Emergency planning for your dogs and cats

Having been on Cape Cod last month when hurricane Earl was approaching, I saw first – hand how important it is to have a rescue plan in advance for your animals.  The shelter that we would have had to go to accepts animals, so we knew Lily would be OK if we had to leave our house.

Happily Earl did not pose a problem for the northeast coast, and now that I am back in Iowa, I am thinking of all the possible situations that might occur here and how I would deal with the cats if we had to leave the house suddenly.  The most difficult part would be catching Chloe and Kate to put them in their carriers.

They are rarely interested in doing anything I say unfortunately.