Many pets left behind in Japan nuclear exclusion zone

[shireen]

JEARS (Japan Earthquake Animal Rescue and Support) posted this on their facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/AnimalRescueJapan
The team is exhausted from 2 days of rushing around, on a big push to get as many pets out as possible, before the government sealed the exclusion zone at midnight last night...unsure what that will mean. There are many cats and dogs still inside, not to mention other domestic animals. We found this dog walking alone by the side of the road, obviously in distress...a friendly little guy, despite all that he has been through. Took him for a walk this morning, before he headed off to the shelter for a return to regular meals.



Please contact the Japanese Prime Minister's office and ask him to allow rescuers to continue getting animals out of there. There are many of them still willing to do it.
http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/index-e.html
Click on 'Contact Us'

The JEARS facebook page also has extensive information in their 'Notes' section.

Edited to add url for JEARS website. http://jears.org/
But most up-to-date info seems to be at the FB page.

[SoCalDem]

1. Pets often suffer more in disasters, because many shelters won't allow them

and torn between the kids & the pets, the kids always come first.. and many of those elderly folks had enough trouble getting themselves out:cry:

[ellie]

2. Done and done

Kicking for more eyes.

[AsahinaKimi]

3. Farm animals also left behind

No way back: Resident Yuji Watanabe strokes a cow dying of thirst in Namie district on March 30 and gazes at others left to roam.

In the zone
Photojournalist Rob Gilhooly conveys a sense of what it's like in the wasteland close to the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant

By ROB GILHOOLY

MINAMISOMA, Fukushima Prefecture — There's a repellent stench coming from the cowshed. It's a mixture of manure, hay and something more difficult to pinpoint — something dank, musty, unworldly.

At the back, penned behind large wooden troughs, two cows stumble back and forth, searching for food and water. Two others are lying on their sides, eyes vacant, their bodies bloated. They, too, had waited to be fed, but in vain.

There is no water — the taps are dry — and there's nothing to feed them with, though even if there was, there's no one to put it out for them. The farmer has fled, along with all the other residents of this small community, who were told to leave following the disaster that began on March 11 a short distance down the road.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fv20110410a1.html

[arikara]

4. That is so horrible

at the very least they could have had somebody go around to put them out of their misery and not leave them starve to death. So sad.

[xchrom]

5. recommend

[Evolve_Already]

6. Animals, children and women

must all suffer for mans follies.