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class="pb-byline" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">By <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/karin-brulliard/"><span itemprop="name">Karin Brulliard</span></a></span> <span class="pb-tool email"><a href="mailto:karin.brulliard@washpost.com?subject=Reader feedback for 'How the chaos of Hurricane Katrina helped save pets from flooding in Texas'"><span class="fa fa-envelope"></span><span class="envelope-label">Email the author</span></a></span> </span> <span class="pb-timestamp" itemprop="datePublished" content="2017-08-31T04:36-500">August 31, 2017</span> <span class="pb-tool email"><a href="mailto:karin.brulliard@washpost.com?subject=Reader feedback for 'How the chaos of Hurricane Katrina helped save pets from flooding in Texas'"><span class="fa fa-envelope"></span><span class="envelope-label">Email the author</span></a></span> <span class="tweet-authors"><span class="pb-twitter-follow unprocessed"><a href="https://twitter.com/@karinbrulliard" 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Brown Convention Center in Houston on Aug. 28. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)</span> </div> <p>As Hurricane Harvey pelted Houston with heavy rains over the weekend, a local television news station broadcast footage of <a href="http://www.khou.com/weather/harvey/people-sit-outside-with-their-pets-at-george-r-brown-shelter-in-houston/468249892" target="_blank">flood evacuees sitting outside</a> the George R. Brown Convention Center. The people weren’t waiting for space inside what would become a massive emergency shelter. They were choosing to remain outdoors because their pets were not allowed in with them.</p> <p>That policy changed within a day, after a top elected official made clear both humans and animals were welcome at the city’s evacuation centers.</p> <p>“We all saw what followed Hurricane Katrina, where people weren’t allowed to keep their pets with them, so they said, ‘Well, never mind, we’ll just stay outside,'” Harris County Judge Ed Emmett <a href="https://www.facebook.com/abc13Houston/videos/10155283761799342/" target="_blank">told reporters Sunday evening</a>. “We obviously don’t want that to happen.”</p> <p>Emmett wasn’t making just a passing reference to the catastrophe that hit New Orleans in 2005. During that disaster, many residents stayed put — and died in some cases — rather than heed rescuers’ instructions to leave pets behind as waters inundated homes. Others faced wrenching choices when they arrived at shelters that would not allow animals. One small white dog, Snowball, became a national symbol of these emotional separations after he was taken from the arms of a child who was boarding a bus to Texas that did not take pets. The boy cried so hard, according to an Associated Press report, he vomited.</p> <p>One <a href="http://www.fritzinstitute.org/PDFs/findings/Hurricanekatrina_Perceptions.pdf" target="_blank">2006 poll found 44 percent</a> of people who chose not to evacuate during Katrina did so because they did not want to abandon their pets. Even so, <a href="https://www.la-spca.org/about/katrina-dogs-animal-rescue-stories/rescuefacts" target="_blank">the Louisiana SPCA estimated</a>, more than 100,000 pets were left behind and as many as 70,000 died throughout the Gulf Coast.</p> <p>A dozen years later, Katrina is viewed as a watershed moment in planning for pets during natural disasters. It changed federal and state policies — and, animal advocates and experts say, made clear Americans have widely embraced the idea of dogs and cats as family members.</p> <p>“You saw pictures of dogs standing on roofs and cats swimming in these toxic waters, and there was a huge public outcry,” said journalist David Grimm, who wrote about the impact in his book, “<a href="https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B00G1SD502&amp;preview=newtab&amp;linkCode=kpe&amp;ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_syiQzbZ86E860&amp;tag=thewaspos09-20" target="_blank">Citizen Canine</a>.” Katrina “was a real turning point,” he added, “where suddenly it wasn’t just, ‘This is how I view my pets.’ It’s, ‘This is how everyone views their pets.’”</p> <div class="inline-content inline-photo inline-photo-normal"> <a name="909a505b6e"></a> <img class="unprocessed placeholder" data-hi-res-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_960w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/29/National-Politics/Images/Botsford170829Hurricane19893.JPG&amp;w=1484" data-low-res-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_960w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/29/National-Politics/Images/Botsford170829Hurricane19893.JPG&amp;w=480" data-raw-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_960w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/29/National-Politics/Images/Botsford170829Hurricane19893.JPG" src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_960w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/29/National-Politics/Images/Botsford170829Hurricane19893.JPG&amp;w=60"/><br/> <span class="pb-caption">Volunteers in boats rescue people and their pets from neighborhoods near Interstate 45 in Houston on Aug. 29. