To me this ‘left behind’ dog named Bubbles

Typifies what these Katrina pets went through

But it’s truly the very happy endings like this one

Which make everyone involved in rescue less blue

To honor the thousands of ‘left behind’ animals

All Pets Radio has launched a website to remember

Containing interviews stories pictures movies and tributes

To these ‘left behinds’ which debuted the first of September

Here you can read memorials about pets lost

Very happy reunions between animal and man

How Harry Connick, Jr. helped in the relief effort

How to develop your very own pet evacuation plan

Here you can listen to a very sad and enlightening interview

With the dedicated Director of the Louisiana Humane Society

Here you can listen to podcasts of some of my Katrina poems

And even a chat with an animal writer who happens to be me

But every time that I visit this new Katrina memorial website

I find myself watching the rescue movies over and over again

I and thousands of other animal lovers in this vast nation of ours

Hope and pray that this never again happens to our animal friends

Unconditionalfriends.com

The Pets of Katrina – One Year Later

Please Check it Out

And Sadly Enough

Pet Rescue Efforts

Still Continue on the Gulf Coast

One Year after this Devastating Storm

If you’d like to help in any way

This website also contains links

To animal organizations still involved

And if you’re looking for a new pet

Please contact your local animal shelter

There are still very sadly

Many ‘left behind’ animals

Just like Bubbles

Still looking for loving new homes

"Who can believe that there is no soul

Behind those luminous eyes?"

Theophile Gautier

"He will be our friend,

For always and always and always.”

Rudyard Kipling

"If I have any beliefs about immortality,

It is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven,

And very, very few persons will."

James Thurber

“The greatness of a nation,

And its moral progress,

Can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

 Mahatma Gandhi