Last dog adopted from SNAP’s April 27 rescues

BY ANNA DURRETT / REPORTER

The Spay Neuter Action Project of Alabama placed the last of its rescued animals from the April 27 storms on April 13, a very lucky Friday the thirteenth for the dog. The blue pit bull was living in a SNAP foster home before his adoption.

SNAP immediately took action to help animals displaced by the storms. “We called animal services and said we would help take animals in,” said Janice Gibbons. In addition to the more common find of dogs running wild, SNAP also found animals in unusual places after the storms, including a litter of five kittens under a destroyed house.

“It reinforces the importance of your animal having a good collar with a tag, a microchip or any way we can help return animals to their loving families,” said SNAP president Michelle Reavis. SNAP estimated they took in over 20 animals in need of a home due to the damaging storms and possibly a significant amount more since a direct connection can not be made with many more found in the period after the storms.

Reavis said animals were displaced when their owners’ homes were destroyed due to factors such as temporary housing in apartments that do not allow pets affordable and uncertainty about living quarters in the future. Reavis said some pet owners wanted to keep their animals, but couldn’t, so SNAP helped them find new loving homes. Reavis said, “Those people we expect to be back when their situation is to find a new companion.”