The situation is still deadly for animals

Animals trapped in Florence's historic floods need your help.
 
   
 
 

Dear Aaaaaaa,

For dogs like this one, trapped on a porch by Hurricane Florence's historic flooding, the arrival of PETA's rescue team was a godsend. She could swim—if she dared—but there was nowhere to swim to. And the water was still rising.

 
Animals trapped in Florence's historic floods need your help.
 

This is after the storm, when storm surges began. However, long before that, as the hurricane approached, we called more than a thousand families previously helped by PETA's Community Animal Project and knocked on countless doors to urge people to take their animals with them as they fled. Today, our rescue team members are boating and wading through the floodwaters—working to reach as many animals whose owners didn't heed that warning as they can before it's too late.

This pup was lucky.

 
Animals trapped in Florence's historic floods need your help.
 

One member of our team—a veteran of PETA's rescue work during last year's devastating hurricanes—spotted her, climbed the steps to her platform, and with a little food and a lot of tenderness, won her affection.

She's not the only one grateful for our help today. Not far away from her, we found other dogs who had been left in their pens. Perched precariously on top of or huddling inside plastic barrels in an attempt to stay out of the water, they barked their hearts out as rescuers arrived to move them to safety. Nearby, our team pulled soaking-wet chickens out of a flooded coop in which other abandoned birds had already slowly drowned. Imagining their panic is deeply upsetting.

Right now, our rescue team is working out there most determinedly, and new rescues are taking place as you read this e-mail.

On behalf of Jes, Chris, and the rest of the experienced team there—some of the same staff who rescued animals after hurricanes hit Houston and Puerto Rico last year—thank you for your commitment to animals who need our help.

Kind regards,

Ingrid E. Newkirk
President

 

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