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Animals - War's Unseen Collateral Damage
War devastates. We grieve for soldiers lost and the involuntary destruction of civilian life. But headlines rarely publicize war's other collateral damage. Animals, crimeless and naive, dodge mortars, grenades, and armored combat vehicles. Their lives explode in a flurry of desertion, starvation, injury and death...

New Orleans Now: A Place Between Hope And Despair
From February 16-22, 2007, Kinship Circle traveled to New Orleans to aid Katrina-affected animals. Along with roaming animals, we found a story at most addresses on our route... A wheat-colored dog races toward our vehicle at 1400 Montegut and N. Villere Street...

From Katrina's Ruins, A Chain Of Hope
It's a lazy day in late August. My then 4-year-old son Elijah, a cartoon junkie, is glued to CNN Headline News. Huh? "Mommy," he explains, "I want to see if the people get out of their broken houses." This is how I learned about Katrina, the hurricane that cast people and animals adrift in a sea of loss and despair...

Acts of Cruelty after the Storm
It was a day like any other, except for the flash of hot, sharp pain. A rainbow-colored arrow ripped through the cat's body, shredding his gallbladder, spleen, lung, intestines, and nearly every organ except his heart. Bewildered, the cat staggered to his feet with an arrow protruding from either side of his body...

Tiny Heartbeats Amid Katrina's Wreckage
"We have her," rescuer Jane Garrison says. Three simple words. But for an 84-year-old woman in a Baton Rouge intensive care unit, they are reason to live. This Katrina victim's cat is alive, seven weeks after the storm. As hurricane headlines vanish from daily news, a little dog named Bingo is found in a bathtub...

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		ANIMALS IN DISASTERS Tornadoes, Floods, Hurricanes, War Zones... "Caring about innocent animals caught in disaster's wrath doesn't diminish human suffering. It makes us human." — Kinship Circle "When people evacuated, thousands of animals were left behind. We couldn't help all of them. But we saved many off the streets. We had to go under the bombs. Two bombs fell just two meters away from our shelter at the border of the Hezbollah camp and green line. Shrapnel from the missiles landed inside one of the dog's cages and lodged between two bars." — Helena Hesayne, Beirut For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals

Animals - War's Unseen Collateral Damage War devastates. We grieve for soldiers lost and the involuntary destruction of civilian life. But headlines rarely publicize war's other collateral damage. Animals, crimeless and naive, dodge mortars, grenades, and armored combat vehicles. Their lives explode in a flurry of desertion, starvation, injury and death... New Orleans Now: A Place Between Hope And Despair From February 16-22, 2007, Kinship Circle traveled to New Orleans to aid Katrina-affected animals. Along with roaming animals, we found a story at most addresses on our route... A wheat-colored dog races toward our vehicle at 1400 Montegut and N. Villere Street... From Katrina's Ruins, A Chain Of Hope It's a lazy day in late August. My then 4-year-old son Elijah, a cartoon junkie, is glued to CNN Headline News. Huh? "Mommy," he explains, "I want to see if the people get out of their broken houses." This is how I learned about Katrina, the hurricane that cast people and animals adrift in a sea of loss and despair... Acts of Cruelty after the Storm It was a day like any other, except for the flash of hot, sharp pain. A rainbow-colored arrow ripped through the cat's body, shredding his gallbladder, spleen, lung, intestines, and nearly every organ except his heart. Bewildered, the cat staggered to his feet with an arrow protruding from either side of his body... Tiny Heartbeats Amid Katrina's Wreckage "We have her," rescuer Jane Garrison says. Three simple words. But for an 84-year-old woman in a Baton Rouge intensive care unit, they are reason to live. This Katrina victim's cat is alive, seven weeks after the storm. As hurricane headlines vanish from daily news, a little dog named Bingo is found in a bathtub...
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