Prepare for disasters or emergencies ahead of time with your pet. Here are some tips on how to keep your pets safe during emergencies:

🐾 Ideally, arrange a safe place where you can take your pets before disasters or emergencies happen.

🐾 Microchip your pet, make sure it's registered and your contact information is up to date.

🐾 Prepare an emergency kit, and include items like: food/water, first aid items, collar/leash, sanitation items like poop bags, a photo of your pet, and their bed/toys. Include medications too.

Our dogs and cats are part of the family, and we'd all love to keep them living healthier and longer. Now there's a way for all of us ordinary pet owners to become partners in science to help our furry family members.

If you're a pet owner, non-profit Darwin’s Ark allows you to contribute information about your pet for a greater good. They're following the pawprints of evolution. In turn, they share all their new discoveries with you and researchers around the world. They're following the pawprints of evolution. They're studying how changes in DNA helped make our pets the beloved companions and work partners they are today.They have specific programs which study cancer in dogs, the makeup of "working dogs," as well as programs specific to certain states. And, if you have a cat, don't worry - you're included too!

For more information on this (free) program that helps our furry friends 🐾 https://darwinsark.org/

📸: Darwin's Ark

The recent fires in Maui have devastated communities and separated countless pets from their families. As residents begin the painful process of rebuilding and returning, the search for their beloved pets is just starting. And while Maui's animal shelters are doing their best, the sheer number of displaced pets is overwhelming their capacities, raising the risk of euthanasia. 

Sign a petition to urge the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to allocate funds and personnel to support Maui's animal shelters so they're equipped to handle this enormous influx of pets.
👉 https://www.thepetitionsite.com/168/305/050/maui-animal-shelters-need-us.-help-avoid-euthanasia/

Source: Care2
📸: Care2