[Dailydrool] Dailydrool Digest, Vol 21, Issue 18

[Helena Poist]

Please send drool and support to the Louisiana basset rescue group who
will be taking a hard hit from the current hurricane.. Remember all the other animals
in Nawlins as well. My son was there for Katrina and he just left (one semester of school left) from Gustav. The devasatation and impact on all animals is hard to imagine.  I was there 5 months after it happened and it has forever impacted me.
 
 
Forgive the repetition for those of you who are getting our E-Flashes 
but I feel this is very important to get to as many of our families 
as possible.

The 2008 hurricane season is now fully upon us as evidenced by 
Hurricane Gustov threatening our panhandle bassets and Tropical Storm 
Hanna threatening our south Florida bassets. We have a large number 
of foster bassets in both areas of the state and many in individual 
foster homes scattered along the coastline of Florida, both east and 
west. It is vital that we have a cohesive emergency preparedness 
plan to get both our foster bassets and their foster families to 
safety in case they are in danger of an approaching weather system.

We encourage each foster family to design a plan that keeps them 
safe - some of you will be able to stay in place safely and you may 
even have the needed items to keep you supplied in emergency power, 
food and water during the aftermath of a storm. Some of you will 
need to evacuate and either temporarily re-home your foster bassets 
or find shelter where they will be accepted during the disaster. Our 
rescue is here to provide whatever assistance and help you need.

I would ask each of the families that are a part of our rescue, 
either because they have adopted a basset from us, foster for us or 
just love bassets, to stop now and create both a plan for your family 
and a plan for how you can help if one our rescue members needs 
assistance with their bassets during or after a disaster. We need a 
person that will act as our disaster coordinator, whose 
responsibilities will be to monitor impending situations, assess 
each foster homes' needs and to facilitate them getting the 
assistance they need both to care for our bassets as well as stay 
safe themselves. 

Life long Florida resident Linda Lartigue, who has weathered many 
natural disasters and who did relief work with the animal victims of 
Katrina, offers these important recommendations to make it possible 
to reunite with your pet if separated:

1. Make certain your pet is micro chipped and that the 
information that the microchip company has is complete and current.
2. Take your pet to the vet at the beginning of each hurricane 
season and have them scan the chip to make certain it is still 
reading correctly and it is still in its proper place.
3. Place a harness and collar on your pet that has I.D. tags 
attached to each with sturdy hardware.
4. Make certain you list not only your phone number on the I.D, 
tags but also several other phone numbers of friends/family members 
that are not in the same area you live in. That way if the phone 
system where you live is out of service, a person that finds your pet 
can call someone outside the disaster area and notify them of the 
discovery so that they can be claimed. Also do this for the 
microchip company.
5. Take pictures not only of your pet but also of your pet with 
you, your pet with other family members as well as your pet with any 
of your friends that might come to claim your pet on your behalf. 
This will speed up the reuniting process and in some cases may 
prevent someone else from laying claim to your pet.

Please send me an email if you are interested in helping with our 
disaster preparedness coordination. Thank you for your continued 
support of the bassets and please stay safe this hurricane season.

Pam Farris savethebassets at yahoo.com <mailto:savethebassets%40yahoo.com> 
Basset_Rescue_of_Florida


 
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