Pets and owners reunited after being separated in Los Angeles fires

The Manila Times

Pets and owners reunited after being separated in Los Angeles fires  Pet owners are reunited with their animals at the NGO Pasadena Humane, which took in more that 500 pets when fires broke out in the Los Angeles area on January 6. Some were given to the organization temporarily by evacuated residents while they had nowhere to keep them, and others are stray animals. Photos of the strays found are being published on the website of the shelter, allowing owners who had to leave them behind when they evacuated the fire to identify them.  AFP VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe   Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net   Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion   Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital   Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein  #TheManilaTimes #worldnews  #californiawildfires  #pets

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00:00And so we just, we couldn't capture him, there was too much going on.

00:14We could see the fire from the front door and so we just didn't have enough time and

00:21we had to leave him.

00:22And so I've been checking every day on the Pasadena Humane website to see if any possibility

00:30if he's there.

00:31And last night I saw a picture and the picture's rough, you can hardly see him, but I just

00:36knew that, you know, I thought that was him and so I knew I just had to get here right

00:41away for any possibility that it could be him and it was and it's just an amazing moment

00:47that I didn't think that we were going to get.

00:50I think he has singeing on his paws, he has a burn injury on his nose and so, and I'm

00:55sure he's just so stressed out and so we're just going to try to take the best care of

01:00him that we can.

01:08So we were nervous because we weren't sure if it was actually him.

01:11So we came early just in case, you know, in case they got busy or something.

01:16So we, yeah, we were really nervous waiting for him to see if it was him or not.

01:20There's been like a lot of scares though too because he's seen like a lot of dogs that

01:24look like him but it wasn't him.

01:25But yesterday when our family friend showed us the dog, we were like, that's him for sure.

01:30Yeah, yeah.

01:31He looks darker though because he was out somewhere for a while so he needs a shower.

01:36But we know it's him for sure.

01:38Yeah, you could tell the energy and the vibe when we went to see him in the kennel that

01:42he was, that was their dog.

01:45It's really hard, you know, keep thinking about it every day, thinking about him every

01:48day and just wondering if he's ever going to come back home.

01:51And even though we knew that it was going to possibly be him, he still couldn't even

01:55sleep.

01:56Like all night he was not sleeping because he just was anxious.

01:59I couldn't sleep last night because I was happy.

02:00I was trying to see if it was actually him or not.

02:03Yeah.

02:04So today is the 10th day, 10th or 11th day since the fires broke out.

02:09So we're hoping that today we can do a lot of reunifications with people who had to

02:14evacuate with their pets.

02:16The very first day that the fire broke out, we took in over 300 animals.

02:22So people who were able to evacuate from the fires and were able to bring their pets with

02:25them and had no place to go that would, you know, where they could take their pets.

02:30The difficult thing is we've also, since this started, taken in 270 stray animals.

02:36And so that means, you know, they were found in the field by our animal control who's out

02:41patrolling or they were found by concerned citizens who, you know, were able to stop

02:46and get the animals and bring them in to us.

02:49And it's already started, we've already returned over 250 pets back to their families, which

02:54is amazing.

02:55And we're hopeful that as more and more areas are, people are allowed back in, that more

03:02people will be able to come get their pets back from us.

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