Common Food Storage Mistakes - Providing for Pets

[Baggywrinkle]

Common Food Storage Mistakes - Providing for Pets
Many people when planning their food storage forget to provide adequate supplies for their pets. Your pets will need food and water in the event of an emergency. Make sure to include adequate supplies to meet the needs of your pets.

Your pets may also need special medications in addition to food and water. They may also need some form of portable shelter, bedding materials and harnesses or leashes. It is easier to have these items ahead of time in the event of an emergency.

You may also have other types of pets with special needs such as birds or fish in an aquarium. The main thing to remember is to keep those items you will need to properly care for your pets available at all times and in sufficient quantities should necessary pet supplies become scarce in a disaster or emergency situation.

Remember, your pets depend upon you as much as you depend on them. Don’t forget to include their needs as part of your food storage program.

Staying above the water line!

Riverwalker
http://stealthsurvival.blogspot.com/

[GaiaLove]

The forgotten victims

Every year natural disasters or war wreak havoc on millions of people and their environment. The human tragedy of these incidents is well documented, but less known is the plight of animals: all too often, they are the forgotten victims.

When people's properties are destroyed, animals homes often disappear too. Wild animals face the prospect of having to flee their home habitat to survive, whilst domesticated animals are at grave risk of remaining trapped and abandoned without food or water on farms, in people's homes, or even at zoos.

from http://www.wspa-usa.org/pages/38_disaster_relief.cfm

[waitinginthewings]

Common Food Storage Mistakes - Providing for Pets
Many people when planning their food storage forget to provide adequate supplies for their pets. Your pets will need food and water in the event of an emergency. Make sure to include adequate supplies to meet the needs of your pets.

Your pets may also need special medications in addition to food and water. They may also need some form of portable shelter, bedding materials and harnesses or leashes. It is easier to have these items ahead of time in the event of an emergency.

You may also have other types of pets with special needs such as birds or fish in an aquarium. The main thing to remember is to keep those items you will need to properly care for your pets available at all times and in sufficient quantities should necessary pet supplies become scarce in a disaster or emergency situation.

Remember, your pets depend upon you as much as you depend on them. Don’t forget to include their needs as part of your food storage program.

Staying above the water line!

Riverwalker
http://stealthsurvival.blogspot.com/

Tks for this post....its good idea to remind people about their pets. I have seen all to many times, pets left behind in natural disasters, with no food etc. so sad. Good quality dog/cat food is a must. Keep a few extra bags in a cool area. Tinned food also is helpful. I feed my little guy raw food in am and dried kibble in the pm. So I always make a batch of raw food & store in freezer....got my kennel, harness & leash, toys etc.

[alyscat]

Anyone have a good recipe for dried cat food? Most of the dried food today has oils, which doesn't keep well over time. I can store canned, but I have one cat who really prefers the dry. (it's rare for her to eat her serving of canned, usually one of the other two will eat it during the day).
Alys

[franciejones]

My canine children, Jack and Baby, will eat and drink before I do. They are my soulmates and I would walk through fire for them. Thanks for the reminder in preparing ahead for our "animal" counterparts. They are our teachers and our better halves. (IMO)

[BROOK]

Also a reminder that during a natural disaster such as an earthquake animal tend to panic..I was in the Northridge earthquake, and the animals just ran everywhere. They had to start shelters for loose animals all over the place.

So keep an eye on your pets, and don't give them the chance to run..when in a panic, no matter how much they love you, they will run.

[Baggywrinkle]

My canine children, Jack and Baby, will eat and drink before I do. They are my soulmates and I would walk through fire for them. Thanks for the reminder in preparing ahead for our "animal" counterparts. They are our teachers and our better halves. (IMO)

Barky Obama eats what we eat. The cats are more discriminating....

[franciejones]

so true Brook....I will run after them as they may be wiser on where to go! lol.

[Avid]

Excellent post!
My 2 puddies have loads of bikkies/tins/pouches - they won't be so fussy in future. They also eat leftovers and are good hunters (except 1 cat has only 3 teeth left - but he's still good at hunting) :thumb_yello:

[burgundia]

The first thing that would come to my mind when preparing for a critical situation is cat food.:original:

[Swanny]

Remember if things get really really bad you can always eat your pet :)
Better that your pet feeds your children than they die.

[franciejones]

macbre

[Swanny]

Well if it was a case of me or tiddles surviving I don't fancy tiddles chance :naughty:

[Dantheman62]

HaHa Swanny, hmmm, I'd teach tiddles how to hunt!, so tiddles won't have to become tiddles roast! LOL!

[Dantheman62]

C'mon Swanny, could ya really?

http://projectavalon.net/forum/picture.php?albumid=533&pictureid=5259

[Swanny]

I reckon I could eat a cat but not my dog.
Dogs aren't pets they are members of the family.
The cat would probably have buggered off before things got that bad anyway :original:

[Dantheman62]

HaHaHa, I'm just trying to make ya feel bad LOL! HaHa

http://projectavalon.net/forum/picture.php?albumid=535&pictureid=5289

[Jack]

http://projectavalon.net/forum/picture.php?albumid=535&pictureid=5289

pwease dont eat me

[Dantheman62]

BwaHaHaHa and LOL! Too, Doh!

[Swanny]

HaHaHa, I'm just trying to make ya feel bad LOL! HaHa

http://projectavalon.net/forum/picture.php?albumid=535&pictureid=5289

Please dont BBQ me :naughty:

[Swanny]

I just found this
cats can be infected with many types of parasites, which can be passed on to humans if they eat an infected animal.

Best not to eat tiddles then :)

[Baggywrinkle]

Heck, we feel that way about our chickens!

We have way too many roosters, but I just can't bring
myself to do it. This year we have about six and only want
to keep two.

We will when the time comes (and have), we just aren't
in any hurry.

They are a food source and our pets. Go figure. Our goal
is to give them a very good life, and five bad minutes. But
we never feel good about it.

There are two hens looking in the patio door as I write this.
The mooches! They don't care for the snow.

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n145/alternati/ChickenCartoon.jpg

[Dantheman62]

One more....LOL!

http://projectavalon.net/forum/picture.php?albumid=535&pictureid=5318

[Dantheman62]

Or it could be the other way around!!!!!!!

http://projectavalon.net/forum/picture.php?albumid=535&pictureid=5317

[BROOK]

This might be tempting on an empty stomach :roll1:

http://www.projectavalon.net/forum/picture.php?albumid=490&pictureid=4801