Are YOU prepared in case of emergency? 🆘 #pets #emergency

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1. For all of us who have multiple animals, especially cats, (as they WILL hide) an emergency like this may not end well. I can't let myself think about it, or I'll constantly be in a state of anxiety!

2. Kitty go bag:
   Small soft sided carrier
   Large enclosed soft foldable pen big enough to hold a small litter tray, food, water, and a cat bed, in case u have to stay somewhere for a few days/weeks where your cat cant have free run of the place, be it a shelter, friends house, hotel room ect. Foldable litter tray food and water bowls, food, water, pet first aid kit, pet wipes, harness and leash, a few toys & a brush ect.

   Best place to keep it is by a door – dont throw it in the back of a closet. I have a hard carrier too. In an emergency u want to be able to grab your cat, put it in the carrier, grab your kitty go bag and be out the door.

   On that note, if your cat has hidey holes u cant get them out of, its time to block those off. In a fire or earthquake their instinct will be to hide since then cant run. If you want your kitty to have a secluded place to go, like me, you can put a covered cat bed in a corner of your closet and keep the door cracked, as long as ypu can reach in and grab her-thats fine. But the last thing you want is your cat under a bottom cabinet where u cant reach it as the flames come closer. Close off their inaccessible hidey holes NOW, before u forget. And order the go bag stuff 🙂 ❤🐱

3. Twice staying in hotel's we had the fire alarms go off after midnight and the alarms were so loud my cat's panicked and I had to leave one behind that got up inside the bed spring.After that I made sure to block up anywhere they could hide.

4. In North Texas then big one is the tornado. We have 6 cats. Twice now we've had to take shelter and thankfully our cats are well enough behaved that we can nab them all with relative ease (relative being their key word).

   Literally, herding cats. Don't recommend it. Just make sure there is nowhere they can go you can't reach them

5. Whenever I see my cats get scared by something, I pay attention to where they run and hide so I know where to check in an emergency.

6. Our most worrisome thing is tornadoes. I have bug out bags for every person in the house including the cat and ferrets. Their bags have butter bowls filled with their food, extra bottles of water, collapsible food/water bowls, portable litter boxes(medium sized box lined with a bag) with a bag of litter, their harnesses and leashes, and lastly their vet information. The ferrets go in a pet carrier and cat gets leashed, the cat doesn't try to run with the harness on. Midnight bolts when he hears random noises, so keeping him in the carrier for more than 20 minutes with sirens going off stresses him out to the point of hyperventilating and thrashing around. The next time, it took 30 minutes to get him in the bathroom for him to shread all 3 of humans and freaked the ferrets out. 3 scared screaming ferrets in a small bathroom is more horrifying than the tornado sirens.

7. Hadn’t even thought of this. I’m an accidental cat mom of a precious cat who is deaf and has congenital heart defects. My first pet in about 40 years.
   I have problems finding our little guy now as he hates those bells on collars. He literally chews the bell flat so that it does not ring. And then I end up taking the collar off at home and only wear one when out for a kitty field trip. Otherwise I just take it off. Which is not good during an emergency.

8. Scary but yes essential thanks❤❤❤❤

9. Its very important i couldn't forgive myself if anything happened to my boys and i didn't have a clue of how to get out in an emergency i will be thinking very long and hard on a safe plan to save us all

10. Crate training is good for emergency . vets evacuations , if they know a crate they can be kept safe

11. Last tornado my kitty decided it was safest in my jacket lol

12. Make a plan with everyone who you live with. And teach your cat to enjoy his or her carrier, rather than hating to be in it.

13. I took a course on disaster preparedness and one of the topics was animal companions.

    The best thing to do as soon as there is an emergency is to lock your pet in the bathroom (if safe to do so, of course) while you run around gathering the kennel and supplies – otherwise you risk them hiding under a piece of furniture, which could put everyone at risk while you try to coax them to come out.

    Thank you Jackson, for all you do for our beloved pets! ❤

14. I could have used this information 7 years ago when Hurricane Harvey hit Houston! I had to be boat-lifted from my house with 4 cats, that were in 2 carriers, a litter box and a backpack with mostly cat-related stuff. Whew. Makes me a bit scared to remember that.

