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Preparing with Pets | Pet Preparedness Month | Prepping for Non-Preppers #BetterPrepared
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NEW VIDEO: Preparing with Pets | Pet Preparedness Month | Prepping for Non-Preppers #BetterPrepared
Are you prepared to take care of your pets during a disaster? How will you keep them safe and healthy in an emergency situation? Well, in honor of Pet Preparedness Month we take a look at how to adjust your preparedness journey to include the needs of your pet. In this video, I cover options for shelter, food, water, sanitation, and identification in order to keep your pet safe in case of an emergency or disaster. What type of pets are you preparing for? Let us know in the comments below 👇
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WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.779 it's pet preparedness month so in today's video we have a very special guest stay 00:00:06.779 --> 00:00:09.080 tuned 00:00:11.269 --> 00:00:15.990 hey everybody welcome the Cascadia dispatch I'm Casey and with me today is 00:00:15.990 --> 00:00:23.699 a very special guest dr. Millie von kittypants Esquire Millie is our family's 00:00:23.699 --> 00:00:29.939 cat and she is definitely part of our preparedness plan so as we talk about 00:00:29.939 --> 00:00:34.829 pet preparedness she wanted to join us I'm gonna let her go because she has 00:00:34.829 --> 00:00:39.690 many many things on her schedule today but I appreciate that she was able to 00:00:39.690 --> 00:00:45.420 join us for a few minutes as we begin to talk about what humi do in an emergency 00:00:45.420 --> 00:00:50.520 to make sure that your pets are safe and taken care of so as we think about what 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:54.750 you would need to prepare in an emergency for your pets there are a 00:00:54.750 --> 00:01:01.460 couple of areas that we would want to think about one is shelter containment 00:01:01.460 --> 00:01:05.400 identification one is going to be food and water and then one's gonna be 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:09.689 sanitation those are kind of the big areas and we're gonna go through some 00:01:09.689 --> 00:01:13.650 things to talk about kind of what you would want in each of those areas for 00:01:13.650 --> 00:01:17.220 your pet but also remember that this is going to be a little specific to your 00:01:17.220 --> 00:01:22.650 pet for us we have a cat so our plan is kind of run to cap up but you know 00:01:22.650 --> 00:01:26.909 whatever you've got is what you're gonna have to prepare for so leave a note in 00:01:26.909 --> 00:01:30.180 the comments down below and let us know kind of what you're preparing for what 00:01:30.180 --> 00:01:34.650 animals you have what you're thinking about and then we'll have some great 00:01:34.650 --> 00:01:39.720 ideas from other people we can comment below as well so let's dive in and we'll 00:01:39.720 --> 00:01:44.040 go through the individual sections one of the if not the biggest concern that 00:01:44.040 --> 00:01:49.770 we have for specifically for our cat familiy and you may have for your animal 00:01:49.770 --> 00:01:56.040 as well is Ana disaster animals may run off they may be scared they're going to 00:01:56.040 --> 00:01:59.909 be in different surroundings so they're going to be nervous and they may not 00:01:59.909 --> 00:02:04.770 behave the way that they normally would and they may be very skittish they may 00:02:04.770 --> 00:02:09.660 dart off places and once you have found your your animal 00:02:09.660 --> 00:02:14.040 or you have secured your animal you don't want to then have to go chase them 00:02:14.040 --> 00:02:19.320 into rubble or anything like that that's not a great it's not a great plan so one 00:02:19.320 --> 00:02:23.310 of the ways to keep our animals safe and to make sure that then we don't worry 00:02:23.310 --> 00:02:27.390 about that is we have a couple of different shelter we're gonna call them 00:02:27.390 --> 00:02:31.830 containment options containment seems a little harsh so we're gonna go with 00:02:31.830 --> 00:02:37.650 shelters but the idea is to keep really safe and then also to make sure that we 00:02:37.650 --> 00:02:41.640 know where she is so if we need to leave if