Queen of the Damned

**PLEASE CROSSPOST**


FROM AN EMAIL BY MELANIE MANNING (Humane Society of Louisiana):

Meet 'Queen Of The Damned' (http://snipurl.com/queenofthedamned). She's a 2-3 yr old brown pit mix and weighs only approximately 20 lbs. She will be kept by a local shelter for FIVE days (~Jan 28), and then will face euthanasia. She is a pit mix & heartworm positive and therefore deemed unadopable.

I have named her Queen of the Damned, after Anne Rice's novels, as she is one of the many Pitbulls that are the true Damned in our society. Their only future is death at the hand of cruelty and neglect or euthanasia. Our Queen was struggling to walk in freezing rain, and was picked up by a local animal control officer after he received a phone call.

She is emaciated, and the side of her face was swollen to the size of a softball due to an abscess from a bite. However, it broke open last night, and is now draining. Her teeth are broken and ground down, and she appears to have had many litters in her short life.

In spite of all of this, she is sweet and looks up with loving eyes, wanting to be saved. It was difficult to keep her from getting in to the lap of a fellow friend and rescuer, Bert Claverie.

It is with a very heavy and saddened heart that I write this email, as I am so sick of seeing the hell this breed endures all over the country. Along with the increase in crime, there has been an incredible increase in animal cruelty in New Orleans and the surrounding area. It is so prevalent here, that the shelters do not even report these cases, they just euthanize and move on.

Please contact Bert Claverie at 504-451-7143 or email: claverie@cox.net for more information.

We are praying for a rescue group that can take her, or donations to assist toward bailing her out of the shelter and getting her the medical attention she so badly needs.

Donations in the form of a check can be written to the Humane Society of Louisiana, a 504(c)3 non-profit organization, marked for Queen, and sent c/o Melanie Manning, P.O. Box 2017, Metairie, LA 70004. The Humane Society of Louisiana cannot take her at this time; however, they offered to assist with transport if needed.

Thank you, Melanie Manning