IDA’s Connie Durkee sends us another update from her journey into Haiti with the ARCH team to rescue animals in this devastated area: We are welcomed into every tent city we go to. The people are grateful for the help. We treat the animals with Ivermectin for internal parasites and skin problems (mange) and give [...]

To understand the conditions the dedicated ARCH team in Haiti is working and living in, IDA’S Connie Durkee has sent us updates from the fields: As we sit and wait for our campsite to be secured, we watch the UN troops let in groups of Haitians through the gate in front of us to receive food. There [...]

Since the catastrophic earthquake devastated Haiti on January 12, 2010 affecting its 2 million inhabitants and over 4 million animals, IDA has been working non-stop to access the situation on the ground, assess the needs for animals and what we can do to help. IDA along with other representatives of the Animal Relief Coalition for Haiti [...]

It is hard to believe it has been a little over a week since a massive earthquake devastated Haiti. News photos and reports come in everyday showing the heartbreaking reality of what the people and animals of this nation – that was already struggling with poverty – face. Since then IDA’s staff has been working [...]

I doubt any of us will forget when disaster hit New Orleans in 2005 in the form of Hurricane Katrina. At the time, I volunteered to work crisis lines to help with companion animal rescue efforts in Louisiana as well as Mississippi. I can still remember how the calls from the desperate and traumatized came [...]