VIDEO: Courageous dog survives Florence flooding by floating on sofa for a week

PENDER COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) —

The Humane Society of Missouri saved a dog that was left stranded in a flooded house for nearly a week due to Hurricane Florence.
In the video uploaded to YouTube in September, the Society’s Disaster Response Team can be seen bursting through the entrance to a flooded home to rescue a little pooch named Soshe, a Maltese terrier who had been floating on a couch inside the home since Florence struck.

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Soshe’s rescue is one of many carried out following Hurricane Florence, a massive storm that killed roughly 5,500 pigs and 3.4 million chickens in North Carolina.

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