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November 2, 2006
Adopt a Four-Legged War Veteran
The Israeli animal rights group CHAI is organizing a massive airlift of dogs that were abandoned during the July Israel-Lebanon war. Hundreds of pets were separated from their families during the chaos that month, and many of them have not been reunited.
Early tomorrow morning, 40 of these pups will be arriving in the US for adoption.The puppies, all around 4 months old, will be boarded at shelters throughout the Washington, D.C., Virginia and Maryland area, including the Montgomery County Humane Society, and the Arlington and Alexandria Animal Welfare Leagues, while they make appearances at adoption events.
"We reunited many puppies with their original families, and placed more with new families in Israel, but adoptions go slowly there," says Nina Natelson, CHAI's director. "We want to give them the best opportunity we can to find homes, so we are bringing them here."
If you'd like to see some of these puppies, please visit CHAI's adoption photo album. For more information, contact one of the aforementioned shelters to find out when you can meet the pups in person, or call CHAI at (703) 370-0333.
Meanwhile, I haven't heard of a similar initiative for animals that were abandoned in Lebanon, but if I do I promise I'll pass it along.
Hat tip to Ketzel Levine for passing along this announcement. -andy
UPDATE: Just a few minutes after I posted this, Ketzel chimed in again and alerted me to another organization that's airlifting abandoned pets from Lebanon. Thanks, Ketzel!
Tags: adoption | animalrights | dogs | israel | pets | war | washingtondc
Posted by acarvin at November 2, 2006 1:48 PM
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