Disaster - College of Veterinary Medicine - Texas A&M University

20 • CVM Today • Summer 2010
The photos on this page represent only a fraction
of the imaginable emergency and disaster situations
that can leave animals devastated and in need of
assistance from caring and trained response personnel.
From right to left around the page, starting at the top:
Galveston Island, TX, Sep. 2008 ~ A volunteer for the Humane Society tends
to dogs in a shelter set up to help animals displaced by Hurricane Ike. Photo
credit: FEMA/Jocelyn Augustino.
New Orleans, LA, Sep. 2005 ~ A veterinarian (left) and veterinatian’s
technician examine a towel-wrapped cat rescued from the floodwaters left
behind by Hurricane Katrina. Photo credit: FEMA/Win Henderson.
Beaumont, TX, Sep. 2005 ~ Several horses were brought in to the Animal
Disaster Response Facility staged in the Ford Arena following Hurricane Rita’s
landfall. Photo credit: FEMA/Bob McMillan.
New Orleans, LA, Feb. 2006 ~ Members of Best Friends Rescue join the
parade down Bourbon Street during Mardis Gras with some of the animals
abandoned and rescued from Hurricane Katrina. Photo credit: FEMA/Barbara
Pritchard.
Galveston Island, TX, Sep. 2008 ~ A stray cow walks along areas where
sand and debris cover the island due to Hurricane Ike. Livestock as well as
domesticated animals were displaced throughout the area. Photo credit:
FEMA/Jocelyn Augustino.
Houston, TX, Oct. 2008 ~ The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rescued this
endangered pelican, injured in Hurrican Ike, and turned it over to the
Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), an agency
licensed to treat wildlife. Photo credit: FEMA/Leif Skoogfors.
Florida/Georgia Coasts, Gulf of Mexico, Jun. 2010 ~ One of 10 Kemp’s Ridley
turtles recovered not far from the site of the Deepwater Horizon accident.
He was cleaned and treated by a team of sea turtle experts. Photo credit:
NOAA - LA Times/Carolyn Cole.
Eureka, MO, Mar. 2008 -- Members of the Missouri Humane Society along
with a volunteer large animal rescue group, Missouri Emergency Response
Service, attempt to rescue 13 cattle that are stuck in flood waters. Photo
credit: FEMA/Jocelyn Augustino.
Background image of Hurricane Katrina over the Gulf of Mexico courtesy of
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University.