Nassau resident Chella Phillips took 97 dogs into her home in the Bahamas as Hurricane Dorian raged through the region.
鈥�97 dogs are inside my house and 79 of them are in my bedroom,鈥� Phillips wrote on Facebook Sunday. 鈥淲e have barricaded the refuge and nobody is outside.鈥�
Phillips went on to write that although the dogs were 鈥渢errified,鈥� she was playing music throughout the house to calm them and had the air conditioning on to keep the dogs cool.
Phillips moved to the Bahamas more than a decade ago. She opened a five-acre dog shelter called the Voiceless Dogs of Nassau, Bahamas, four years ago 鈥� and estimates that she has cared for nearly 1,000 dogs since then.
At least five deaths have been attributed to Hurricane Dorian so far, as the now Category 2 storm moves towards the U.S. coast.
