Katrina Rescue Update

Thursday
1:28p
Houston

We have had the most amazing outpouring of support for our mission. FFL staff, family, friends, volunteers, neighbors, adopters, passersby, animal rescuers all have brought so many wonderful supplies to add to what we purchased. Never doubt that fine people abound. We are very grateful. The foster homes add up. If you want to get on the list to foster or to volunteer with FFL, contact us through the site and tell us what you'd like to do.

This afternoon we will have the packing of the trucks (after one more trip to the target to get rubbermaid tubs with lids and zip loc and trash bags). Our house is staging area #1 and the away team and a multitude of home team volunteers will be here to load and pack to maximize the space.

The updates Im getting are that Noah's Wish did truck in some food to Pass Christian and that is wonderful--it gets it to the babies now and makes our transport easier. YAY !!

Just got off the phone with our vet, Dr. Claudia , who is driving in from Indianapolis to join our team. She is not just bringing heart and brain and skills, she's even bringing supplies--we just went over what we expect the priority needs to be and are, happily, on exactly the same page. She is juggling her life and kids to come to join the team and is hearing folks say --you're crazy ! Well, if she is, would that more of the world were.

We just learned that there is a 4pm curfew in Pass Christian and it is being described as a kind of military state. We will adjust everyone's travel/arrival plans accordingly. We also just learned that the shelter we are going to stop in first and stage in (Southern Mississippi Animal Rescue Team Refuge SMARTR) still has their own 150 or so animals but is now becoming something of a central aid point for other shelters/individuals to bring animals who need help. We will, depending upon the volume of incoming, set up two to three treatment tents. At this point, the big stuff is covered--generator, gas, tents, meds,food,h20--we are now emailing each other little items that we may have left out and trying to remember extra socks for ourselves --ok, maybe that's just me. The latest--Lynn, on the team from California just reminded me of trash bags and IV poles.

I'll check back in later this evening after get everything loaded and our away team meets to go through maps, itinerary checklists and supplies.

stay tuned.

salise