Puppy Baby Boom - Reported - Don't we know it!
Katrina Leads To Puppy Baby Boom
Animal Control Officer Says Animals Living Amid Rubble
NEW ORLEANS -- Animal welfare workers are starting to see the results of a lingering problem from Hurricane Katrina.
Although more than 6,000 pets were saved in the region after Katrina came ashore, thousands of other animals remain.
They are running loose in neighborhods where fences were flattened and where their owners fled.
Now, puppies are being seen everywhere amid the rubble.
One animal control officer from Massachusetts, who has made two trips to help trap loose dogs and cats in New Orleans and Mississippi, said he has never seen so many puppies.
He pulled 10 pups and their mother from under a porch in Biloxi. On another shift, he found seven puppies and seven more dogs.
He took them all to a shelter that was built for 75 animals, but now holds about 250 dogs and cats on any given day -- including nearly 50 puppies.
http://www.wdsu.com/news/5779234/detail.html
Animal Control Officer Says Animals Living Amid Rubble
NEW ORLEANS -- Animal welfare workers are starting to see the results of a lingering problem from Hurricane Katrina.
Although more than 6,000 pets were saved in the region after Katrina came ashore, thousands of other animals remain.
They are running loose in neighborhods where fences were flattened and where their owners fled.
Now, puppies are being seen everywhere amid the rubble.
One animal control officer from Massachusetts, who has made two trips to help trap loose dogs and cats in New Orleans and Mississippi, said he has never seen so many puppies.
He pulled 10 pups and their mother from under a porch in Biloxi. On another shift, he found seven puppies and seven more dogs.
He took them all to a shelter that was built for 75 animals, but now holds about 250 dogs and cats on any given day -- including nearly 50 puppies.
http://www.wdsu.com/news/5779234/detail.html
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