| shaines |
 Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 9:48 pm
Post subject: Horses and large animal Foster Home: Information Katrina |
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For all those posting up land for horses or livestock, please read the message below and contact them for further information. From www.bestfriends.org
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If you have a facility or pasture which you can offer to house refugee horses and ponies, victims of Hurricane Katrina, please email your name, address, phone number and email address to kcadams@usef.org , or at 859-225-6993, (please email if at all possible as we expect a heavy load of calls.) If you can volunteer veterinary services please submit your contact information. The USEF is posting a listing by state of these safe havens for horses and ponies on our website. The list will be accessed by going to www.usef.org, on the right side of the homepage click on Hurricane Katrina Equine Relief. It is expected to be operational by tonight, August 31st and will serve as a master list to help horse owners in Katrina's path find help. Other equine organizations wishing to assist the effort and link to the list should also email kcadams@usef.org.
We urge the participation of anyone who has the space, veterinary expertise and tenderness of heart to help these equine refugees.
For more information, please contact Maria Partlow, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications on (859) 225-6941 or via email at mpartlow@usef.org. USEF press releases are available on our web site at www.usef.org.
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-Shelly Haines |
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| samsmom527 |
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 3:01 pm
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Overwhelming Response to Request for Shelters and Service for Hurricane Katrina's Equine Refugees
Nearly 4000 e-mails and hundreds of phone calls received
(Lexington, KY) - Thousands of individuals responded to yesterday's USEF appeal for donations of shelter and much-needed services for the equine refugees of Hurricane Katrina. E-mails came from all sections of the United States and Canada and ranged from offers of 350 stalls in San Antonio to two pint-size stalls for Miniature horses in the Midwest. Because of this huge response, only e-mails, not voicemails
or phone calls, will now be accepted and only from the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Arkansas.
The list is a cooperative effort between the USEF and the AQHA to create a master list of donated shelter and services, and it will be posted on both organizations' websites. The list will help those in the stricken areas find help for their horses and ponies, in addition to what the various states are able to organize. Unofficial reports from the hurricane area indicate that feed and hay is scarce, and that fuel is extremely difficult to obtain, making it difficult to transport horses out of the area.
As information trickles into the USEF from each affected state, the location of their emergency veterinary response services, and any state coordinated shelters will be posted on the USEF website, www.usef.org. The information is located on the right side of the homepage, click on the Hurricane Katrina Equine Relief button.
For more information, please contact Maria Partlow, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications on (859) 225-6941 or via email at mpartlow@.... USEF press releases are available on our web site at www.usef.org.
If you hear of anyone in need of equine help...please, please, please, offer to make the call for them. USEF can hook them up with a place. |
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