A small dog named Soshe has been reunited with her owners after spending a week on a floating sofa as floods, brought on by Hurricane Florence, devastated parts of North Carolina last month.
Soshe's owner, who was out of state at the time, was unable to return to her flooded home so she made frequent calls to the Humane Society of Missouri (HSMO), who had sent a team to North Carolina to help rescue animals trapped by the powerful storms.
The HMSO team, who were using Pender County Animal Control as a base of operations, made two attempts to find the stranded dog but the flooding was so severe it made locating the house extremely difficult.
On their third attempt the motor on their boat stopped, so they had to paddle the rest of the way. Finally, they spotted a home that seemed to match the description they had been given.
The rescue team knocked in the door and found the terrified Maltese dog floating on a couch in the living room. One rescuer quickly grabbed the dog and they ferried her to safety.
Soshe's family still hadn't made it back to Burgaw, so a friend came to pick her up from a local animal shelter to finally reunite the dog with her owner.
The HMSO team captured several videos of their rescues across Pender County, including Soshe's rescue, which gained widespread attention online.
"That was a good day," Chad Gard, one of HSMO's Disaster Team Members told CBS News, "We had boat problems and anything that could've went wrong did. And in the end, it was a fantastic day. We all felt really good".
