Here
in Virginia we are obviously watching the Hurricane closely. We
had a Horse Council board meeting today and once again had to face the fact that
we have no livestock evacuation plan. I have brought it up with
our State Ag dept before and we will raise the issue again. In
the meantime, I sent one of my fellow board members home to the beach
with a set of cattle markers for the 20+ polo ponies he has to contend
with. I didn't tell him any of the secrets for removal
so I hope he doesn't have match very soon :>).
I
quickly did a web search this evening and came up with this selection
websites for disaster planning for horses. I hope it will be
helpful to some of you. In the meantime, do check into whether or not your
state has a plan. Don't wait until you need it to become
concerned.
I
thought some of the ideas I saw from others on Ridecamp were very helpful and
have forwarded them on friends that are on the coast.
Thanks
to all of you who are thinking about those of us on the East Coast. I am
100 miles inland but have still started putting away and tying down everything
possible. We had arranged to have some trees taken down near our
house before the storm started heading our way. The tree man just called
and apologized for not making it out today and said he had over 50 calls today
from folks who want trees taken down before the storm hits.
Sally
Aungier
Virginia
Resources
Disaster
Preparedness Shopping List for Horses prepared by the North Carolina State Animal
Response Team www.ncsart.org/shop.asp#horses.Scroll up and you will see the list for
other animals.
