Boston, MA — September 2005 — Project Starfish was launched by Cynthia Sweet of Essex, MA and Kara Peterson of Watertown, MA as a response to pets displaced by Hurricane Katrina. We are a just "regular" people who were horrified by the news coming out of the affected area. News of flooded shelters, people being forced to abandon their pets, and stranded animals with no way out. We knew we couldn't physically go to the affected area to save these animals ourselves, so we did the next best thing. We are trying to coordinate finding homes for these poor defenseless animals.

Just looking at online forums like www.craigslist.org showed us we were not alone in wanting to help. There are literally thousands of people willing to open their hearts and homes to these animals.

At first, we thought we would transport about 25 animals to New England ourselves via a convoy system. The response, however, has been much greater than we anticipated. To help us better serve the animals and the people willing to foster/adopt, we have built a national database to collect information about those willing to help. The information collected will be provided to shelters to match willing foster homes with animals in need.

Project Starfish will work with groups around the country to help find foster/adoptive homes and to be an information source as to what is going on with the displaced animals.

We are an IRS Code 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation (form 1023 pending), EIN #20-3429845, and can take tax-deductible donations to help the animal rescue process.

Please email us with any questions. Thank you and may we help as many as we can!