Pet Plans

It was good to see a county preparing for pet shelter in the recent news.

“COLLIER COUNTY:  Collier County officials have taken a big step toward protecting pets during a hurricane. Collier County Commissioners have agreed to spend $25,000 on supplies for a new pet-friendly hurricane shelter.

In fact, the future site of the pet-friendly hurricane shelter will actually be the maintenance building at the brand new North Collier Regional Park. Collier County Emergency Management officials say they picked the site because they can easily separate pets into one building while their owners will only be a few feet away in another building.”

Usually, having a pets means that you can’t go to a shelter during a Hurricane and that means people either have to weather the storm with their animals, leave them behind at their home or evacuate with Fido and Fluffy in tow. Usually in the days after the Hurricane has come through an area, we see stray dogs and cats all over the neighborhoods, or worse, pictures of animals tied up outside and left to fend for themselves.  Hopefully, as Hurricane preparedness improves there will be more options like those in Collier County.