Tag: Louisiana

At least 20 Louisiana horse deaths tied to contaminated feed | Medicine

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — At least 20 horses in Louisiana have died after ingesting bacteria found in some alfalfa hay cubes from a manufacturer in Colorado, state agriculture officials said. The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry began notifying livestock owners and others about potential problems with some bags of “Top Of The Rockies Alfalfa Horse Cubes” in mid-December …

Louisiana National Guard medics learn dog treatments, too

PINEVILLE, La. (AP) — Louisiana National Guard combat medics are now learning emergency treatments for service dogs. “Treating a K-9 is not something we typically think about as a medic, so this training is extremely important for us,” said Sgt. Caleb Frost, of Pineville, a flight medic with G Company, 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 238th Aviation Regiment. Using a …

45 cats rescued from Ida-ravaged Louisiana seek homes in Mass.

The MSPCA and Northeast Animal Shelter will soon accept adoption applications for dozens of cats rescued from Louisiana after Hurricane Ida. On Saturday, a planeload of 45 cats flew from Louisiana to Massachusetts and are now housed in the animal shelters of both organizations. This is the third Ida-related transport that MSPCA and NEAS have jointly arranged since the storm. …

Second group of Sheep Dog Impact Assistance volunteers head to Louisiana

A second group of volunteers from Sheep Dog Impact Assistance, a nonprofit based in Rogers, is heading south tomorrow morning to help the victims of Hurricane Ida. SDIA raised budget and fundraising tonight as the second round of volunteers head to Raceland and Houma, Louisiana tomorrow. The first round of volunteers who left last Wednesday are returning tonight. SDIA founder …

On Katrina anniversary, Hurricane Ida hits Louisiana as Cat. 4 storm

New Orleans Hurricane Ida burned from the Louisiana coast towards New Orleans and one of the main industrial corridors in the country on Sunday, one of the strongest storms to hit the US. The category 4 storm, with winds of 230 km / h, struck Hurricane Katrina 16 years earlier, ravaging Louisiana and Mississippi, and came ashore about 45 miles …

Cat Depot Rescues 24 Cats From Mississippi, Louisiana Shelters

Cat Depot recently rescued 22 kittens and two euthanized cats from rural animal shelters in Mississippi and Louisiana. The rescue was a collaboration between Cat Depot and New Orleans-based animal welfare group SpayMart; the animals arrived in Sarasota on May 20. The kittens were raised from the Pearl River Animal Shelter in Picayune, Mississippi and the Jefferson Parish Animal Shelter …

55 cats, dogs flown from Louisiana to Ypsilanti

VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, me. – A mission with several planes of more than 150 endangered animal shelter animals had its first airlift from Good Flights “Flying to Forever Homes” on Saturday. The flight took off from Lafayette, Louisiana early Saturday morning and arrived at Willow Run Airport before noon. The flight included more than 55 pets, including hard-to-adopt dogs and …