September 8, 2005

All those pet dogs left behind in New Orleans.

It's terrible to say, but remember what happened after the tsunami.
Posted by Ann Althouse at 8:21 AM
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5 comments:

goesh said...

Nature is nature that's for sure - it is just another source of protein for dogs. And speaking of being morbid, we know what the many wicked rats have been doing too as they scurried up through the walls of homes into the attics and there sat staring with their patient, beady, gleaming eyes silently waiting for dehydration to do its thing and provide a ready feast of human victims who were forced up and away from rising water, there to be confined in a closed-in space with no resources in the hot temperatures of a Louisana summer. Rats will have their fare putrid or raw, it matters not to them.

9/8/05, 10:17 AM
Robert Holmgren said...

I always thought dogs had the abilty to swim by doing the dog paddle. Apparently their helplessness proves that Darwin was wrong about survival creating a stronger gene pool.

9/8/05, 10:19 AM
Alice H said...

The practical, logical part of me is thinking it's a good thing they were putting the dogs down in Thailand - there are already too many pets, and animals that have run wild for a while frequently can't be tamed again.

The part of me that has taken in four cats and a dog is horrified. I know this is going to have to happen in the area affected by Hurricane Katrina, and part of me wanted to take in yet another pet from the abandoned/lost Katrina pets, but we're already over the legal limit for where we live.

9/8/05, 10:21 AM
goesh said...

- we've gone to the dogs, clearly

9/8/05, 1:09 PM
Robert Holmgren said...

Everyone living in harms way ought to have a dog. For those concerned whether anyone will come to rescue them, rest assured, your chances are higher that a subset of the general population will have greater concern for your dog than for you, but you may have a shot at convincing them to bring you along. Plus, they represent a ready food source.

9/8/05, 6:04 PM

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