UPDATE (09/25/17): The remaining members of the ARL Mobile Rescue team are now back in Des Moines after a 9 day deployment to help at the ASPCA's emergency animal shelter used to
evacuate animals from shelters in Florida prior to the hurricane making landfall.
In the aftermath of the tornados and storms that wreaked havoc in the Midwest last week, many national animal rescue organizations are pitching in to help reunite displaced pets and
evacuate animals from shelters that were destroyed.
Simultaneously, local and national rescue organizations are hard at work
evacuating animals from shelters throughout the region to get them to safety before this monstrous hurricane makes its deadly landfall.
Not exact matches
These Pets
Evacuated from the Florida Keys Prior to Hurricane Irma, the Humane Society of Broward County took in 55 cats and 5 dogs
from the Upper Keys
Animal Shelter to ride out the storm safely.
Staff and volunteers unload
animals that were
evacuated from animal shelters in Florida ahead of Hurricane Irma and driven to the Anti-Cruelty Society in Chicago.
The ASPCA is also on the ground in Galveston, Texas, at the request of Galveston County
Animal Resource Center, helping to manage the transport of approximately 120 homeless
animals from Galveston County to the Humane Society of North Texas and Texas Humane Heroes, as well as assisting with the transport of approximately 100
animals who were
evacuated with their families
from the Beaumont, Texas area to a
shelter in Alexandria, Louisiana.
A frantic call to a friend ensured that my dog and two cats were removed
from my house around midnight the night before and
evacuated to Dallas, but in the days immediately following I spent a significant amount of time on the phone or online with
animal shelters, veterinarians and boarding places trying to ensure my pets» safety until I could get to them.
While Northern California burns, local
animal shelters and rescue groups are working hard to make sure that pets
evacuated from the wildfires will stay safe — and they can use your help.
Austin Humane Society is one of several
shelters in Central Texas taking in
evacuated shelter animals from the Texas coast affected by Hurricane Harvey.
She said the funds will be used for urgently needed supplies for
evacuated animals being held at emergency care sites and to help with the cost of transferring SPCA
animals from the Cariboo region to SPCA facilities in the Interior, the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island to free up space for temporary emergency
sheltering for
animals impacted by the fires.
They are housing
animals who have been
evacuated from the Georgia coast, and tomorrow our Atlanta team will dispatch two transport vans to Florida to move
shelter pets to safe haven.
During Hurricane Irma in 2017, she helped move homeless
animals from Florida
shelters to HSUS emergency placement partners, making space for pets whose owners were
evacuated.
DeLAND — Mournful howls, ear - piercing barks and nervous yelps echoed off the metal walls and concrete floor of a temporary
animal shelter at the Volusia County Fairgrounds on Monday as workers cared for about 200
animals evacuated from the Halifax Humane Society in Daytona Beach.