Most loving pet owners would risk everything to make sure their beloved pets were safe, yet that choice was taken away from thousands of Fort McMurray Canadians when they were frantically forced to leave behind their lives, homes, and belongings.
When forced to evacuate to a safer area, many were prohibited from returning to their homes to collect some of their belongings and pets, and had to face the devastating reality that their four-legged family members might not survive. However, one man decided not to evacuate and take care of as many animals as he could that were left behind.
At first, Lee Ellis was just planning on waiting until the evacuation rush calmed down to leave, but as he waited he decided to help out friends who had contacted him to check in on their cat.
After posting on Facebook about checking in on some pets for people who were being kept from the area, he began getting messages from desperate pet owners to see if he could check up and feed their pets too.
“They would give me their door codes. They would tell me where the food was. There were only a couple of incidents where I had to feed them out of my own supply,” Ellis said. “The support and the thanks were overwhelming on my Facebook page. It was unbelievable. It helped me keep on going when I was too tired to go.”
During the day, Ellis began biking between 20 different homes to provide food, water, and attention to people’s left behind pets. “They weren’t only starved for food and water, they were starved for attention,” he said.
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