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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Step, what's wrong with your horse? Arthritis? How old is she? She's around 7... and they've got no idea what's wrong, just that she's lame in her right front. It's in her shoulder, a very tough place to figure out... So, she's a pasture ornament right now... Drives her crazy, she loves to work and ride, and I think she gets her feelings hurt because I still ride my other two. Thanks for asking! Steph
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Step, what's wrong with your horse? Arthritis? How old is she? Jenn http://ucat.us http://ucat.us/domesticcatlinks.html Adopt a cat from UCAT rescue: http://ucat.us/adopt.html Adopt a FIV+ cat: http://ucat.us/AWrescue/FIV/ Adopt a FELV+ cat: http://ucat.us/FELVadopt.html ~~~ I collect KMR kitten formula labels for Bazil, a 3 yr old special needs cat who must live on a liquid diet for the rest of his life. Bazil's caretaker collects labels and sends them to KMR, where they add up until she earns a free can of formula! PLEASE save your KMR kitten formula labels for Bazil! If you use KMR, even just one can, please email me for the NEW address to send them to! ~ Does your cat have chronic diarrhea that does not respond to treatment, or has your cat been loosely diagnosed as IBD? Have you tested for Tritrichomonosis? The test is new, the new drug makes it curable. Ask me today how you can test for Trich! -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.7/181 - Release Date: 11/24/2005
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Original Message Subject:[RC] OT But rescue shelter needs help Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:57:28 -0500 From: Ashley Kemerer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is an emergency in Point Pleasant (Mason County) West Virginia. Their animal shelter ( http://masoncounty.petfinder.com http://masoncounty.petfinder.com/) just had a gas explosion and fire, and many animals are dead and injured. Shelter workers are burned from trying to go in after the animals. One worker lost her own personal cats in the fire. If you are near there and can help, please email Trish McDonald at [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and please copy Sally at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and Robin ([EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ) if you can offer any assistance. WARNING: THIS IS VERY UPSETTING TO READ. Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:53:00 + WV: MASON CO SHELTER IS ON FIRE! GAS EXPLOSION! From: Trish McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MASON COUNTY RESCUERS SUPPORTERS, WE NEED YOUR HELP NOW MORE THAN EVER! 11/22/05 approximately 3:00 pm I just got calls from Sally Missy and I'm pretty hysterical at the moment, so sorry if this is rambling. The shelter is burning. Gas valve blew, explosion, building extremely damaged, probably a complete loss. Cats and dogs are dead. Danielle (shelter manager) is out alive but has suffered smoke inhalation (from going back in to rescue animals) and is on her way to the hospital. Her own cats died in the fire. As far as I know the rest of the staff got out ok. Shelter phone is dead. Danielle has been able to reach Sally via another phone, but I don't have the number. Sheriff, fire, ambulance are all at the shelter now. Phone calls are coming in fast and furious as I'm writing this...updating along the way. Hope it all makes sense. Some dogs are out alive...running loose. Not sure how many because they were just letting out whatever dogs they could reach and they're now running loose. Will be rounded up later. Early estimate is maybe 50-60 dogs were pulled out. I just spoke to Derrick. They're rounding them up now. He's ok physically, emotionally a wreck. He's called in friends to come and take dogs to emergency foster. The recycling center has offered to hold some dogs for us too. Missy is on her way down there now. Emergency foster homes are needed NOW!!! ALL of the cats are dead...they couldn't get to the cat room. Puppies are probably all dead...they couldn't get through the smoke to the puppy room to save them. Some dogs are dead, not all, no idea who got out out. They got them out fast. Just opened kennels and pushed them outside. WOWK TV was there at the time doing an interview. The furnace installation guy and the woman doing the interview were burned. Please pray for them. All remaining animals MUST get out to rescue ASAP. There's NO WHERE to put them! No building to use. Maybe some outdoor pens, but that's about it. Rescues, HELP HELP HELP Sue Potter is going down there this weekend to do a transport back up through PA to CT. Anyone who can rescue or foster, please contact Missy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. Missy is headed to the shelter now and may not be online for awhile, so please copy Sally at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and Robin ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] if you can offer any assistance. Please pray for everyone involved. These people have worked so hard to try to make a difference for the animals in Mason County and they keep suffering setback after setback. From what I've heard via the first hurried phone calls is that it appears the building is a complete loss. Missy thinks the outside kennels are still usable. http://masoncounty.petfinder.com http://masoncounty.petfinder.com/ Trish 11/22/05 approximately 3:00 pm It is with the heaviest of hearts that I write this post. I can't stop crying. We need help! There's been a gas explosion at the Mason County shelter in Point Pleasant WV. It happened during the installation of the new heating system. All of the following information was gathered in the first hour after the explosion. Details may change as things settle down and volunteers get there to help assess the situation. All of the staff members made it out alive. Danielle, the shelter director, has suffered smoke inhalation from going back in to rescue animals. Of all the cats/kittens at the shelter, only one made it out alive. It had to be resuscitated. No idea if it will live. It is believed that all of the puppies died in the fire and smoke...the staff couldn't get to the puppy or cat rooms to pull them out. They were able to get to the large dog kennels and pull out a lot of the dogs. They basically pushed them out the door and the dogs are running loose. Not all got out. Some died in the initial explosion, others probably of smoke inhalation. Initial estimate is that approximately 50-60 dogs were pushed
