Female: What are the three steps pet parents can do to be prepared for an emergency situation?
Lesa: Well, some emergencies require that you need to leave others do not to leave your home.
The first is to, the first step is to fetch supplies that you’re going to need or you will anticipate
needing should the occasion arise that you have to leave the house. And there are a variety of
supplies, you know, obviously food and water and medical records and collars and leashes and
carriers, litter, and paper and bags and identification and picture of your pet, preferably with you
so that we can make a match should there be a need at the end before you go home. Then the
second step would be go, meaning you want to listen to the authorities on the NOAH weather
website or the radio station, WTOPFM and you wanna also listen to just various other news
authorities and listen for their instruction for you to leave or to stay. And we wanna stay on top
of that because the protocol may be change depending on the disaster, especially if it’s weather
related. And the third step would be to go, to go to a shelter with your pet and that will be, that
information will be instructed to you on these websites, thru the news, various newscast, do you
wanna make sure you stay on top of that.
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