Saving People: One Animal at a Time

Saving People: One Animal at a Time

BOXFORD, MA – August 29 is a date that changed the life direction of Cynthia Sweet, who founded and heads Sweet Paws Rescue. Twenty years ago on that date, Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest storms to hit the U.S., overwhelmed the New Orleans’ levees and flooded the city, drowning residents who did not evacuate, and pets, who had no chance. When Sweet saw news coverage of the hurricane, she focused on a shot of a dog on a rooftop helpless a…