we need to go somewhere we know where 00:02:41.640 --> 00:02:48.450 she is so the first option that we have is kind of soft animal carrier this is 00:02:48.450 --> 00:02:52.650 what she's used to this is when we take her on trips she doesn't get out much 00:02:52.650 --> 00:02:57.080 but once a year we usually take her on the trip or if we're going to the vet 00:02:57.080 --> 00:03:04.200 this is is the carrier that that she's used to it's great because it's it's a 00:03:04.200 --> 00:03:08.220 little more comfortable but it's a little small for her it's not designed 00:03:08.220 --> 00:03:12.720 for a long trip it's designed for you know being in the car for maybe a half 00:03:12.720 --> 00:03:17.820 an hour or so I'm sure she could she could survive in it for a longer period 00:03:17.820 --> 00:03:24.180 of time if it needed to but it's not an ideal for a long term for her however 00:03:24.180 --> 00:03:30.750 one of the things that is really kind of important in here is there's a little 00:03:30.750 --> 00:03:37.200 liner in the bottom and you'll see all of her shed and hair in there 00:03:37.200 --> 00:03:43.080 so that's got her scent on it she knows that that's safe so wherever we have her 00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:48.720 we would take that pad if we could and and use that in whichever carrier or a 00:03:48.720 --> 00:03:52.610 situation we would have and I would encourage you to try to find some 00:03:52.610 --> 00:03:57.959 blanket or bedding or something that your animal scent is on so that they 00:03:57.959 --> 00:04:03.480 know that wherever you are is going to be the safe home base for them at that 00:04:03.480 --> 00:04:07.470 time because the locations will change but that scent will be reassuring to 00:04:07.470 --> 00:04:11.970 them the other kind of reason we probably use this in a long-term 00:04:11.970 --> 00:04:17.820 scenario is because it's softer you can't it's soft on top of soft on the 00:04:17.820 --> 00:04:22.690 sides so if we needed to put this in the car and pack it with others 00:04:22.690 --> 00:04:27.310 stuff usually we just have this in the backseat and she sits in between the 00:04:27.310 --> 00:04:31.210 kids car seats and she can see the kids and she find there's nothing on top of 00:04:31.210 --> 00:04:33.820 it and everything's great in an emergency where space is going to 00:04:33.820 --> 00:04:40.000 be at a premium we may want to put some things on top of this or around this and 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:44.530 having the soft sides is gonna make it uncomfortable it's not going to be 00:04:44.530 --> 00:04:49.090 sturdy for her it's not too sturdy for this so that makes it not ideal for a 00:04:49.090 --> 00:04:56.730 longer-term venture but in the short term it's okay so in a longer terms 00:04:56.730 --> 00:05:02.320 situation what we would be looking at is something more like this so this is a 00:05:02.320 --> 00:05:12.040 collapsible sturdy plastic carrier it's got lots of space it's significantly 00:05:12.040 --> 00:05:16.180 longer I'm hoping you can see this on the camera it's significantly longer 00:05:16.180 --> 00:05:23.140 it's wider than the softer case is taller so there's more room so it gives 00:05:23.140 --> 00:05:27.250 us the option of being able to put more stuff in there with her we could you 00:05:27.250 --> 00:05:31.240 know sit this wherever we're sheltering and put her food and water actually 00:05:31.240 --> 00:05:35.890 inside of the container and then she could actually kind of be in there that 00:05:35.890 --> 00:05:41.560 could be your little house for a while in kind of our long-term okay we need to 00:05:41.560 --> 00:05:46.210 be somewhere for two or three months so we're biking out in in out of our house 00:05:46.210 --> 00:05:49.660 or something like that we would probably use one of the tents 00:05:49.660 --> 00:05:55.180 that we have and use that as kind of a containment shelter for her long-term so 00:05:55.180 --> 00:05:59.380 she can actually kind of get out and move around a little bit we don't want 00:05:59.380 --> 00:06:03.490 her just free-ranging because there's a lot of reasons that could be other 00:06:03.490 --> 00:06:06.340 animals that are displaced that don't want to deal with that 00:06:06.340 --> 00:06:11.890 she's an