A closer look at the pups from Louisiana

After a long day's travel from Louisiana to the Eastern Shore, nearly two dozen four-legged friends were eager to get out of the van, barking and clawing at their cages.

And Monday afternoon they finally got to do just that.

One by one, 21 dogs were taken out of their cages and into the loving arms of volunteers from the Animal Welfare League of Queen Anne's County.

Shelter manager for the Animal Welfare League, Kirstyn Northrop-Cobb, tells 47 ABC she couldn't be more excited to welcome these four-legged friends.

"This is wonderful for us. We are just so honored to have the opportunity to do this; this is exactly what we love to do, so it's fantastic," she exclaims.

This special day all started after Kirstyn heard about overcrowding at an animal shelter right outside New Orleans.

It's something she says is quite common.

"Louisiana shelters, generally shelters in the South, are a little more crowded than the shelters in the North, but these guys have had a particularly hard time because they've had both tornadoes down there and they've had some cruelty cases and they're just overwhelmed and really needed assistance."

So they stepped right in to help with no doubt in their minds that these dogs will find forever homes here on the shore.

"This is so exciting because we have been so successful in finding homes for dogs, that the idea that all these dogs come at one time and find homes," explains one Animal Welfare League employee.

Scarlett Moffett, who's in charge of the league's community outreach, tells 47 ABC that they have folks coming into the shelter everyday asking for dogs with specific traits from little ones to big Dobermans.

Now that all these new dogs are here folks at the Animal Welfare League are confident they'll find loving new families and forever homes.

Kirstyn tells 47 ABC by Thursday these dogs should be all set for adoption and she wouldn't be surprised if they all were adopted within two weeks.