Answering the Call: Animal League America’s Swift Response to Back-to-Back Hurricanes

Our archetypal halt was Georgia, wherever Albany Humane desperately needed help. We delivered captious supplies and took successful 20 dogs, helping them amended attraction for the incoming question of animals. Our squad continued to Lakeside Animal Rescue successful South Carolina, wherever we added 13 kittens and 2 cats to our transport.

“Thanks to the relationships we person with our structure partners successful the region, we were capable to marque plans successful beforehand to supply relief,” explained Animal League America’s Senior Rescue Manager, Karla Scaramuzzo. “Being capable to mobilize rapidly is truthful important. These facilities request to beryllium capable to instrumentality successful animals mislaid aft the tempest oregon those needing impermanent housing.”

After the tempest tore done the region, question was challenging. Downed trees, closed highways, and nonaccomplishment of compartment work added to the trouble of reaching immoderate of the hardest-hit areas. “We were detoured 2 hours successful North Carolina due to the fact that immoderate of the main highways were closed,” Karla shared. “But we were determined to get through.”

It’s important to enactment that the animals we rescued were already awaiting adoption earlier the tempest hit. Now harmless astatine our campus, each dog, cat, puppy and kitten is receiving the attraction they request — whether that means surgery, medication, oregon simply a cuddle and a cozy furniture — until they find a location of their own.

Recovery efforts volition instrumentality clip and to assistance our structure partners, we proceed to beforehand their privation lists for supplies. You tin click present to donate straight to assistance them.

To enactment our partners successful North Carolina, members of our rescue squad headed backmost south. They met with Rescue DOG & End of Life Sanctuary, which had been taking successful dogs from overwhelmed section shelters. Partners! Canines, located successful Boone, NC, met the squad there, bringing much animals successful request of help. In total, our squad was capable to transport a full of 34 dogs and puppies safely backmost to our Port Washington, NY campus.

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Meanwhile, arsenic Hurricane Milton approached Florida with devastating force, our spouse Furry Friends worked tirelessly to evacuate cats and kittens from shelters and foster homes crossed the state, focusing particularly connected the susceptible westbound coast. They transported these animals retired of danger, making the agelong travel to our campus. While these felines are present secure, the aftermath of the tempest brought further heartbreak: a tornado, triggered by Hurricane Milton, destroyed Furry Friends’ facility. Fortunately, nary lives — quality oregon carnal — were lost, but the travel to rebuild volition beryllium challenging.

In times similar these we are reminded of the powerfulness of teamwork and the spot of our partnerships. There’s nary remainder erstwhile it comes to redeeming lives – and successful the look of disaster, we reaffirm our committedness to protecting animals successful need, nary substance the obstacles.