SOURCE OF INFORMATION
UPDATE: Federal Pet Evacuation & Transportation Standards Act PassesREAD MORE HERE:
• 10/10/06: It's Law: Bush Signs Pet Evacuation & Transportation Standards (PETS) Act
• 5/22/06: U.S. House Approves Pet Evacuation Act
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as Kinship Circle joins many other animal groups in the fight to save animal lives, we also initiate letter campaigns to Congress and President Bush demanding a national disaster preparedness plan with provisions for animals. Disaster victims should never have to choose between survival and their pets. Yet that is exactly what happened in Katrina's wake. The images are unforgivable: A white dog is ripped from a boy's arms as he boards a bus. A bewildered yellow Lab watches his family disappear in a helicopter. An elderly woman cannot receive medical care unless she deserts her cats. More than 50,000 Louisiana animals were stranded in Katrina's path. Numbers are unknown for Mississippi.
Katrina's human death toll might have been lower if an enforced plan to accommodate animals had been in place... Kinship Circle letters ask for passage of the Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act (PETS Act). In 2006, President Bush signs this bill into law. States are required to help evacuate companion animals during a natural disaster or risk losing federal money.
The Humane Society of the United States
Best Friends Report
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CONTACT INFORMATION
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President George Bush
Comments: 202-456-1111; Switchboard: 202-456-1414
fax: 202-456-2461
email: comments@whitehouse.gov, president@whitehouse.gov, vice_president@whitehouse.gov, firstlady@whitehouse.gov
web email: www.whitehouse.gov/contact
Kathleen Blanco, Governor of Louisiana
225-925-1938, 866-310-7617
email: contact@gov.state.la.us
web email: www.gov.state.la.us/govemail.asp
Haley Barbour, Governor of Mississippi
P.O. Box 139
Jackson, MS 39205
ph: 601-359-3150, 1-877-405-0733
fax: 601-359-3741
Secretary Michael Chertoff, Department of Homeland Security
202-282-8000, 202-282-8495
web email: www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/contactus
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Department of Defense
703-428-0711
email: www.dod.mil/faq/comment.html
