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10,000 evacuated in Canada floods as rescuers search for pets
More than 10,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in eastern Canada in recent days as spring floods broke record levels set in 2017, officials said Monday, warning that it could take weeks for the waters to recede.
Meanwhile an operation is underway to rescue pets from homes in the area that had to be abandoned during evacuations.
[...] In the rush to flee the rising water scores of pets were abandoned.
Eric Dussault, whose Animal Rescue Network is spearheading the effort to find the marooned pets, said an emergency shelter has been set up and people with training in animal rescues and expertise in cat and dog behaviors have been sent door to door.
"We have a huge number of animals we need to evacuate. We're working with a list of hundreds of animals supplied by their owners," he said.
About 40 animals were rescued since late Sunday, but the group was too late to save a dog, a guinea pig and another unspecified animal believed to have drowned or died of hypothermia.
"Flooding is incredibly stressful on animals," Dussault told AFP.
Quebec province had about 9,000 people displaced; New Brunswick had about 1,000.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @02:35PM (1 child)
Now with more wet dog smell than ever
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @02:53PM
That's still better than Wet Moose smell.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by ilsa on Tuesday April 30 2019, @03:11PM (4 children)
How TF do you just leave your pets behind? They're part of your family. If they mean so little to you that you feel ok just abandoning them like an old couch, then you shouldn't have pets to begin with.
It's not as if this was a fire consuming their homes and they were fleeing in wild-eyed panic. They had plenty of time to put together supplies, food, etc, to support their pets.
(Score: 5, Informative) by datapharmer on Tuesday April 30 2019, @03:54PM (1 child)
A dike was breached, so the water likely rose very quickly - it is quite possible they were fleeing in wild-eyed panic. If it was an outdoor cat or a dog that got panicky and couldn't be put into a vehicle they might have been faced with save my family or die with my pet. I'm not trying to justify anything, just saying it wasn't necessarily as black and white a situation as you make it sound.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @10:11PM
Yeah, I'm not delaying escaping the waters, endangering my wife and kids (LITERAL family), to try to climb a tree to rescue the cat.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @10:00PM (1 child)
Did you ever try to fit a polar bear into a family car?
(Score: 2) by ilsa on Wednesday May 01 2019, @02:31PM
Of course!
1) Open the car door
2) take out the elephant
3) put in the polar bear
4) close the car door
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @03:38PM
"oh noes, where are my pet piranhas? I forgot them in the tub."
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday April 30 2019, @04:04PM (2 children)
They must have had a baby boom while we weren't watching. Now we need a wall on that border too!
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday April 30 2019, @06:44PM (1 child)
We're just going to put up signs saying "Canada is behind you: turn around and keep going." and you Americans wont be able to find us.
And we'll drink our beer and look at all our ladies and smile. ;)
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Tuesday April 30 2019, @07:56PM
Oh those... we call those "lumberjacks" here in the states, and in the UK.
And they're okay. Even though they like to press wild flowers. And put on women's clothing. And hang around in bars. And wear high heels, suspendies, and a bra. We don't even mind that they wish they'd been a girlie.
So have another beer, concentrate and peer, and smile away, smile away. We can see those lumberjacks a mile away.
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Cat: (pushes something off shelf.)
Fred: "They're intelligent!"
Martha: "It's just instinct."
Ezekiel: "It's GOD'S WILL!"
Cat: "Whatever." (pushes something else off shelf.)
(Score: 2) by tizan on Tuesday April 30 2019, @04:26PM (4 children)
We are letting people die because of lack of resources to save them.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @06:01PM
If you claim responsibility for letting something happen, don't whinge about it on the internet: go do something about it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @06:36PM (1 child)
The Canadians are taking care of their own. Shouldn't the Mozambicans do the same?
(Score: 2) by legont on Tuesday April 30 2019, @11:08PM
Be careful. It is cheap and easy to adjust climate to ones tastes. It may provoke a military response, but by itself even some private citizens could afford it let alone Mozambican government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_engineering [wikipedia.org]
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by fyngyrz on Tuesday April 30 2019, @08:00PM
Honestly, if it comes down to a choice between saving you from a flood, and saving my cats from a flood...
Unless you can swim, you're going to drown. It's not even close.
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What if there were no hypothetical questions?