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Evacuation
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After boarding up the house and packing
up all the kennel fencing and cages and our 30 Shih Tzu (and 2 parakeets), we
left Corpus Christi at 2:30 in the morning on Thursday, September 22nd,
and drove for 10-1/2 hours to DeLeon, Texas, where we arrived exhausted at
the home of Pam’s mother. Before we
could sleep, we had to set up all the fencing and cages, then feed, water and
exercise the dogs and put them into cages in the dining room on a large tarp
to protect the carpet. That same day
the mandatory evacuation of |
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We had to carry each dog outside 3 to 4 times a day to fenced areas we set up on the front driveway. Our home in DeLeon was right across the street from the front of the Elementary School. The morning “outside time” coincided with the arrival of parents dropping off their children at school, so we were quite an attraction in town. The local newspaper heard about us, and the owner/publisher, Jerry Morgan, came over to take pictures and get information for his paper. The weekly paper came out the morning of the day we packed up and left. |
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We arrived in DeLeon with 30 Shih Tzu, and came back home with 34 Shih Tzu. Stormy had her litter of 2 boys and 2 girls on Monday while we were all evacuees. In spite of
it all, we still found time to relax and watch news of the hurricane that hit
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