LA SPCA is Still in the Need of Your Support : Help Save Animals

New Orleans

December 20, 2005

The The Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (LA/SPCA) (a private non-profit organization chartered in 1888) is in need of your support -more than ever.

As you may recall, LA/SPCA had recently commissioned a multi-agency assessment team to evaluate the state-of-animals in the city of New Orleans.

The aforementioned multi-agency assessment team that was so convened by the Louisiana SPCA to assess the state-of-animals in the city has reported back with its findings.

The team was to obtain a sense of the post-hurricane stray animal population and to determine the health condition thereof.

Based on the results reported by the above task force, LA/SPCA had announced the following action items:

• Contracting with a high-volume, experienced humane trapper being provided by the Humane Society of the United States to manage a comprehensive 4-6 week program.
• Triage trapped animals via humane trapping at the Animal Control facility.
• Local sheltering partners such as Best Friends may take the animals to their facilities where they will hold them for a minimum of five-days to allow owners an opportunity to locate their pets.
• All incoming animals are to be listed on petharbor.com to give owners an opportunity to locate their companion.
• LA/SPCA is to launch an aggressive spay and neuter program and offer a rabies and microchipping drive to New Orleans' residents.

The above challenges are in addition to what LA/SPCA has been already doing for the welfare of animal population in New Orleans area.

Help LA/SPCA rescue pets and reunite them with their owners in the wake of Hurricane Katrina by digging deep and contributing to the LA/SPCA.

They need to not only build a temporary shelter right now, they also need to create a fund to establish a permanent building and replace all of their facilities destroyed during the floods. Considering the facts that the LA/SPCA's buildings and several vehicles were completely destroyed in the hurricanes' aftermath, LA/SPCA is in need for at least $4 million, plus the cost of land.

Please Donate Directly to LA/SPCA: When you make a direct donation to LA/SPCA, you would be directly benefiting the animals displaced in N.O. region. They are at the ground zero, they have boots on the ground.

To contribute to LA/SPCA, please go to the LA/SPCA website. To mail a contribution, please send it to: Louisiana SPCA, P.O. Box 127, Mandeville, LA. 70470.

LA/SPCA located at 701 Thayer Street, N.O. is open seven days a week between 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Visit The Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (LA/SPCA) website for additional details.