As Venezuela counts its dead, clears away collapsed buildings and begins its long recovery from last month’s devastating earthquakes, another consequence of the disaster has emerged: the pets left injured, orphaned or separated from their owners.

Volunteers are reuniting cats and dogs with families who may have lost relatives, homes and nearly everything else. Others are caring for pets with missing or deceased owners, or trying to help families who have no way to care for their animals.

“Everyone was focusing on rescues, but there are also people who managed to escape with their pets and don’t have the means to feed them,” said Nieves Peña, director of an animal rescue organization, Mi Primer Rescate.

In the coastal state of La Guaira, which was hardest hit by the quakes, “everything is closed, everything is destroyed,” Ms. Peña said. “There’s nowhere to buy dog food.”

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