Update October 25, 2005


Hurricane Relief Update October 25, 2005

Relief organizations are no longer giving out maps for people to check specific homes in New Orleans for surviving animals, so rather than search and rescue, much of our effort goes toward finding strays and feeding animals that are at large in the area. We continue to put food and water out all over areas of New Orleans where we know animals are still living. The city is starting to reopen now, which is good because some businesses are selling supplies, but there are some large areas of New Orleans that are just completely devastated. 

The IDA Project Hope team is the only group I know of out here that is going into the city every single day to put out food and water and take strays who need homes off the streets. We’re pretty much up from 6:30 a.m. until about 10:00 or 11:00 at night. There is an 18-wheeler that leaves every night for Tylertown, Miss. where there is a Best Friends sanctuary, and that’s where all of the animals we rescue are going.


Staci Hendryx



Read Project Hope’s Doll Stanley’s first hand account of Hurricane Katrina and the animal relief efforts