Lebanon Compound
Best Friends and BETA staff and volunteers arrived safely in Las Vegas at approximately 1:00 a.m. PST with 295 cats and dogs. They arrived at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary as I was pulling into work this morning! From my office you can see into the lower canyon where we set up a temporary quarantine shelter for the dogs and cats. You can hear the excited barks from the dogs. They are thrilled that thier long journey is over and probably pretty excited to relax in Angels Canyon far far away from the war zone. I will keep you updated on their progress or you can check in at http://network.bestfriends.org for up to the minute news. Also, if ANYONE see's an article in thier newspaper or hears anything on the news please let me know. Thanks Everyone!!! Oh, many might ask why go so far out of the way to rescue these animals in Lebanon when Best Friends gets 500 request a week to take an animal. We network all over the country to try and get those 500 request the training, help, contacts they need in order to solve their problem. A big reason we are helping the Lebanon animals is as much for the animals as it is for the rescuers. From what I remember from past conversations there were 4 ladies running the shelter. They were doing their best but were running into many obstacles. Aside from shelters being destroyed by war they ran out of kitten food and unlike the U.S. you can't just run to PetCo and pick up more! In fact, we helped them contact neighboring countries (not cities COUNTRIES!) and no one had kitten food. So we sent two people who check 175 pounds of baggage. You guessed it, all kitten food.
Best Friends and BETA staff and volunteers arrived safely in Las Vegas at approximately 1:00 a.m. PST with 295 cats and dogs. They arrived at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary as I was pulling into work this morning! From my office you can see into the lower canyon where we set up a temporary quarantine shelter for the dogs and cats. You can hear the excited barks from the dogs. They are thrilled that thier long journey is over and probably pretty excited to relax in Angels Canyon far far away from the war zone. I will keep you updated on their progress or you can check in at http://network.bestfriends.org for up to the minute news. Also, if ANYONE see's an article in thier newspaper or hears anything on the news please let me know. Thanks Everyone!!! Oh, many might ask why go so far out of the way to rescue these animals in Lebanon when Best Friends gets 500 request a week to take an animal. We network all over the country to try and get those 500 request the training, help, contacts they need in order to solve their problem. A big reason we are helping the Lebanon animals is as much for the animals as it is for the rescuers. From what I remember from past conversations there were 4 ladies running the shelter. They were doing their best but were running into many obstacles. Aside from shelters being destroyed by war they ran out of kitten food and unlike the U.S. you can't just run to PetCo and pick up more! In fact, we helped them contact neighboring countries (not cities COUNTRIES!) and no one had kitten food. So we sent two people who check 175 pounds of baggage. You guessed it, all kitten food.
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