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: 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?