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| 566.1 | My question too.... | STUDIO::COLAIANNI | I have PMS and a handgun ;-) | Mon Jul 12 1993 07:14 | 13 |
| Louisa,
You beat em to the punch on htis! I was going to ask if there was a
number or address set up to aid misplaced etc. pets from the flooding
of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.
If anyone has this info, and if no one is opposed, I htought I might
send the Silver Lining Memorial Fund this quarter to aid in this area.
I'll double post this in the SLMF note also. Any and all info will be
VERY welcome.
Yonee
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| 566.2 | Pets & Disasters | FPTWS1::ABRAMS | Dr. Frankenclinton and algore | Thu Jul 15 1993 12:42 | 28 |
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It seems that the media has latched onto doing pet-oriented spots
during disasters now. I saw it happen during the Berkeley wildfires,
the earthquake, and the hurricanes.
ABC news has been following families returning to their homes to
find their left-behind pets... some successes, some no signs, some
tragic.
Watched some officials who saw a beautiful white cat, scared, on
a rooftop...they try to get him, he leaps into the water, swims
to a fence... some more words from the reporter... then a group
of people and woman being presented with her missing white cat...
to her delight and amazement!
Even if I had little warning to evacuate, I just don't seen how I
could leave my pets behind to starve or drown. I'm glad I don't
live where floods could happen. I do live just inside a nuclear
power plan evacuation zone, though. For that, and in case of a fire,
we keep leashes and collars in the garage. Pets go in a car, and
we all go to my sister's or another cat-friendly place.
The unthinkable is worth thinking about after seeing some of those
pictures.
Bill
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| 566.3 | | AYRPLN::TAYLOR | Zero to nuts in 4 seconds! | Thu Jul 15 1993 13:40 | 7 |
| I understand what you mean. For the simple reason of possibly having
to get out of the house in a hurry (fire or whatever) I have two
carriers in the cattery and one in the spare room. My four kitties
(and the 3 week old baby) will go wherever we go!
Holly
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| 566.4 | a mountain of carriers | PARITY::DENISE | And may the traffic be with you | Thu Jul 15 1993 14:42 | 7 |
| Me too! With 10 cats it means having 10 carriers ready at the head
of the stairs in case of emergency. I also live within the 10 mile
radius of a nuke plant and am also close to the Merrimack, although
it would take some rain like the midwest situation to make the river
flood high enough to bother my house, but you never know..
denise
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| 566.5 | | NETWKS::GASKELL | | Fri Jul 16 1993 08:23 | 26 |
| I was also pretty angry that people had left without their pets. Then I
thought about it. When a levy (sp) brakes you have only a few mins.
before roads become impossible. If I had to cope with a couple of
pre-schoolers, start the car and get out before that happened I don't
think I would have time to find even one cat. We went through a mock drill
and pretended that we had to evacuate within 10 minutes, I couldn't
find even one cat in that time (I have 4)(I didn't include the time it
took to find my pocketbook with the car keys in either). My attitude
towards the Missi. pet owners soften at that point.
I remember seeing one house revisted by owner, where the meal they had
been eating when the levy broke was still on the table. They had only
made it out by the skin of their teeth.
Finding and taking pets out with you in a disaster is something worth
thinking about. I am certainly going to give it a lot of thought over
the next few days.
Inside cat owners are no better off than outside cat owners. Recently,
a friend of mine was dragged out from under her bed by a fireman. Her
appartment building was on fire and her cat had been frightened by the
fire alarm and hidden under the bed, staying just out of my friends reach
and she couldn't catch him. She managed to grab the cat just as the
fireman grabbed her legs and pulled her out, so both were saved.
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