Lafayette shelter pets hitch a ride to freedom and life
Posted at 2:01 PM, Apr 19, 2021
and last updated 2021-04-19 15:15:32-04
Some of Lafayette s homeless animals got a ride to the East Coast today, where they can look forward to new homes instead of euthanasia.
In honor of Heartworm Awareness Month, on April 19 (Lafayette) and April 20 (New Orleans) three planes will safely airlift 120 at-risk shelter dogs, with 50% of the dogs being asymptomatic heartworm positive, from Louisiana to Morristown, N.J. and Fort Lauderdale, Fla, into care and new adoptive homes. The aim is to reduce shelter euthanasia in overcrowded shelters by preventing and treating heartworm disease in shelter dogs, while transporting adoptable asymptomatic heartworm-positive dogs to safety.
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Greater Good Charities with Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health, and The Animal Rescue Site to .
Greater Good CharitiesApril 14, 2021 GMT
Seattle, April 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) In honor of Heartworm Awareness Month, Greater Good Charities, in cooperation with Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health, the maker of HEARTGARD® Plus (ivermectin/pyrantel), and The Animal Rescue Site announced today the launch of the Good Flights program. The goal is to transport 2,000 shelter dogs from Louisiana, where they are at risk of euthanasia, to new homes on the East Coast. That number includes 1,000 asymptomatic heartworm-positive dogs. The program is part of the Greater Good Charities’ Save a Heart initiative, which aims to reduce shelter euthanasia in overcrowded shelters by preventing and treating heartworm disease in shelter dogs, while transporting adoptable asymptomatic heartworm-positive dogs
COVID vaccines present challenge for smaller pharmacies
Taking constant phone calls and entering names onto growing lists, deleting old names and re-arranging others after cancellations and no-shows, juggling a varying number of COVID-19 vaccines – this is what mom-and-pop pharmacies around the state have been doing along with their regular services.
“You might have to make a list of a thousand phone numbers, and a hundred of those have probably already gotten the vaccine,” said Jimmy Taylor, lead pharmacist at Don Chaucer’s Pharmacy in Hammond. “We’ve never done anything like this. You can’t just walk in and get a COVID vaccine like the flu. It’s a learning curve for all of us. If we have a heavy day, we have to bring in nurses to give the shots for me so I can keep running the pharmacy.”
Matthew Bennett
LSU Manship News Service
Constant phone calls and entering names onto growing lists, deleting old names and re-arranging others after cancellations and no-shows, juggling a varying number of COVID-19 vaccines from one period to the next this is what mom-and-pop pharmacies around the state have been dealing with along with their regular services.
“You might have to make a list of a thousand phone numbers, and a hundred of those have probably already gotten the vaccine,” said Jimmy Taylor, lead pharmacist of Don Chaucer’s Pharmacy in Hammond. “We’ve never done anything like this. You can’t just walk in and get a COVID vaccine like the flu. It’s a learning curve for all of us. If we have a heavy day, we have to bring in nurses to give the shots for me so I can keep running the pharmacy.”
On March 29, Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz admitted to
Fox News host Tucker Carlson that he was facing federal charges for underage-dating aka, trafficking a child. But as squeamish as the revelations are, Gaetz critics may be overreaching in their condemnation. While the age of consent in Florida is 18, a 17-year-old is not a child. (Florida actually has a Romeo and Juliette Law that allows 16-year-olds to have sex with someone no older than 23 years. That won t help Gaetz: he s 38.)
The legal age of consent is 16 in most of the US (including Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington, and West Virginia.) In the Golden State it’s 18.