Hundreds of hapless creatures are waiting to be reunited with their owners or find refuge with an adoptive family after Venezuela's devastating earthquakes struck one month ago.

A weakened cat was pulled from under the rubble of a collapsed residential complex in what a rescuer described as a "ray of hope."

El 24 de junio el vecino país sufrió los embates de dos terremotos de magnitud 7,2 y 7,5 con apenas 39 segundos de diferencia entre sí, que han dejado más de 5.300 muertos.