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  1. May God infinitely bless those who value and treat animals with love and dignity, taking responsibility for their lives. What a beautiful example of love. Let us hope that these actions are multiplied throughout the world.

  2. I just realize something about the wildlife species.

    While most prefer of climbing trees or fleeing to water sources to avoid the fires, those in the suburbs and urban areas that they’re too far from the wilderness and hills, they can use the alternatives.

    There are sewer grates, drain openings and canals to where there’s the chances of providing them with a readily available temporary shelters from the flames.

    The smaller ones are raccoons, opossums and skunks that will use the sewers to keep out of harm from the fire and heat.

    Those that climb or enter houses are the squirrels, chipmunks, raccoons, rats, mice and opossums that have been living in attics and basements of home don’t, unfortunately, survive due to of the thousands of those buildings quickly becoming their own death traps.
    While only a lucky few were very lucky in the few houses that survived or not burned too badly much.

    Those in parks or already abandoned areas that there are good soils for critters that can dig deeper into the ground; mice, rabbits, gophers, moles and ground squirrels naturally burrow underground; the the soil acts as an insulator against heat, allowing them to wait out the fire safely.

    Larger beasts such as coyotes, deer, foxes, mountain lions and Black Bears, as long they’re close to the mountains will still flee to avoid the dangerous flames.

    When the fire has passed, all the animals will emerge and enter into a destroyed and damaged environment. Where houses and buildings that used to stand tall and seemingly impossible to take down only damaged charred shells beyond recognition while those are flattened and gone to nothing.

    It will be a tough and different world they will wonder around with instincts to look for food though lot of the trees, bushes and plants and gardens that produce fruit and vegetables have been burned.

    However, with lack of humans, since all had been evacuated and those hardly any that come to the destroyed neighborhoods, the animals that survived will take advantage of exploring the larger areas; in order to look for food of those from the surviving houses and storages and markets and restaurants that may have been the only things that managed to withstand the destruction.

    Gardens that had not been destroyed are open targets for the deer.

    As for swimming pools and man-made ponds, all animal are attracted to any water sources and can take it with no fences and no walls to keep them out since they’ve been destroyed or burned down.

    For the carnivores, there are out in the remains of the world that used to have houses, fences and gates, there are still thousands of lost, abandoned and injured pets of cats, dogs, goats, chickens, geese, pigs, cows and even horses (those that survived but sadly had not been found alive by humans) that are easy prey to hungry and desperate coyotes and mountain lions that will patrol the areas after dark; due to all lights, lightbulbs, streetlights and garden decorations, are all gone, they are pure pitch blackened destroyed neighborhoods where only those with their superior night vision to see in the dark without any difficulty to prey on the miserable, starving, injured and lost domesticated animals that are easy and helpless food.

  3. Those poor creatures. I don’t know how she can say people are good. We wouldn’t be in such trouble if people were good. People are greedy self centred so and sos until something happens to their backyard.

  4. Why are people dropping their animals off at a shelter? It’s a law that hotels,shelters must take animals in a crisis..all since Katrina disaster…

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