Since a devastating earthquake hit Türkiye and Syria last week, rescue workers and volunteers are saving the lives of thousands of animals inlcuding dogs, cats, birds and livestock. But animals also play a key role in rescuing humans, as trained rescue dogs as well as pet dogs and cats leading emergency crews to the location of their owners in the nick of time.
Help keep family & friends informed by sharing this articleA rescue worker, grinning from ear to ear, pulls a reluctant cat from the arms of his trapped owner, university student Kerem Cetin, in a video from Türkiye's Hatay province.Cats, dogs, birds, aquarium fish, other small pets and farm animals have been rescued from the rubble
Farm animals including sheep, goats, cows and chickens were also injured with barns and enclosures falling down. "It's a kind of dangerous work because we don't have a rescue team for animals," said Ahmet Kemal Şenpolat, Haytap's president. "Animals have more power to survive compared to humans so we are hopeful that we can still find surviving animals under the devastation," he told the ABC on Monday.
Mr Şenpolat said many dogs and cats crawled through the rubble to reach their beloved owners where they cuddled together, sharing their body heat.There were also heartbreaking scenes as cats and dogs searched in vain through the rubble of their former homes looking for their owners."They stay with the bodies, until the body is recovered; until then, they refuse to leave them."But the reunion of survivors and their pets has also brought tremendous healing.
Istanbul and other cities throughout the region are famous for well-fed, friendly street cats, as part of what Mr Şenpolat described as a cultural history of "social animals".People frequently leave food and water outside their homes or businesses for these friendly strays.
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