Rescuers scramble to save animals - The Clarion-Ledger

Rescuers scramble to save animals - The Clarion-Ledger
Rescuers scramble to save animals

By Gannett News Service

NEW ORLEANS — Opening the door to a small house on Tchoupitoulas Street Thursday revealed more than a dozen cats in a garbage-strewn room where they had been trapped since Hurricane Katrina struck the city.

A team of animal rescuers from the Humane Society of the United States and the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals tried to round up the jittery cats.