GIVE TO MABEL’S SURGERY FUND Help Her Broken Body Heal From The Flood FROM FLOOD TO LOVE: Mabel cried in pain when rescued from a bridge over Thailand floodwaters. A dislocated pelvis and maimed knee left her nearly immobile. She was skeletal thin… I fell in love with Mabel while in Thailand with Kinship Circle for animal flood aid. She recently flew 9,000 miles from Bangkok for a reunion on my birthday! Mabel’s journey is inspiring. She’s a happy dog now who arranges toys on her big pillow like a doggie decorator. Still, her ongoing pain recalls the fear and ache of an animal forgotten in a disaster. Mabel faces surgery to remove her head of femur bone and repair a hurt knee. A low estimate for treatment is $5,000. MABEL SURGERY FUND Make a tax-deductible gift for Mabel’s flood recovery. Give Online: Select Animal Disaster Fund from Donate page. Type Mabel Surgery Fund on PayPal form. Give By Mail: Write Mabel Surgery Fund on your check memo or envelope. Send to: Kinship Circle 7380 Kingsbury Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63130 Attn: Mabel Surgery Fund Truth is: Disaster aid costs run steep. We literally can’t get on the ground without you — or help individuals like Mabel. Nor can we build teams with the skills and stamina to save animals in disaster zones. Thank you for supporting Kinship Circle disaster aid and animal advocacy programs! Please consider ongoing support for Kinship Circle.   ♥  Make A Tax-Deductible Donation   ♥  Disaster Animal Response Team   ♥  Animal Cruelty Investigative Research And Action   ♥  Education And Advocacy Materials ⁄ Literature Library Executive Director, Kinship Circle

PHOTO GALLERY: FACES FROM A FLOOD Take your eyes and heart on a journey! See breathtaking disaster aid images, among our best caught on film. Rescuers wade to flooded temples overrun with animals. Trudge through muck, swamp and utter despair. Dogs hobble on 3 legs. Cats hang in cages over water… But eyes awaken, as if they see a chance. A new start. Meet these beautiful animals, along with Kinship Circle disaster responders who travel the world for animal victims. A story in pictures: FACES FROM A FLOOD

worldwide animal disaster aid FIELD NOTES & PHOTOS •  Thailand Floods •  Japan Quake-Tsunami-Radiation Crisis •  Brazil Flood-Mudslides •  Chile Earthquake-Tsunami •  Haiti Earthquake •  Mexico Flood •  See All International Animal Disaster Aid usa animal disaster aid FIELD NOTES & PHOTOS •  Hurricane Irene •  BP Gulf Oil Crisis •  California Wildfires •  Kentucky Flood •  Hurricane Ike •  Hurricane Gustav •  Iowa Floods •  Missouri Flood •  Hurricanes Katrina & Rita •  See All USA Animal Disaster Aid disaster training, readiness… •  Disaster Training ⁄ Certification: Where and how to get it •  Disaster Preparedness: If people leave, they leave •  ABOUT: Kinship Circle Disaster Animal Response Team •  Join Email Network: For Animal News, Action, Updates monitoring animal impacts JAPAN OUTLOOK UNKNOWN FOR ANIMALS: Japan officials stopped quake-tsunami aid on 9-11. But animals remain at risk. Fukushima’s nuclear reactor is unstable, with evacuated zones under police blockade… more FLOOD, WIND & FIRE SWEEP USA: Kinship Circle is watching Texas fires and has offered aid to emergency agencies in flooded parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts… more HURRICANE IRENE: Kinship Circle deployed under Atlantic County, New Jersey EMA for emergency animal sheltering at a Red Cross human evac campus. Volunteers soothed scared animals as Irene roared… more MORE HELPING HANDS TO TO JAPAN: Dogs roam. Cats wait roadside, uncharacteristically ready to be trapped. Chickens and cows hang on until another food drop arrives… more ARIZONA WILDFIRES: Kinship Circle monitored 3 Arizona wildfires for animal impacts and response, checking in with emergency agencies to offer relief if natinal nonprofits are needed. All fires were allegedly human-caused… more JOPLIN, MO TORNADO: A multiple-vortex EF-5 tornado ripped a wide stretch of Joplin, MO, leaving more than 150 dead. Bonnie Morrison, Kinship Circle Disaster Management Director, was in Joplin to assess and offer aid… more ALABAMA TORNADO ILLINOIS-KENTUCKY FLOODS MISSISSIPPI RIVER FLOODS: In the shadow of a destructive tornado, we assembled a standby team for animal sheltering in Tuscaloosa, AL… more volunteer for kinship circle •  Animal Disaster Responder (on ground) •  Animal Disaster Coordinator (remote) •  Investigative Researcher For Action Campaigns •  Be A Kinship Circle Rep: Start A Chapter In Your Region

