Pets & Animals
They count on you twice over
Animals cannot store their own supplies or read an evacuation notice. Everything they need in an outage must already be on your shelf — and the single most common disaster mistake with pets is assuming "we'll figure it out when it happens." This section now goes beyond emergencies: raising and training guides for chickens, dogs, cats, and horses live here too.
Pet Emergency PrepKits, IDs, carriers, and the evacuate-together rule.
Daily Care BasicsFood, water, warmth, and watching for trouble.
Raising ChickensBrooder to first eggs: heat, coop math, feed, and flock health.
Dog TrainingFour pillars, rock-solid recall, and problem-behavior fixes.
Cat TrainingLitter mastery, scratching peace, and carrier trust.
HorsesCosts, daily rhythms, ground manners, and colic response.
Quick numbers
- 72 hours minimum of pet food and water stored alongside the human supply — a week is better.
- If you evacuate, they evacuate. Leaving animals behind, even "just for a night," is how pets are lost.
- Identification beats luck: collar tag + microchip + a current photo on your phone.
- Raising and training guides above scale the same principles up: chickens start with a brooder, horses with an honest budget.
Care guidance here is general; your veterinarian knows your animal. Grounded in public-domain FEMA/ready.gov pet preparedness guidance.