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New York Times: 'Beloved Pets, Displaced by Floodwaters, Find Temporary Shelter in [Cedar Rapids]'
John McGlothlen
Jul. 2, 2008 3:23 pm
From the New York Times:
As the situation deteriorated, flood victims, many staying in hotels, shelters or cars, began dropping off pets at the college. Others, who had been forced to flee without their pets, began calling in with pleas for their animals to be rescued. Within days, what had started as a makeshift shelter had grown into a sprawling operation housing nearly 1,000 animals - dogs, cats, rabbits, birds, lizards, even a red-eared slider turtle - in three buildings. ...