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07-28-2006, 02:58 PM

From another email, please help if you can

Dear Members and Friends,

Please excuse a second e-mail in two days. This one is about the ANIMALS IN LEBANON.

It’s been tough for the animals on both sides of the Lebanon/Israel border, but for the animals in Lebanon, as you can imagine, it’s a major disaster. Thousands of them abandoned by evacuees who are being told by their governments to leave their pets behind. And thousands more just caught up in the general chaos. (Imagine Hurricane Katrina -- but with bombs and rubble instead of floodwaters.)

There’s one main rescue group in Lebanon – Beirut for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or BETA (no relation to the U.S. group PETA) – and they’re hanging on by a thread. Their shelter was hit, but they’ve managed to evacuate the dogs from there to a place in the hills, donated by a German supporter.

We’ve set up a new section on the Best Friends Network: http://network.bestfriends.org/middleeast. It’s updated regularly. Emergency funds are much needed by the BETA folks to buy food and medicine that can be brought in from Jordan and Syria. You can donate from the news page at http://network.bestfriends.org/middleeast, or you can send directly to BETA. We’ve asked them to keep us posted on their needs.

Thanks for caring,

Michael Mountain
Best Friends

07-28-2006, 02:58 PM	#1 (permalink)
SnoozeControl Guest Posts: n/a	Animals in Lebanon From another email, please help if you can Dear Members and Friends, Please excuse a second e-mail in two days. This one is about the ANIMALS IN LEBANON. It’s been tough for the animals on both sides of the Lebanon/Israel border, but for the animals in Lebanon, as you can imagine, it’s a major disaster. Thousands of them abandoned by evacuees who are being told by their governments to leave their pets behind. And thousands more just caught up in the general chaos. (Imagine Hurricane Katrina -- but with bombs and rubble instead of floodwaters.) There’s one main rescue group in Lebanon – Beirut for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or BETA (no relation to the U.S. group PETA) – and they’re hanging on by a thread. Their shelter was hit, but they’ve managed to evacuate the dogs from there to a place in the hills, donated by a German supporter. We’ve set up a new section on the Best Friends Network: http://network.bestfriends.org/middleeast. It’s updated regularly. Emergency funds are much needed by the BETA folks to buy food and medicine that can be brought in from Jordan and Syria. You can donate from the news page at http://network.bestfriends.org/middleeast, or you can send directly to BETA. We’ve asked them to keep us posted on their needs. Thanks for caring, Michael Mountain Best Friends