Katrina survivors who abandoned helpless Babies charged?

Question

How could you sleep .....Knowing they are suffering?
Should the people of Katrina who Neglected there .........................pets(aka Babies) go to jail for abandoning there helpless pets.
If People left their child they would most defiantly go to jail.
Do you think the helpless animals had no choice in anything?

Note: most hotels eccept pets ....some allow pets and not children (weird but true)

Answer 1

I stayed for Katrina because I knew I couldn't evacuate with my cat. Have you ever taken a cat to a hotel? Most will accept DOGS, but not other animals. If and when another storm blows through New Orleans, my cat and I will stay and ride it out, too.

Answer 2

Could you please repost with an actual question rather than an incomprehensible tirade? Decent spelling, grammar and punctuation might also help you be understood. However if I read you right, you have a problem with people who abandoned household pets during the onslaught of Katrina. Have you ever been in a major natural disaster?? Do you not think that most people would look at self preservation and the wellbeing of their human dependents and friends with pets perhaps a little way down the agenda? If not then you are being unrealistic, unreasonable, and talking about things you know nothing about.

Answer 3

Aren't we lucky that we were not in that situation! Can you imagine having a child on that day, and you had to hand your new born over to a stranger in the hospital? Then, the next day, you have to go back through the water all stitched up, and still bleeding, and search for the rest of your family? And we all know how much babies change in that first week, how would they even recognize their child if they saw him a week later? As far as the animals, they were better off than the humans. They could climb, and swim. But it isn't called abandonment hun, for the record, it's called survival. I can only imagine one of those poor people that almost died, in more ways than just the water, reading your question and calling you everything but a child of God. How can one person be so callous and cold? Saying they should go to jail for leaving their kids, for your information, THEY were left behind. The children were rescued FIRST. They sent their children on to save them. You sound as bad as FEMA telling them on the phones that weren't underwater, to go to their website. On what computer? The one under water? And that's if they even had one. WOW! Is Bush or Hitler your daddy?

Answer 4

The truth is that many people think of pets as property and not family. Also, when people were being evacuated, many were told by authorities that they could not take their pets. And contrary to what you must think, many many people did not go to stay in hotels, because they simply could not afford it. They stayed in the various storm shelters that were provided by their cities, where they could not take their pets. That is why so many people opted to try to wait out the storm rather than abandon their beloved pets.
Now, the homeless pet problem is every body's problem, not just the former owners'. Anyone who can help now, should. And we must stop pointing the finger of blame.

Answer 5

A pet is not equivalent to a human. In a time of serious peril I would consider it perfectly acceptable to abandon a pet. Animals are far from helpless, they are perfectly capable of surviving in an urban area. Why do you think local governments typically make a big deal about spading and neutering your pets? Its because if you don't feral animals can run rampant.

Those people should be punished for not leaving when they could and blaming everyone other then themselves for their problems.

Answer 6

In most of those situations the people being rescued were not allowed to bring their pets. Some people chose to stay behind with their pets and subsequently died. Just last week legislation was passed that would allow people to take their pets with them in case of emergency. It's really hard to say what I would do in that situation though. Certain death or leave your pet to certain death? I would say I'd never leave them, but it's impossible to know how I would react in that situation because I've never been in it.

Answer 7

i assume you have in no way had to leave by using a hurricane or different organic disaster.. maximum persons of the folk who left pets at the back of had no decision, in case you are able to desire to handle to pay for a lodge and pets have been welcomed then those are the folk who took their pets, Shelters do no longer settle for pets so they have been left at the back of no longer by applying decision yet of necessity, after which you had the folk who refused to leave dwelling house because of the fact they won't take there pets and those have been those that had to be rescued and a few lost their lives!! so which you spot pets weren't abandoned.. human beings had little to no decision!!

Answer 8

if i was in that situation i would rather die than leave my children behind. seeing as i have three kids then the pets might be a bit difficult but if i couldn't carry them all i would definately consider letting them out to give them a chance of getting themselves away.

Answer 9

Abandoned animals will still feed themselves, abandoned babies cannot.

They shouldn't go to jail for it, extrenuating circumstances.

Answer 10

at least free the animal and give it a fighting chance. If you let a baby there to die they should die themselves. They have no soul left and therefore be treated that way.