UPDATED
INFORMATION (11/20/01)
Planning for Future Emergencies
We at NEAVS, along with all Americans,
remain shocked, horrified and deeply saddened by the human
and animal lives lost, injured and disrupted in the September
11th terrorist attacks. As did many, many other groups,
NEAVS contributed supplies (vet tape, eye wipes and a foldable
bed) to the NYPD Search and Rescue dogs.
We have also posted the names of
several grassroots NYC-based
animal rescue groups on our Web site with updated lists
of their needs.
And we are offering a downloadable
Companion
Animal Rescue/Emergency Information card (CAREinfo card)
providing vital information about companion animals who
might need help in an emergency.
As America
faces its greatest test of national resolve, NEAVS
is immediately joining in efforts to help the rescue dogs,
their handlers, the companion animals of victims, and countless
homeless animals in the WTC area.
And, as we have done for more than
a century, NEAVS is working to help our canine friends -
and all animals - by ending animal experimentation
(vivisection), dissection, and toxicity testing on animals.
Important ACTIONS to Take
Updated Information (09/29/01)
Holly Staver, President of CITY
CRITTERS, reports having about a dozen animals directly
related to the WTC tragedy. City Critters is also bringing
in downtown strays who may have run from the WTC/Battery
Park limits into neighboring areas (Chinatown, Lower East
Side, Seaport).
To help CITY CRITTERS:
- Monetary donations will be used
to pay vet bills.
- Donations of wet cat food needed.
- Adopters and fosters desperately
needed.
- Additional City Critter needs...
Patty Adjamine, Director of New
Yorkers for Companion Animals, said the computer breakdowns
at the city shelter system (due to the tragedy) make it
impossible to say for certain which animals came directly
from the WTC tragedy. However, the bottom line is not where
the animals came from, but where they will go! Rescue groups
are doing everything possible to ensure all of the animals
in need will be able to go to good homes.
"We don't look at the 'reasons'
the orphaned cats or dogs are at the CACC [city shelters].
We only look at the animal and hope we have the means and
available foster [care] to save him or her," Adjamine
said.
To help NYCA:
- Local fosters and adopters desperately
needed!
- Monetary contributions, donations
of pet food and supplies also help.
- Additional NYCA needs...
Help NYC
In the aftermath of the 9-11-01
attacks on America, countless animals, their human companions,
and rescue animals and their handlers need our help.
Please remember that this is an
ongoing emergency situation. Many people leading
the efforts to help have told us that they’re currently
receiving outpourings of supplies and support. But they
fear that this help will disappear in the days and weeks
that follow.
Don’t let this happen!
Continue your assistance into December, January and as long
as it takes. We will regularly update our Web site with
information about rescue efforts and groups needing ongoing
support.
Here are some of the many organizations
needing assistance, according to our sources on the scene
in NYC:
- Pets
Alive, Inc.
363 Derby Road
Middletown, NY 10940
(845) 386-9738
www.petsalive.com
This non-profit, no-kill shelter,
located in the foothills of the Catskills, about 1 1/2
hours from NYC, already has taken in several cats and
dogs from parents and spouses of victims of the WTC tragedy.
President Sara Whelan also reports taking in an elderly
dog from a suddenly overcrowded Connecticut pound. Since
many WTC commuters came from Connecticut, she expects
to see the Conn. pounds and shelters become increasingly
busy.
Pets Alive houses some 110 other dogs and 145 cats —
about 40% of whom are adoptable. As animals are adopted
or fostered, they will be able to foster animals whose
guardians are in the military—at no charge to them.
Pets Alive has been rescuing "society's throw-aways"
for almost thirty years. Many of their rescues are victims
of neglect, abuse and violence; many have special needs
and have been rejected by other groups.
Pets Alive cares for cats, dogs, pigs, emus, hens and
roosters, horses (including NYC carriage horses), cows
and calves, sheep, ducks and even a parrot.
To help:
- Blankets and towels urgently
needed!
- Sponsorship opportunities
available
- View their wish list at
www.petsalive.com.
- New Yorkers
for Companion Animals (NYCA)
1324 Lexington Ave., #2
New York, NY 10128-1145
(212) 427-8273
NYCA@aol.com
A private, non-profit, no-kill
rescue group. According to Director Patty Adjamine, many
animals have already been rescued and adopted. However,
she warns, the need for help will rise in the coming weeks
and months.
To help:
- If you live in the NYC area
- contact NYCA for a list of needed supplies.
- Call them if you are able
to adopt.
- Brooklyn Animal Resource
Coalition (BARC)
253 Wythe Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11211
(718) 486-7489
www.brooklynonline.com/bol/barc/
A not-for-profit organization for homeless and stray dogs
and cats in the Williamsburg/Greenpoint area. They hold
all animals until they can be placed.
To help:
- Dog walkers desperately needed!
- Contributions of veterinary
medical supplies, including bandages, towels, face
and eye wipes and monetary donations can be mailed
directly to BARC.
- City Critters
P.O. Box 1345, Canal Street Station
New York, NY 10013
(212) 252-3183
www.citycritters.org
A small, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) primarily cat rescue
and adoption organization located and operating in the
borough of Manhattan.
To help:
- Local adoption homes needed.
- Contributions of soft-sided
cat carriers, humane traps, cages, towels, and cat
scratching posts needed.
- URGENT! Digital camera
desperately needed for posting of adoptable animals.
- Many WTC victims were from
out of town. Contact City Critters if you are aware
of any of their companion animals in your area who
may need help.
- NEAVS
Donate
to NEAVS and earmark your donation "THE
RESCUE." NEAVS proudly takes our place among
the many who are responding with caring and solidarity
from throughout the world. Through our members in NY,
we receive critical first hand information that we will
share as it reaches us.
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