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Pen Farthing ‘so bloody happy’ soon after animal rescue workers escape Afghanistan
Pen Farthing (PA Media)

Pen Farthing (PA Media)

Pen Farthing accused of placing animals in advance of men and women after airlifting extra than a hundred cats and dogs out of Kabul but leaving his Afghan volunteers guiding has reported he is“so bloody happy” that his team have lastly been flown to safety.

The previous marine shared a photo of his Nowzad colleagues smiling in neighbouring Pakistan, described the minute as “absolutely thoughts-blowing” when they managed to get out of Taliban managed Kabul on Saturday.

The Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab reported he would be welcoming the personnel to the British isles before long.

Mr Farthing said the Nowzad personnel are “now properly in Islamabad and in the care of the British Large Fee! I am so bloody delighted proper now!”.

He said: “This is unquestionably head-blowing. It has nonetheless not definitely sunk in.”

Mr Farthing claimed he experienced viewed photographs of the workers just

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Maine animal shelter rescues nearly 40 animals from shelters hit hard by Ida

KENNEBUNK, Maine (WMTW) – The Animal Welfare Society in Kennebunk has rescued nearly 40 cats and dogs from shelters hit hard by Hurricane Ida.

The shelter partnered with Animal Rescue Front to bring 17 dogs and 22 cats to Maine from Hancock County, Mississippi. The animals arrived Wednesday.

Shelter officials said the rescued cats and dogs will be examined, spayed or neutered, received necessary vaccinations and be microchipped before being put up for adoption next week.

Anyone wishing to help support the animals is encouraged to make a financial donation though the Animal Welfare Society’s website.

People wishing to adopt the pets should go to the AWS website for more information, including how to make an adoption appointment.

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American rescue clinic founder stays in Afghanistan to pursue evacuation for employees and animals left powering
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Charlotte Maxwell-Jones poses with a rescue dog at Kabul’s airport on Aug. 29, 2021.

Charlotte Maxwell-Jones poses with a rescue canine at Kabul’s airport on Aug. 29, 2021. (Facebook/Charlotte Maxwell-Jones)

An American who founded an animal rescue clinic in Kabul is nevertheless in Afghanistan, making an attempt to persuade the Taliban to allow her retrieve animals launched by the U.S. navy and airlift them out of the place with the clinic’s workforce.

Charlotte Maxwell-Jones was not able to board a armed forces evacuation flight with the animals or charter a non-public plane ahead of international troops still left earlier this 7 days.

The U.S. armed forces produced the clinic’s animals from their cages in an enclosed area at the Kabul airport that had formerly been employed by the previous Afghan military, Maxwell-Jones and a Pentagon statement said.

Maxwell-Jones launched Kabul Smaller Animal Rescue in 2018 to rescue strays, provide veterinary solutions and help ship animals overseas for adoption. American

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Hurricane Ida exhibits animal rescue additional structured now

NEW ORLEANS — Animal rescue teams have been doing the job for days rounding up wounded animals and abandoned pets immediately after Hurricane Ida forced evacuations and left much more than a million customers in the city without electricity.

Deborah MacDonald and Andy Seltz with the Michigan Humane’s Animal Lookup and Rescue group arrived from Detroit to help. The group is specially qualified to conduct rescues throughout disasters.

4 groups were out in the city for various days, responding to calls, collecting whatsoever animals they can and getting them to shelters and having them the treatment they need.

On one particular day on your own, the groups produced 77 operates, MacDonald claimed.

“Everybody was creating outings back to the shelter, back to the shelter,” she mentioned.

‘It’s preposterous. It’s depressing.’:Following Hurricane Ida, ability outage highlights warmth disparities in New Orleans

Irrespective of the higher range of phone calls of

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Why animal shelters are facing a new crisis

When Baloo, a big white rabbit, and his brother Elliott were surrendered to an animal shelter outside Montreal, Canada, the countdown started.

Strapped for money and overcrowded, the shelter put the word out to rescue organizations that the rabbits would be euthanized in three days unless someone stepped up to take them. The shelter had so many rabbits, according to Haviva Porter, who runs Rabbit Rescue Inc., a Toronto-based nonprofit, that it wasn’t even listing them for public adoption.

“This has been the worst year ever in 20 years of rescue,” Porter says.

Animal rescuers across the United States and Canada echo her experience. “It’s been a sea change the last few months,” says Joe Labiola, director of PAWS Atlanta animal shelter. He says the shelter is getting by—but only just.

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