Story: Tiny Heartbeats
"We have her," rescuer Jane Garrison says. Three simple words. But for a woman in a Baton Rouge intensive care unit, they are reason to live. This Katrina victim's cat is alive, seven weeks after the storm. As hurricane headlines fade, a dog dubbed Bubbles is found in a bathtub too weak to lift her head. A skin-and-bones Doberman mix is plucked from the trash. Some burrow under homes or linger in familiar yards. They are swift blurs, barely seen… go to story