    With hurricane season coming soon, I better get my emergency kit ready. At least I only have 2 cats now! Much less to carry.😂

15. If you can’t get to your carriers pillow cases work in a pinch. For parrots put your had in the case gently hold the bird and turn it inside out. Same can work for cats.

16. My cat is easy. I shake the treat bag, and he comes a-running. He also has a dedicated Go Bag in my trunk, along with my own Go Bag. I live in California lol

17. I have the main pet bed & emergency supplies set up under my dining room table (earthquake country) so they're used to it 🐕🐈‍⬛ And I send them under there whenever anything is happening… even if it's just sweeping the floor 😺👍

18. 19 yrs on ms gulf. Several evax. Had 3-5 cats and travel will a collapsible dog kennel that fits in my back seat. Disposable litterbox and all beddings.

19. Have everything ready to go and in a place to go, but then be prepared that you may not have time to put say all 10 cats in carriers with the forest fire at the end of the street. My friend had rescued 10 cats, and at first, when she got the evacuation call, she was putting cats in carriers, but then she looked down the street and saw the fire coming. At that point, she just started throwing cats into the car and got all the cats out and I think she managed to get all 10 carriers. She had to drive her and all her 10 kitties to safety through walls of fire. Several walls of fire!

    You also need to have a friend in a different town that will take you and all 10 cats or how many you have. That goes for dogs too, because none of the shelters will take pets. So before something happens you need to have someone from out of town that you can run to for safety that will let you crash there with say 10 cats or dogs. Very important!

20. 🙏🙏🙏😻🐶

21. During the CA fires a few years ago, I had an emergency plan for my family that HAD to be executed (my kids were thankfully young college adults at that time and able to follow my instructions and respect my leadership), and anywhere we ended up, whether they accepted pets or not, our pup was with me, even if it meant him sleeping with me in my car…and we did! The local shelter was not allowing fue babies, but the "kids" were with their dad, pup and me all the way…at the Starbucks parking lot. Thankfully, our home was spared and we only had to stay at the Starbucks parking lot for two days before we returned back home. Shout out to Starbucks for not only allowing us to stay at their parking lot, but for the free coffee and amazing compassion from their employees, and their treats for our pup.

22. I have a bug out box. – big issue – medical papers. My neighbors house burned down and I was given 5 minutes – got 2 out of 4. Now we set the fire alarms off and give special snackies, the biggest mistakes was trying to grab. Keep quiet, calm.

23. Some of my neighbours seem to like to play with fire cause we often get the fire alarms going off in my apartment complex so I often have to grab my cat and shove her in her backpack in case it’s not a false alarm. But now she becomes terrified every time she hears anything remotely similar to that alarm! 😿💔

