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[RC] Disaster Planning Resources - saungier

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.

 

FEMA offers guidelines also at http://www.fema.gov/library/diztips.shtm and more general information on preparedness at http://www.fema.gov/library/aprep.shtm.

Also for interesting reading  2. (0.700) FEMA: Through Hell and High Water: Disasters and the Human-Animal Bond http://www.fema.gov/library/equine.shtm

 

Disaster Plan for Horse and Livestock Owners, Presented by Clemson University Livestock Poultry Health Division   -http://www.scav.org/HANDOUT%20FOR%20DISASTER%20PREP%20FOR%20HORSES%20AND%20LIVESTOCK.htm

 

Disaster Preparedness Guidelines – Indiana State Board of Animal Health

http://www.in.gov/boah/pdfs/HorseSAVE.pdf

 

The Humane Society of the United Status: 

http://www.hsus.org/web-files/PDF/DIST_DisasterHorseBrochure.pdf

 

Disaster action guidelines for horse and livestock owners - New Jersey Dept. of Agriculture

http://www.state.nj.us/agriculture/livestok.htm

 

Sunshine State Horse Council – Florida.  Preparedness guidelines and lessons learned from Hurricane Andrew - http://www.sshc.org/evac/disaster.htm

Great resource from folks who have been there!

 

Horse Council of British Columbia, Canada – Preparedness guidelines.

http://www.horsecouncilbcsite.com/disaster/disasterpreparedness-00-mainpage.html

Site also has a good checklist that can be printed out as well as forms for helping to document specific information about a horse.