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Two elderly Japanese women and a pet dog pass by a ship that was washed into their neighborhood by the tsunami as they try to make their way to search for their destroyed home in the leveled city of Kesennuma, in northeastern Japan, Thursday March 17, 2011. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

A woman shares her food with her dog at an evacuation center for pets and their owners near an area devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in Kesennuma, north Japan March 17, 2011. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

A woman comforts her dog during an aftershock at an evacuation center for pets and their owners near an area devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in Kesennuma, north of Japan March 17, 2011. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

A man walks with a dog across a residential area devastated by Friday's earthquake-triggered tsunami in Rikuzentakada, Iwate Prefecture, northern Japan, Sunday, March 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)