100 Kentucky Tornado-Displaced Cats Headed To Salem

SALEM, MA — About 100 cats are expected to arrive in Salem on Wednesday morning as the Northeast Animal Shelter hopes to find holiday forever homes for the felines displaced from tornado-ravaged Kentucky earlier this week.

A Northeast Animal Hospital spokesperson told Patch the cats are being flown up from Kentucky and will then be taken via three large vans to the animal shelter on Highland Avenue in Salem.

The Northeast Animal Shelter will then provide information about their health and how residents can apply to adopt them.

The relocation is part of the ongoing partnership with the MSPCA and Angell Memorial to move animals from overflow shelters in areas hard hit by weather and other factors to New England where demand for adopted pets remains strong nearly two years into the coronavirus crisis.

URGENT: Your help is needed to bring 100+ cats to our shelter from #Kentucky, after the devastating #tornado. Please give today to help us prepare for this influx of frightened pets and ensure we have enough food and supplies on hand. https://t.co/iXxWBxHhCB pic.twitter.com/UAM1GVHvdj
— NE Animal Shelter (@NEAnimalShelter) December 14, 2021

Recent other transports include cats and dogs from the Texas power outages last winter, pets from a South Carolina animal cruelty case and the Louisiana Hurricane Ida this past August.

More information on adopting the Kentucky cats will be available here on Wednesday afternoon.

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)

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