ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – As efforts continue to evacuate residents from Western Alaska, Bethel Friends of Canines is working to rescue dozens of dogs which families were forced to leave behind in the aftermath of ex-Typhoon Halong.
“At first, we kind of thought we were just going to be more of a supportive role for the villages,” said Jesselyn Elliott, executive director of Bethel Friends of Canines. “We had posted if anybody needed dog food, and then we kind of realized like the magnitude of the devastation that has happened.”
In the days since evacuations first began, Elliot told Alaska’s News Source that around 70 dogs have been taken in by the shelter, many of them transported by plane…