

Really, really hard."ĭescribing the loss of the puppy, Mrs Van Atta added: "We lost one puppy, Florence, because it was too cold and I couldn't keep it warm and it was failing. We don't get anywhere, we just start to get right and it all goes wrong, again. "This damage is going to costs thousands to repair.

"We were going to have coffee in the cabin day today and now we can't have it - that was going to be going towards funding a shih tzu who needs a heart operation which is going to costs thousands. They were flying through the air and could have decapitated us. The classroom we spent so long building has been wrecked, there are metal sheets and they have been flying off like a helicopter. We have had no electricity and the most terrible winds - they have ripped our roofs to pieces. She explained: "It has been the most terrible night ever. The Cefneithin, Llanelli centre looks after more than 100 dogs, and Sylvia Van Atta, who runs the rescue with her husband Bill, described their overnight ordeal.

READ MORE: All the roads and rail lines shut in Wales as Storm Arwen hits One of its barns and a recently created classroom building, built to teach children about animals, suffered major structural damage resulting in metal roofing sheets getting ripped off the building. Many Tears Animal Rescue Centre owner Sylvia Van Atta described it as "the most terrible night ever" which resulted in the death of ten-day old puppy Florence when it became too cold after the centre was left without any power or electricity since the early hours of the morning as a result of the storm, which has seen almost 100 mph winds batter the UK. A puppy has died after an animal rescue centre was badly hit by Storm Arwen overnight.
