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September 22, 2005, 12 p.m.: 'You Don't Hear Any Barking...the Animals Who Are Still Alive Are So Sick...'
"It was a silent day" in New Orleans on Wednesday, PETA team leader Laura Brown said in her report early this morning. "You don't hear any barking anymore," she stated, "because the animals who are still alive are so sick that they don't make a noise."
Our team's first rescue on Wednesday was that of a "filthy" beagle who was found languishing in a back yard. Laura quickly scooped the dog up and found her a comfortable place in our van. The team then drove past a woman who had apparently set up a substandard, temporary animal shelter—in the median of a busy highway, of all places. The woman had confined a dog to a carrier and covered it with a tarp, affording him little relief from the blazing sun and heat. She turned the dog over to our team so that he could be taken to one of the temporary animal shelters in the city and cared for properly.
Team member Caleb Wheeldon's patient approach to an elderly, skittish dog found further down the road paid off when he was finally able to lead her into an animal carrier and rescue her. Next door, the team found a very thin German shepherd who, according to Laura, was "desperate for attention, food, and water." This dog was rescued as well.
Further down the same street, the team found what Laura called a "heartbreaking nightmare of feral cats" roaming the area. She said that the team set up 10 feeding and watering stations in hopes of keeping the animals alive until the team could return to rescue them. They were able to rescue two of the cats, however, including one who had scratched her neck raw because of ear mites.
Jessica Cochran and her unit plucked two "terribly thin" stray dogs from the streets in their work on Wednesday as well.
PETA's team continued to supply some 30 feeding and watering stations for the countless dogs still running at large in New Orleans, in hopes that the animals can be kept alive and finally rescued, either before or after Hurricane Rita's arrival.
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