HURRICANE KATRINA RESCUE EFFORT IN BOOK, VIDEO

Hurricane Katrina was Best Friends Animal Society's biggest rescue effort ever. Thousands of members, supporters and volunteers worked with Best Friends to rescue more than 4,000 stranded pets and move 2,000 more from other shelters to safety.

There’s a new video about the rescue, which you can view at www.bestfriends.org/video/choose.cfm. It runs about seven minutes and documents some of the amazing work that took place.

Yorkville Press has published a book about the early days of the Best Friends rescue effort. Photographer Troy Snow was part of the first rescue team to go into New Orleans, and his photos are an amazing record of how the whole effort unfolded. "Not Left Behind: Rescuing the Pets of New Orleans" is available at major booksellers or from Best Friends at www.bestfriends.org/NLB.cfm. Proceeds go toward the Best Friends Rescue Fund.