The 42 cats come from the Lee County Domestic Animal Shelter and Tampa’s Hillsborough County Pet Resource Center.
Dozens of cats who had been living at Florida shelters were flown up to Massachusetts Tuesday morning as the area prepares for They will undergo a 48-hour quarantine and then be readied for adoption by the MSPCA in Boston and Northeast Animal Shelter in Salem.
"These cats were directly in [hurricane] Ian’s path so it was essential for us to partner with other organizations, such as the ASPCA, to evacuate them as quickly as we could," said Mike Keiley, director of adoption centers and programs at the MSPCA-Angell and executive director of the Northeast Animal Shelter.
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