Navy Ships are made to carry certain types of Cargo, but this one isn’t one of them.
The HMS Choules after it was transformed into a doggy daycare as an accommodation for 135 dogs and their owners who all had to flee from Australia’s “apocalyptic” fires.
Cassandra Smith, her husband Nicholas and their 14-month-old Labrador, Lexi, were among a thousand people on the 3rd of January who were forced to evacuate from Mallacoota, Victoria, aboard the HMAS Choules and taken to Western Port on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula before being transported to the Melbourne Convention Center.
Reports claim that Mallacoota was one of the worst-hit areas by the bushfires. Around 4,000 people spent their New Year’s Eve there trapped on the foreshore while the raging fires got closer to them.
Around 80 homes were lost to the fires.
Describing the situation there, Smith said:
The Navy set up makeshift containers and pallet boards as pens for the dogs. There were 135 dogs, two cats, two birds, and a rabbit – not all in the same area, thankfully.
Smith
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