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)</span> </div> <p>At the time, emergency management plans took only people into account. The result was an ad hoc approach to animals, with some responders flat-out turning away dogs and others agreeing to evacuate them. Animal protection groups, which quickly became overwhelmed with displaced critters separated from their owners, often found themselves at odds with local and state officials, recalled Wayne Pacelle, chief executive of the Humane Society of the United States.</p> <p>The sense that systems had failed both pets and people quickly reached Capitol Hill. In 2006, Congress overwhelmingly passed legislation requiring local and state authorities who want federal emergency grants to include pets in disaster plans. It authorized the use of federal funds for pet-friendly emergency shelters.</p> <p>Snowball was the impetus.</p> <p>“The dog was taken away from this little boy, and to watch his face was a singularly revealing and tragic experience,” Rep. Tom Lantos <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-passes-pet-evacuation-bill/" target="_blank">said at the time</a>. The California Democrat, who died in 2008, sponsored the House version of the Pet Evacuation and Transportation Standards (PETS) Act — legislation “born at that moment” with Snowball, Lantos said.</p> <p>More than 30 <a href="https://www.animallaw.info/content/map-states-disaster-planning-laws" target="_blank">U.S. states now have laws</a> that address disaster planning for pets and service animals. <a href="https://www.animallaw.info/statute/tx-disaster-%C2%A7-418043-other-powers-and-duties-pet-disaster-planning" target="_blank">Texas requires</a> its emergency management officials to help localities devise plans “for the humane evacuation, transport and temporary sheltering of service animals and household pets in a disaster.”</p> <p>Not all <a href="http://petfriendlytravel.com/pet_shelters#TX" target="_blank">evacuation centers </a>in Texas are accepting pets this week, but many are accommodating them in separate areas or coordinating with off-site shelters to house them. In San Antonio, for instance, a state-run reception center for Harvey evacuees <a href="http://www.caller.com/story/news/local/2017/08/25/evacuees-beware-you-separated-pets/600688001/" target="_blank">routes pets to a city-run animal shelter</a>, after assigning them and owners individual ID numbers that will help reunite them later.</p> <div class="inline-content inline-html"> <div id="fb-root"></div> <p><script>(function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(d.getElementById(id))return;js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml\x3d1\x26version\x3dv2.10";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs)})(document,"script","facebook-jssdk");</script></p> <div class="fb-video" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/lisa.l.eicher.39/videos/10104318824268716/" data-width="500"> <blockquote cite="https://www.facebook.com/lisa.l.eicher.39/videos/10104318824268716/" class="fb-xfbml-parse-ignore"><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lisa.l.eicher.39/videos/10104318824268716/"></a></p> <p>Ace put this video together as a "thank you" to our heroes from the Conroe Fire Department. If you see this and you were part of that crew let us know please! Cody Paul LeCroy Christopher GeorgeClay Johnson</p> <p>Posted by <a href="#" role="button">Lisa Livingston Eicher</a> on Wednesday, August 30, 2017</p></blockquote> </div> </div> <div class="flex-embed-dummy-script"><script charset="utf-8"></script></div> <p>The images and stories out of Southeast Texas — of rescue boats loaded with dogs and people — are far different from those that emerged during Katrina. Lisa Eicher’s experience offers just one example. When the Conroe, Tex., resident woke Monday, floodwaters had nearly submerged the 15 feet of steps up to the first floor of her family’s home. Before she, her husband and four children could pack more than a garbage bag of clothes, firefighters had rolled up outside in a muddy dump truck and were telling them to leave.</p> <p>“We have two kids with Down syndrome, a pig and a three-legged dog,” Eicher recalled telling them.</p> <p>“Sounds good,” one firefighter responded. “Let’s do this.”</p> <p>Soon Eicher’s husband and a firefighter were helping Pip, a terrier mix, swim across the murky water. Next up was Penny, a mottled potbellied pig that floated on a yellow life jacket.</p> <p>“A dog is one thing, but a pig is different,” Eicher said in a phone interview from Austin, where the family — pets included — are staying with friends. “I was worried that we weren’t going to be able to bring her. … The fact that they were so good with our pets was really sweet and meant a lot.”</p> <div class="inline-content inline-gallery-embedded"> <link href="//www.washingtonpost.com/pb/gr/c/ssiSingle/r0DtBpwKo8Tvoq/css/d9cb19704f.css?_=f2022" rel="stylesheet"/> <link href="//www.washingtonpost.com/pb/gr/p/ssiSingle/r0DtBpwKo8Tvoq/style.css?