indoor cat so being outdoors is not necessarily something that she's 00:06:11.890 --> 00:06:16.090 used to doing so we want to try to keep her as contained and comfortable as 00:06:16.090 --> 00:06:22.150 possible but also making sure that if we needed to we can we can move pretty 00:06:22.150 --> 00:06:26.440 quickly as for free-ranging for our camp we have 00:06:26.440 --> 00:06:34.380 this wonderful stylish harness that we can use for her so if we did for example 00:06:34.380 --> 00:06:39.990 we need to get her out of the carrier if we needed to keep track of her for some 00:06:39.990 --> 00:06:44.210 reason because we were going somewhere and we didn't want her to run away you 00:06:44.210 --> 00:06:48.660 know we could put this on her if you have a dog that has a leash for walks 00:06:48.660 --> 00:06:52.680 you know you've kind of already got that set up for us our cat doesn't 00:06:52.680 --> 00:06:56.340 necessarily go for walks we tried that when she was little she wasn't a huge 00:06:56.340 --> 00:07:04.590 fan so we have this just in case a really important thing to also keep in 00:07:04.590 --> 00:07:10.380 mind and think about how you want to do this is identification so your pet may 00:07:10.380 --> 00:07:15.240 get lost there are lots of stories during major disasters hurricanes 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:21.210 earthquakes tornadoes where animals you're maybe you're not at home and 00:07:21.210 --> 00:07:25.620 something happens and your house gets damaged and so your animal runs away 00:07:25.620 --> 00:07:31.920 because it's scared or something I being able to identify your animal is going to 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:35.520 be really key because someone else may find that animal and then report it and 00:07:35.520 --> 00:07:39.120 there's usually a period of time where people are trying to reunite pets and 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:46.110 owners or pets and people so being able to identify and be mindful of that is 00:07:46.110 --> 00:07:50.460 incredibly important there are a few ways to do that one is you definitely 00:07:50.460 --> 00:07:54.930 want to take a picture of yourself and your animal have some pictures of your 00:07:54.930 --> 00:07:59.340 animal but also have some pictures of yourself with your animal so if someone 00:07:59.340 --> 00:08:03.570 wants to verify if they find your animal and they want to verify that to you have 00:08:03.570 --> 00:08:07.650 a way to show hey this is me and my dog or this is me and my bird or this is me 00:08:07.650 --> 00:08:14.040 and my cat microchipping for bigger animals cats 00:08:14.040 --> 00:08:20.610 dogs most vets will do it I'm not going to get into the ethics of chipping an 00:08:20.610 --> 00:08:25.920 animal or anything like that we have a chip in Milly because she can't talk and 00:08:25.920 --> 00:08:30.810 so if she gets lost and goes if someone finds her at the Humane Society or 00:08:30.810 --> 00:08:35.490 something or that that's the best way that she can tell them who she belongs 00:08:35.490 --> 00:08:36.670 to I mean who 00:08:36.670 --> 00:08:41.410 get her especially if you have a color that color can fall off the microchip is 00:08:41.410 --> 00:08:45.490 not going to fall off it's just going to be there the key thing to remember the 00:08:45.490 --> 00:08:50.080 microchip is the microchip is only as good as the data that is in the database 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:54.280 attached to the microchip so if you have chipped your animal you want to make 00:08:54.280 --> 00:08:58.480 sure that your contact information and whatever database is associated with 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:02.500 that is up to date have you change your phone number since you did it have you 00:09:02.500 --> 00:09:06.550 changed your address have you moved make sure that all of that information is 00:09:06.550 --> 00:09:11.650 up-to-date and current so if there is a situation where someone finds your 00:09:11.650 --> 00:09:15.580 animal and has to use the information of the microchip it actually won't get to 00:09:15.580 --> 00:09:20.560 you make sure that you have multiple contact opportunities in the information 00:09:20.560 --> 00:09:24.100 associate with the microchip don't