I heard from my friend in LA tonight. She's asking for dog food and clothes. I have girl's clothes, but she has three boys and her husband, too. If anyone is going that way and can get dog food to her, please let me know. If anyone can get clothes for boys who are 15, 12 and 9, please let me know. The address and directions to her place are as follows: Alicia Crider 44003 Lucky C Lane Franklinton, LA 70438 LA Hwy 10 from East, go to LA Hwy 436 (llth Ave), turn RIGHT, go .7 mile to LA 430 Spur (Bene St), go .6 mile on Bene St which becomes LA 25 (going North), go 4.1 mile, turn RIGHT on BATEMAN ROAD (Road PR 206), go .7 mile, turn LEFT on HARVEY ROAD, go .1 mile, turn RIGHT onto TOB WILSON ROAD, go .7 mile (paved with dead end look), turn LEFT onto gravel road, go approx .4 mile, look on LEFT SIDE for big pasture with horses, turn in driveway to trailer. Thanks, Breezy

admin mabey es should hold on to money and assess need after rita hits, it could really help to have funds avaliable to assist rapidly, if ya don't have to use it in tx go ahead and buy fencing supplies for miss with it, just as long as it is used to help.

since there is mass amounts of donated hay being sent to these areas, possibly $$ raised here would be better suited for fencing materials once Rita has settled down.

When we were in Mississippi people were in need of fencing materials to contain their animals. We may want get a team together that can assist with that if Hurricane Rita his the gulf coast.

Amanda St. John, founder of Muttshack, onsite at an animal rescue center outside New Orleans reports that all animal rescuers have received MANDATORY evacuation orders. MuttShack's rescued menagerie includes not only dogs and cats, but also her own ponies. What YOU can do: please forward to your horsey distribution lists, and ask them to forward to theirs. Even if you don't know someone in the New Orleans area, the "six degrees of seperation" rule applies. Someone you know may know someone in the Southeastern USA who can help. Emails are being sent all over the USA, so you never know who will end up getting the email that you forward, even if you don't know anyone in the New Orleans area! IF you receive this email and you are in Louisiana or an adjacent state, and you are an experienced horseperson with the ability to trailer livestock or house livestock, please contact Amanda St. John DIRECTLY at her cell phone 818-272-1671 or Martin St. John at 818-272-1670. Please ALSO send Amanda an email. She has her wireless laptop with her, and sometimes emails get through when the phone lines don't work. Her email is Amanda@muttshack.org Please FORWARD this email! And THANK YOU to everyone who has helped MuttShack's efforts. This amazing volunteer-driven organization has worked heroicly and saved hundreds of pets. The volunteers are risking their lives and their health under the must physically brutal and disheartening of conditions imaginable. They are driven by love of animals and the desire to help. They are all heroes in my book! But they would be the first to acknowledge that they couldn't be doing what they are doing without YOUR help. Thank you! ...and God Bless All Creatures, Great and Small.

The North Florida horse association is shipping loads of supplies, feed and donations made out to the Lone Star equine rescue group and should be moving out of here to 3 differant staging areas of Lousiana and Mississippi and Texas. They have been accepting donations of these items and money funds as well.

Adim; I just returned from the Larmar-Dixon Expo in Gonzales ,La. They are in good shape on the medical supplies but are in need of hay and feed. I dropped off a small trailer load this morning. they recieved over 1,200 bales on tuesday and had a little over a 100 left when i showed-up. We all Need to send a special thank you to all the L.S.U. vet school, doctors and students for the time, work and supplies that they are providing. Will be trying to get a couple of trailer loads of round hay headed that way in a few days. curdawg "pete"

ES RELIEF UPDATE We are in touch with the Mississippi Staging Manager to determine where the hay is most needed at this time. It appears the Larmardixon Expo center in LA is okay on supplies. We are shooting to deploy our hay on Saturday. Details to come soon... If you haven't donated to our hay fund please do so by going to http://www.equestrianfriends.com Thanks

www.NCHAcutting.com has a list of their people able to take on horses. On their home page just under "The Finalist" picture, click on Katrina and it will take you to a list of people with what they can take on. I noticed a few can take as many as 100 horses. Also some have housing available.

Watching a news report covering Katrina this morning I noticed this name on a teeshirt. As the cameras panned across the water showing the destruction there was a couple of people in blue teeshirts trying to rescue a dog. The name on the teeshirts that caught my attention was "Noah's Wish". My little dog's name is Noah. If I had to leave my home, I couldn't & wouldn't leave Noah behind. Thus the name on the shirt got my attention. These people weren't part of the new report, but just happened to be in the picture. I checked to see is they have a web site and they do.. it's www.Noahswish.org They are rescuing pet and I think could probably use some help. If you love animals, check out their web site and see if there's anything you'd like to do to help.