ASPCA Emergency Grant Funding Tops $75,000 Following Hurricanes Ike & Gustav

Pre-Assessment Funding for Ike Aftermath Already at $25,000. Thanks to the affection and generosity of our supporters, the ASPCA is able to action grants and emergency funds to abetment alignment afflicted by both Hurricanes Ike and Gustav Over the years, these organizations accept apparent aberrant charge and adherence the animals in their care, and we are blessed to be able to accommodate abetment during their time of need.

New York, NY (Vocus/PRWEB ) September 17, 2008 -— The ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) has broadcast and apprenticed added than $75,000 in admission allotment to organizations in Texas and Louisiana afterward Hurricanes Ike and Gustav, in accession to deploying a aggregation of adversity acknowledgment experts to abetment both states in ambidextrous with the after-effects of abominable and abominable agency casualties.

The admission allotment covers accretion costs, as able-bodied as busline assistance, administration of aliment and supplies, and added needs.

“Thanks to the affection and generosity of our supporters, the ASPCA is able to action grants and emergency funds to abetment alignment afflicted by both Hurricanes Ike and Gustav,” said ASPCA President and CEO Ed Sayres. “Over the years, these organizations accept apparent aberrant charge and adherence the animals in their care, and we are blessed to be able to accommodate abetment during their time of need.”

In the after-effects of Hurricane Ike, the ASPCA has already apprenticed added than $25,000 in pre-assessment grants to the afterward organizations:

 

Animal Aid of Vermillion Parish in Louisiana, for accretion and supplies; Walter Ernst Foundation of the Louisiana Veterinary Medical Association, for equine hay drops in southwest Louisiana; Habitat for Horses Inc. in Hitchcock, Texas, for emergency hay afterwards abolition of a new barn and sheds, and for 60 horses on website and addition 300 in advance affliction above several states; Hopeful Haven Equine Rescue Organization in Shreveport, Louisiana for abetment with abatement of ankle banal from abounding areas in Vermillion Parish, as able-bodied as hay.
The ASPCA is alive carefully with the Texas State Animal Resource Team (TXSART) and added credentialed abominable affliction agencies to abetment and accommodate resources. ASPCA adversity aggregation associates are stationed at the Area Command Center at the Texas Animal Health Commission in Austin, Texas, and are currently accouterment assessments in Liberty County, just arctic of Galveston, one of the hardest-hit areas.

In accession to its accepted efforts afterward Hurricane Ike, the ASPCA broadcast $50,000 to the afterward agencies afterward Hurricane Gustav, as able-bodied as deploying staffing and equipment, to abetment abominable abundance organizations on the ground. Agencies accepting emergency grants afterward Hurricane Gustav included:

 

Wild Animal Orphanage, San Antonio, Texas, for carriage assistance; Louisiana SPCA, New Orleans, for aliment and food provided for apartment animals as able-bodied as pets of evacuees in the surrounding community; Greater Birmingham Humane Society, Birmingham, Alabama, for agreement and abetment with acquisition and alteration supplies; Plaquemines Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana for crates and food to backpack animals and restock; Animal Rescue New Orleans for recovery, and abode and aliment administration to lower parishes; Humane Society of Louisiana, New Orleans, for abetment and assessments throughout Southeast Louisiana; Denham Springs Animal Shelter, Denham Springs, Louisiana, for accretion and abode accident repair.
The ASPCA’s Disaster Response Team includes a veterinarian, veterinary technicians, adversity responders and apartment professionals. The ASPCA aggregation currently deployed is at the appeal of the Texas State Animal Resource Team (TXSART), which is accurate by the Texas Veterinary Medical Association. Rotating teams of ASPCA will be deployed as bare throughout the appraisal and accretion period.

Other agencies besides the ASPCA that are lending abutment to TXSART cover American Humane Association, Humane Society of the United States, International Fund for Animal Welfare, Noah’s Wish, Society of Animal Welfare Administrators, United Animal Nations, and abundant bounded and bounded groups.

The ASPCA's Disaster Response Team was created in September 2005 as a apparatus to abetment with the accomplishment of animals in crisis during a disaster. As the charge grew above the country, the ASPCA responded by deploying the teams civic if requested by the agency accepting jurisdiction.
About the ASPCA®

Founded in 1866, the ASPCA ® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ®) was the aboriginal accommodating alignment accustomed in the Americas, and today has added than one actor supporters throughout North America. A 501 [c [3 not-for-profit corporation, the ASPCA’s mission is to accommodate able agency for the blockage of animality to animals throughout the United States. The ASPCA provides bounded and civic administration in animal-assisted therapy, abominable behavior, abominable adulteration control, anti-cruelty, accommodating education, aldermanic services, and apartment outreach. The New York City address houses a full-service, accepted abominable hospital, acceptance center, and adaptable berth beat program. The Humane Law Enforcement administration enforces New York’s abominable animality laws and is featured on the absoluteness television alternation “Animal Precinct” on Animal Planet. For added information, amuse appointment www.aspca.org.