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Female: What is the difference between a regular shelter and a co-shelter?
Lesa: A regular shelter is, for example what the Red Cross, American Red Cross sets up. When
there is an evacuation and people need a place to be housed during an event or during a disaster
until they can get back home, if they can get back home. A co-shelter, sort of a new term, that
has been coined for people who are going to be evacuating with their pets and they need a place
to stay with that animal or those animals. The people on co-shelters may or may not be housed
directly with their animals, sometimes they are, just depends on the site and what the
arrangements have been made for with the school or whatever venue might be. So, that’s, if
they’re not sheltering right directly with their animal and caretaking for the animal during this
disaster, then they may be in an adjacent area at the other end of the school building. For
example, the animals are at one end, people at one, another end. So, it just depends on the
arrangements made by the authorities.
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