Welcome
Probably like you, we here in the Midwest have been frustrated at our inability to be of more help to the victims of Katrina: human and animal. Many of our colleagues with the gumption, resources, and availability have been in the disaster zone struggling against all odds to rescue, shelter, and reunite as many pets as possible that people were forced to abandon during the evacuation.
We decided for our part to attempt to launch a petition to allow the public to express its will and website to help people respond better to future emergencies. Now we need your help to make our efforts useful.
- SIGN THE PETITION, then pass it along to your animal loving friends.
- Suggest "HOW TO" Resources for inclusion on this website:
We envision the website as a handbook-type collection of specific "How To" Resources to help people safeguard animals in emergencies. The resources should benefit two primary groups:
- Animal Guardians: (Examples)
- How to take care of your animals in a community-wide disaster.
- How to take care of your animals in a personal emergency.
- How to plan for your animals in the event you can no longer take care of them.
- Emergency Planners: (Examples)
- How to plan cooperatively with others to assist with rescue, transporting, and sheltering of people and animals
- How to operate a pet-friendly disaster-relief shelter.
- How to organize volunteers in a disaster.
- How to identify and reunite displaced pets rescued from homes after natural disasters.
We know volumes will be re-written on subjects like these after the current efforts wind-down, and those involved can catch their breaths. We hope we can launch a simple site, which will be easy to maintain, asking users to suggest additional resources and to call our attention to resources and links that become unavailable.
In suggesting on-line resources, people should provide us the URL and Title of the resource to help people spot those of interest to them. We will also be glad to publish appropriate resources, which are not available elsewhere on-line. These should be brief, properly credited, and have contact information.
Please note: the resource links we have included are only examples of the types of resources available on the various websites. One thing we have learned is that there is no lack of information, but what we do with it in our roles as animal guardians and emergency planners is what will count!
This is a purely non-commercial project of the Pet Tender’s Foundation, a 501-c-3 organization.