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Woman Saves Cats And Dogs From Hurricane Florence, Gets Charged With Crime

Ashe Schow

Tammie Hedges, a North Carolina resident with a heart as big as the ocean, offered to help low-income and elderly people who could not afford to board their pets safely or take them with them when evacuating Hurricane Florence.

My former colleague at the Washington Examiner, Philip Wegmann, reports that Hedges “converted a warehouse into an impromptu shelter to care for 17 cats and 10 dogs around the clock.”

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