As Hurricane Katrina was still zeroing in on the Gulf Coast, Petfinder.com, a national pet adoption site, started working on a national database to connect lost pets with their owners. Two weeks after the database went live, Fifteen thousand owners have registered to say they don't know where their pets are. The U.S. Agriculture Department's Larry Hawkins called the Katrina effort the largest animal rescue in the country's history.
Petfinder Vice President Kim Saunders says round-the-clock preparation before the hurricane's destruction by some of the company's 26 paid staff members may help to reunite hundreds of people with their pets.

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