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Old September 23rd 05, 04:28 AM
Jeanne Hedge
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Default Law to Include Pets in Evacs

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/....ap/index.html






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Old September 23rd 05, 04:14 PM
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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

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Old September 23rd 05, 06:26 PM
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"KittyLady" wrote in message
ups.com...
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

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


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Old September 23rd 05, 08:23 PM
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Jo Firey wrote:
"KittyLady" wrote in message
ups.com...
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

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


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


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Old September 23rd 05, 09:01 PM
Karen
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"jmcquown" wrote in message
...

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



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.


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Old September 24th 05, 04:35 PM
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Karen wrote:
"jmcquown" wrote in message
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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



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.


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


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Old September 24th 05, 07:02 PM
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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:28:05 -0500, Jeanne Hedge
wrote:

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.

x
x
x
x
x


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






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I think this is a long-overdue piece of legislation. Hurrah for
Lantos and Shays!

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