Last month, we told you how we teamed up with shelters and sanctuaries to truck supplies to animal victims of floods in Louisiana. Now we’ve partnered with a former In Defense of Animals staffer who is pulling animals from the floodwater ravaged zone.

Eric Phelps reached out to In Defense of Animals for financial assistance to keep transports moving in order to save as many animals as possible. Thanks to the generosity of kind hearted people like you, we were able to respond with an emergency grant.

Phelps is leading the relief efforts of Brother Wolf Animal Rescue, an Asheville, North Carolina based animal rescue organization. The organization was among the first to deploy a search and rescue team to assist with animal rescue in the aftermath of the Louisiana floods – and specifically in Livingston Parish, one of the hardest hit areas.

Its team of six people in three vehicles arrived on the ground just five days after the flooding began. Brother Wolf’s employees and volunteers have now been hard at work in the area non-stop for more than three weeks to assist needy animals who have been displaced from the devastating floods.

The initial phase of Brother Wolf’s work involved search and rescue – teams using maps of the 700 square mile parish to help identify the hardest hit areas and animals in need. Rescuers encountered situations involving loving companion animals left to fend for themselves when families fled, community cat colonies and neighborhood dogs left without caregivers when whole neighborhoods were wiped out, families having to surrender animals who they cannot keep with them after losing their homes, and just about every other imaginable scenario, including many animals who tragically drowned.

During the first few days on the ground, Brother Wolf filled up the shelter with flood refugees. Then, due to lack of shelter space, rescuers were forced to shelter animals in place – that is, identify where the animals are and either return regularly to feed them , or convince someone in the area, if there is anyone around, to care for the animals until shelter space is free.

Brother Wolf has set up an emergency shelter in Amite, Louisiana, and has begun transporting animals out of the affected area to other parts of the country in order to free up space for animals still on the street. To date its staff have transported out over 80 of Louisiana’s animal flooding victims, and have upcoming transports scheduled to help even more. Even more importantly, Brother Wolf has made the critical no kill pledge to ensure these animals are not killed later due to shelter crowding, nor that any other animals are displaced and killed to make room for these flood victims.

It is only thanks to the generosity of kind-hearted people like you that were have been able to save animal victims in desperate need in Louisiana. Please give generously today so that we may continue to respond to emergencies when animals need our help most.