An article one the BBC South Asia site reported that teenage girl fleeing war-ravaged Sri Lanka for a refugee camp in India refused to leave her two parrots. She chose to leave everything behind and take a box containing the parrots (according to other reports) to make the 18-mile journey in a small fishing vessel with her family and other refugees. Upon arriving at the camp, the police, who were registering new arrivals, registered the parrots as "accompanying warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates." If only the shelters that had been receiving people escaping from Hurricane Katrina had been so accomodating to people's companion animals.