunteers gathered around the fire and in the mess-hall tent in Tylertown at the Best Friends/St. Francis hurricane relief center on Christmas night.
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Dec 29, 2005:
Celebration Station, a new staging area in New Orleans, is just about ready to roll.
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Dec 28, 2005:
A Katrina displaced pet who wasn’t expected to survive is alive and well and waiting for a permanent foster home to live out his remaining years.
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Dec 24, 2005:
If it were snowing it would be poetic. If it was clear bright and warm, we could gloat about the great weather down here in Dixie.
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Dec 23, 2005:
Minew, a gray tabby, is about to be reunited with her family. But in the meantime, she's being coddled by the folks at Rude Ranch Animal Rescue.
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Dec 21, 2005:
Three New Orleans children don’t yet know that their dog who’s been missing for two months is about to go home for the holidays.
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Dec 21, 2005:
With a moving impromptu presentation speech Jeff Dorson, founder of the Humane Society of Louisiana (www.humanela.
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Dec 20, 2005:
When Gary Karcher saw his Rottweiler Himie for the first time in three-and-a-half months, he dropped to his knees and put his arms around him.
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Dec 20, 2005:
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Dec 17, 2005:
They came from Texas, Tennessee and Alabama, not to mention Jefferson, St. Bernard, Orleans and Plaquemines parishes.
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Dec 16, 2005:
WASHINGTON, D.C.
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Dec 16, 2005:
Diesel, a staffordshire terrier covered in fuel and found in a boat, is looking for a home.
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Dec 13, 2005:
Rescue groups converge to help reunite families with lost pets
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Dec 13, 2005:
When Precious walked into her new digs in Virginia, she ran down the hallway, jumped up on her mom and smothered her in kisses.
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Dec 12, 2005:
“This has been the greatest Christmas gift that anyone could ever give us. We were lost without our boy, and his return came straight from heaven.”
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Dec 12, 2005:
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Dec 4, 2005:
Lee Mannix looks and acts like a good 'ol boy west Texas red neck .
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Nov 28, 2005:
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Nov 28, 2005:
Nov 23: She was turned into the Best Friends rescue center on September 20, and, like the other rescued dogs, she was assigned a number: 390.
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Nov 28, 2005:
Nov. 22: The weather has turned very cold this week. After a heavy rain storm, it was time for men to wear hats and dogs to wear sweaters.
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Nov 28, 2005:
Nov. 22: After one day at the Best Friends rescue center, “experience” has a new meaning.
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Nov 28, 2005:
Nov 22: On Sept.
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Nov 28, 2005:
Nov 21: It looks like a combination thrift store and bargain basement in Tylertown.
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Nov 28, 2005:
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Nov 28, 2005:
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Nov 28, 2005:
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Nov 28, 2005:
November 15, 2005 : 12:06 PM ET
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Nov 28, 2005:
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Nov 28, 2005:
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Nov 28, 2005:
November 11, 2005 : 1:32 PM ET
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Nov 28, 2005:
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Nov 28, 2005:
Nov 9: Coming back from Hurricane Katrina is no easy task, as Gary Karcher is finding out.
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Nov 24, 2005:
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
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Nov 24, 2005:
Here in Tylertown on Thanksgiving, the place is swimming in even more puppies.
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Nov 24, 2005:
The morning is bright and clear...pretty warm too. About 60 animals are beginning the in-take procedure.
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Nov 22, 2005:
December 5: Three months after Hurricane Katrina, thousands of homeless pets still cling to life on the streets, according to an assessment by Best Friends Animal Society.
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Nov 22, 2005:
Hurricane Katrina: Campaign urges national animal organizations to spend the millions raised to help family pets, as intended.
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Nov 14, 2005:
“I love it!”
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Nov 1, 2005:
Pictured: Megan Fetherston helps built a platform for a yurt.
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Nov 1, 2005:
On one of his rescue missions in New Orleans, Joe Huffman found Himie ... and the message around his neck.
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