_=512fa" rel="stylesheet"/> <script>window.pbDeferredSSISingle=window.pbDeferredSSISingle||new Array;</script> <div class="pb-container"> <div class="pb-feature-ssi-single pb-f-theme-normal pb-f-dehydrate-false pb-f-async-false pb-3 pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-gallery-gallery" data-chain-name="no-name" data-feature-id="gallery/gallery" data-feature-name="no-name" data-pb-feature-config="gallery/gallery" data-pb-fingerprint="0fh3taXsipu" id="fVVe782Ko8Tvoq"> <div class="wp-volt-gal unprocessed wp-volt-gal-p-end-circular wp-volt-gal-promo-stub wp-volt-gal-on-promo-slide wp-volt-gal-embed-promo wp-volt-gal-embed-promo-hide" data-blurb="Scenes of Houston-area people escaping the floodwaters with their pets and other animals." data-category="National-Enterprise" data-commercial-node="national" data-debug="false" data-first-published="1504024020" data-keywords="[Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane dog rescues, dog rescue, shelter dogs, cows stranded, flood dogs]" data-permalink="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/after-harvey-heartwarming-rescues-of-dog-lovers-their-pets-and-other-animals/2017/08/29/f50517a0-8c14-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37_gallery.html" data-preroll-zone="" data-published="1504454520" data-section="national" data-show-interstitials="true" data-show-preroll="true" data-slug="after-harvey-heartwarming-rescues-of-dog-lovers-their-pets-and-other-animals" data-subsection="" data-title="After Harvey, rescues and reunions of owners and their pets" data-uuid="f50517a0-8c14-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37"> <div class="wp-volt-gal-bar"> <div class="wp-volt-gal-nav"> <div class="wp-volt-gal-nav-full-gal"><a data-pb-field="custom.navPromoLabel" data-pb-placeholder="View More Label" data-pb-url-field="custom.navPromoLink" href=""></a></div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-nav-number"><span class="wp-volt-gal-nav-number-current">1</span> of 65</div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-nav-buttons"> <div class="wp-volt-gal-nav-button wp-volt-gal-nav-prev"></div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-nav-button wp-volt-gal-nav-next"></div> </div> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-buttons"> <div class="wp-volt-gal-button wp-volt-gal-button-fullscreen">Full Screen</div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-button wp-volt-gal-button-autoplay">Autoplay</div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-bar-pie"></div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-button wp-volt-gal-button-close">Close</div> </div> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-main"> <div class="wp-volt-gal-photos"> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A dog barks from a damaged trampoline in Fulton, Tex. The Humane Society of the United States Animal Rescue Team is in Aransas Pass helping rescue animals." data-credit="Rachel Denny Clow/Corpus Christi Caller-Times via AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/03/National-Enterprise/Images/Harvey_36510-67827.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3701" data-ratio="1.5" data-title=" Sept. 3, 2017" data-uuid="7a9e9936-90f7-11e7-a8a5-34b5cf4e4077"> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide-gal-title"></div> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Dave Pauli, with the Humane Society rescue team, walks a dog that was found in Fulton to a kennel at Aransas County Animal Control." data-credit="Rachel Denny Clow/Corpus Christi Caller-Times via AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/03/National-Enterprise/Images/Harvey_99790-54d39.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4608" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="  Sept. 3, 2017" data-uuid="81b908fa-90f7-11e7-a8a5-34b5cf4e4077"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A resident carries his dog to a rescue boat from his home, which is surrounded by floodwaters, in Orange, Tex." data-credit="Scott Olson/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/03/National-Enterprise/Images/841967378.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.5" data-title=" Sept. 2, 2017" data-uuid="7eac9038-90ba-11e7-8754-d478688d23b4"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A horse displaced by Harvey sits at Ford Park’s temporary animal shelter in Beaumont, Tex." data-credit="Guiseppe Barranco/The Beaumont Enterprise/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/03/National-Enterprise/Images/Harvey_60984-467d0.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="2000" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="  Sept. 2, 2017" data-uuid="2a2fe22e-90bc-11e7-8754-d478688d23b4"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A dog sits in a cage at Ford Park’s temporary animal shelter in Beaumont." data-credit="Guiseppe Barranco/The Beaumont Enterprise/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/03/National-Enterprise/Images/Harvey_16660-53a6a.