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Society News Blog
Society News Blog posts insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domain of the society facet of life. Society-News Blog: Humane-Societies News Humane societies work to reunite pets with owners in Newton County: May 14, 2008 by Abby Wuellner
NEOSHO, Mo. -- As tornado victims try to salvage anything from leveled homes and businesses, teams are searching the rubble for survivors -- this time for people's pets. The Humane Society of Missouri is doing its best to get pets back to their owners. "We're doing animal disaster response,” said Jeff McRoy, a statewide investigator for the Humane Society of Missouri. Door to door, and debris pile to debris pile, officials are looking for pets displaced by nature's fury. "The first was one a Newton County officer brought us,” said Deeanna Leinmiller, shelter manager for the Joplin Humane Society. Officials don't know this dog's real name. "We named him Uno," said Leinmiller. Uno is far from alone. He has more than a dozen bunkmates, some who, like Uno, are strays. Others are from owners who have nowhere else to turn. "They lost everything," said Leinmiller. As recovery presses on, so too do efforts of the Humane Society of Missouri, which plans to stick around a few more days. That will be enough time, they hope, to learn Uno's real name. "We're taking lost reports,” said Leinmiller. The shelter is established at the corner of Gateway and Iris roads, near U.S. 71 northwest of Neosho in Newton County. If you've lost a pet, you can go there to see if it's been taken there. If not, you can fill out a lost pet report. Also, they've gotten a shipment of dog food at that location. Families affected by the storms can pick some up there.
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With due apologies from the side of Society News Blog, humane societies seem to be more bothered about dogs than they are about humans. Now, I have this dog-lover friend of mine... you give him a call even at 2.30 midnight about a dog being in crisis and he will be there within no time! But the same man is so insensitive when it comes to be feeling about the suffering humans around him that I am forced to take him to be two different persons in the same body. The fragmented we! In fact, what we do is that we shift all our sensitivities from our nearest genetic relatives to a little distant ones, i.e., the dogs. And why do we do so? I think only because we are frustrated with the ways of humanity that it has adopted in order to live on this planet. Otherwise, if we are so humane that the sufferings of dogs are intolerable to us, why in the first place we eat the meat of cows, chickens, pigs, fish and goats? Where does our sensitivity go when we do so? Are these animals any different from dogs? Aren't we escaping from the reality when we show so much concern toward dogs, which in fact we should have shown toward human violence, human suffering and, most important, toward the global warming as such? I invite you to subscribe to my E-zine titled Life Coach, free of charge. This E-zine publishes insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. A not-to-be-missed opportunity! Subscribe to it here: I also invite you to subscribe to my Life Blog - no need to provide your e-mail address here. This RSS feed keeps you informed about new developments taking place on this site. It also harbors 25 journal bloglets posting insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. In order to subscribe to the blog, right-click on the orange RSS button (see buttons up to the left) and then paste the URL into your RSS reader. Or click on add to My Yahoo! button or My MSN or Add To Google button if you keep a personalized home page there. If you are not sure what RSS or blogging is all about, click on What's an RSS Feed? here:
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