Pets Abandoned During War to be Flown to the U.S. for Adoption!

Hassoun · September 23rd, 2006, 03:24 PM

Pets Abandoned During War to be Flown to the U.S. for Adoption!

Some 300 homeless dogs and cats, many left behind by owners who fled Lebanon during the Hizbullah-Israel war, will be heading to new sanctuaries in the United States for adoption, an animal rights activist said Friday.
About 150 dogs and a similar number of cats will be flown out on a special flight Monday, said Mona Khoury, co-founder of the humane society Beirut for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or BETA.

"They will be in transit sanctuary," she said in a telephone interview, referring to the many requests for adoptions.

BETA is involved in the project with the American animal society Best Friends. A statement from Best Friends issued in Kanab, Utah, said the homeless pets from Beirut will be airlifted to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, America's largest refuge for abused and abandoned pets.

Michael Mountain, president of Best Friends, said that the pets will undergo a complete health and behavior evaluations, "and then they'll be off to their new homes."

"We've already had lots of adoption offers," Mountain said, adding that "by bringing these homeless pets to this country, we're enabling the good people at BETA to rebuild their shelters and restart their rescue work."

BETA has collected many pets that were left behind by people who had to leave the country. Tens of thousands of foreigners or Lebanese with foreign passports left the country in July and August during the heavy fighting, many on the recommendations of their governments which organized evacuations by land or sea.

Pets were not accepted in the evacuations and many had to be left behind.

At the start of the 34-day hostilities July 12, BETA had to move dogs and cats from a shelter near a Hizbullah stronghold in Beirut that was repeatedly pounded by Israeli warplanes to a hilltop farm in Monteverde in the hills overlooking Beirut.(AP)

Beirut, 22 Sep 06, 17:10

***Beiruti*** · September 23rd, 2006, 07:10 PM

haha this is so crazy... they probably think all those stray cats were pets... good let them clean up our streets, thanks BETA!

Very Controversial · September 23rd, 2006, 11:37 PM

Cool.

Jayme · September 24th, 2006, 12:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Beirut!

haha this is so crazy... they probably think all those stray cats were pets... good let them clean up our streets, thanks BETA!

i used to feed the stary cats lol, they were so skiny haram
they kept on coming back for food untill my uncle used a BB gun to scare them a way !

grzes · September 24th, 2006, 03:58 AM

I'm curious to see how they will make it over, probably with aircraft taking them for short hops from country to country probably. Either that or a aircraft will be rented and the pets will be kept obviously in the cabin (too dangerous keeping them in the cargo hold). Good news this, glad to see all of the poor animals (stray or pets) will finally have a home where they'll be taken care of

***Beiruti*** · September 24th, 2006, 10:40 AM

Hassoun · September 27th, 2006, 08:31 AM

Rescued Lebanese Pets Up For Adoption In Utah

(KUTV) SALT LAKE CITY Hundreds of Lebanese animals left behind by their owners have been taken from the war-torn region to their new home in southern Utah.

Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, America’s largest refuge for abused or abandoned pets, is rescuing them all.

300 cats and dogs were airlifted out of Lebanon Monday and flown into the Las Vegas airport early this morning.

Once the canines and felines reach the sanctuary they will be checked over to make sure they’re healthy and would make good companions, and then hopefully adopted out.

$180,000 dollars was raised for the massive rescue but Best Friends says they still need $200 per animal.

You’ll find a link to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary’s website where you can donate or adopt. Click here: www.bestfriends.org

(© MMVI, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

lebgurl · October 27th, 2006, 07:50 AM

Indian UN vet treats animal victims of Lebanon war

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By Alistair LyonThu Oct 26, 8:06 AM ET
Amal al-Nimr flips a goat on its back in her muddy farmyard in south Lebanon to show the Indian vet how the shrapnel wound in its leg is healing.

Lieutenant-Colonel Parasanali Bapu, the only veterinary surgeon serving with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), applies iodine to the stricken goat, another casualty of Israel's recent war with Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas.

When Nimr complains her animals have grown skinny since the conflict, Bapu supplies deworming medicine.

"Because of the stress of the war, the worm load in the stomach increases. Whatever the animals eat, the worms also eat," the vet explains.

Even before the war, Bapu's free treatment and medicine were in huge demand among the poor farmers and shepherds in these remote southern pastures, near Lebanon's border with Israel and Syria's Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

"We have seen a lot of death and destruction," he says, estimating that about 60 percent of the animal population was wiped out during the 34-day conflict that ended on August 14.

"People didn't know the war would go on so long. They left their animals and nobody was able to look after them," he says, striding through farmyards in a smartly ironed uniform, oblivious to the manure splashing onto his polished boots.

"Some died in the rubble, some fell prey to wild animals, some died due to starvation. Those that survived were emaciated. Suddenly after the war they started diarrhea and all the gastro-intestinal diseases," the 43-year-old vet adds.