rescued from the flood A 9000 MILE JOURNEY HOME Rescuers found her on a bridge over floodwaters with a dislocated pelvis. Mabel cried in pain. She would have died. I met the thin girl in Thailand with Kinship Circle for animal flood aid. I don’t know exactly when I began to love Mabel, but saw her brighten at the sound… more GALLERY OF HOPE Faces From A Flood: See stunning disaster rescue images that open eyes and hearts to the most vulnerable victims. Please share our Thailand flood photo collection. These timeless images are animals left behind — and the people who save them… more TEMPLE OF DESPAIR Nothing prepares us for 1000+ dogs, cats, pigs trapped in a sea of trash, muck, sludge. A putrid stench rises from fecal piles. Dogs limp on 2 or 3 legs. Wounds fester. Some are furless from mange. Most are emaciated. Caged cats hang over swamp. One slip and a cat drops… more NEW START FOR THE NAMELESS Sunlight shafts cast green shadows on animals and people under 6 tents. Dogs line a narrow corridor that leads to a sick and injured ward. A few belong to evacuees. Most are nameless, pulled from flood zones. But each animal becomes someone with hope and identity… more SAVED FROM THE WATER We wade through waggy tails to find the weakest. A thin black dog’s leg is lame. She’s timid, but coaxed to safety. Rescuers belly crawl to get a shepherd-mix with a hurt paw under hay stacks. We use a net to save Harry, a furless dog whose endured hunger, mange, floods… more SECOND CHANCES With the dog in my lap aboard a boat, Kinship Circle volunteers lead us to the rescue truck. Blood drips from a neck wound. I can hear his faint pant against my chest. Alive. Now safe. We name him Monk for the swamped temple where the white terrier swims with some 50 forgotten dogs… more FIELDS OF HUNGER A man floats 16 dogs on a makeshift barge. A woman cares for 14 bridge dogs. Kittens scavenge behind a store. Dogs paddle across a watery sweep. Food-rescue runs reveal wounds, infection, immobility, tumors, mange. Some get field aid, others go to the flood shelter… more STRANDED ON LEDGES, STEPS… Dogs and cats perch on dry spots in a flooded temple complex. Puppies bounce down steps that end in water. We distribute food ferried in by boat and stay to assess highest risk animals. It’s impossible not to care about each one. Every face becomes a part of you… more why support us? Because Kinship Circle responder Dr. Madi Graham breathes life back into a dog after an earthquake… Because Traci Dawson and June Towler trek from Canada to Chile to help injured and sick cats, dogs and stray horses… Because Kinship’s 100-pound Cheri Deatsch wrangles 400-pound pigs to safety from Iowa flood waters… About Disaster Animal Response Team YOUR TAX-DEDUCTIBLE GIFT LETS KINSHIP CIRCLE: ❤  Rescue, medically aid, and emergency shelter animals. ❤  Conduct investigative research and act against cruelty. ❤  Open minds with our compelling educational materials. BACK TO TOP

JAPAN EARTHQUAKE, TSUNAMI, RADIATION CRISIS — Kinship Circle was the first U.S. animal NGO in Japan for ongoing search and rescue after an earthquake-tsunami-radiation crisis 3/11/11. Months later, still there. Radiation hot spots ride winds some 50km from the shattered nuclear plant. New cities evacuate — in July, August, and into Fall 2011. Each time a district empties animals are left in the shadows. They are trapped in nuclear ghost towns, sealed under police guard, without food, water, care... Watch and share our compelling video.

GULF OIL DISASTER — Over summer 2010, Kinship Circle focused on wildlife harmed in the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Partnering with World Animal Awareness Society for ALL EYES ON THE GULF Expedition, we combed beaches, estatuaries, nesting grounds, open waters — traveling hundreds of miles daily in LA, MS, AL, FL — to find distressed animals and map oil.

I WANT TO KNOW — This film was created for journalism students in a university setting. It conveys the media’s fickle relationship with animal-issue coverage. On the one hand, feel-good puppy and baby-zoo animal stories are common. On the other, investigative reports about animal industries that impact both animals AND humans are mostly unchartered territory. The film is not about a particular animal topic, but rather, how certain animal issues are the last TABOO in media. As an example, most people have no idea that animal research is riddled with scientific inaccuracies which can actually threaten human health. Misleading data generated from animal experiments gets drugs on market quickly. But nearly half of those drugs are recalled (JAMA). Each one tested safe in animals.

Journalism students expressed no knowledge of animal-free research alternatives, or the millions of taxpayer dollars used for animal experimentation each year. Some said they were unaware that animals still undergo invasive experiments at all. They were asked to compare deception and fraud inherent in the animal research industry with media-exposed deception and fraud in the tobacco industry… MORE

CHILE EARTHQUAKE & TSUMANI — On 2/27/10 an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Chile, displacing some 2 million people. Soon after, tsunamis swept over coastal towns. Kinship Circle worked with Socorro Animal Chile (SACH) — a coalition of Chilean animal groups — to aid animals along Chile’s ravaged cost. We fell in love with the people and animals of Chile, a nation with South America’s largest stray population, and continued to support first aid and vet care for animals.