Comments on: The revolution has not been televised

By: Doug Lent

Doug Lent — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:14:41 +0000

Thanks for this great article. The Red Cross hasn’t changed our pet policies. Animals are not permitted in shelters unless they are companion animals such as seeing eye dogs. In the event of a disaster, if you must evacuate, the most important thing you can do to protect your pets is to evacuate them, too. We recommend having a plan for where your pets can go before disaster strikes. You should also have a “to go kit” for your pet that includes extra food, water, medicines, toys, etc in case you need to be separated for up to a week. Also make sure you have extra pictures of your pet just in case they get lost during the confusion.

By: Jenifer

Jenifer — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:13:15 +0000

Unfortunately what seems to have come right along with this is veterinarians deciding pretty much across the board with the blessing and urging of their professional associations to charge what the traffic will bear for any and all medical treatment of our pets, playing the emotion card and often charging extortionately and above levels for human medicine, a strategy which seems to imply that either the pet owner pays through vast sums of money or the four-legged child dies. To me, in my opinion, this is little more than robbery at gunpoint because more often than not when a pet guardian cannot afford treatment the only recourse is death for the pet. If anyone thinks this is too strong an opinion I would urge reading the forums and blogs on this very topic that has pet guardians all over the US very concerned and really starting to feel toward veterinarians just like they already feel toward used car sales people and lawyers. Not positive emotions, that’s for sure!

By: nancy

nancy — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:03:12 +0000

Here.. Here… Something we’ve known all along!