Good planning: If you want them to evacuate, help them take their pets.

[jsamuel]

Rather than making many people stay if they want to save their pets, they should come up with a relatively small program for pet owners that need help to evacuate.

This would have caused a large percentage of the people that stayed behind to evacuate... it would have saved tons of people and money.

[leveymg]

1. It's FEMA policy.

In the Washington, DC area we received a FEMA emergency planning brochure some months ago. I noticed that it states that in the event of an evacuation one should not take family pets along. It advises merely to leave them extra food and water.

They'll be just fine and waiting at the gate when you come back.

[leftylady]

2. I thought the same thing.

Maybe we could even incorporate that idea into the planning. But that would probably be asking too much, wouldn't it.

I am so furious over the animals. Well, and the people, too.

And I am absolutely heartbroken. I just hate these guys.