For those in the #LakeFire area evacuating with animals: 10 Tips for Animal Evac During COVID
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1. Start by staying informed
Keep your weather radios charged and your car radio tuned to local news.
Make sure you're signed up for all your local emergency alerts, including alerts for your Evacuation destination.
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Keep your weather radios charged and your car radio tuned to local news.
Make sure you're signed up for all your local emergency alerts, including alerts for your Evacuation destination.
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2. Know where you're going before Evac Warnings and Orders are issued
Emergency Managers will be providing Evacuation Maps with "Temporary Evacuation Points" (TEPs)
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Emergency Managers will be providing Evacuation Maps with "Temporary Evacuation Points" (TEPs)
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You and your neighbors can plan ahead to meet up at a TEP or "Rally Point", and share resources.
Make a neighborhood Animal Safety Shed stocked with supplies - a super resource.
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You and your neighbors can plan ahead to meet up at a TEP or "Rally Point", and share resources.
Make a neighborhood Animal Safety Shed stocked with supplies - a super resource.
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3. Be Resource-Rich
Line up several destinations where you & your animals can ride out the emergency.
Arrange emergency transportation resources if you might need them.
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Line up several destinations where you & your animals can ride out the emergency.
Arrange emergency transportation resources if you might need them.
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Keep all your emergency information & contacts in several places, including notebooks in your car, purse, and Go-Bags.
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Keep all your emergency information & contacts in several places, including notebooks in your car, purse, and Go-Bags.
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4. Update Ready-Kits for COVID
Update ALL your GO-Bags - for people and animals - to include hygiene and sanitizing items.
For people: You need extra masks, sanitizer, wipes, liquid soap, disinfectant cleaner, paper towels, toilet paper, and water.
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Update ALL your GO-Bags - for people and animals - to include hygiene and sanitizing items.
For people: You need extra masks, sanitizer, wipes, liquid soap, disinfectant cleaner, paper towels, toilet paper, and water.
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For Pets: grooming supplies, pet-safe cleaner for carriers,( NEVER use household disinfectants or bleach on or near pets!), lots of poop bags, pee pads, and water.
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For Pets: grooming supplies, pet-safe cleaner for carriers,( NEVER use household disinfectants or bleach on or near pets!), lots of poop bags, pee pads, and water.
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5. Plan for pet comfort and safety
You may be staying in a motel, campground or apartment complex where your pets will need crates, kennel cages, litter & litter box, pee pads.
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You may be staying in a motel, campground or apartment complex where your pets will need crates, kennel cages, litter & litter box, pee pads.
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While Animal Care resources will work hard to have mobile units providing temporary boarding and supplies to emergency shelter locations, they may take longer to get there. Pack at least enough for the first 48-72 hours.
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While Animal Care resources will work hard to have mobile units providing temporary boarding and supplies to emergency shelter locations, they may take longer to get there. Pack at least enough for the first 48-72 hours.
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6. Be prepared to care for your animals and keep them secure
Take enough pet food for 3-5 days, pet medications, harnesses, leashes, toys, bedding, cooling pads.
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Take enough pet food for 3-5 days, pet medications, harnesses, leashes, toys, bedding, cooling pads.
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When possible, arrange for friends or relatives in a safe location to store supplies they can bring to you if you're in a motel or VRBO. This saves car space!
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When possible, arrange for friends or relatives in a safe location to store supplies they can bring to you if you're in a motel or VRBO. This saves car space!
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7. Keep the family together
You may have to go through a drive-up COVID screen before entering a shelter or evacuation center. Your pets could get out of their temporary home, and will be in unfamiliar territory.
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You may have to go through a drive-up COVID screen before entering a shelter or evacuation center. Your pets could get out of their temporary home, and will be in unfamiliar territory.
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Make sure your pets are secured in the car. Anxious pets may jump through an open window.
While evacuated, keep pets in the most secure place possible. Put a "Pet Inside" sign on the door.
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Make sure your pets are secured in the car. Anxious pets may jump through an open window.
While evacuated, keep pets in the most secure place possible. Put a "Pet Inside" sign on the door.
#LakeFire
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Get pets microchipped now. Make sure their chip into is current.
Have ID on everyone.
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Get pets microchipped now. Make sure their chip into is current.
Have ID on everyone.
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8. Planning ahead will help you stay calmer, which will help both you and your animals stay safe and healthier
Ask your veterinarian about calming meds to have on hand for your pets.
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Ask your veterinarian about calming meds to have on hand for your pets.
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9. If you have equines or livestock, be prepared to observe strict COVID safety at Emergency Large Animal Shelters
To minimize COVID risks, Staff at Emergency Shelters may be limited. Help our Animal Response resources!
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To minimize COVID risks, Staff at Emergency Shelters may be limited. Help our Animal Response resources!
#LakeFire
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Follow instructions and arrive prepared to care for your animals while following safe distancing and hygiene procedures, including wearing face coverings.
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Follow instructions and arrive prepared to care for your animals while following safe distancing and hygiene procedures, including wearing face coverings.
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Try to have everything you need for at least the first 48-72 hours, such as: Feed, your own hose and buckets, grooming supplies, muck-out equipment, medications, first-aid kit, ID and stall cards.
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Try to have everything you need for at least the first 48-72 hours, such as: Feed, your own hose and buckets, grooming supplies, muck-out equipment, medications, first-aid kit, ID and stall cards.
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10. Know How to Request Help
Don't wait! If you need help, call your local Animal Care and Control agency, or, the "Emergency Hotline" or "Warmline" number posted by Sheriff, Fire Agency, or local Office of Emergency Services, (OES).
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Don't wait! If you need help, call your local Animal Care and Control agency, or, the "Emergency Hotline" or "Warmline" number posted by Sheriff, Fire Agency, or local Office of Emergency Services, (OES).
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Resources can respond faster and more safely BEFORE Evacuation Orders are issued, but if your animals are sheltered in place inside an Evac area, request a "Welfare Check" from authorized agency responders.
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Resources can respond faster and more safely BEFORE Evacuation Orders are issued, but if your animals are sheltered in place inside an Evac area, request a "Welfare Check" from authorized agency responders.
#LakeFire
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Don't post a call for help on Facebook- that puts responders and animals at risk.
There's no way to sugar-coat this: these are challenging times. We are our own best resources. We can do this - working together.
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Don't post a call for help on Facebook- that puts responders and animals at risk.
There's no way to sugar-coat this: these are challenging times. We are our own best resources. We can do this - working together.
#LakeFire
Reach out to neighbors, your riding club or dog-walking group. Find out which members of your book club have pets! If you can be a resource, contact your local animal shelter or Humane Society, or COPE group or CART (Community Animal Response Team).
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