L'ouragan Katrina et les animaux: Le choix de Sophie? Les sauveteurs ont obligé leurs maîtres à les abandonner

Je me disais bien , après avoir vu à la télé un homme sur un radeau d'ordures, attendant les secours avec son chien, qu'il y avait quelque chose de bizarre..En effet, lorsque le bateau des sauveteurs est arrivé, on le vit monter avec l'aide d'un sauveteur et, on s'attendait logiquement à voir à l'image suvante quelqu'un prendre le chien après le maitre dans la barque mais, curieusement, le reportage fut coupé là, avant le sauvetage du chien...et pour cause...et on ne vit plus rien sur ce couple homme chien.
Je viens d'en avoir l'explication et j'en suis tourneboulée. Comment en effet rester indifférent à ça: le chien fut abandonné sur place, sur ce monticule de déchets instable, voué au desespoir, à la terreur et à la mort au milieu des flots, comme des milliers d'autres.

Certains, à l'approche du cyclone avaient fait euthanasier leurs animaux! Un médecin a fait ça dans une chambre à gaz...mort lente...tout ça est sordide.

Quand je pense qu'il y a des chiens sauveteurs d'humains ! Ce doit être ça, la gratitude humaine !

Voyez l'article de CNN là: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/04/katrina.pets.ap/index.html  

Evacuee Valerie Bennett, with husband Lorne at an Atlanta hospital, breaks into tears over leaving their pets behind.

  
Evacuees anguished at leaving pets behind

Sunday, September 4, 2005; Posted: 10:31 a.m. EDT (14:31 GMT)

Evacuee Valerie Bennett, with husband Lorne at an Atlanta hospital, breaks into tears over leaving their pets behind. 
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Manage Alerts | What Is This? ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- As Valerie Bennett was evacuated from a New Orleans hospital, rescuers told her there was no room in the boat for her dogs.(pas deplace pour leurs chiens)

She pleaded. "I offered him my wedding ring and my mom's wedding ring," the 34-year-old nurse recalled Saturday.(je leur ai proposé    mon alliance et celle de ma mère)

They wouldn't budge. She and her husband could bring only one item, and they already had a plastic tub containing the medicines her husband, a liver transplant recipient, needed to survive.

Such emotional scenes were repeated perhaps thousands of times along the Gulf Coast last week as pet owners were forced to abandon their animals in the midst of evacuation.

In one example reported last week by The Associated Press, a police officer took a dog from one little boy waiting to get on a bus in New Orleans. "Snowball! Snowball!" the boy cried until he vomited. The policeman told a reporter he didn't know what would happen to the dog.

At the hospital, a doctor euthanized some animals at the request of their owners, who feared they would be abandoned and starve to death. He set up a small gas chamber out of a plastic-wrapped dog kennel.

"The bigger dogs were fighting it. Fighting the gas. It took them longer. When I saw that, I said, 'I can't do it,' " said Bennett's husband, Lorne.

Valerie Bennett left her dogs ...voir la suite sur  http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/04/katrina.pets.ap/index.html 

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