Overall, this video gives the viewer a good idea of what it was like to have been involved in the greatest animal rescue mission in American history. You can feel the fatigue, frustration, sadness, and even happiness of the rescuers. These people are real heroes, leaving their jobs and families to do the dirty work that few people wanted to do or even cared about. My only complaint is that the video seemed to focus more on dog rescue. There is some token cat footage, but for the most part, this video is about dog rescue.

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Stephen Glassey

A wake up call for emergency managers

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 15, 2009

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As a former SPCA Inspector and a current Disaster Management Consultant, this was a mind numbing show.

Today, there are some officials who believe that shooting pets is the solution - this documentary clearly disproves this option and the solution is a multi agency response enabled through pre-event planning.

Although many hearts where in the right place, this doco proves the point that "do gooders" can do more harm than good - not only in their response, but to themselves. Untrained responders need to be effectively managed and the contrast between the professionalism of existing and credible organisations like the SPCA and HSUS in comparison to spontangeous organisations certainly proves this point.

The causal factors such as FEMA policy on animal management are not thoroughly examined, but that is not the focus of the doco - its about the rescue and the realities of such operations.

But as Leslie Irvine (Filling the Ark) points out, despite the passage of the PETS Act by Senate - Pets are actually the less vulnerable of the animal community, and what is not well publicised is the millions of intensively farmed animals that died during Katrina, many left in factory cages with no means to escape or fend for themselves.

Whether you are an animal emergency manager, animal lover or animal activist - this is a fascinating and sobering documentary.

Steve Glassey CEM

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Lisa Gaudiosi

Love It!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 29, 2014

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I HIGHLY recommend this DVD! If you love anything dealing with Animal Rescues than this one is worth getting! It's nice to know there are compassionate people out there that truly care about the welfare of all animals!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 1, 2017

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I volunteer for Emergency Animal Services in Wellington, New Zealand and found this DVD worthwhile to watch.

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jordan ball

Promotes irresponsiblity.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 14, 2011

Let me first point out that I am what one would call a radical leftist. And I do believe in animal rights... up to a point. But since I frequent a lot of anarcho-leftist literature and correspond with many others who share that persuasion, I am very familiar with how the extreme, heavy-handed though well intentioned "animal rights activist" allows him/herself to descend into misanthropy.

People come first. I'm sorry, but as a humanist and an idealist I see no point in adopting the mantra quipped often by many amongst the entire animal rights community: that the suffering of animals should be more disturbing than the suffering of people.

Contrary to what is said in the review above mine this is a pervasive attitude amongst this branch of activism. It is casually discussed in the documentary when the "acitivists" can be heard literally saying that dead human beings don't bother them. Instead it is a dead cat that "haunts their dreams" and motivates them to sacrifice all on behalf of the rescue effort. Although a bit more extreme than most, these people are not a whole new breed of animal activist, they share an ideological foundation which I think is dangerous and nihilistic as well as a blow to sensible animal rights activism.

People need to remember that true humanitarians, root word being human, were busy during the post Katrina period trying to save actual people, retrieve and process the dead, and reunite human beings with each other. I dont think that these rescuers of human beings are pretty much absent in the documentary because of artistic license and an attempt to focus on the subject matter. I think these "animal rights" weasels probably had to avoid running into actual rescuers who had been finding dead bodies, breaking horrible news to the bereaved,and generally witnessing the complete assault on humanity. I know if I were on a rescue crew during that time I would probably assault one of these jerks simply on the premise that ALL resources and efforts should be geared towards dealing with the human loss before shifting to pets.

Again, nobody likes to see animals suffer, and it was unfortunate what happened in New Orleans. Dog fighting is abhorrent, and the pigs who wear blue in New Orleans show a shocking disregard for animal life.

But we need to remember that no matter how much we love our pets we are supposed to love our fellow man more by biological decree, and dont give me the sanctimonious hit list of attrocities that a misanthrope always runs to when they want to elevate animals to a level that is unhealthy.

I will say that the new protocol devised by FEMA after the fact, which the documentary mentions in the end, is an acceptable way to perform pet rescues after a disaster. But it doesn't apply to Katrina, when the agency was a running joke whose malfeasance became the centerpiece of the tragedy. Since you are already in the aftermath of failed policies the purpose should immediately be a collective, unified, somewhat "partisan" effort to save and help other people. To in any way justify otherwise in the chaos of such horrors is simply irresponsible.

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billie maquet

An accurate review of Katrina devastated New Orleans

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 28, 2013

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I wanted this video as I rescued in the 9th and other areas along with a group featured in this video. It was really well done and showed the effects on the rescuers as well as the animals. Heartbreaking.

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Joy D

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 31, 2016

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Excellent documentary on the animal rescue groups after Katrina. I use it for my emergency preparedness class.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 23, 2011

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I thought this would be too sad to watch. It was quite sad, but also quite inspirational on how people can be and what they went through to rescue these animals.

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Format	DVD, NTSC, Color
Contributor	Kim Upham, Mike Shiley
Language	English
Number Of Discs	1
Runtime	1 hour and 15 minutes

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