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="2000" data-ratio="1.481" data-title=" Sept. 2, 2017" data-uuid="32e32890-90bc-11e7-8754-d478688d23b4"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Volunteers bring out 70 dogs from the Humane Society of Southeast Texas in Beaumont that are being transported to Eastern Tennessee by workers with Animal Rescue Corps." data-credit="Kim Brent/The Beaumont Enterprise/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/03/National-Enterprise/Images/Harvey_41810-1e8f8.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="2000" data-ratio="1.503" data-title="Sept. 1, 2017" data-uuid="4bac1ada-90bc-11e7-8754-d478688d23b4"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Nancy McBride’s cat looks out from an air hole punched in a tub. The cat was found after McBride came home for the first time since Harvey." data-credit="Rick Wilking/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/03/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-09-01T203104Z_1772963212_RC120F568480_RTRMADP_3_STORM-HARVEY.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3500" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="  Sept. 1, 2017" data-uuid="d469c220-90ba-11e7-8754-d478688d23b4"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Evacuees Donna Herzog and her husband, Richard Herzog, with their five dogs, eat food served by volunteers in a staging area as they wait to go to evacuation shelters in Vidor, Tex." data-credit="Gerald Herbert/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/03/National-Enterprise/Images/Harvey_33186-c74b7.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4627" data-ratio="1.436" data-title="   Sept. 1, 2017" data-uuid="b3b23184-90ba-11e7-8754-d478688d23b4"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A volunteer carries a blind dog rescued from Harvey floodwaters in Houston." data-credit="Rick Wilking/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/03/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-08-31T203403Z_190744926_RC180A105500_RTRMADP_3_STORM-HARVEY.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3500" data-ratio="1.518" data-title="  Aug. 31, 2017" data-uuid="2c70f60a-90bb-11e7-8754-d478688d23b4"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Volunteers load a dog with a broken leg rescued from Harvey floodwaters in Houston." data-credit="Rick Wilking/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/03/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-08-31T202838Z_1823234759_RC1E608A2C20_RTRMADP_3_STORM-HARVEY.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3500" data-ratio="1.496" data-title="  Aug. 31, 2017" data-uuid="479d3ace-90bb-11e7-8754-d478688d23b4"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A man rescues a dog from floodwaters in Rose City." data-credit="Jonathan Bachman/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/03/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-09-01T045045Z_832150124_RC1A79B934D0_RTRMADP_3_STORM-HARVEY.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3500" data-ratio="1.5" data-title=" Aug. 31, 2017" data-uuid="eac8e352-90ba-11e7-8754-d478688d23b4"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals employee Rebecca Rodriguez loads a dog into a crate as employees and volunteers of the Houston SPCA load up more than 100 adoptable dogs and cats, with the help of the Austin Humane Society and others, into a truck that will be sent to Atlanta." data-credit="Karen Warren/Houston Chronicle/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/31/National-Enterprise/Images/Harvey_77843-fccf1.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="5174" data-ratio="1.516" data-title="  Aug. 31, 2017" data-uuid="029926c0-8e9c-11e7-91d5-ab4e4bb76a3a"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Members of the Nguyen family, along with their dog, return to their home still surrounded by Harvey floodwaters in northwestern Houston." data-credit="Rick Wilking/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/31/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-08-31T144236Z_523803558_RC12179A66E0_RTRMADP_3_STORM-HARVEY.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3500" data-ratio="1.617" data-title="  Aug. 31, 2017" data-uuid="1fcd6c88-8e74-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A person and a dog move through a flooded street in Houston." data-credit="Joe Raedle/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/28/Production/Daily/A-Section/Images/840246746.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.37" data-title="Aug. 28, 2017" data-uuid="cd6a5ad2-8c1b-11e7-91d5-ab4e4bb76a3a"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Isiah Courtney carries his dog Bruce through floodwaters in Beaumont Place, Houston." data-credit="Jonathan Bachman/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/29/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-08-28T215645Z_1172486859_RC1B22842920_RTRMADP_3_STORM-HARVEY.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3208" data-ratio="1.499" data-title="Aug. 29, 2017" data-uuid="85371840-8ced-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A boy hugs his grandmother’s dog after being rescued from rising floodwaters in Spring, Tex." data-credit="Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg News" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/28/KidsPost/Images/317103173_0-8.