Keep your pets safe in an emergency

Here are ways to #PetPrep prepare for your pet in a disaster#HurricaneSeason:

🐶 Have a plan - This includes finding shelters or pet-friendly hotels nearby.

🐱 Make a kit.

• Sufficient pet food for a week.
• "Pet selfies "to help with reunification.
• Leash or cage, including for pets you ordinarily wouldn'tuse them with. For example, you don't want a cat to run off.
• Stress-relieving items, such as a toy.
• Copies of vet (e.g., vaccination) records. Very important. For example, rabies is almost 100% fatal! Rescue workers and others need to know your pet has had its shots.

🐹 Consider microchipping your pet, and make sure its information is up-to-date.

🐦Get rescue alert stickers or decals to put near your front door and windows. This will let firefighters and rescue workers know there are animals inside. Available free from the ASPCA.



More information:

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Pet Emergency Checklist, Healthy Pets Healthy People
• The Humane Society: Make a Disaster Plan for Your Pets, 
• The Humane Society: Volunteer Disaster Response Teams and Emergency Training.
• American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA): Disaster Preparedness
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA): Helping Pets