Mickey's Musings

Aid For Tsunami Animals

TSUNAMI - SUPPORT NEEDED

Friday December 31th 2004 10:22

For the animals suffering because of the Tsunami

If you have any contacts with organisations willing
to help they desperately need to buy large quantities of
food.
Hundreds of dogs who relied on local restaurants are
now starving as all the restaurants are gone.
Some of their local volunteers are either dead or
injured.

The following is still our basic advisory about how
donors can best assist the animal aid groups in the
areas hit by the tsunami.

The Sri Lankan organizations we are in touch with
are still just beginning to make contact with those
in the hardest hit areas, so the focus for now, as
regards Sri Lanka, is upon gathering resources to
enable quick response once the people in the field
know exactly what they need.

There seem to be no organizations up and running in
Indonesia, other than the Bali-based Asian office of
HSUS/HSI.

The Soi Dog Foundation and Blue Cross of India
remain the point organizations for the Thai and
Indian relief efforts.

ANIMAL PEOPLE publisher Kim Bartlett is collecting
and relaying donations for Sri Lankan tsunami animal
relief.
Checks can be mailed to:
ANIMAL PEOPLE
PO Box 960
Clinton WA 98236
or phone 360-579-2505 to use a Visa or Mastercard.

Donations for Thailand can be made via the website
below:

Soi Dog Foundation
C/O 57/61 Laguna Golf Villas
Moo 4, Srisoonthorn Road,
Choengthale,
Phuket 83110, Thailand
E-mail:

Website:
Soi Dog Foundation

If you have any contacts with organisations willing
to help we desperately need to buy large quantities of food.
Hundreds of dogs who relied on local restaurants are
now starving as all the restaurants are gone.
Some of our local volunteers are either dead or
injured.
Donations can be made by logging on to
Soi Dog Foundation

Thanks for any help you can give,
John

Phuket Animal Welfare Society cofounder and board
member Leone Cosens was killed, apparently while
trying to rescue others. Some local Phuket Animal
Welfare Society and Soi Dog volunteers are missing,
but we have no other names as yet.

The Chennai region of Tamil Nadu was the hardest hit
part of India. Checks can be mailed directly to the
Blue Cross of India, or sent payable to ANIMAL
PEOPLE (to be tax exempt in the U.S.), with notation
that the donation is for tsunami relief in India:


Blue Cross of India
c/o Dr. Chinny Krishna
1-A Eldams Rd.
Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600018, India
phone 91-44-234-1399
fax 91-44-234-9801
Dr Krishna - Blue Cross of India

As of tonight, the Blue Cross of India has received
several pledges of substantial aid.

These two Indian organizations also came through
with relatively little damage, are actively
assisting the animals in their regions, and can
certainly use help:

Compassionate Crusaders Trust
c/o Mr. Debasis Chakrabarti
1/13A Olai Chandi Rd.,
Calcutta 700037, India
91-33-556-7149
fax 91-33-220-5665
Compassionate Crusaders Trust

Visakha SPCA
c/o Mr. Pradeep Kumar Nath
26-15-200 Main Road
Visakhapatnam
530001, India
Phone: 91-891-564759
Fax: 91-891-528662
Send E-mail to:
Visakha SPCA

Sent by:
Merritt Clifton Editor, ANIMAL PEOPLE
P.O. Box960
Clinton, WA 98236
Telephone: 360-579-2505 Fax: 360-579-2575

To send an E-mail:
Animal People

or visit their website:Animal People

Thank you. I know that there will be some people who will balk at this and say that all monies should go to humans, but animals are a huge part in our lives and in the lives of children. If have any doubt, read this story -

Dog Rescues 7 Year Old in India

She had three sons, and only two arms.

She grabbed the youngest two and ran - figuring the oldest, 7-year-old Dinakaran, had the best chance of outrunning the tsunami churning toward her home.

But Dinakaran didn't follow. He headed for the safest place he knew, the small family hut just 40 yards from the seashore.

Sangeeta thought she would never see him again. The family dog saw to it that she did.

While water lapped at Sangeeta's heels as she rushed up the hill, the scruffy yellow dog named Selvakumar ducked into the hut after Dinakaran.

Nipping and nudging, he did everything in his canine power to get the boy up the hill.

"That dog is my God," said Sangeeta - with Dinakaran sitting on the ground at her feet and Selvakumar sleeping on the warm asphalt next to him. Posted by Mickey at January 2, 2005 11:01 PM