Not Left Behind: Rescuing the Pets of New Orleans
by Best Friends Animal Society
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Author: Best Friends Animal SocietyPhotographer: Troy Snow
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-09
ISBN: 0976744252
Number of pages: 95
Publisher: Yorkville Press
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Book Reviews of Not Left Behind: Rescuing the Pets of New Orleans
Book Review: A Moving Photo Essay Book of Pet Rescues after Hurricane Katrina
Summary: 5 Stars
As someone who followed the events of Hurricane Katrina on TV as they happened with a feeling of incredible sadness and then with increasing shock as we learned of the daily more tragic stories of the loss of lives, lost children, the superdome fiasco, the missing buses, fumbling bureaucrats, right up to and including the President...."well done, Brownie!".....it seemed nothing could make this event bearable to think about...ever. Therefore the later stories of volunteers who DID NOT WAIT until the "official" agencies asked for help but simply went to Louisiana and the other devastated areas and began to help where needed, became the one bright light of the whole entire event.
Among those who came to help were the "Best Friends" animal rescue/rehabilitation group from Utah. Their stories, including their work on rehabilitating as many of Michael Vick's fighting dogs as possible, (after mainstream agencies such as the Humane Society, as well as ultra-outsider groups such as PETA, wanted these dogs euthanized without any distinction among them) can be seen on a show that currently runs on the National Geographic Channel, or purchased on various DVD's usually under their more casual name: "Dogtown".( National Geographic: Dogtown - New Beginnings; [[ASIN:B0016OM3X6 National Geographic: Dogtown - Second ChancesNational Geographic Dogtown - Friends in Need There are also books about them and the work they do, including one for children: Let's Go Visit Best Friends Animal SanctuaryBest Friends: The True Story of the World's Most Beloved Animal SanctuaryThe Cats of Kittyville: New Lives for Rescued FelinesDogTown: Tales of Rescue, Rehabilitation, and Redemption
Having said that, and hopefully laid the groundwork, Best Friends/Dogtown was one of many groups that came and rescued pets after Katrina. One of their full time workers, Troy Snow, took the moving photographs. This book documents the basic rescues of some dogs and cats, and shows the short-term facility they had in the area, and one very lovely photograph of reunion of a woman with her lost/abandoned dog.
A word on the people of New Orleans and the rest of area hit by the hurricane who left their pets behind....they had to. Or they had to stay with them, which many did...we'll never know, not just in Hurricane Katrina, but also in other Hurricanes such as Andrew, how many people died because they would not leave their pets to go to a shelter or to evacuate the area.
I've lived in Florida all my life, and lived through many hurricanes of all classes....our family, from my childhood on, has never left our home, and never would, because of the rule that pets cannot be brought to shelters. "Take them to your vet! Or have them boarded!" the cheerful TV person always says---the standard "conventional advice"....oh, but, and who is going to feed and water them when the vet and her employee's leave the area, or, even if they stay, can't get in to the facility due to the fact that the police have closed all the roads due to downed electrical lines? Some people leave the animal at home with extra food, water, and assume they'll be back in no more than a day or two...that is probably what the people of the Katrina disaster thought. Those who tried to take out their pets with them were not allowed to board the buses that would take them to Houston, or other places, with the animal, no exceptions. Those who went to that horrific superdome nightmare, could not bring in pets, though apparently nothing else "illegal" was checked for. So, for those who love animals as if they're a part of your family, that is why the pet disaster portion of Katrina happened...and it never should have. For years people with common sense have tried to TELL the American Red Cross and those who run the official shelters that there are people who will never leave their animals, and some compromise should be made...finally, after Katrina, the rules have been slightly loosened. There are now to be some small proportion of shelters open to people with pets, who must be (of course) on leash or in a carrier or crate.
As to the book....I thought it could have been much longer, for the price, though the money does go to Best Friends/ Dogtown. I also would have liked more stories of rescues, of reunions, of the politics of the situation there....One short section seemed to be sniping a bit at other rescue groups, who had all of their rescued animals in crates, therefore, as Best Friends' put it, having to use up a large amount of the time of it's volunteers merely walking dogs, cleaning out the crates, daily. Best Friends/ Dogtown's solution, which does appear to be better, and the photos make it seem the logical thing---was to create long "runs" for the dogs, who were therefore mostly outside all of the time anyway (remember, this was the Deep South in late Summer/Early Fall)...and I think some kind of canvas or other type of overhang for shade at one end. I am sure the cats had to be crated, they don't say.
As for the tragedy, the unnecessary tragedy, of Katrina, please see the DVD documentary by Spike Lee, made for HBO films: When the Levees Broke - A Requiem In Four Acts (Documentary) (If that title sounds familiar, there is an old Led Zepplin song, which is in turn, a remake of an even older Blues song, "When the Levee Breaks" written in the late 1920's by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy about a major disasterous flood in Missippi...the more things change, etc.)
I enjoyed the book, but it took me under an hour to read and to carefully look at each photo, and go through the whole book twice; and I did expect more than that.
I have already passed it on to a friend....I hate NOT to give full 5 stars to an organization as deserving as Best Friends/Dogtown, but would, for any other book exactly the same, have given 4 based just on the book, and that would be as a photo essay book which is not exactly as it is advertised. Nevertheless, if you can get it used, on sale or through your library, or wish to buy it to help support the Best Friends Rescue Group, it is certainly a touching moment preserved in time by the camera work of a talented photographer, showing the best of people in their helping the most helpless.
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