Pets Survive Tsunami
Here are a few video clips about pets that miraculously survived the March 11th tsunami:
1. Feline Survivor
A woman returns to her tsunami-swept home. When the earthquake struck and there was a tsunami warning, she couldn’t find her cat and had to evacuate by herself. When they start to hear meows coming from the second floor, they know that the cat has survived!
2. Dogs defy tsunami
Daisuke Wakabayashi and Lam Thuy Vo of the Wall Street Journal report on two dogs that survived the tsunami:
They somehow broke free from the ropes tying them to the shed and ran up outdoor stairs to the second floor of Mr. Kikuchi’s house. And then they waited and waited. “I don’t know how they survived,” said Mr. Kikuchi.
Two days after the earthquake, Mr. Kikuchi ventured out from the evacuation center where his family had reunited unharmed. He walked in rubber boots on the debris-covered roads still covered in floodwater with his feet sinking in the thick mud below.
When he finally got to the house, sidestepping a car that had shifted to block the entrance to the driveway, he could hear the barking.
3. Dog guards injured friend
Walking through the wreckage of a part of Sendai, a reporter spots a dog. From the dog’s collar, he knows the animal was somebody’s pet. The dog is guarding another dog. The reporter fears that the other dog may be dead, but it begins to move. It is assumed the dog is injured.
The video has gone viral, with media outlets around the world reporting on it. Some have claimed that the two dogs have been rescued, but others dispute this claim.
Related Link: Yahoo News has an article describing the efforts to help homeless pets. The author includes a few links to animal welfare organizations that are taking donations.
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