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That is SO horrible! It really hits you hard when you go to the petfinder site and click to view the cats, and there aren't any listed.. they all burned alive in cages. Absolutely HORRIBLE. I can't stop crying.. this is so tragic. Maybe we could add them as a group to the CLS for next week? I guess that the furnace installation went bad? I saw they had the installation guy there when it happened. I would hope they could sue and recover some money to rebuild if that is the case! Jenn http://ucat.us http://ucat.us/domesticcatlinks.html Adopt a cat from UCAT rescue: http://ucat.us/adopt.html Adopt a FIV+ cat: http://ucat.us/AWrescue/FIV/ Adopt a FELV+ cat: http://ucat.us/FELVadopt.html ~~~ I collect KMR kitten formula labels for Bazil, a 3 yr old special needs cat who must live on a liquid diet for the rest of his life. Bazil's caretaker collects labels and sends them to KMR, where they add up until she earns a free can of formula! PLEASE save your KMR kitten formula labels for Bazil! If you use KMR, even just one can, please email me for the NEW address to send them to! ~ Does your cat have chronic diarrhea that does not respond to treatment, or has your cat been loosely diagnosed as IBD? Have you tested for Tritrichomonosis? The test is new, the new drug makes it curable. Ask me today how you can test for Trich! -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.6/179 - Release Date: 11/23/2005
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Oh.. no that's just so awful - I can't stand thinking of these precious lives - I am so sorry, precious babies - I am sure that they are haven no more pain..it's just so terrible !!! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 11:38 AM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: But rescue shelter needs help] That is SO horrible! It really hits you hard when you go to the petfinder site and click to view the cats, and there aren't any listed.. they all burned alive in cages. Absolutely HORRIBLE. I can't stop crying.. this is so tragic. Maybe we could add them as a group to the CLS for next week? I guess that the furnace installation went bad? I saw they had the installation guy there when it happened. I would hope they could sue and recover some money to rebuild if that is the case! Jenn http://ucat.us http://ucat.us/domesticcatlinks.html Adopt a cat from UCAT rescue: http://ucat.us/adopt.html Adopt a FIV+ cat: http://ucat.us/AWrescue/FIV/ Adopt a FELV+ cat: http://ucat.us/FELVadopt.html ~~~ I collect KMR kitten formula labels for Bazil, a 3 yr old special needs cat who must live on a liquid diet for the rest of his life. Bazil's caretaker collects labels and sends them to KMR, where they add up until she earns a free can of formula! PLEASE save your KMR kitten formula labels for Bazil! If you use KMR, even just one can, please email me for the NEW address to send them to! ~ Does your cat have chronic diarrhea that does not respond to treatment, or has your cat been loosely diagnosed as IBD? Have you tested for Tritrichomonosis? The test is new, the new drug makes it curable. Ask me today how you can test for Trich! -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.6/179 - Release Date: 11/23/2005
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i gather they've been having some trouble with their heating system, and the guy had just installed a new furnace (?)--the explosion occurred when he was lighting the pilot.. i have a pretty good feeling it was NOT how he'd planned on ending his workday i think adding the critters to the CLS list is a WONDERFUL idea--i've posted it on our boards sigh. i'm not sure which is worst, actually, the loss of life, or the heartbreak of those who tried so hard to save them. i heard that the shelter director's cats were among those who were lost. GLOW GLOW GLOW... On 11/23/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is SO horrible! It really hits you hard when you go to the petfinder site and click to view the cats, and there aren't any listed.. they all burned alive in cages. Absolutely HORRIBLE. I can't stop crying.. this is so tragic. Maybe we could add them as a group to the CLS for next week? I guess that the furnace installation went bad? I saw they had the installation guy there when it happened. I would hope they could sue and recover some money to rebuild if that is the case! Jenn http://ucat.us http://ucat.us/domesticcatlinks.html Adopt a cat from UCAT rescue: http://ucat.us/adopt.html Adopt a FIV+ cat: http://ucat.us/AWrescue/FIV/ Adopt a FELV+ cat: http://ucat.us/FELVadopt.html ~~~ I collect KMR kitten formula labels for Bazil, a 3 yr old special needs cat who must live on a liquid diet for the rest of his life. Bazil's caretaker collects labels and sends them to KMR, where they add up until she earns a free can of formula! PLEASE save your KMR kitten formula labels for Bazil! If you use KMR, even just one can, please email me for the NEW address to send them to! ~ Does your cat have chronic diarrhea that does not respond to treatment, or has your cat been loosely diagnosed as IBD? Have you tested for Tritrichomonosis? The test is new, the new drug makes it curable. Ask me today how you can test for Trich! -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.6/179 - Release Date: 11/23/2005 -- MaryChristine AIM / YAHOO: TenHouseCats MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 289856892
