Shelters work to find homes for hundreds of dogs abandoned amid hurricanes

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The Polk County Bully Project, in partnership with their community, has rallied to help hundreds of pets left homeless after back-to-back hurricanes in Florida.

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00:05the fact that she was dum

00:06track in Lakeland florida

00:09one of hundreds of hard t

00:12that played out along a f

00:14weary florida landscape.

00:17project is a grassroots a

00:20adopts out about 650 home

00:23and local county shelters

00:25overstuffed after hurrica

00:29that this part of florida

00:31a one to punch from Helene

00:34the founders of the bully

00:36action to try and get as

00:39to safety as possible. Wi

00:43probably 85 dogs out in f

00:47then we went to animal co

00:50help them because there w

00:52control that there was th

00:54We had so many people show

00:58they were pulling up, the

01:00ran out of dogs. Not only

01:04find fosters for all 43 d

01:07shelter. They took a carav

01:10to the county shelter to

01:13dogs. This is radar. He w

01:17after Hurricane Dorian in

01:19lot of rescue groups will

01:21a spike in adoptions and

01:25weeks and months after th

01:28gets really difficult. Th

01:30says this season in parti

01:33has rallied behind these

01:36another storm come callin

01:39than ever, they feel thei

01:41like this county wrapped

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