People weren’t the only ones left at least temporarily homeless by the mid-February flood. An unknown number of pets were left behind, too. Elexis Craft is the manager of the Floyd County Animal Shelter. She said they’ve received at least two dozen pets likely displaced by the flood. Fortunately, they’re getting help from people and nonprofits like the Kentucky Humane Society in Louisville.
“They did an emergency rescue, and they, I want to say they took like 11 dogs and like six or seven cats, which really immensely helped us.”
Craft said a woman who lives well over an hour away is fostering a half-dozen dogs. Meanwhile, people keep bringing pets to the shelter.
“There was this one woman, she adopted a dog from us in 2021 and she had to bring her dog back because her entire house got flooded and ruined, and she could no longer take care of her dog. So he actually had to come back to the shelter yesterday, and he got adopted out at six months in 2021, so it's really tragic.”
Craft said damage to the shelter includes a sidewalk leading to the entrance that was lifted out of the ground and four cracks in interior floors.
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