More than 100 cats and dogs being housed in an animal shelter on Grand Bahama died in Hurricane Dorian's floodwaters, according to shelter representatives.
was housing about 155 cats and at least 135 dogs when Hurricane Dorian made landfall on the Bahamas as a Category 5 storm, parking over the Caribbean Islands for more than two days.
“We lost some dogs that various staff, including me, were super attached to,” the shelter's director, Tip Burrows, told the paper. “That’s hard. That’s really hard.” The Humane Society of Grand Bahama was boarded up in preparation for the storm and six staffers were tasked with taking care of the animals for the duration of the hurricane.
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