Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Snowball (Hurricane Katrina dog) (3rd nomination)
People, pets, and events can be extremely newsworthy without having the long-term importance appropriate for an encyclopedia, as stated by policy #NEWS and essay NEWS. But in this case, in addition to the news stories about the added trauma of Katrina evacuees additionally having to abandon their companion animals like Snowball to some unknown hell, the article ''seems'' to state that this particular tearful parting was a factor in consideration of  national legislation requiring the U.S. emergency preparedness organization to plan for evacuating pets as well as people. The weakness of the "keep" is because it is not specifically a "Snowball law" like other tragedies led to "Amber laws" and the like
— User:Edison, 06:38, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NOT||WP:NOTNEWS (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)