PENDER COUNTY, N.C. — A dog trapped in house submerged by Hurricane Florence will be reunited with its owner thanks to the heroic efforts of the Humane Society of Missouri. 
 
 The owner called rescue teams to say her small, white fluffy dog Soshe was stranded in her flooded home in Pender County, North Carolina. The woman had evacuated about a week ago and was now trapped in Wilmington, North Carolina with no way to get home to her dog. 
 
 “She was distraught that she couldn’t get to her house and knew that Soshe was inside,” said a woman who picked up Soshe and will reunite the dog with its owner. 
 
 That’s where HSMO’s Disaster Response Team stepped in. 
 
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 It took three trips by boat for the team to save the dog. In their first two tries, the floodwater was so deep, they could barely see the roofs of the homes. Identifying which house the dog was in was impossible. 
 
 But the team pressed on, even when the boat broke down on their third try. They paddled half a mile to the house, and luckily, the water had receded enough they could see which house they needed to search. 
 
 Rescuers said they could hear the dog barking as they pulled up to the house. 
 
 It took two of them to kick in a door. When they looked inside, they spotted the small dog sitting on a floating couch in the living room. 
 
 Soshe was alive after spending nearly a week in the flooded house. 
 
 The dog’s owner was moved to tears when she heard Soshe was safe. 
 
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 Soshe was one of several dogs, chickens and horses rescued by HSMO’s Disaster Response Team following Hurricane Florence. The nine-member team headed back to Missouri Tuesday after a 10-day deployment. 
 
 Anyone interested in helping pets affected by Hurricane Florence can donate online here or by calling (314) 951-1542. 
 
 © 2018 KSDK ||||| Soshe is back in loving arms thanks to the Humane Society of Missouri’s Disaster Response Team. 
 
 The small white dog became separated from her owner during Hurricane Florence, putting Soshe’s mom in a horrible position. 
 
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 Stuck in another state and unable to reach her flooded home, the owner was also caught knowing her dog was in desperate need of help. 
 
 The owner contacted the Humane Society of Missouri’s Disaster Response Team — one of many animal rescue teams aiding in Florence recovery efforts — for assistance rescuing Soshe. According to the group, it took the team three attempts to find the house with Soshe inside, since the water levels in that area had reached the roofs, making homes difficult to identify. 
 
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 After dealing with a broken-down boat and paddling half of a mile, the team finally reached Soshe’s home. When they approached, they were relieved to hear barking coming from inside. To save the canine, the team kicked down the front door. 
 
 Inside they found Soshe marooned on a floating living room couch, likely where she’d spent the past week. 
 
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 The Humane Society of Missouri’s Disaster Response Team carefully removed the dog, dried her off and got her to a friend of the owner. Eventually, the pooch was reunited with her grateful mother. 
 
 Soshe’s rescue was just one of many the team executed in response to Hurricane Florence. The group spent 10 days in North Carolina working with rescue partners Code 3 Associates, Inc. to save dogs, cats, chickens, goats and horses from the flood waters. The team also helped transport animals to temporary shelters and assisted the Coast Guard with the unloading of animals. ||||| Good Samaritan arrested after helping animals survive Florence 
 
 Pearl, a Great Pyrenees that was one of the animals rescued from an animal shelter in Carteret County, N.C., looks out from her cage in the Holshouser Building on the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh, N.C. on Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. | AP Photo/Chris Seward 
 
 As Hurricane Florence barreled toward the Carolina coast, Tammie Hedges took action to protect pets that might have otherwise been caught in the storm – a decision that led to her arrest. 
 
 Hedges, a resident of Waynes County, North Carolina, was taken into custody Friday after providing care to more than two dozen animals – 17 cats and 10 dogs – for owners who had to evacuate before the storm hit. 
 
 “The owners got to evacuate. They got to save themselves. But who’s going to save those animals? That’s what we did,” Hedges said. “We saved them.” 
 
 The owner of Crazy’s Claws N Paws, a donation-based animal rescue center, was in the process of converting a warehouse space into a proper animal shelter when she decided to use the building to help keep pets dry. However, her facility was not legally registered as a shelter. 
 
 “Our mission was to save as many animals from the flood that we could,” Hedges said. “We went through Hurricane Matthew and it was horrible. There were many preventable deaths.” 
 
 She said an elderly couple dropped off 18 of the animals, some of which were sick and injured, just before the storm. 
 
 On Monday, after Florence passed, Hedges got a call from Wayne County Animal Control regarding the animals. 
 
 “He basically told me, ‘You can voluntarily hand over the animals, or I can go get a warrant,’ ” Hedges said. 
 
 She willingly surrendered the animals. 
 
 “A few days later they called me in for questioning and yesterday they arrested me,” Hedges said. 
 
 The charges included 12 counts of practicing medicine without a veterinary license. 
 
 The non-profit updated a Facebook status to breakdown the charges: 
 
 “1 count of administering amoxicillin to Big Momma, 1 count of administering Tramadol to Big Momma, 3 counts of administering amoxicillin to a white Siamese cat, 3 counts of administering a topical antibiotic ointment (triple antibiotic from Dollar Tree) to a white Siamese cat, 3 counts of administering amoxicillin to a cat known as Sweet Pea, 1 count of administering amoxicillin to an unnamed black kitten, and 1 count of solicitation to commit a crime,” the non-profit writes. 
 
 “It was all over-the-counter stuff you could literally find at Dollar Tree,” said Raina Nyliram, 24, an animal rescue volunteer who started a crowdfunding campaign for Hedges to help cover legal fees. “She couldn’t get the animals to the vet because the vet was closed. All the charges are bogus.” 
 
 Just days before the good deed went punished, the unregistered shelter was seeking volunteers to help take care of rescue animals. 
 
 “Please share this for anyone in the Wayne County or nearby areas that may need a place to stay or be able to help. If they have a pet and need someplace to go, or just like animals, and are in need of a place to stay, we’d love to help them, in exchange for their overnight help,” the center posted on Facebook. 
 
 One of those volunteers, Kathie Davidson, said she was “shocked and saddened” when animal control showed up to take the pets. 
 
 “Of course this whole situation is unbelievable,” Davidson said. “The animals seized were to be returned to their owners after the storm.” Instead, she said that Animal Control has the pets. 
 
 “If they can’t find the owners, the pets went from a safe place to a kill shelter,” Hedges said. 
 
 The county issued a statement about the incident: 
 
 “Wayne County Animal Services turned the case over to the Wayne County District Attorney’s office based on suspicion of practicing veterinarian medicine without a license and presence of controlled substances. Ms. Hedges is considered innocent until proven guilty.” 
 
 The office said that all the animals that were surrendered were checked out by a licensed veterinarian and that it is working to reunite them with their owners. 
 
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– A bright spot in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence: A dog name Soshe will be reunited with her owner after being trapped in a flooded house in Pender, NC, for almost a week, People reports. Soshe's owner, stuck in another city, got in touch with the Humane Society of Missouri's Disaster Response Team, which was on the scene in North Carolina, asking for help, per KHOU. Twice, traveling by boat, a Humane Society team attempted to locate Soshe's house, but the floodwaters were too high. On the third attempt, they located the house late last month, having to paddle half a mile after their boat's engine broke down. They heard a dog barking inside the house. Two rescuers forced the door open and found Soshe sitting on a couch that was floating in the living room. In addition to saving Soshe, according to KHOU, the Missouri Humane Society team rescued several other dogs, chickens, and horses during its 10-day deployment. Check out video of Soshe's rescue. (One woman helped save 27 animals after Florence and got busted.)