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Agence France-Presse

More than 10,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in eastern Canada in recent days as spring floods broke record levels set in 2017, officials said on Monday, warning that it could take weeks for the waters to recede.
Meanwhile an operation is under way to rescue pets from homes in the area that had to be abandoned during evacuations.

Hardest hit was the town of Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, west of Montreal, where more than 6,000 people were forced to flee rising waters over the weekend after a natural dyke was breached.
Flooding in the town “is stabilising,” Quebec Public Safety Minister Genevieve Guilbault told a press conference.
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“Water levels are falling and we hope that we can protect the area,” she said, noting that construction of new gravel barriers was under way to keep waters at bay.
About 9,000 people have been displaced in Quebec province, or twice the number in 2017, which had seen the region’s worst flooding in a half-century.
In the rush to flee the rising water scores of pets were abandoned.




Eric Dussault, whose Animal Rescue Network is spearheading the effort to find the marooned pets, said an emergency shelter has been set up and people with training in animal rescues and expertise in cat and dog behaviours have been sent door to door.
“We have a huge number of animals we need to evacuate. We’re working with a list of hundreds of animals supplied by their owners,” he said.
About 40 animals were rescued since late Sunday, but the group was too late to save a dog, a guinea pig and another unspecified animal believed to have drowned or died of hypothermia.

“Flooding is incredibly stressful on animals,” Dussault said.
In New Brunswick, more than 1,000 people have been forced from their homes. A handful also were evacuated in the capital Ottawa.
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Several thousand soldiers have been deployed throughout Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick to help with evacuations and fill sandbags.
Guilbault said she expects there will be a break in rainfall, but added that waters are likely take a long time to recede.


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Anne-Marie St-Louis and Robert Tourangeau embrace their dog Harley after he was rescued in the Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, Quebec on Monday. Photo: AFP

Animal rescue and relief operations are undertaken amid flooding in Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, a suburb of Montreal, Quebec, Canada on Sunday, April 29, 2019. - Over 6,500 people were told to quickly leave their homes near Montreal late Saturday and early Sunday after floodwaters breached a dike in rain-soaked eastern Canada. The evacuations came as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called for increased measures to make infrastructure "climate resilient." (Photo by Sebastien St-Jean / AFP)

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Emergency shelter set up, with trained personnel looking door to door for marooned animals
About 40 pets saved since Sunday, as rescuers work with list of hundreds supplied by their owners


Emergency shelter set up, with trained rescuers looking door to door for marooned animals.


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Rescuers search for abandoned pets after floods in eastern Canada force 10,000 people to evacuate

.css-1mniedq{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;}Emergency shelter set up, with trained personnel looking door to door for marooned animals About 40 pets saved since Sunday, as rescuers work with list of hundreds supplied by their owners

Emergency shelter set up, with trained personnel looking door to door for marooned animals

About 40 pets saved since Sunday, as rescuers work with list of hundreds supplied by their owners