When a tornado outbreak destroyed Furry Friends’ ranch in Martin County, it felt like the worst had already happened.
However, according to Tibor Fiegel, the rescue’s chief training officer, that’s when the work was just beginning.
Furry Friends reflects on their progress since Milton’s tornados
“Once we were devastated, right, we had to jump into action,” he told WPTV reporter Victor Jorges. “We had to, right away, figure out how we were going to be able to move all of our population.”
He told Jorges, the Rooney Family, owners of the Palm Beach Kennel Club, offered up some space at the facility close to their airport. Suddenly, the 30 kennels that were once used to house dogs before races, became sanctuaries for dogs that had nowhere to be in the middle of a storm.
“We did not freeze operations,” said Feigel. “We kept moving with the dogs and pulling dogs from different location that were in need.”…