just have one phone number because if it's 00:09:24.100 --> 00:09:27.610 your home phone number and you can't be at your home where there's no phone 00:09:27.610 --> 00:09:32.520 service there's no one to call so make sure you have a home phone a cell phone 00:09:32.520 --> 00:09:37.570 maybe an email address mailing address if there's the ability to put other 00:09:37.570 --> 00:09:42.760 contacts on that in that database do that so if they can't get ahold of you 00:09:42.760 --> 00:09:47.470 they can get ahold of a family member or a friend who maybe is out-of-state and 00:09:47.470 --> 00:09:52.060 is your out-of-state contact and can coordinate reuniting you with your 00:09:52.060 --> 00:10:00.460 animal also collars name tags those sorts of things are really important yes 00:10:00.460 --> 00:10:05.980 they can fall off but having one is better than not for a few reasons 00:10:05.980 --> 00:10:11.620 one reason is if you have a color of any kind on your animal people will see that 00:10:11.620 --> 00:10:15.610 animal will recognize that that is someone's pet it's not a feral animal 00:10:15.610 --> 00:10:20.140 because feral animals can't go to Pet Smart or Petco and get a get a color or 00:10:20.140 --> 00:10:24.940 a leash so if your if your animal has a collar on its gonna let somebody know 00:10:24.940 --> 00:10:29.740 that that is a lost animal and that they should try to at least you know take 00:10:29.740 --> 00:10:32.380 care of it or find some information about it 00:10:32.380 --> 00:10:37.570 you can put information and contact information on that tag and you know 00:10:37.570 --> 00:10:42.510 it's a great backup I think the microchip for us is the primary because 00:10:42.510 --> 00:10:48.930 our tent doesn't go outside and for her to have a big name tag collar on 00:10:48.930 --> 00:10:53.730 we would be a little cumbersome for her we've looked into some smaller callers 00:10:53.730 --> 00:10:58.980 there are some things that you can get there if anyone has a great small caller 00:10:58.980 --> 00:11:03.089 name tag company please let us know leave that in the comments that would be 00:11:03.089 --> 00:11:08.940 really great for us to know but having that is gonna be better than not having 00:11:08.940 --> 00:11:11.850 it and you know what it may fall off but then if they have a microchip you're 00:11:11.850 --> 00:11:16.290 still okay so make sure that you have as many ways of identifying your animal as 00:11:16.290 --> 00:11:21.450 possible because you may need to use that and if not you know you don't want 00:11:21.450 --> 00:11:25.350 to you don't want to have that tragedy on top of everything else that's going 00:11:25.350 --> 00:11:31.800 on obviously in an emergency you are planning to have food and water for your 00:11:31.800 --> 00:11:34.920 family you're planning on having food water for your neighbors you need to 00:11:34.920 --> 00:11:38.040 make sure that you have food and water for your animals 00:11:38.040 --> 00:11:42.270 some people will feed their animals human food and that's great other 00:11:42.270 --> 00:11:47.220 animals need special diets we have friends who have animals that have 00:11:47.220 --> 00:11:51.600 allergies we have friends that have their animals have medical conditions of 00:11:51.600 --> 00:11:55.589 mania special medication so just as you would plan for all those eventualities 00:11:55.589 --> 00:12:02.190 with your child or a family member you want to have the same plans for your 00:12:02.190 --> 00:12:09.660 animals so in our case what we have is food wise we keep an extra bag of dry 00:12:09.660 --> 00:12:17.339 food that really likes to eat on hand we do this so we usually have a backup two 00:12:17.339 --> 00:12:21.420 or three bags and then we rotate them through so they don't get stale and and 00:12:21.420 --> 00:12:25.440 gross to the point where she wouldn't eat them and I know in an emergency you 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:29.250 know should probably eat anything but you know we like to try to make it nice 00:12:29.250 --> 00:12:32.970 for her just like we would try to make it nice for any member of our family so 00:12:32.970 --> 00:12:36.660 we try to rotate that through and we try to have at least one or two bags of 00:12:36.660 --> 00:12:42.270 extra food that can last for