Local woman helps rescue lost pets after hurricanes Katrina,
Gustav  Posted: Wednesday, September 24, 2008   Back | Next
Trevor Frey/Staff Trevor Frey/Staff  And if that friend happens
to walk around on all fours, well, that's no problem either.
DeGrasse, who works as the branch manager of the Madison County
Library, recently returned from a mission of mercy to
Shreveport, La., to help potential victims (and their pets) of
Hurricane Gustav.  Working on behalf of the California-based
Noah's Wish (which was founded to aid animals in natural
disasters), DeGrasse spent four days at a large shelter in
Shreveport, where more than 1,000 animals (without owners) -
mostly from the New Orleans area - were evacuated.  "The shelter
was located at the state fairgrounds, and there were also people
that had been evacuated to the coliseum at the same location,
and their animals were in the shelter across the parking lot,"
said DeGrasse, a Rochester, N.Y., native who has lived in
Madison County for nearly a dozen years. "Pet