11 MS Dogs Find Homes Up North

May 7, 2011 2 comments

Triple R Pets completed an eleven dog transport from a high-kill area of Mississippi that is in danger of flooding in the coming days.  These dogs were pulled to foster and vet and then met up with RRR Board member Kim Bill in Memphis for the return trip to Illinois.  A huge thanks to Taps [...]

RRR In the Community – Educating Children About Disaster Planning

April 11, 2011 1 comment

On April 8, Judy Clark represented Triple R Pets at the Indian Park Library in Darien, IL. The presentation included the reading of “Two Bobbies,” a touching true story of a cat and dog finding their way to a home after Hurricane Katrina. The children in attendance also learned about how to be prepared for [...]

RRR? What do the letters stand for?

September 28, 2009 No comments yet

RELIEF from natural or man-made disasters affecting people and their pets. RESCUE the animals provide them with the means to live healthier, safer lives. REBUILD the structures destroyed by disaster so that humans and their pets can live together. Triple R Pets was founded in 2005 in the wake of Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi [...]

TNR Continues on the MS Gulf Coast

August 15, 2008 No comments yet

Wow! We have now helped with the TNR of over twenty cats in the past two months. We’re not done yet as this colony has sixty cats. With forty more cats to go, we need to raise another $1,400 to complete the colony. If you can help out with a donation of $35 that is [...]

TNR still needed on the Gulf Coast

July 21, 2008 No comments yet

While we have ended our formal work on the Gulf Coast, we still have found that there is a desperate need for TNR (Trap-Neuter-Release). Last week one of our volunteers, Katie Taibi, helped a resident trap and spay 16 cats. With the help of a grant as well as the success of our annual garage [...]

Katrina – Two Years Later

August 29, 2007 No comments yet

Today marks the two year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall in Waveland, MS. All along the Gulf Coast much progress has been made, yet there is still so much work left to do. Our Trap-Neuter-Release program is in full swing helping those animals left behind trying to survive in areas where foods sources may [...]

Field Update

September 21, 2006 No comments yet

At last, we have completed pet registration in East Biloxi. We are happy with most of the statistics, but a few are a bit scary. We have listed the stats below. A big thanks goes to Hands On Gulf Coast for supplying all the volunteers that helped with our door-to-door survey. As September comes to [...]

Washington Whispers Story on the Puppy Airlift

June 22, 2006 No comments yet

Sorry for the delay in posting this one, it slipped through the cracks!  There was a nice article in US News and World Report on the two pups that rode home on Air Force One at the end of April.  We also received a nice letter from President Bush regarding his visit to Mississippi.  Both [...]