Reports indicate that the RNFF collection efforts at the Sam's Clubs in Midland and Odessa went very well. There were lots of donations of items and cash contributions of all sizes. The large ones always get everyone's attention, and Rosemary Marler told of a woman who brought a $500 bill. And there was the couple who dropped off a check for $1,000.
And the children. Oh the children. Imagine, if you will, a little girl walking up with a zip-lock bag of coins and depositing each of those coins -- one by one -- into the collection jar. You just know there's an empty piggy bank back home.
A volunteer group from Los Angeles is helping out in New Orleans, and according to the information received by the RNFF, those volunteers will drive to a corner and start putting out dog and cat food. Animals seem to come out of the woodwork, and within minutes there may be 50 starving animals gulping it down.
The Louisiana Human Society has told RNFF that all area shelters are full and can't accept any more animals. And the RNFF group is planning to take the collected item directly to New Orleans rather than to Tylertown, Mississippi, as originally planned. And they plan to leave the Permian Basin Monday evening and travel non-stop until they reach a meeting point at a Win-Dixie in New Orleans, drop off their good, pick up what they can, and head back home. I hope they take along a camera.
More info as it becomes available.
Previously on these pages: Saving Katrina Animals. And see Doggie Rescue Update.
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