Dr. Michael White’s day begins very early—he wakes up before the crack of dawn to get ready for a long day at the Harris County Animal Shelter in Houston, Texas.
As he gets ready to save the lives of countless shelter animals, at around 5:30 a.m., White flips on the local news channel to see what is going on in the rest of the city. What he saw on May 30 came as a bit of a surprise to him.