I got an email forward this morning from a co-worker w/ a really sweet picture of some animals rescued after Hurricane Katrina. They were being bussed to a shelter in another state until they could be reunited w/ their owners or adopted out to new ones. As cute as it was, we’ve all been inundated by false forwards and I immediately found myself checking it’s validity at Snopes. Well… in THIS instance the email happened to be true (w/ some minor discrepancies), but you can never tell! Always good to check your sources, especially before re-forwarding (which I don’t recommend anyway unless it’s a-proven to be true, b-only sent to the people you KNOW will enjoy it, and c-so funny/cute/meaningful you will just die if you don’t tell someone else). The internet is a vast ocean of information and email forwards are swimming w/ urban legends, scare tactics and stories that are just plain wrong. Do your part. Start here.

And then go look at the picture of the cute doggies on the rescue bus.