How can people be so heartless?

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Animal Planet aired two shows today about animal rescue efforts during Katrina. Over 60,000 animals were abandoned with no food or water in flooded homes. Human beings who were supposed to care and love these animals just drove off to safety while their animals either died due to starvation, drowned or were shipped off to God only knows where, never to be seen or heard from again. My only question is how? How could ANYONE who claims to be an animal lover just drive off knowing that their animal is likely to die a violent death by drowning or a slow and painful death by starvation? How can anyone sleep at night knowing what they did? I know shelters did not accept pets, but was it so hard to find one that did? There were some stories about women sneaking in cats in their shirts, a man who packed a duffel bag full of dog food for his chihuahua he had stuffed in his jacket and a woman who snuck her 2 cockatiels in a Red Cross shelter in her bra. But for the others who left dogs tied to doors, cats locked in bathrooms, turtles on balconies and other animals just wandering the streets of a hurricane ravaged city, what were you thinking? Would you leave behind your kids if a shelter did not allow children? NO. You'd keep driving. Why can't you do the same for your animals?