Texas rallies to rescue pets, with lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina
HOUSTON _ The big-rig truck was full of cats. Theo, who had a bit of a sneeze. Vennessa, who was acting like a diva. Two Thomases. And Buck, who, to everyone's surprise, was a girl.
They had been living in shelters in southeast Texas. But with Hurricane Harvey leaving untold numbers of family pets stranded, these cats were being shipped to an emergency shelter across the country to free space in local facilities for animals being plucked from the floodwaters.
Harvey has initiated a mass shuffling of thousands of shelter animals. They're making room so that rescued pets can stay in their hometowns,
