EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. -- Louie should be plenty sick of flooding and high
winds by now.
The 2-year-old rottweiler mix was rescued in his namesake Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He spent four months in an animal shelter before landing at Sacramento International Airport during Northern California's worst flooding in seven years.
"I felt so bad for him coming home last night because it was so windy and rainy. I thought, 'He's going from one hurricane to another.' But nothing fazed him," his new owner, Mina Johnson, said Saturday.
Officials say more than 6,000 pets were rescued after Katrina. Nearly 2,000 were sheltered by El Dorado Hills-based Noah's Wish, founded nearly four years ago by Terri Crisp after she'd spent 20 years rescuing pets from disasters around the world.
Johnson is one of the organization's 1,000 volunteers, and fell in love with the lost Louie during the time she spent helping at the group's shelter in Slidell, La., after Katrina. Crisp said her group was able to reunite 70 percent of pets with their owners after Katrina, but Louie and several other rottweilers were never claimed.
"My heart went out to him," Johnson said. "Nobody seems to want rottweilers." ...
Copyright 2005 Associated Press.
