[BagCamAddict]

Y'all are failing to realize that we wouldn't have had to attempt to rescue nearly as many people in the first place if they had places to go where they could take their pets. As the article pointed out, thousands of people stayed behind BECAUSE they couldn't take their animals with them. Then those people became part of the rescue effort.

If people had places to evacuate to WITH their pets, more people would evacuate in the first place. Then, the rescue effort wouldn't have been so huge, and we might have had enough resources to rescue more people -- such as from nursing homes -- and thereby fewer PEOPLE would have died.

So you may not personally believe in evacuating pets, or for making provisions for evacuating pets, but the fact remains that thousands and thousands of people won't evacuate without their pets. So you can either make provisions to EVACUATE them with their pets ahead of time, or you can make the super-human efforts of RESCUING them after the disaster has struck.

Which do you think is the wiser choice?

[Cold Heart]

Sometimes I make my posts too simplistic.

Had the people of Louisiana elected people that were looking out for them, foreward looking, not corrupt etc., the pets, the elderly, the dikes, and everything else that failed, wouldn't have happened.

[sinkspur]

So you may not personally believe in evacuating pets, or for making provisions for evacuating pets, but the fact remains that thousands and thousands of people won't evacuate without their pets. So you can either make provisions to EVACUATE them with their pets ahead of time, or you can make the super-human efforts of RESCUING them after the disaster has struck.

That's a fact. And the sooner these legislators realize that they have to make accommodations for people and their pets, the sooner an evacuation plan can be put in place.

[doc30]

You are spot on!

[gidget7]

No where to evacuate to??? How about AWAY from the storm? You mean to tell me no one had a tent, they could throw in the car and go to one of the state parks they could have gotten into free?? Not the best, maybe, but you are alive!

[flashbunny]

"Which do you think is the wiser choice?"

Option 3: People with a brain realizing that if they can't get out on their own with their pets, they need to follow the rules established for humans.