HERDS HARD HIT

Nimr, a voluble woman in a red tracksuit and rubber boots, says she lost 170 sheep and goats and eight cows in the war, a good chunk of the livelihood of her extended family of 10.

"We were running from the shelling," says Nimr, 38, her eyes flashing. "They were really hard days."

She snorts with derision when asked if she has received any compensation from the government or Hezbollah.

Unable to afford the fees of private Lebanese vets, she is delighted with Bapu's work. "We rely on him all the time," she says. "Everyone says good things about him."

That kind of testimonial heartens the 670-strong Indian battalion, which sees humanitarian work as vital to win local support for UNIFIL in a potentially hostile environment.

Major Saurabh Pandey, spokesman for the contingent, believes locals value the role of the Indian troops, who stayed during the war despite intense bombing and shelling.

During lulls, the Indians delivered food and water to villagers, arranged evacuations and provided medical care. "This way we have been able to touch their hearts," Pandey says at the battalion's headquarters near the village of Ibl al-Saqi.

It may be too early to judge how mainly Shi'ite Muslim southerners view the expanded UNIFIL force mandated to help the newly deployed Lebanese army police a weapons-free zone.

But at least in the Indian-patrolled area, the shared wartime experience has brought new signs of warmth, Pandey says.

"It was not very obvious before the conflict in certain places, but afterwards you go to any place and people are smiling and waving. Kids turn up and say, 'Indian, Indian' or 'UN, UN', and they shake hands. It's a very welcome change."

Back on his rounds, Bapu checks a young cow recovering from an operation six weeks ago during which he removed a six-inch shard of metal from its skull. "It's not healed completely, but it is picking up ... It was very weak at that time," he says.

In a murky barn nearby, Bapu and a burly farm boy named Khaled Rajab struggle to keep a frisky cow still long enough to jab it with antibiotics for an infected uterus.

"They're not keeping it clean, so the infection continues," Bapu says, blaming poor hygiene for many such ailments.

POSTWAR DANGERS

The Israeli-Hezbollah truce has largely held. The Indians, who operate near the flashpoint Shebaa Farms area on the Golan Heights, say they have seen no sign of any guerrilla presence. Hezbollah have just "mingled with the masses," Pandey says.

The guns may be silent, but hundreds of thousands of cluster bomblets sprayed over south Lebanon in at least 770 Israeli strikes still pose a deadly danger to humans and animals.

Cluster bomb blasts have killed more than 20 people and wounded scores of others since the war. Bapu says many people have brought him sheep and goats wounded as they graze.

The vet, who returns to Bangalore after a 12-month tour next month, has trained villagers to give injections and medicine to their animals, skills he hopes they will retain when he is gone.

"After the war, help was pouring in for people to rebuild their houses but no help came for the animals," he says.

"The greatest satisfaction is I was there with medicines, running around able to save them."

September 23rd, 2006, 03:24 PM	#1
Hassoun Son of the cedars Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 6,047 Likes (Received): 23	Pets Abandoned During War to be Flown to the U.S. for Adoption! Pets Abandoned During War to be Flown to the U.S. for Adoption! Some 300 homeless dogs and cats, many left behind by owners who fled Lebanon during the Hizbullah-Israel war, will be heading to new sanctuaries in the United States for adoption, an animal rights activist said Friday. About 150 dogs and a similar number of cats will be flown out on a special flight Monday, said Mona Khoury, co-founder of the humane society Beirut for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or BETA. "They will be in transit sanctuary," she said in a telephone interview, referring to the many requests for adoptions. BETA is involved in the project with the American animal society Best Friends. A statement from Best Friends issued in Kanab, Utah, said the homeless pets from Beirut will be airlifted to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, America's largest refuge for abused and abandoned pets. Michael Mountain, president of Best Friends, said that the pets will undergo a complete health and behavior evaluations, "and then they'll be off to their new homes." "We've already had lots of adoption offers," Mountain said, adding that "by bringing these homeless pets to this country, we're enabling the good people at BETA to rebuild their shelters and restart their rescue work." BETA has collected many pets that were left behind by people who had to leave the country. Tens of thousands of foreigners or Lebanese with foreign passports left the country in July and August during the heavy fighting, many on the recommendations of their governments which organized evacuations by land or sea. Pets were not accepted in the evacuations and many had to be left behind. At the start of the 34-day hostilities July 12, BETA had to move dogs and cats from a shelter near a Hizbullah stronghold in Beirut that was repeatedly pounded by Israeli warplanes to a hilltop farm in Monteverde in the hills overlooking Beirut.(AP) Beirut, 22 Sep 06, 17:10

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grzes BANNED Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: on ur ice, scaring ur netminders Posts: 268 Likes (Received): 0	I'm curious to see how they will make it over, probably with aircraft taking them for short hops from country to country probably. Either that or a aircraft will be rented and the pets will be kept obviously in the cabin (too dangerous keeping them in the cargo hold). Good news this, glad to see all of the poor animals (stray or pets) will finally have a home where they'll be taken care of

