How to Care for Your Pets
During a Disaster

Be prepared for any emergency for your entire family, including your four legged friends with pet first aid kits from WagN4U.com.

Advance preparation and planning

• Prepare a 72 hour kit with food, water, bowls, litter box, medicine, firstaid supplies, and health records.
  
  
• Have leashes/harnesses for each (including cats), and carriers (for each) accessible.
  
  
• Have pets tagged or microchipped for easy identification.
  
  
• Identify places to stay with your pets nearby and 50 miles or more away--hotels that take pets, friends/relatives, boarding facilities. Keep your pet with you if at all possible. Boarding can be expensive. Depending on the extent and duration of the disaster, temporary emergency animal shelters may be established.

First Aid Kit (Use sizes approprate for pets in family)

• Antidiarrheal such as peptobismol (1/2 tab or 2 tsp for 15 lbs in dogs, 1/4 tab or 1 tsp for 15 lbs in cats).
  
  
• Antibiotic ointment such as Neosporin or triple antibiotic.
  
  
• Antibiotic eye ointment.
  
  
• Sterile saline eye wash.
  
  
• Disinfectant surgical scrub and solution.
  
  
• Cotton tipped swabs.
  
  
• Gauze squares.
  
  
• Gauze roll (Kling type).
  
  
• Non-adherent sterile dressing.
  
  
• Bandage scissors.
  
  
• Latex or nitrile gloves.
  
  
• Sterile lubricant.
  
  
• Vet wrap or similar.
  
  
• Large padded bandages, or sanitary napkins.
  
  
• Clean rags, towels, sheets.
  
  
• Syringes of several sizes.
  
  
• Thermometer.
  
  
• Tweezers, and/or mosquito hemostats.
  
  
• Mineral oil.
  
  
• Pet appropriate pain medication.
  
  
• Elastic bandage.

Courtesy of the Utah Emergency Animal Response Coalition
www.uearc.org
Supported by a grant from the American Veterinary Foundation

Other Online Brochures:

http://www.avma.org/disaster/saving_family_brochure.pdf

http://publicsafety.utah.gov/homelandsecurity/docs/famprep_english.pdf