IFAW Rescues Stranded Pigs from Certain Death in Iowa.

This post was filed from Mediapolis Elementary School in Mediapolis, Iowa by the International Fund for Animal Welfare's J.C. Bouvier, who is on location documenting the coordinated animal rescue effort going on there.

Yesterday, the International Fund for Animal Welfare in a coordinated effort with Animal Rescue League of Boston, American Humane Association and Farm Sanctuary was able to rescue two pigs from a levee in Oakville, Iowa.

Watching the amazing logistical process of locating the pigs, then assessing them, driving them to a transport vehicle and finally bringing them to a way station so that they can be brought back from the real prospect of an early death was for me a wonderful site.

I've been working all day on editing video footage I've been taking of this great team effort and will make the video available via this blog and our YouTube channel.

I'm going back out into the disaster scene...which is pretty gruesome at times, with animal carcases and such floating in the flood waters, animals stranded with their drowned children, homes destroyed and families strugling to make sense of it all...I know all of our hearts here at IFAW certainly go out to the families of the kind people of Iowa who have also been so accomidating during our mission here.

Anyway, it's about 12:30 PM here...and we're all whipped, so gonna call it a night...more to come, hopefully with some happy endings for some injured pigs.