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Law to Include Pets in Evacs

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Jeanne Hedge - 23 Sep 2005 04:28 GMT
I don't know if this has already been mentioned here. If so, I
apologize for the repost, but I just saw it tonight.

Legislation would require pet to be included in evacuations
More would leave if pets allowed, lawmakers say

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal disaster grants to state and local
governments should be conditioned on how they accommodate pets in
their evacuation plans, say lawmakers disturbed that some Hurricane
Katrina victims refused to leave home because they couldn't take their
animals with them.

"I cannot help but wonder how many more people could have been saved
had they been able to take their pets," Rep. Tom Lantos, D-California,
said Thursday.

Lantos and Reps. Christopher Shays, R-Connecticut, and Barney Frank,
D-Massaschusetts, are sponsoring a bill that would require that state
and local disaster preparedness plans required for Federal Emergency
Management Agency funding include provisions for household pets and
service animals.

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The complete article is at
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/22/katrina.pets.ap/index.html

Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha

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KittyLady - 23 Sep 2005 16:14 GMT
Thanks for posting this Jeanne!
I agree that it was very unfair to leave the pets behind. To many
people view pets as replaceable or not as valuable to human life. They
are wrong. I have give this much though and if I was put in a situation
where I had to evacuate and leave my pets I don't think I could do it.
Were I go my babies go. Both human and furbaby.
SKritches,
KittyLady
Jo Firey - 23 Sep 2005 18:26 GMT
> Thanks for posting this Jeanne!
> I agree that it was very unfair to leave the pets behind. To many
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> SKritches,
> KittyLady

My understanding was pets - in carriers -  could be evacuated.  While that
makes good sense to me, it is going to upset a lot of folks and won't
address a big part of the problem.

(No I don't want to get on the same bus with my neighbor's pit bull.)

Jo
jmcquown - 23 Sep 2005 20:23 GMT
>> Thanks for posting this Jeanne!
>> I agree that it was very unfair to leave the pets behind. To many
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>
> Jo

Sounds problematic.  It wouldn't be easy to carry a crate containing a large
dog onto a bus, not to mention where to put the crate.  When at the art show
last week there was a man walking an English Bull Mastiff - that dog was
under 2 years old and weighed 180 lbs.  A crate for that dog would take up 2
rows of seats.

I'm glad some inroads are being made in the evacuation laws but some things
just have to be common sense.  If you have a violent or angry animal (and I
know everyone thinks theirs are not) you shouldn't subject the general
public to them, particularly not a bus full of people.  Find some other way
to get out; do some forward thinking and have arrangements for the first
sign of emergency.  If you live in a hurricane prone area, you should have
already done that, IMHO.  Or do like CN and make sure you have the supplies
to ride things out.  I'm still very surprised some residents of Louisiana
just sat back thinking there was no way Katrina could be a bad storm.  I'm
not one to watch the news every day but even *I* knew she wasn't going to
give them a kiss on the cheek and mildly slink away.

I still have no idea if my former fiance was down there for Katrina.  I have
no way to get in touch with him.  His family was in Bay St. Louis, MS.  I
know that's pretty much gone.

Jill
Karen - 23 Sep 2005 20:59 GMT
> Sounds problematic.  It wouldn't be easy to carry a crate containing a large
> dog onto a bus, not to mention where to put the crate.  When at the art show
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>
> Jill

Well, I think the main thing is that the *shelters* would be set up with a
corresponding animal shelter. That alone would alleviate a lot of the
problem. Many people just believed their pets would be taken an put to
sleep. The TRULY believed this. If that step alone was put in place, people
would probably be able to take it from there.
jmcquown - 24 Sep 2005 16:35 GMT
>> Sounds problematic.  It wouldn't be easy to carry a crate containing
>> a large dog onto a bus, not to mention where to put the crate.  When
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> an put to sleep. The TRULY believed this. If that step alone was put
> in place, people would probably be able to take it from there.

I agree.  I was horrified to hear people were being told they couldn't bring
their pets to the human shelters and there were no animal shelters set up to
take them until after it was over.  That's the very first step to making
this sort of disaster plan work.

Jill
glsummer@neptunelink.com - 24 Sep 2005 19:02 GMT
>I don't know if this has already been mentioned here. If so, I
>apologize for the repost, but I just saw it tonight.
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I think this is a long-overdue piece of legislation.  Hurrah for
Lantos and Shays!

Ginger-lyn

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