Countless Pets Still Unaccounted for in New Orleans

Since the Hurricanes Katrina and Rita brought devastation to New Orleans and the surrounding areas in late August and early September this year, nearly 400,000 homes have been destroyed displacing hundreds of thousands of people and countless number of pets and animals.

The horrendous living condition that many of those unfortunate animals have suddenly found themselves in has already turned into horrendous dying conditions for many of those animals. Months of lack of care, food and shelter have turned many of those animals that are still at large into packs of morbidly frightened, wary, feral, hungry and sick packs of animals that would barely pass for being considered alive.

NO authorities are now conducting feral dog roundup trying to trap these fee-roaming packs of stressed out dogs that are now being considered serious health and security risk for the recovery personnel who have the grim task of collecting cadavers and decaying animal carcasses scattered throughout not only the city of New Orleans but also the surrounding localities.

The Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (LASPCA) is actively involved in the current animal roundup campaign. LASPCA is currently taking the trapped dogs back to their temporary shelters, provides them needed veterinary care, vaccinates them, and then arranges for the treatment of any other injuries sustained by those animals. Animals that are too sick, or found to be too aggressive are likely to be euthanized.

Even though some of those lost animals have been now accounted for, there are tens of thousands of them that are still to be either united with their original owners, or be placed in foster care.