By: Abigail Kamleiter Abigail Kamleiter is the Director of No Kill South Carolina and through Charleston Animal Society, she helped organize several of the evacuation transports of animals in and out of Charleston. This is her dispatch from an airlift out of Mt. Pleasant, just hours before Irma hit […]
Monthly Archives: October 2017
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By Helen Ravenel Hammond Photos: Barbara Bergwerf Everyone loves turtles, but taking that adoration to the next level is a group of diehard volunteers who are members of the Island Turtle Team. Mary Pringle, project leader of the group, explains that this is one of 30 groups formed all over […]
Local Pet Detectives have reunited hundreds of pets with their owners By Helen Ravenel Hammond Charleston Animal Society has its very own Ace Ventura: Pet Detective! That’s right, Santanna Williams has the important job of reuniting lost pets with their owners. The process? Like a modern-day Nancy Drew, Williams scans […]
Working the Evacuation Pipeline Aldwin Roman is Charleston Animal Society’s Director of Anti-Cruelty and Outreach. Within days of Hurricane Irma hitting, he and his team logged more than 1,600 miles bringing to life the vision of the “Hurricane Evacuation Pipeline.” After his third trip to evacuate animals from Florida, Aldwin […]
Charleston Animal Society offers refuge to animals caught in recent hurricanes. By Dan Krosse, Aldwin Roman and Abigail Kamleiter Photos: Aldwin Roman, Kay Hyman, Abigail Kamleiter, Matt Chan As Carolina Tails goes to print (later than usual because of the busy hurricane season), Charleston Animal Society has evacuated […]