ASPCA Collaborates with Emergency Administration Companies in Kentucky to Relocate Homeless Animals and Present Essential Help to Pets Impacted by Appalachia

Revealed: Aug. 5, 2022 at 2:21 PM CDT

HAZARD, Ky., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — On the request of the Hazard Space Command, the ASPCA^® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals^®) is on the bottom supporting the Animal Care department on the Emergency Operations Heart in addition to conducting search and rescue all through Knott, Letcher, Perry and Breathit counties for animal victims impacted by the latest floods. The ASPCA can also be supporting pet house owners locally by offering pet meals and provides donations for displaced animals throughout the 4 counties. The ASPCA continues to speak with emergency administration businesses and animal welfare organizations throughout Kentucky and stands prepared to offer extra assist upon request.

As well as, the ASPCA is facilitating the transport of greater than 25 unowned cats from Kentucky Humane Society to MSPCA-Angell in addition to two transports of unowned canine to Connecticut Humane Society and Dumb Buddies League in Colorado. These cats and canine had been all in Kentucky animal shelters earlier than the flooding started and shall be made accessible for adoption within the coming days and weeks.

“In emergency conditions like this, the ASPCA’s precedence is to offer the essential assist and sources wanted to help animals and pet house owners impacted by these lethal floods,” stated Rickey’s WorkforceVice President, ASPCA Nationwide Discipline Response. “The ASPCA Catastrophe Response crew is grateful to collaborate with native businesses to make sure we’re bringing animals to security.”

The ASPCA’s catastrophe response efforts have been made attainable because of the beneficiant assist of the Alex & Elisabeth Lewyt Charitable Belief.

Final 12 months, the ASPCA introduced the outcomes of a nationwide survey the place 83 p.c of present pet house owners reported residing in a neighborhood that faces pure disasters. The ASPCA deploys nationwide to help in relocation, search-and-rescue, sheltering, and reunification efforts throughout catastrophe conditions together with wildfires, tornadoes, and floods. The ASPCA additionally works with lawmakers to extend entry to co-sheltering alternatives, to maintain folks and pets collectively when they’re displaced by pure or artifical disasters.

To learn to incorporate pets into preparedness plans, go to aspca.org/disasterprep

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Based in 1866, the ASPCA^® (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals^®) was the primary animal welfare group in North America and continues to function the nation’s main voice for animals. Greater than two million supporters sturdy, the ASPCA is dedicated to its mission of offering efficient means for the prevention of cruelty to animals all through the USA. As a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit company, the ASPCA is a nationwide chief within the areas of anti-cruelty, neighborhood outreach and animal well being companies. For extra data, please go to www.ASPCA.org, and make sure you observe the ASPCA on Fb, Twitterand Instagram.

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