Nita Hemeter remembers the barking and meowing, and being able to look up from the middle of a New Orleans darkened by power outages to see "every star in the sky." It was early September 2005, a ...

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Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was not only a human tragedy but an unprecedented crisis for thousands of pets left behind in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. The storm’s sudden devastation revealed the ...

People were forced to leave their pets behind during Hurricane Katrina, creating an unprecedented animal welfare crisis that has shaped the... Nita Hemeter remembers the barking and meowing, and being ...