Cats rescued from La Vita Bella nursing home at center of viral Hurricane Harvey photo

Bozo was one of seven cats rescued from La Vita Bella nursing home. Bozo was one of seven cats rescued from La Vita Bella nursing home. Photo: Timothy McIntosh Photo: Timothy McIntosh Image 1 of / 195 Caption Close Cats rescued from La Vita Bella nursing home at center of viral Hurricane Harvey photo 1 / 195 Back to Gallery

The seven cats living at the flooded Dickinson nursing home that sparked a viral image over the weekend are now dry and happily rescued, just like their owners.

"They're all safe and sound," said Timothy McIntosh, whose mother-in-law owns the waterlogged La Vita Bella facility.

On Sunday, as rains pounded the small Galveston County town, the low-lying facility that was home to 15 elderly patients battling dementia flooded, leaving the residents inundated.

A picture of the patients - and one of their cats - sitting in shoulder-deep water started making rounds on the Twitter after owner Trudy Lampson sent it to her daughter and son-in-law in Florida.

Though the patients and staff were rescued Sunday, some by airlift and some by Army National Guard trucks, Lampson was still worried about the feline friends she wasn't able to save.

"I need to go back," Lampson said shortly just after stepping off a truck at a Santa Fe elementary school. "We have like seven cats."

The internet shared Lampson's concerns, it turned out. The original viral image McIntosh tweeted include a shot of one of the cats, named Bozo - and the Twitterverse was worried about his fate.

"Forty percent of the retweets I got on the picture were asking about the cat," McIntosh said.

Lampson didn't make it back to save the kitties - but her son did, according to McIntosh. And now, seven purring little pets are out of the floodwaters.

"They're all at Trudy's house," he said. "We're very glad that everyone got rescued, including the animals."