The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said it spent $ 1.2 million providing shelter and veterinary care for 1,300 homeless
pets after the tornado.
Take special care of
your pets after the tornado has passed.
Not exact matches
«However, when the Moore
tornadoes hit, and I saw so many animals displaced by the destruction, I began to worry more about the safety of my
pet — especially
after seeing the story on the news about one of the
pets who had been claimed by a displaced family, being accidentally euthanized.»
Remember the plight of
pets displaced from their families in Missouri and Oklahoma
after those states were hit by epic
tornadoes?
After a hurricane or
tornado,
pet rescue organizations and shelters frantically try to reunite abandoned
pets with their human families.
Some truly amazing miracle stories have been told with
pet guardians and their dogs
after the
tornadoes in Oklahoma and Texas... here are a few:
As a result of disasters such as the Joplin
tornado, the ASPCA has created a mobile app that allows users to store critical
pet records required to board
pets at evacuation shelters, provides customized steps to search for lost
pets, and includes a check - list of actions to take before, during and
after a disaster.
Most of the more than 200 Central Florida
pets left homeless by February's deadly
tornadoes have been reunited with their owners or taken in by new families.For shelter operators who worked around the clock for days to tend to stranded and injured
pets, the task now is to place the 17 dogs and cats remaining from Orange, Osceola and Seminole, the hardest - hit counties.In the days
after the storms, dogs with puppies, cats with litters on the way, even parakeets and guinea pigs were rescued by strangers or turned in by owners who didn't have a place for themselves, let alone their
pets.
But
after February's
tornadoes, many individuals and agencies called the news media with offers of help, which made it difficult for
pet owners to track down their
pets, she said.