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4000" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Aug. 28, 2017" data-uuid="7bf2e930-8c2a-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Marine Corps League member Jeff Webb, left, of Montgomery, Tex., and rescue diver Stephan Bradshaw of South Carolina rescue a dog that was chained to a flooded porch in Lumberton, Tex." data-credit="Ashley Landis/Dallas Morning News/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/01/National-Enterprise/Images/Harvey_68248-cc869.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3008" data-ratio="1.447" data-title="Aug. 31, 2017" data-uuid="c551e1c0-8f2d-11e7-91d5-ab4e4bb76a3a"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Tonya Sutherland tries to help a calf that was trapped in a fence nearly submerged in floodwater in Winnie, Tex." data-credit="Carlo Allegri/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/31/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-08-31T201254Z_1470449033_RC18EAEE0F00_RTRMADP_3_STORM-HARVEY.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3500" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Aug. 31, 2017" data-uuid="ffb1f614-8e9e-11e7-91d5-ab4e4bb76a3a"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Shane Montie, left, helps one of his dogs board an airboat driven by volunteers Erik Davis, right, and JV Bagley, not pictured, as they evacuate rising floodwaters Lumberton, Tex." data-credit="Ashley Landis/Dallas Morning News/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/09/01/National-Enterprise/Images/Harvey_18231-96b1e.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="5093" data-ratio="1.485" data-title="Aug. 30, 2017" data-uuid="b355f448-8f2d-11e7-91d5-ab4e4bb76a3a"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Wild peacocks take refuge from floodwaters on the roof of a house in a West Houston neighborhood." data-credit="Tannen Maury/European Pressphoto Agency-EFE" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/31/National-Enterprise/Images/06175254.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4084" data-ratio="1.669" data-title="Aug. 31, 2017" data-uuid="972a7828-8e9e-11e7-91d5-ab4e4bb76a3a"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Kara Hanshaw carries her pet fish to safety as she and family members are rescued and evacuated from their flooded West Houston home." data-credit="Tannen Maury/European Pressphoto Agency-EFE" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/31/National-Enterprise/Images/06175420.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3562" data-ratio="1.269" data-title="Aug. 31, 2017" data-uuid="6142d21e-8e9e-11e7-91d5-ab4e4bb76a3a"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Volunteers and first responders help flood victims evacuate the area as waters rise from Tropical Storm Harvey in Houston." data-credit="Scott Clause/Daily Advertiser/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/29/National-Enterprise/Images/Harvey_29074-43812.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Aug. 28, 2017" data-uuid="e4b92948-8cf2-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="An elderly woman and her poodle use an air mattress to float above floodwaters while waiting to be rescued on Scarsdale Boulevard in Houston." data-credit="Adrees Latif/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/28/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-08-28T015916Z_1907807919_RC12D3B1F010_RTRMADP_3_STORM-HARVEY.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3500" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Aug. 27, 2017" data-uuid="e76bb8b2-8c17-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A woman holds her dog after being evacuated from her home in east Houston." data-credit="Adrees Latif/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/29/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-08-29T055708Z_2045619540_RC1CEE8D4190_RTRMADP_3_STORM-HARVEY.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3478" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Aug. 28, 2017" data-uuid="20fc7a78-8ced-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Joe Garcia carries his dog, Heidi, from his flooded home as he is rescued in Spring, Tex." data-credit="David J. Phillip/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/28/National-Enterprise/Images/Harvey_58804-ee3ab.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="1947" data-ratio="1.28" data-title="Aug. 28, 2017" data-uuid="0c24c574-8c16-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Steve Culver cries with his dog, Otis, as he talks about what he said was the “most terrifying event in his life” when Hurricane Harvey blew in and destroyed most of his home in Rockport, Tex." data-credit="Joe Raedle/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/28/National-Enterprise/Images/839644576-1792.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="a28bbca8-8c1a-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Volunteers and officers from the neighborhood security patrol help rescue residents and their dogs in the River Oaks neighborhood in Houston." data-credit="Scott Olson/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/28/National-Enterprise/Images/839916614-1789.