Rescuing furry war refugees

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I know we have several animal lovers around here, so I thought this might be of interest to some:

"Many people, foreigners, had to abandon the country and they weren't allowed to take their pets," Joel says. "So most people either locked them in their homes or just released them in the streets."

In one month, Joel says the number of homeless pets in Lebanon doubled, and she had no place to put them. Her dog shelter had been damaged by a bomb and the cats were running over each other. But then, the phone rang.

"It's a dream. We couldn't believe it," Joel said.

On the other end of the phone was an offer from America to airlift nearly 300 of the animals. They arrived in the U.S. just last week. The operation was sponsored by a pet sanctuary out of Utah called Best Friends.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/06/assignment_america/main2072118.shtml

http://www.bestfriends.org/

http://network.bestfriends.org/News/Default.aspx?g=df6f6a971a5a40ffa6505b6863ee9bd1

 

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