anywhere from two weeks to three months depending 00:12:42.270 --> 00:12:51.209 on how many bags we have we also have some pouches of food this is a wet food 00:12:51.209 --> 00:12:56.190 but because it's contained and a pouch these are really easy if we needed to 00:12:56.190 --> 00:13:00.690 leave it for any reason to grab six or eight or ten of these throw them in a 00:13:00.690 --> 00:13:03.700 backpack split up in a couple of backpacks throw 00:13:03.700 --> 00:13:08.560 it in our carrier and make sure that we have food it packs down really small 00:13:08.560 --> 00:13:13.360 obviously we've got these you can get them at the grocery store we got them on 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:18.610 Amazon by the case or box and then they just kind of cycle through so we also 00:13:18.610 --> 00:13:24.010 give these to her as treats just regularly as a way of cycling through so 00:13:24.010 --> 00:13:28.090 that you know these don't get bad as well but we don't use these as much as 00:13:28.090 --> 00:13:33.520 the dried fruit water is going to be really important to your animals just 00:13:33.520 --> 00:13:37.810 like it is to your family or any of the other humans that you have around you 00:13:37.810 --> 00:13:42.760 and you don't want to if you calculated a water needs for your family 00:13:42.760 --> 00:13:47.410 or the people that you are supporting in a preparedness event or a disaster event 00:13:47.410 --> 00:13:52.210 you don't want to then have to use that water necessarily for your animals and 00:13:52.210 --> 00:13:56.200 you're not gonna want your animals to be thirsty so you definitely want to make 00:13:56.200 --> 00:14:01.690 sure that you have extra water we have some water bottles obviously as we've 00:14:01.690 --> 00:14:05.890 talked about in other videos so some of the water bottles that we have we've 00:14:05.890 --> 00:14:10.300 kind of planned for as Milly water you might want to do the same depending on 00:14:10.300 --> 00:14:13.000 the size of your animal your water needs and your food needs are gonna be 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:19.780 different our 12 pound cat is only going to need so much food your 100 pound dog 00:14:19.780 --> 00:14:23.440 is probably gonna need a different set up and so you're gonna need to prepare 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:31.500 and plan for that what we also do is we have these silicone little cups and 00:14:31.500 --> 00:14:35.650 these are really really nice there's a bunch of different brands that have 00:14:35.650 --> 00:14:40.840 these we'll put some links to where you can get these in the description but 00:14:40.840 --> 00:14:45.070 these are great because you can have these set them on the ground pour some 00:14:45.070 --> 00:14:50.230 water in it put some food in it we actually have two of them one for food 00:14:50.230 --> 00:14:56.080 one for water and it's really easy then to have your pet have a set up of food 00:14:56.080 --> 00:15:00.520 and water that's clean you can wash them out their silicones so you can wash them 00:15:00.520 --> 00:15:05.800 really easily and then they collapse back down to this little kind of hockey 00:15:05.800 --> 00:15:12.990 puck shape they also like to fight you apparently as you're collapsing them 00:15:12.990 --> 00:15:17.730 but yeah so they collapse down like this there's a little lid put it on and now 00:15:17.730 --> 00:15:22.350 this can really easily go in a carrier or it could go in your backpack and 00:15:22.350 --> 00:15:26.070 you're ready to go just like you would with all of your other your kind of food 00:15:26.070 --> 00:15:29.490 items and pots and pans or whatever it is that you're carrying with you to make 00:15:29.490 --> 00:15:34.440 food for the humans these would fit along really nicely as well so that's 00:15:34.440 --> 00:15:39.690 kind of the food and water setup that we would use for for our animal and then 00:15:39.690 --> 00:15:43.590 you would have gapped it size wise volume wise and number wise if you have 00:15:43.590 --> 00:15:47.160 three dogs you're gonna need more stuff if you have two lizards you're gonna 00:15:47.160 --> 00:15:51.960 need more stuff so that's that's kind of how we would run with with the food and 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:57.600 