In the early hours of January 8, Mr. Telma disappeared.
Anthony Ruffin And his wife, Johnny Miller, had no choice but to leave their western Altatena house as the wind -driven edema fire on them, and they were able to raise their dog, I and their eyes a cat maple.
But they couldn't find the other cat-a fluffy white shorthopher-mirie that looks like a black and brown mask. Named Telma.
“We searched the entire house five, six times,” Miller said.
A few hours after leaving, Miller and Rafin learned their home – this Rafin grew and bought from his parents – was one of the thousands of people destroyed in their community. They believe that they are resettled and rebuilding in a rental property, but they feared the worst of the missing cat.
Mr. If Telma is trapped in the house, she is certainly extinct. Although he opened the door to the exit door, he would not have escaped from Infurno, who had burned most of their constituency, and probably killed their backyard chickens.
On January 20, when the discharge restrictions were removed, Miller and Rafin returned to Altadeena to examine the damage.
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1. Anthony Rafin, who lost her home in the Eaton fire, attracts a attention on me at their rental home in Glendale. His pets are still shocked and distracted.
(Geno Molina/Los Angeles Times) 2. Johnny Miller and Anthony Rafin had to leave their Altatena house – which was destroyed in the Eaton fire – one of their cats, Mr. Telma disappeared. After several days, they came back and Mr. They were surprised when Telma welcomed them.
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“We were slowly walking through the property and we estimate what happened, we scream for Thelma,” Miller said. “At the time when we were behind, I heard this blurry maining.” “Like nothing happened,” jumped on a concrete wall from a nearby property and popped up Telma.
“She came to us. She stretched out and rolled on her back and said, 'Where have you been?'
He and her Mr. If you wonder about referring to Telma, I did. Miller and Ruffin, the social workers dog and two cats were previously strapped, explained that the cat was a woman in the beginning and named it Telma. But Telma became a boy, so they chose the respectful people.
“We call her sex fluid and we are identified by all pronouns,” Miller said.
After several weeks of heartbeat and loss in Greater Los Angeles, Mr. The story of Telma is like a brief holiday of despair. So I followed a few other tracks in the stories of animals with happy results. Or at least partially happy results.
Jessica Davis, who works at real estate market, but also conducts a non -profit volunteer dog and gate recovery Poomer's friends, Publish the word via email and social media that if someone needs help with injured or lost pets.
On his journeys through firefighters in Malibu and Pacific policies, he carried food for the wrong animals, but a number that did not create it. “Unfortunately, there were cats and chickens and a lot of cock,” Davis said.
One day she saw a homeless man with a German shepherd, and he was about 10 years old.
“My dog's feet are burnt,” he told Davis that they were tired and walking for miles.

Anthony Ruffin comforts her dog in a rented house in Glentele.
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“I put both of them in my car and drove to the veterinarian,” Davis said, its system covers the cost of treatment. The dog is still treating – Eaton and Polystested Numerous dogs and cats were injured in the fire – and well progresses.
Through the grapefruit of the connections, Davis learned about Koni Russo, who lost his house on Piyama Road in the Malibu Mountains. Russo and her daughter were expelled with their Pekingsee Puppy, but they had to leave before gathering almost a dozen chickens and three cats. The home cat, a smoke, does not get out of the bed, and two fertilizer cats, blacksmiths and half mustache are loose.
When Davis pulled up, “there is nothing but chicken coop.” It was damaged, but some chickens survived, Davis trapped half a mustache, and he went to the cattle for a test and then the cat's hotel.
When Russo finished returning to her property, she saw a chicken, four chicks and a cock. But five chickens were going about their business (she had a flock for fertilizer used in fruit trees). Russo saw a black cat on top of a tree that found it to be a blog.
“I am very happy to have the five chickens surviving and I would like to get a cock,” he said, and he wants to rebuild his property. “I still have the hope that Smoki will come back. She is very good in protecting herself. So she may have some secret hideouts.”
Fire surviving stories are not limited to mammals and birds.
Novelist Michael Hunen and her husband, Jim Potter, greeted those who had been evacuated early on January 8.
They came out with Dati Jane's dog and Helen the parrot, but they had to leave the chickens and gold fish living in their backyard.
A few days later, they returned to the unimaginable catastrophe. The Stako House in 1953 was their home for 23 years, filled with light and was designed to showcase the garden.
As they walked through the ash, Hun said, “We saw a small orange nose in our pond and we saw two of our five goldfish.” Fish – 6 years of age and very large, like Goldfish Co. – was swimming in the broth of gray and debris.

Two of Michael Hunevan's Goldfish, who lived in his backyard, escaped from the Eden fire that destroyed his house.
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A Limoj had escaped the fire, and Hunen used it. Then, at a friend's house, she turned them into a bowl.
“One of the Goldfish was listed on its side,” Hunen said, he flew in the bowl and tried to move the two. Someone suggested that it was time for the burial service, but Hunwan had other ideas.
“I went to Batsmart and bought a small aquarium,” it seemed to renew the fighting fish. “Then I went and got a large aquarium and bought the plants,” Hunen said, and he took a ceramic art that escaped from the fire and set it into a decorative bridge.
The fish seems to be prosperous, which has also provided a small amount of comfort, and a therapist-man has made a wise observation: “You make a house for them because you can't create a house for yourself.”
Like humans, displacement can be difficult for animals. Miller and Ruffin were delighted to see their missing cat, but Rafin Mr. When Telma was taken across their property on the way to their car, the cat was active and naked.

Anthony throws a ball for Nan, and his wife Johnny Sullivan sees in the yard of the rented house.
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In their temporary house, which is several miles away, Mr. Telma got on their bed and stayed there for days. Jan. In addition to their own distraction, I wondered if the animals responded to their owners.
“It seems that all our animals have lost their identity. I think we all have lost our identity,” Rafin said.
They are Mr. They plan to take Telma to the cattle soon, and the veterinarian Annie Harvilix – Marina Dell Ray and Harper City run animal hospitals – It is highly recommended that all pet owners do this.
Harvilix wrote in an email, “Symptoms of trauma may actually be signs of a hidden disease, ie starvation, smoke inhalation, kidney disease.” “Sometimes the drug is necessary to take the edge of the traumatic animals.” But over time, “animals, like humans, will heal from this trauma.”
When I said goodbye to Raffin and Miller, I was 12 years old, a shaki, brown booth mix, jumping from the sofa and followed us outside the front door. I did not get used to it, but Rafin caught a rubber ball, gave it a toss for it, and the dog was then bound.
Again and again.
steve.lopez@latimes.com