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Aug. 27, 2017" data-uuid="5a707544-8c1a-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A man reaches to take a dog from a rescue truck at the east Sam Houston Tollway in Houston." data-credit="Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/29/National-Enterprise/Images/Harvey_55992-9cf84.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="653" data-ratio="0.666" data-title="Aug. 28, 2017" data-uuid="3fe1a35a-8ced-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Residents and pets are evacuated from their homes in Houston. " data-credit="Godofredo A. Vasquez/Houston Chronicle/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/29/National-Enterprise/Images/Harvey_32262-a2fd1.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3785" data-ratio="1.447" data-title="Aug. 28, 2017" data-uuid="b085930c-8cf0-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Sara Olivo wrangles her dogs off the boat after being rescued from her home 15 miles northwest of downtown Houston." data-credit="Michael Wyke/European Pressphoto Agency" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/28/National-Enterprise/Images/06168744-1715.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4436" data-ratio="1.373" data-title="Aug. 28, 2017" data-uuid="0780ac96-8c15-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A cat swims in floodwater while trying to find dry ground in Houston." data-credit="Scott Olson/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/30/National-Enterprise/Images/840958482-2115.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3000" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Aug. 30, 2017" data-uuid="3f85b808-8dd6-11e7-91d5-ab4e4bb76a3a"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Jannett Martinez holds her cat Gigi as she rides a boat out of her flooded neighborhood in Houston." data-credit="Charlie Riedel/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/30/National-Enterprise/Images/Harvey_13210-47e0b.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4733" data-ratio="1.433" data-title="Aug. 29, 2017" data-uuid="35b0b466-8dd3-11e7-91d5-ab4e4bb76a3a"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="true" data-caption="Volunteers in boats rescue people and their pets from their homes near interstate 45 in Houston." data-credit="Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/29/National-Politics/Images/Botsford170829Hurricane19893.JPG?env=A" data-max-width="5241" data-ratio="1.5" data-title=" Aug. 29, 2017" data-uuid="c0888b0e-8ce3-11e7-9c53-6a169beb0953"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="An evacuee holding two dogs reacts after his rescue by Texas National Guardsmen from severe flooding in Cypress Creek, Houston." data-credit="Capt. Martha Nigrelle/U.S. Army National Guard/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/29/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-08-29T174214Z_1852422678_RC118BE004C0_RTRMADP_3_STORM-HARVEY.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3500" data-ratio="1.502" data-title=" Aug. 28, 2017" data-uuid="0d5f9e0e-8cee-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="People wait for evacuation outside a funeral home in Dickinson, Tex." data-credit="Rick Wilking/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/28/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-08-27T235917Z_82393232_RC14B41A5B00_RTRMADP_3_STORM-HARVEY-1805.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3500" data-ratio="1.686" data-title="Aug. 27, 2017" data-uuid="fe5f4c06-8c2f-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="true" data-caption="People with their pets seek shelter at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston." data-credit="Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/29/National-Politics/Images/Botsford170828Hurricane19829.JPG?env=A" data-max-width="5581" data-ratio="1.5" data-title="Aug. 28, 2017" data-uuid="690c46cc-8c34-11e7-9c53-6a169beb0953"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Bentley, a 10-year-old Maltese, takes refuge with his owner in a school after they lost their home to Hurricane Harvey in Rockport, Tex." data-credit="Adrees Latif/Reuters" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/28/National-Enterprise/Images/2017-08-27T172256Z_98032270_RC1FE1B33EF0_RTRMADP_3_STORM-HARVEY-SHELTER-HERO.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3500" data-ratio="1.499" data-title="Aug. 26, 2017" data-uuid="d0390340-8c1a-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A puppy belonging to an evacuee sits in a crate at the Delco Center in east Austin" data-credit="Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/28/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_RW32E.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="2227" data-ratio="0.667" data-title="Aug. 28, 2017" data-uuid="41fc6c12-8c19-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="A parrot belonging to an evacuee sits in a crate at the Delco Center in east Austin" data-credit="Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP/Getty Images" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/28/National-Enterprise/Images/AFP_RW32I.