24. Hi Jackson
    I'm Sema from Turkey.
    On the night of February 6, 2023, in a city in Turkey, at 4 am, I was caught in two devastating earthquakes, measuring 7.8 and 7.7 magnitude respectively, at my home with my cat. After a plane journey, we arrived home. It was the first night my cat and I slept side by side. I hadn't used the heater for a long time and I couldn't manage to turn it on at midnight. It was freezing cold outside with snow. Shortly after we went to bed with extra blankets, we experienced an incredibly strong and terrifying earthquake, lasting about 1.5 minutes. I positioned myself at the edge of the bed, and my cat hid under the bed. After the earthquake, I dressed warmly, grabbed my cat with a few small packets of dry food, a blanket, and her carrier bag, and went outside immediately. I got into the car right away. I followed the process in the car until noon. My cat was distressed only because of being in a confined space in the car. Around noon, I went back home. I was expecting aftershocks. We had already experienced several major aftershocks in the car. After a while, a new tremor began. I thought it would end eventually. I could never have predicted two devastating earthquakes of the same magnitude with an 8-hour interval on the same day. Again, I hid in the same spot. This time, I thought the building would collapse, and I thought I would die. It was unbelievable. How could this happen? I thought it was as if something was trying to make us die. When the earthquake ended, I couldn't scream out of fear. I couldn't make a sound. When everything ended, I found my cat cowering in fear on top of the kitchen cabinet. I had to leave the house as soon as possible. It was a very difficult situation, and I was struggling to reach her. Nevertheless, I managed to grab her, pulling and tugging as hard as I could. I had no choice. I spread a liquid-proof changing mat for babies in her carrier bag. I also took some sand I had put in an empty shoebox and a sedative medication I had previously obtained from the vet for use during travels if necessary. Similarly, I left the house. It was no longer possible for me to go back there. There was very little fuel in my car, and fuel sales were restricted. I had to reach my family, who were about 800 km away, a journey of about 10-11 hours. News spread that flights were canceled due to damage to the airport runway. It was said that highways were damaged, roads were blocked by the heavy snow, and impassable due to the disaster. I decided to stay in the car until I could leave the city and spend the night in the parking lot of the bus terminal. This way, I could monitor the availability of intercity buses and meet my food and toilet needs. After much effort, I arranged a ticket. I left the car in the parking lot. I completed the journey of what would normally take 12 hours by bus with a woman who had lost her mind next to me, a cat constantly meowing in her carrier bag on my lap, and a box of cat litter at my feet in 18 hours. We waited for hours on snowy roads abandoned to both sides of the road in the middle of nowhere, reminiscent of natural disaster scenes that could be seen in movies. My cat fell asleep from exhaustion after a while. I tried to comfort her every time she meowed. I took her to the toilet twice inside the bus. She didn't do it. Finally, she urinated in her carrier bag. In the darkness, on the narrow seat, without seeing anything, I tried to clean her bag and her with a wet wipe in my hand. Since the liquid-proof mat had gathered movements inside the bag, it didn't work. After all that had happened, my cat was exhausted and fell asleep. She woke up occasionally and meowed, but I was also exhausted. 18 hours later, I reached my family. My cat struggled to recover for a week. She behaved timidly and aggressively. We tried to comfort her by petting and stroking her and letting her rest when she wanted, and she slowly began to get used to people again. I'm grateful that I survived these earthquakes with my cat, but I can't help but shed tears for the thousands of lives lost. Many pets perished in the rubble. The surviving animals wandered in the rubble of the once lived houses for days. There was even a cat that showed the location of its trapped owner in the wreckage. Charitable people adopted most of the homeless animals. I'm grateful for surviving with my cat, but my heart breaks for the more than 50000 of lives lost.

    With all my love and respect

25. I actually just bought a pet carrier that's big enough for both cats, because our dog is a great traveler, and can hop in the back seat unassisted and stay put when needed; the cats not so much.

    I grew up in L.A., with fires, riots, mudslides and earthquakes, liced in hurricane-prone Florida for 28 years, and have been in ice storm and tornado-prone Tennessee for the past twelve years, so YOU CAN NEVER BE TOO PREPARED.

26. Jackson, I really need your help. I've seen your videos, but this is really a unique case. I have four weeks left. Please may you contact me. Can we pay your way if you were to come down and help? I am absolutely distraught, and never comment on Youtube but we really need you.

27. Yes, please always be prepared and one problem with pets is that they hide when things are chaotic, which can be a real problem when you are worrying about everyone's safety, including your own. I love the XX Intro music in the background!!!!

28. Yeah…if there is any reason at all I need to get my two overlords out of the house we‘re fucked. After two years of trying EVERYTHING to get them to even go near the transport boxes I got I gave up as I value my eyesight and having skin and all that. We‘re even doing house visits from the vet 🤦‍♂️

29. And don't forget your four-legged family members when preparing for other disasters, natural or otherwise. You should have stores of food and water, and even kitty litter.

30. Kitty ✅

    Mother in law 👨🏻‍🦯👩🏼‍🦯🧑🏾‍🦯

31. My cats have their own BugOut Bag. Food. Water. Cat litter. Small box lid and trash bag to turn it into a short term litterbox. Two mid sized dog crates.

    Keep in mind if you have to bug out very fast, a pillowcase will hold a cat long enough to get out. Don't use an heirloom pillowcase because it will be shredded by the time you get somewhere safe.

32. I always keep a carrier at every front door just in case. I think that helps, me personally.

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