Humane Society Naples rescued 37 dogs and nine puppies from a Tallahassee animal shelter the day before Hurricane Michael made its disastrous landfall.

All of the puppies and 19 of the dogs are sheltered with the Humane Society Naples, where they will eventually be put up for adoption. The remaining animals went to the Animal Welfare League of Charlotte County.

The Humane Society Naples sent four people to Tallahassee in two cargo vans “filled to the brim” with crates for the rescue animals, the Humane Society's community affairs director Jonathan Foerster said.

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Hurricane Michael made landfall Wednesday near Mexico Beach as a nearly Category 5 storm that smashed records as the strongest ever to roar onto the state's exposed Panhandle.

The National Weather Service in Tallahassee issued a statement that said a hurricane "of this strength has NEVER made landfall in this region and thus this is an event that will have unprecedented impacts."

Tallahassee's Animal Service Center, where the dogs had been sheltered, did not have the ability to care for animals during the storm, Foerster said.

Help from the Humane Society Naples will also clear space for animals to be taken in at the Tallahassee Animal Service Center after the storm clears.

The animals now in Naples will go through the Humane Society’s intake process, be medically and behaviorally evaluated, and then put up for adoption. The length of the intake process will vary depending on each animal, Foerster said.

“We are always available to help in times of crisis like this,” Foerster said via email. “We've actually sent people across the country to help in other major animal rescue situations.”

The Humane Society Naples recently sent a team member to Minnesota to help when authorities busted a large dogfighting and cockfighting operation.

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The Humane Society also had team members available, but didn't get any calls to help, when Hurricane Florence struck the Carolinas in September, Foerster said.

In 2017 planes were brought in to ship many cats and dogs from the Humane Society Naples to the San Diego Humane Society before Hurricane Irma struck Southwest Florida.

However, now that the Humane Society Naples is under new leadership and has a hurricane-resilient building, chances are animals will not be shipped out during future storms, Foerster said.

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