2006 Yvette, a Katrina victim looking for her family’s cat, asked a wonderful pet detective, Denise, to send the following letter to all who are involved with ARNO. Yvette doesn’t know the people who have been feeding in Section 28 east and 31 south, but she wanted to personally thank them.Yvette lived at 3437 Elysian […]
CONTINUE READING(9/24/2006) Chance (once called “No Chance”) was found behind a business establishment in LaPlace, LA. The owner called Animal Control and the dog was taken to the shelter. They intended to feed him for five days in the hopes that he would be rescued before they would have to euthanize him. They couldn’t adopt him […]
CONTINUE READING(10/25/06) Why is ARNO is still feeding in the 650 square miles of Orleans, St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parishes that were devastated by the storm? After all, residents are returning albeit at a very low percentage in most areas… the areas that were relatively affluent before Katrina have a higher rate of returning residents. But […]
CONTINUE READINGUpdated 8/20/08 ARNO Volunteer We need volunteers who can help us at the shelter. ARNO is very short of local help and need people who can assist us with animal care. Duties include ‘dishes’ (litter pans and food/water bowl scrubbing), laundry, cat cages cleaned, puppy pens cleaned, dogs walked, floors swept and mopped… but mostly […]
CONTINUE READING(2/14/07) UPDATED ARNO volunteer Anabel Salinas was helping out with an animal transport recently when she encountered two extremely thin and injured dogs roaming off the I-10. With the help of a good samaritan who also saw the dogs, and french fries as a lure, the two women were able to catch the thinnest dog. […]
CONTINUE READING– by Charlotte Bass-Lilly There is so much said about how many are still left on the street…is it five, ten, twenty or forty thousand animals? Cats always outnumber the dogs, and the feline species has proven the better survivor having an innate ability to attune their metabolic rate with what the environment has to […]
CONTINUE READINGAugust 2007 NEW ORLEANS, Animal Rescue New Orleans (ARNO) — This is written as those of us in New Orleans are ‘experiencing’ the second anniversary… a visit from our President, appearing both in our area and on the Mississippi gulf coast, and senators, and mayors, and chaplains, and memorial services to the 1,800 who were […]
CONTINUE READING( 2/6/08 ) Photos ©2008 ARNO/Laura Richard On Wednesday, January 30 2008, rescuers who labored and risked their lives on water/land rescuing pets after Katrina came together for a memorial service and quietly protested recent events. Representatives of Animal Rescue New Orleans (ARNO), Pasado’s Safe Haven, Katrina Animal Rescue Team (KART) and Capitol Area Animal […]
CONTINUE READINGBoy and Rocca, Part I (7/15/08) – by Lise N. McComiskey They are disinterest, dislike and distrust; They are the left behind, unwittingly, unwillingly or without care, they are a mystery; They are the curiosity that bends with persistent hunger; They are the glimpse of another society; They are the mud under my fingernails, nails […]
CONTINUE READING(7/15/08) – Editor’s Note Keeping ARNO’s controlled food/water stations going is a double-edged sword these days. The object of these stations, still placed in uninhabited and/or sparsely inhabited areas, is to keep the animals sustained with food, and to be able to suspend feeding in order to easily trap and spay/neuter, inoculate, and ear-tip. The […]
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