Twenty years after Katrina, the Louisiana SPCA is releasing the mini-documentary, “20 Years Stronger: Embracing Our Future.” It highlights people who were on the frontlines before, during, and after Katrina made landfall.

“This was really the first response of this scale that set the tone for disaster responses that followed,” said Laura Maloney, who’s featured in the documentary and led the Louisiana SPCA when the storm hit.

In 2005, rescue protocols at the state and local level didn’t include plans for the safe evacuation and sheltering of pets.

“Human lifesaving, for all the obvious reasons, was number one,” said Louisiana SPCA CEO Ana Zorrilla. “First responders weren’t really prepared to rescue people with pets, and so, initially, their policy was only to take humans. That caused p

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