My brother and his wife that live on the west bank of New Orleans told me this story they experienced personally. Their neighbor had 3 cats and had to leave them behind. They left them plenty of food. My brother, being a police officer, had to stay and he went and checked on the cats daily for the people. One day, he discovered looters had broken in and ramsacked the house and left the door open when they left.... the cats got out.

He shut the door and went on about his business. Many weeks later, he was checking on the house as usual and noticed the kitchen cabinets opened and stuff out on the floor torn open. He did a search of the house and found ONE of the cats still there. It had survived for WEEKS eating whatevery it could find that he could rip into in the kitchen. Potato chips, instant potatoes and stuff. I asked how the cat got water and he said they had a leaky faucet and the water had never been turned off so the cat had plenty of fresh water. He grabbed the cat and took it to his house until the owner came home. They never found the other ones. They NEVER should have had to leave their kitties behind!

Money TALKS. Maybe the amount of money collected for the animals will wake up the law makers and show them, PEOPLE CARE!