Aleksandra Michalka & Alan Duvall

MAYFIELD (Ky.) – While survivors of last week’s tornado in Mayfield come to terms with their losses the Humane Society is focusing on the other victims, cats and dogs who are still trapped under porches or hiding behind bushes.

A group of four-wheel-drive cars belonging to the Humane Society of the United States headed out in search of strays in order to find their owners. They left Calvert City’s budget hotel on Thursday.

Kitty Block (chief executive of the Humane Society), said that many people had died here and she feared they would bulldoze this area. She was heading to Mayfield.

“Cats hide in the eaves. They’re under porches. They’re inside the homes. We want them to be found before it happens.

David Spalding said that the Mayfield Graves County Animal Shelter currently houses nearly 70 animals, and there is room for more.

Block explained that their goal was to take the pet to the shelter to be treated as necessary and to then get “the message out” that people could come to their animal, retrieve their animals, and reunite them with them.

Block spoke while she tried to get a red, gray and white cat to be carried in a carrier. Others from the Humane Society and volunteers attempted to get scared cats out of undergrowth and bushes. They also attached notices to destroy any pets they found.

Many pet owners enjoy happy reunions.

Bill Kenney of Mayfield, holding Sid, his eight-month-old pit bull,

Kenney said, “I missed my boy,” Kenney said, “He is like my sidekick… “He goes wherever I go. He gets mad when I take him somewhere.”