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Hassoun Son of the cedars Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 6,047 Likes (Received): 23	Rescued Lebanese Pets Up For Adoption In Utah (KUTV) SALT LAKE CITY Hundreds of Lebanese animals left behind by their owners have been taken from the war-torn region to their new home in southern Utah. Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, America’s largest refuge for abused or abandoned pets, is rescuing them all. 300 cats and dogs were airlifted out of Lebanon Monday and flown into the Las Vegas airport early this morning. Once the canines and felines reach the sanctuary they will be checked over to make sure they’re healthy and would make good companions, and then hopefully adopted out. $180,000 dollars was raised for the massive rescue but Best Friends says they still need $200 per animal. You’ll find a link to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary’s website where you can donate or adopt. Click here: www.bestfriends.org (© MMVI, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

October 27th, 2006, 07:50 AM	#8
lebgurl Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 608 Likes (Received): 0	Indian UN vet treats animal victims of Lebanon war [IMG] http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/2...8kXRKS8Uh0Kw-- [/IMG] By Alistair LyonThu Oct 26, 8:06 AM ET Amal al-Nimr flips a goat on its back in her muddy farmyard in south Lebanon to show the Indian vet how the shrapnel wound in its leg is healing. Lieutenant-Colonel Parasanali Bapu, the only veterinary surgeon serving with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), applies iodine to the stricken goat, another casualty of Israel's recent war with Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas. When Nimr complains her animals have grown skinny since the conflict, Bapu supplies deworming medicine. "Because of the stress of the war, the worm load in the stomach increases. Whatever the animals eat, the worms also eat," the vet explains. Even before the war, Bapu's free treatment and medicine were in huge demand among the poor farmers and shepherds in these remote southern pastures, near Lebanon's border with Israel and Syria's Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. "We have seen a lot of death and destruction," he says, estimating that about 60 percent of the animal population was wiped out during the 34-day conflict that ended on August 14. "People didn't know the war would go on so long. They left their animals and nobody was able to look after them," he says, striding through farmyards in a smartly ironed uniform, oblivious to the manure splashing onto his polished boots. "Some died in the rubble, some fell prey to wild animals, some died due to starvation. Those that survived were emaciated. Suddenly after the war they started diarrhea and all the gastro-intestinal diseases," the 43-year-old vet adds. HERDS HARD HIT Nimr, a voluble woman in a red tracksuit and rubber boots, says she lost 170 sheep and goats and eight cows in the war, a good chunk of the livelihood of her extended family of 10. "We were running from the shelling," says Nimr, 38, her eyes flashing. "They were really hard days." She snorts with derision when asked if she has received any compensation from the government or Hezbollah. Unable to afford the fees of private Lebanese vets, she is delighted with Bapu's work. "We rely on him all the time," she says. "Everyone says good things about him." That kind of testimonial heartens the 670-strong Indian battalion, which sees humanitarian work as vital to win local support for UNIFIL in a potentially hostile environment. Major Saurabh Pandey, spokesman for the contingent, believes locals value the role of the Indian troops, who stayed during the war despite intense bombing and shelling. During lulls, the Indians delivered food and water to villagers, arranged evacuations and provided medical care. "This way we have been able to touch their hearts," Pandey says at the battalion's headquarters near the village of Ibl al-Saqi. It may be too early to judge how mainly Shi'ite Muslim southerners view the expanded UNIFIL force mandated to help the newly deployed Lebanese army police a weapons-free zone. But at least in the Indian-patrolled area, the shared wartime experience has brought new signs of warmth, Pandey says. "It was not very obvious before the conflict in certain places, but afterwards you go to any place and people are smiling and waving. Kids turn up and say, 'Indian, Indian' or 'UN, UN', and they shake hands. It's a very welcome change." Back on his rounds, Bapu checks a young cow recovering from an operation six weeks ago during which he removed a six-inch shard of metal from its skull. "It's not healed completely, but it is picking up ... It was very weak at that time," he says. In a murky barn nearby, Bapu and a burly farm boy named Khaled Rajab struggle to keep a frisky cow still long enough to jab it with antibiotics for an infected uterus. "They're not keeping it clean, so the infection continues," Bapu says, blaming poor hygiene for many such ailments. POSTWAR DANGERS The Israeli-Hezbollah truce has largely held. The Indians, who operate near the flashpoint Shebaa Farms area on the Golan Heights, say they have seen no sign of any guerrilla presence. Hezbollah have just "mingled with the masses," Pandey says. The guns may be silent, but hundreds of thousands of cluster bomblets sprayed over south Lebanon in at least 770 Israeli strikes still pose a deadly danger to humans and animals. Cluster bomb blasts have killed more than 20 people and wounded scores of others since the war. Bapu says many people have brought him sheep and goats wounded as they graze. The vet, who returns to Bangalore after a 12-month tour next month, has trained villagers to give injections and medicine to their animals, skills he hopes they will retain when he is gone. "After the war, help was pouring in for people to rebuild their houses but no help came for the animals," he says. "The greatest satisfaction is I was there with medicines, running around able to save them."