Local Shelters Reuniting Pets with Owners | WJTV

HATTIESBURG, Miss. - The Panther Pet Hospital in petal currently has six storm victims. Two are staying in temporary foster homes.

Several displaced animals have been brought to the Southern Pines Animal Shelter as well.

Officials with the shelter say pets can be claimed by their owner within five days of delivery. Then they will be put up for adoption.

Both the Panther Pet Hospital and Southern Pines have Facebook pages.

People can check both of those to see if they're missing pet has been found.

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We talked with Southern Pines and Panther Pet to see what they're doing to help reunite pets with their owners.

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"The days following the storm, we got a lot of animals in, but luckily, most of those have been reunited with their owners."

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Unfortunately there are some animals that have been left behind. Katherine Sammons with Southern Pines Animal Shelter says they're doing what they can to reunite these four-legged friends with their owners. "We're mounting a disaster response."

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Southern pines will take a team of volunteers starting Sunday morning and going door to door to affected areas. "See if they've lost a pet; make a lost report if they have, so we can hopefully match them with animals here at the shelter."

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The shelter is an open admissions shelter where no animal is turned away.

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"We take animals that come to us and we find ourselves overcrowded very quickly."

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Southern pines along with panther pet hospital are turning to social media to let people know about the lost and found. "We're getting a lot of posts on our Facebook page because people are finding these animals." Facebook posts are going viral. "We shared their picture on Facebook and someone shared it with a lady she knew had lost a beagle, so she called us this morning and came and it was her dog," says Ashley Bahm, veterinarian technician with Panther Pet Hospital.

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Southern pines will hold animals for five days, if they're not picked up by then they'll be put up for adoption. ?"For a lot of people a pet is like their child. It's a wonderful feeling being able to a part, not only helping the community when they're in need but reuniting them with their lost pets who are really their babies," says Sammons.

Source: http://www2.wjtv.com/news/2013/feb/15/local-shelters-reuniting-pets-owners-ar-5604911/

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