I can't imagine leaving my big girl behind. She's FAMILY. Just don't know how far I could carry her since she weighs 112 lb. Ah, but.. since she's an unbelievably strong Lab, she could swim for miles, seriously.

Good place to add this:

One of the places I'm donating is


The Houston Humane Society, here:

http://www.houstonhumane.org/giving


The Houston Humane Society receives no funding from the city, the county, the state, or from any national animal welfare organizations. We have always depended solely on donations from local people who care about animals and care about the work we continue to do in the greater Houston area and surrounding counties.

The poor pooches (and all the animals) are as stressed as the people. I wonder how the alligators and snakes are doing. Do they, the aligators, eat pets?

but they (alligators) are doing a public service when you think of all the poor dead critters that will soon be a public health emergency .. Scavengers are part of nature

There are many others, just like them, down there, too.

There was one video of a dog on top of a car. Rescuers in a boat were trying to get to the dog, but it was too frightened and wouldn't allow them to get ahold of it. The boat left because they needed to go on to other situations.

These animals are in shock and it is no wonder they react.

THEN, there is additional information with a photo of two OTHER men who came by and rescued the dog. Who knows why the dog felt comfortable with one set of rescuers and not the other. Either way, it was a heartwarming story.

(I certainly hope that the person who left those dogs on the porch in a kennel was honestly doing the best he/she could. Outside for visibility in hopes they might be rescued, but in a kennel so they wouldn't run away frightened and get trapped somewhere worse or be lost forever. Of course, running/swimming away might have kept them alive as the waters rose... but maybe at the time their people left, the floods weren't projected to be as bad as they became. Anyway, I'd rather assume that people are doing their best.)