WORDSKC-DART, SEARCH-RESCUE, LOSS
Disaster Victims
- From The Other Side Of The World: A Love StoryShe is a “Thai Soi Dog Mix,” part Basenji and someone else. Rescuers found her on a bridge over floodwaters with a dislocated pelvis, possibly from swift debris as she paddled to higher ground. The dog cried out in pain. She couldn't move much and would have died from starvation and dehydration if not found. I met the skeletal girl in Thailand with Kinship Circle for animal flood aid…
- Collateral DamageWe grieve for soldiers lost and destruction of civilian life. But headlines rarely publicize war's other collateral damage. Animals, crimeless and naive, dodge mortars, grenades, and armored combat vehicles. Desertion, injury, death…
- We Are Witness: Inside Japan's Radiation Risk ZoneA local guide leads four Kinship Circle Disaster Animal Response Team members into the 20km exclusion zone around Fukushima's nuclear plant. In head to toe Tyveck safety suits, they hike past barricades along rural dirt paths. Army vehicles whiz by on a distant road. This is what they see: She lies on her side, eyes wide with fear…
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- Diary Of War: U.S. Rescuer In LebanonJoanne Greene, a Kinship Circle volunteer from Chicago, has traveled to Lebanon to work with Beirut For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (BETA). These are excerpts from Joanne's journal of animal rescue during the Israel-Hezbollah conflict. Animals are saved — shot through the eye, bloody, dazed…
- New Orleans Now: A Place Between Hope And DespairKinship 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…
![Early ARNO co-leader Brenda Shoss in NOLA, Kinship Circle]()
- From Katrina's Ruins, A Chain Of HopeIt'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…
- Acts of Cruelty After The StormA 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. 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, a weak dog is found in a bathtub…
