Rescuers brave Indonesia volcano risks to save abandoned pets

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A team of volunteers have retrieved abandoned pets.

TAGULANDANG – People have fled from a remote Indonesian island where a volcano recently unleashed huge eruptions but some folk have braved the dangers to rescue abandoned animals.

“We know that they are still living there. How can we let them die while we know they are still alive there?” 31-year-old volunteer Laurent Tan told AFP on May 4. The dog, a female with burns on the face and body, was taken to a makeshift shelter on Tagulandang, where a veterinarian treated it on a wooden desk while a volunteer held up a mobile phone’s flashlight.The group, made up of volunteers from animal welfare organisations, deployed for a second time on May 3 after some pet owners made desperate social media appeals for them to evacuate their pets.

Many of the rescued animals appeared hungry and stressed after their owners left them, he told AFP. “The first treatment we do here is to give food and additional vitamins to relieve their stress,” he said, adding that the animals could survive as long as they were nourished.

 

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