water setup sanitation in an emergency is going to be a really really big thing 00:15:57.600 --> 00:16:05.010 no one wants to get sick by having bacteria and just grossest in their food 00:16:05.010 --> 00:16:10.590 water on them touching them any of that sort of stuff we don't need diseases 00:16:10.590 --> 00:16:13.920 spread we don't need people getting sick you're gonna have enough problems in a 00:16:13.920 --> 00:16:17.820 disaster without that sort of a situation happening to so one of the 00:16:17.820 --> 00:16:23.940 things that we have is we keep a roll of poop bags in all of our bags we keep 00:16:23.940 --> 00:16:28.920 them with Millie's stuff in an emergency we may not be in a situation where we 00:16:28.920 --> 00:16:33.000 have a litter box or cat litter or something like that so she may kind of 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:36.630 take care of that and you know bury it wherever she's gonna go 00:16:36.630 --> 00:16:42.690 we probably try and contain that as far as only you know so far away and being 00:16:42.690 --> 00:16:49.680 mindful of water sources and proximity to people nobody wants their animal you 00:16:49.680 --> 00:16:52.860 know doing their business right next to the creek that then everyone is going to 00:16:52.860 --> 00:16:58.290 be getting their water from downstream so ideally we would try and kind of find 00:16:58.290 --> 00:17:03.000 a place away we would use the poop bags we probably put it in some sort of a 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:09.209 burn pile or something that we would be using for other kind of sanitation needs 00:17:09.209 --> 00:17:15.900 as humans and get rid of it that way for other animals dogs and things like 00:17:15.900 --> 00:17:22.699 that you're gonna use the same idea you don't want you know dogs doing 00:17:22.699 --> 00:17:26.990 their business in the middle of you may have a very small space outside or you 00:17:26.990 --> 00:17:33.529 may actually be sheltered indoors and you know if a dog or any animal takes 00:17:33.529 --> 00:17:37.909 care of things in the middle of you know a room of people you're going to need to 00:17:37.909 --> 00:17:44.179 be able to take care of that so we have these we also have kind of the the 00:17:44.179 --> 00:17:48.919 antibacterial wipes that you would have like a Clorox wipe or a Lysol wipe or 00:17:48.919 --> 00:17:52.909 something we keep those in our bags as well so we would use those to come clean 00:17:52.909 --> 00:17:56.809 up the area if it was for example inside and you're talking about four or 00:17:56.809 --> 00:17:58.940 something like that if you're outside you're not really going to probably deal 00:17:58.940 --> 00:18:02.600 with that but you are going to be able want to be able to wash your hands with 00:18:02.600 --> 00:18:08.629 some sort of an antibacterial or just some sort of a soap to make sure that 00:18:08.629 --> 00:18:12.889 you get all of the yuck off of your hands when you're done so you don't get 00:18:12.889 --> 00:18:17.480 it pass it to anybody else okay guys thanks again for joining us on Cascadia 00:18:17.480 --> 00:18:21.529 dispatch today talking about preparedness this preparedness month or 00:18:21.529 --> 00:18:25.159 it's almost the end of pepper preparedness month but I wanted to get 00:18:25.159 --> 00:18:29.720 this out before the end of pet preparedness month say that 13 times 00:18:29.720 --> 00:18:34.369 fast I don't know how that works anyway thanks again for watching please feel 00:18:34.369 --> 00:18:39.740 free to like subscribe share let us know what type of furry scaly feathered 00:18:39.740 --> 00:18:46.820 creatures you're preparing for what pet tricks and you have if you have any that 00:18:46.820 --> 00:18:49.309 we didn't go over it's always great to share it with everybody who's watching 00:18:49.309 --> 00:18:53.059 so that they can learn more we can learn more and then we can put in more videos 00:18:53.059 --> 00:18:56.179 and we can talk about it and other people who talk about it it's good for 00:18:56.179 --> 00:19:00.710 everybody so anyway thanks again for joining us like I said please like and 00:19:00.710 --> 00:19:04.850 subscribe and share and hit the bells on all of those things and we'll see you 00:19:04.850 --> 00:19:07.960 next week thanks a lot
