We tried to resolve this quietly and privately but Elizabeth (who is the administrator of the website www.snowballschance.org) is refusing to return Nahnook to her owner after she and the owner met at a half-way point two weeks ago. The owner of Nahnook spent some time playing with her dog but then Elizabeth/Emily declared that it wasn't her dog and took the dog and drove away.
This comes directly from www.snowballschance.org:
This organization will aide [sic] in re-uniting pets with their loved ones [sic] Animals "taken" from their families, missing, or forced to abandon & [sic] Displaced in shelters or foster homes [sic]
Maria, Nahnook's owner has been in Intensive Care for over a week and we just learned will need to remain in the hospital longer. Like most others, Maria and her husband lost everything and are waiting to get their FEMA trailer to return to New Orleans. They are living temporarily in Mississippi although she is in a New Orleans hospital.
The photo below is the only picture that Maria has of Nahnook, saved on her cell phone.
The horribly manipulated photo below is the one that Elizabeth posted on Petfinder in December after she had been "fostering" the dog for three months. Elizabeth erased all the color from Nahnook's eyes because in her mind, the owner had one chance to come up with the right answer about which eye is blue and which brown without being told which perspective the answer was to be based on (looking at the dog or the dog's right/left)
The photo below is of Nahnook badly Photoshopped to look like it is two different dogs. Elizabeth copied the photo of Nahnook (the one from the owner's cell phone) and a photo she took of Nahnook on to a black background and then blacked out part of Nahnook's muzzle in the top photo and whited out an area on the face, just above the (dog's) right eye.
The photo below is another one that Elizabeth posted to "prove" that it is not Nahnook. It is obvious that this eyes of this photo have been manipulated/altered in some way. 
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Okay, I have to say, with my untrained eye that the picture of Nahnook on the left where it looks like his head is placed on the body of a smaller dog isn't too accurate. If you look closely, the head of the smaller, spotted dog is actually pointing up towards the top left corner. Nahnook's head is actually just above the tail of the dog and you can see Nahnook's rearend through the arms of the person holding his head.
The troubling part of the two pictures side by side, is the when you increase the size of the pictures, the eyes have been totally doctored and you can see the erasure pixels. BAD, BAD DOCTORING JOB.... ELIZABETH, would it be????
This infuriates me... bring me a petition to sign and I'd be happy to sign it... !!!!!
Melissa
SV in CA
The post from "arrghh" is from Elizabeth/Emily. Whether or not Nahnook responded to her owner is irrevelant for several reasons:
1. It has been found with many Katrina dogs that have been reunited after several months that they don't respond to their owners the same way they did when their owners would come home from work at the end of the day, for example. At first they act confused and not too sure - often going back and forth between the foster and their owner. Then, after 20-60 minutes it's as if a lightbulb goes off in their brains and they have an epiphany and then go crazy, remembering their owner very very well.
2. The only people present at the bogus "reunion" were Elizabth and Nahnook's owners. No one else. So Elizabeth/Emily can say whatever she wants and there is no one to dispute it. Other than Elizabeth's/Emily's daddy who so far has stayed out of all this.
3. As richlynn has posted (who has been a Husky breeder for 25+ years) it was not at all unusual for Nahnook to show some agression to the other dog. This is not unusual in Huskies or any two dogs being reunited after a separation of many months, especially one that was proceded by enormous trauma and stress. If my two dogs were reunited after a separation, they would not hug and kiss. They would nip and growl yet they are curled up together on the couch right now. And when naptime is over, they will play together by nipping and growling - tails wagging and a lot of noise.
did you ever think that you could be wrong?
The bad boy gets the attention .the good boy doesnt... some people will do anything to get attention. Even set up a hideously overpriced "web site" ( message board ) to pretend ..uh..what? Rip off people who have been obliterated and are now destitute, searching for not only family, but pets too?
This person is a disgrace
Do I ever think I could be wrong? No, but I know that I am wrong about things all the time. Let's see..I was wrong thinking that the American people could possibly re-elect George Bush. Don't even get me going about electing him the first time. I was wrong thinking that the people of New Orleans could possibly re-elect Mayor Nagin (WTF)? I was wrong back in the 90's when a when a friend suggested that I buy cheap stock in something called Sun Microsystems and I didn't. When I was pregnant and convinced I was going to have a girl, well I was wrong about that. And I was very wrong thinking that once owners found their lost/ missing pets that had been rescued after Katrina (with or without our help) that they would be reunited. Never in my wildlest dreams last fall could I have imagined people filing lawsuits to get back their own pets. And never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that many of those people who have a Katrina evacuee's pet in their possession, that they are refusing to return, would attack the owners of the pets as well as those of us who have been trying to help. This has become another ugly chapter for the human race. I have a strong belief in treating others the way I want to be treated (call it The Golden Rule, Karma, whatever) which is one of the factors that allows me to continue this after 11 very long months.
What goes around, comes around...seen it happen so many times.
Did I answer your question?
No actually you did not
investigate the facts in this case---do not take someones word
blow up the photo of nahnook please
and Emily?--where did that info come from? Elizabeth has never been anyone than Elizabeth--suggest you research before you malign
Surely you, with your stealth hat on, would not advocate turning over a dog whose identity is unclear? May I suggest you spend the money to blow up the dog's right eye? If it is proven to be blue, then you have to find someone else to attack--if it is brown, then we have a case
thank you --but how much info have you posted based on someone feeding you? and how many facts did you personally check before posting?
I will bet this will not be posted (lol)
Oh, silly me, I just remembered another thing I was wrong about, mentioned in the above comment. The American people did not elect George Bush, they elected Al Gore (who won the Popular Vote). I stand corrected.
Like the Brit tabloid said on its cover after the selection of george bush:
"how could 54 million people be so stupid"?
The selection seems to have set the selfish tone of the country. Or, could that be the A**HOLE tone of the country?
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