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Pets Displaced by Florence Find Temporary Home at SPCA in Randolph County

The Randolph County SPCA has been working with rescue organization from Texas, Georgia and Ohio, that are using their building as an operational base for assisting the four-legged victims of Florence.

ASHEBORO, N.C. (WFMY) – We’ve seen videos of swift water rescue teams working around the clock to save stranded (and sometimes abandoned) pets from the rising flood waters caused by Florence.

Shelters all across the country have teamed up with affected shelters to make sure both animals looking for their fur-ever home and those stranded in the midst of Florence are safe and cared for.

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Randolph County might be about 200 miles from North Carolina's coast, where Florence hit the hardest, but four-legged victims can be found here, too.

The Randolph County SPCA has been working with rescue volunteers from Texas, Georgia and Ohio, that are using their building as an operational base for assisting the four-legged victims.

“They are still based there and moving animals into our building to move North to other rescue groups where they can find new homes,” said David Stansfield, Veterinary Medical Director for the Randolph County SPCA.

"It's been literally, hour-to-hour changes and we respond to whatever the opportunity or the crisis is," he added.

Some of the volunteers, like Hurricane Harvey survivor David Seherff, are no strangers to natural disasters.

"It'll be a while, it'll be a long while," Seherff said.

Seherff and his bulldog Pound Cake run Frank's Way, a natural disaster rescue group founded in honor of his bulldog Frank that died during Hurricane Harvey while rescuing stranded people.

He says the work is tiresome, but worth it.

"We have to get the animals that they already have moved properly, legally and get all those displaced animals inland anywhere they can go," he added.

Another organization assisting with this effort in Randolph County is Pilots N Paws, which flew in food and supplies from Mississippi over the weekend.

The non-profit engages volunteer pilots and plane owners that hep in the transportation of animals through rescue flights.

They have already distributed hundreds of those donated food and supplies.

"They had to hold the tail down, physically hold the tail down because there was so much weight of materials in the plane that we were unloading," Standfield mentioned.

So far, the Randolph SPCA and volunteers from around the country have helped 13 dogs and two cats.

The group hopes to help even more once they relocate pets from the Randolph County Animal Shelter.

On Monday, the Randolph County SPCA received another “twelve or more dogs," according to Stansfield.

And their work still isn't done.

If you'd like to help the Randolph County SPCA and volunteers help these animals, visit their website or call 336-672-1600. They welcome donations and volunteers.

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