VIDEO: Dog rescued from Florence flooding after floating on sofa for a week

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Thursday, October 4, 2018
VIDEO: Dog rescued from Florence flooding after floating on sofa for a week
The Humane Society of Missouri saved a dog that was left stranded in a flooded house for nearly a week.

PENDER COUNTY, North Carolina -- 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, 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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