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We hired one of the evacuees from Hurricane Katrina when he came off the plane. We were there with the state vet, who had called us to see if we could help check in the animals and house them overnight. And when people got off the plane, we were asking everybody, "Is your animal vaccinated?"
And one evacuee, Kevin, just looked at us and said, "Here my dog’s records." We were surprised, but then he told us he’d worked for a veterinarian in New Orleans. So he’d had access to his office when the levees broke. He practically swam over there, took the chart right from the shelf, grabbed his basset hound and said, "Let’s go."
He really is good; he’s a good vet tech, and besides that, he’s a nice person. And I guess he’s made his home here. I don’t know—we’re in the middle of winter, and he’s still walking around in a t-shirt, so …
From an interview with Pearl Gonzalez, Director of Operations, Potter League for Animals, Middletown, Rhode Island.
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