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="3522" data-ratio="0.8" data-title=" Aug. 28, 2017" data-uuid="4bddd1ee-8c19-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="D’Ona Spears, center, reacts as she is told she cannot bring her dog, Missy, into the shelter for evacuees. She is with her daughter Natalie, left, at the convention center in downtown Houston." data-credit="LM Otero/AP" data-image="https://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/28/National-Enterprise/Images/Harvey_93528-ed3c1.jpg?env=A" data-max-width="4592" data-ratio="1.604" data-title="Aug. 28, 2017 " data-uuid="cd4f442c-8c16-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37"> </div> <div class="wp-volt-gal-slide wp-volt-gal-photo" data-buy="false" data-caption="Kenneth and Minnie Bice prepare to sleep outside the M.O. Campbell Red Cross shelter in Aldine, Tex. Pets are not allowed inside and so the two are sleeping on the portico with their two dogs and a cat. 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You had to look at the family group when you approached disaster response.”</p> <p>Animals that do not remain with owners also have more places to go these days, advocates say. As Harvey approached, several Texas shelters shipped dogs and cats out to distant facilities to make room for furry refugees. Those far-off places, such as the Humane Rescue Alliance in Washington, in turn revved up adoptions to clear even more space.</p> <p>“We’re working nonstop to get out every single animal that was currently adoptable in some of these cities where we know that these evacuees are going to need to come,” said Katie Jarl, senior state director in Texas for the Humane Society. 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(Bob Karp/Daily Record/AP)</span> </div> <p>Much of the movement is relying on <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2017/05/13/from-death-row-to-adoption-saving-animals-by-car-van-bus-and-even-plane/?utm_term=.043318f29dfb" target="_blank">sophisticated transport networks</a>, many of which grew out of the chaos during Katrina. On Tuesday night at 10 p.m., eight mixed-breed dogs — labs, hounds and pit bulls — arrived at the Somerset Regional Animal Shelter in Bridgewater, N.J. They had come from San Antonio on a plane flown by Wings of Rescue, a California-based charity that uses private aircraft to fly animals from high-kill southern shelters to northern areas where euthanasia rates are lower.</p> <p>“We saw a lot of dogs out of that plane getting a second life,” said Brian Bradshaw, who manages the Somerset shelter. “By helping these animals, we are also helping people, and that goes hand in hand.”</p> <p>The Harvey efforts are by no means “copacetic or settled,” Pacelle said. Citing health concerns, some emergency shelters are turning away people with pets, as are hotels — though both face shaming on social media when they do so. The corporation that owns Holiday Inn Express <a href="http://people.com/pets/holiday-inn-hurricane-harvey-dog/" target="_blank">apologized this week after reports</a> that its Katy, Tex., hotel rejected a family with three dogs.</p> <p>And though animal advocates say arrangements have greatly improved since 2005, they are still not ideal for some pet owners. One Corpus Christi couple who evacuated to San Antonio opted to go to a hotel after learning their dog would be temporarily housed at the city-run shelter, rather than with them at an evacuation center.</p> <p>“This isn’t a dog. This is a child,” Kevin Pogue <a href="http://www.caller.com/story/news/local/2017/08/25/evacuees-beware-you-separated-pets/600688001/" target="_blank">told the Corpus Christi Caller-Times</a>. “I’m not going to be separated from my child; it’s that simple.”</p> <p>That Pogue’s sentiment is now enshrined in legal code, which has long viewed pets as property, is one of Katrina’s lasting legacies.</p> <p>“Pets essentially became members of society: You rescue the people, and you also try to rescue the cats and dogs,” said Grimm, the journalist. “Nobody is passing laws saying you should rescue the toasters. It’s really a huge, fundamental shift that happened.”</p> <p><em>Stephanie Kuzydym and Emily Wax in Houston contributed to this report. </em></p> <p><strong>Read more:</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2017/05/13/from-death-row-to-adoption-saving-animals-by-car-van-bus-and-even-plane/?utm_term=.043318f29dfb" target="_blank">These rescuers take shelter animals on road trips to help them find new homes</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2017/08/28/harvey-is-also-displacing-snakes-fire-ants-and-gators/?utm_term=.6efa79dfafa4" target="_blank">Harvey is also displacing snakes, fire ants and gators</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2017/08/27/a-photo-of-a-dog-carrying-a-bag-of-food-after-a-storm-hit-texas-went-viral-heres-his-story/?utm_term=.c3b1cba39a51" target="_blank">A photo of a dog carrying a bag of food after a storm hit Texas went viral. 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