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Man, dog reunited 4 years after Katrina
Jessie Pullins said he was heartbroken when he couldn't take his dog J.J. with him when he evacuated his house in 2005, WWL-TV, New Orleans, reported Tuesday.
"I made adequate provisions in the back part of my house in elevated area, and when I left I though I would be back in a day, maybe two," Pullins said. "But unfortunately we were not allowed to come back in for several weeks."
An animal rescue group saved J.J. from the home, but despite noting the address he was taken from, the dog was shuffled between different animal groups before he was put up for adoption in California.
Pullins said J.J. had already been adopted by the time he tracked the dog down, but he entered a legal battle with the help of the Katrina Animal Reunion Team and a California lawyer who took on the case free of charge.
The legal wrangling ended recently when the woman who adopted J.J. decided to return him to his original owner.
Pullins said he has no hard feelings toward the woman for initially resisting his attempts to get J.J. back.
"Everybody falls in love with J.J. He's lovable. I don't fault them."
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 06/03/2009
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06-05-2009 09:26
TurtleLady wrote:
"JJ Is Returned"
Peachy said it ALL. Be very thankful for all the good people still left in this world. I only pray
someone would take care of my "Foxy" if I could not. That would be like finding a lost child and
just keeping someone else's child. You just do not
abandon your child on any highway either. WAKE UP
PEOPLE!
someone would take care of my "Foxy" if I could not. That would be like finding a lost child and
just keeping someone else's child. You just do not
abandon your child on any highway either. WAKE UP
PEOPLE!
06-05-2009 07:21
peachy wrote:
Katrina dog
It's so sad to realize the heart break that's still being experienced by people as a result of Katrina. The lady who adopted the dog had grown to love him as her own pet. The man who lost him as a result of the legalities of evacuating New Orleans because of Katrina wasn't responsible either. The angels who rescued the thousands and thousands of animals left behind because of the inability of their owners to come back home were in desperate situations and there's nothing but kudos and thanks to them for all their hard work. I'm sorry for the dog too because he had gotten a new owner who loved him and I'm sure he loved her too. We just rescued a dog from the middle of the highway here in Atlanta. He was loping down the middle of the express lane and wasn't paying any attention to the horns blowing all around him nor the near misses of the cars as they swerved to miss him. He was in shock and it took us over 30 minutes to be able to catch him and get him in the car and out of danger. He was a MESS and is still extremely nervous and suffering from his ordeal. We're fostering him to try and get him ready for a new home and because of the condition he was in when we found him, including emaciated, filthy, and apparently injured during his ordeal on the street - if his original owners tried to get him back we'd right it tooth and nail. While I'm not saying what the dog we rescued went through is anything like what the Katrina people and dog went through - I do understand how connected we have already gotten to this dog and we've only had him 3 weeks. He's grown to depend on us and we feel so blessed that we were able to save him from dying under the wheels of a car or starving to death. I'm sure the lady who adopted the Katrina dog loved him - and she showed that by realizing he needed to return home and taking him back to his original owner. God bless all those who got caught in the upheavel that was Katrina.
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