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zipper - 29 Oct 2005 20:17 GMT

Hello Everybody,
A few weeks ago a posted,that I had inherited my mothers Phsycotic Siamese
cat who hated everybody.I have 2 other cats(Tabbies)Trouble and Grandma
Cat.
Trouble would relentlessly launch brutal attacks on Physco Cat who would
stay in a ten sq foot area around the food and litter box,living in terror.
Last week I evacuated my home and stayed with a friend during Hurricane
Wilma.I secured the cats in in the garage(with house access)Parked My van
infront of the garage door so the door wouldn't blow in.Both Trouble and
Pshyco cat climbed in to the washing machine,to hide from the sounds of the
howling winds and rattling doors,and windows.As both myself and my friend
were terrified when the back porch blew in and things statrted hitting the
house,Grandma cat cat calmly walked about watching the horror,as if nothing
was happining..After the storm Trouble and Phsyco cat had wedge themself
under the dryer outflow hose,I had to force them out with a broom.Now that
I am home Psycho Cat no longer lives in previous saftey zone,sleeps next to
my bed,and plays with and grooms Trouble.Figure this out?
zipper

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alt4 - 30 Oct 2005 18:05 GMT

Adversity brings them together? We have a longhair Miss Kitty, they said she
might weigh 25 lbs when she grows up she's only 1 year old now and plays
bully to a 7 year old tortoise shell long hair (Rainbow). Both have fleas so
maybe that will bring them together, I sure hope it doesn't take a
hurricane. Rainbow does her share of bullying or kind of "come on" and then
she'll let out one of her screams. lol Our kitten and Nightshade have made
Miss Kitty scream a few times.

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> Hello Everybody,
> A few weeks ago a posted,that I had inherited my mothers Phsycotic Siamese
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> my bed,and plays with and grooms Trouble.Figure this out?
> zipper

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DW - 30 Oct 2005 20:03 GMT

> Last week I evacuated my home and stayed with a friend during Hurricane
> Wilma.I secured the cats in in the garage(with house access)Parked My van
> infront of the garage door so the door wouldn't blow in.

You're lucky your van was not one of the vehicles that a hurricane can
and do move. My fear in a hurricane is the van would be moved by
the hurricane to a worse spot (like on top of the house?)

Look at Katrina to see where a vehicle can end up.

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No More Retail - 30 Oct 2005 21:05 GMT

Rule of thumb for future reference The Humane society has announced
that you always take your pets with you when you evacuate in the after mats
of Katrina and Rita. They tell you never to leave your pets take them with
you and evacuate to a pet friendly shelter or a place that you can take your
pets
If there is not shelter in your area that is pet friendly you can go
here for a hotel listing http://www.bestpetfriendlyhotels.net/
http://www.bringyourpet.com/?gg

If you know that your city or county does not provide pet-friendly
evacuation shelters, call your county government and tell them there is a
need. If they say it can't be done, refer them to this website, and tell
them it can be done with planning and compassion.
http://www.petfriendlyevacshelters.net/pb/wp_a4bec01b/wp_a4bec01b.html?0.1742211
8645786416

You don't even need to look at Katrina to see that. A level one
hurricane can take a car and flipped it over. When you park a vehicle you
park it across to garage door with the passenger door towards it. You do
this just in case that something hits the car you can still access it.

During Hurricane Wilma we were going to ride it out due to the level
( level 2) of the storm but decide before it hit land fall to move all the
animals to the hotel that could with stand a level 4 hurricane; glad we did
it became a level 3 quickly. The winds weren't even at tropical storm
level 35 mph it was throwing us around like we were rag dolls. The winds
at 40mph pushed a full size semi and trailer off a bridge. I mean pushed
this stopped vehicle off a bridge. Here in Florida we get so powerful
thunder storms that they have been known to pick up standing cars and threw
them.

About your cats I think that they consider his previous safety zones is no
longer necessary. They were terrified during the storm. The two cats found
a safe place and experienced a trauma together, it happens all the time in
humans a crisis brings you closer together. Or gives you a swift kick in
the butt and you take life in a different perceptive

Personally I think you should have let them come out on their own unless you
were trying to get them out for safety purposes. It would made the
transition a little better for future storms. If they are skittish during
the next storms let them hid and come out on their own. P.s. grandma cat
sounds like a typical cat "something going on? oh not with me! who cares
back to sleep."

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DW - 31 Oct 2005 00:10 GMT

> Rule of thumb for future reference The Humane society has announced
> that you always take your pets with you when you evacuate in the after mats
> of Katrina and Rita. They tell you never to leave your pets take them with
> you and evacuate to a pet friendly shelter or a place that you can take your
> pets

This is an ongoing controversy. Among the thousands who stayed in
New Orleans
some them were people who refused to leave their pets behind. In
Texas they
started to encourage people to bring their pets with them but this has
generated
lots of controversy.

So this leaves a situation that is clear as mud.

Next winter when we get a blizzard and they have to evacuate the
coastline they have
no idea where we would go (a school? a church? armoury? who knows.)
All that would
be decided when the coat line floods and 12-18 inches of snow have
already fallen and
the roads are impassable. With the roads impassable who knows where
the people would
go much less their pets. And there are those who flatly insist that
provisions not
be provided for pets.

Today is 10/30/05. And right now it is no clearer than it was on the
day before
Katrina.

I would add that sometimes if you evacuate and you do take your pet
they won't allow
you to bring the pet in. And who knows if/when that will change.

> If there is not shelter in your area that is pet friendly you can go
> here for a hotel listing http://www.bestpetfriendlyhotels.net/
> http://www.bringyourpet.com/?gg

Around here there is no guarantee you'll find a hotel/motel/shetler/
armoury/etc. that willl allow pets. It's about as clear today as it
was on

> If you know that your city or county does not provide pet-friendly
> evacuation shelters, call your county government and tell them there is a
> need. If they say it can't be done, refer them to this website, and tell
> them it can be done with planning and compassion.
> http://www.petfriendlyevacshelters.net/pb/wp_a4bec01b/wp_a4bec01b.html?0.1742211
8645786416

The bottom line: I made lots of calls to lots of people earlier in the
season.
No result. The bottom line? All the evacuation decisions are made at
the
last minute. (i.e. they will evacuate the coast when the coat line
floods,
the roads are impassable from the 12-18 inches of heavey wet snow with
the consitancy
of concrete, etc. And if the person running the evacuation hates
dogs/cats then who
knows where your pet will end up. (

> You don't even need to look at Katrina to see that. A level one
> hurricane can take a car and flipped it over. When you park a vehicle you
> park it across to garage door with the passenger door towards it. You do
> this just in case that something hits the car you can still access it.

This makes no sense.

When you park a car no matter where you park it bear in mind if it is a
category
5 hurricane you may well find it on top of the house, in the lake down
the street,
on top of other cars, or five miles down the road on top of a
playground.

You want some place to put a car that is safe? In front of the garage
is not the
best place. You need a garage rated for a category 5 storm. Anything
less and you
may as well leaave it anywhere.

The thing to remember for Katrina, it was not the wind that did a lot
of the
damage, it was the devastating TIDAL WAVE THAT SMASHED EVERYTHING IN
IT'S PATH
PRECEEDING KATRINA.

If you can look at will move and be carried away in a wind tunnel at
various
wind speeds. The bottom line: for a category 5 storm nothing is safe
unless
it is inside a building rated for a Category 5 storm. That includes,
cars,
trucks, buses, etc.

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