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What do we do with our pets if disaster strikes and chaos ensues? DON"T FORGET TO PREP FOR THEM TOO!
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 9966035:MV8yMDU5MTkxXzM0NjM2MTEyXzk2MUJCMTU=] [quote:Anonymous Coward 20301624:MV8yMDU5MTkxXzM0NjM1OTcxX0RBOTRCMzdG] [quote:Anonymous Coward 1110734:MV8yMDU5MTkxXzM0NjM1NDI3XzQ2NTg3MTVD] I've written many posts about this topic, because many people have pets and some are preppers. Obviously if you do care about your animal and you also want to be frugal, then you purchase their food when it's on sale and rotate it so they have plenty but save yourself money. Hey, that's real prepping not buying bugout bags...hmmm Let's say you have a dog or cat. What do they eat in Nature? They're mammals that are predators and eat meat. In a collapse, you could easily harvest by trapping small rodents and supplement their diet from your pet food supplies. Trapping is the way our ancestors most often ate meat, not hunting which is way more demanding of calories used to produce work. Many diseases are spread by pets from their fecal matter. For example, in a collapse, local water supplies could be compromised and people and pets would drink from contaminated streams or lakes. Pets could get amebic dyssentary or they could get toxoplasmosis gondii or they could get about six different varieties of worms. This means know how it's spread, making sure your pet drinks clean water, knowing how to find water and dig wells, not allowing their fecal matter to be composted and recycled in your garden, etc. In a collapse, you might become their veterinarian. It's that or if they get sick, they'll potentially die. If you care about them, they maybe you download the veterinarian manuals about their specific needs and learn how you might best limit their exposure to common ailments and how you might treat them. You probably won't have medicines. How did our ancestors treat them? Learn by reading history. It's that or putting them down when they get sick and potentially infectious and making other community animals sick. Do you really want to do that? Do you have the capability and know-how to do it so they don't suffer? If not, then it will be cruel when you have to do it, and make mistakes and they suffer worse because of your ineptness. It's been hypothesized that many people will abandon their pets in a disaster based upon previous history with say Hurricanes or wartime. When that happens, animals go feral. Dogs will run in packs and share their diseases. Because a dog is a social creature that likes to be around humanity, but may have lost its normal fear and docility from taking care of itself, a feral dog has a high chance of attacking a weaker human in order to survive. People worry a lot about wolf attacks, but there's little documentation about them. It's far more likely for a dog to attack, and especially when it has gone feral. Some species of dog will interbreed with coyotes or wolves too, and then become a very dangeous species to deal with. These are the basic kinds of issues with dogs and cats in a collapse. [/quote] If one can stay in place then your ideas are great. But lets be honest here. Most people about 90% of them will abondon their pets. Dog will pack up and yes they will kill eveything including humans. They will kill all the little dogs first. Little dogs are history. Bigger dogs like shepherds with good insulated coats would be in for the long run. Wolves to not mate with dogs or coyotes. They would kill any that they met along the way. Please give me a break on that one. Domestic dogs males would mate with female coyotes if they let them. Thats rare. Most coyotes are smaller and would have a similar fate as small dogs. As far as trapping game for your dogs. Hope you live in the country and you will probably be eating what you catch yourself and maybe you would share. To the girl who's going to pack her cats and a litter box around. Good fucking god. Are you kidding me...? Better think again you fool. Not going to work out well for them. Get over it and do the right thing for your animals guys and you better have a way of putting them down a well though out one otherwise your an idiot. [/quote] This is the "girl with the litter box".......... You're cold! I'm not going to put down my cats! What is wrong with taking them in our SUV? I have to know that I at least tried. They wouldn't last a week outdoors by themselves. They are indoor cats and declawed. They are my responsibility. [/quote]
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In response to an email from a fellow GPL member, I'd like to know everyones opinion on what we do with our pets if a major event strikes us. Many of us have pets and they're just as much a part of the family as children.
EDIT:--THE PURPOSE OF THIS POST IS TO RAISE AWARENESS THAT PEOPLE NEED TO PREPARE FOR THEIR PETS AS WELL, NOT JUST THEMSELVES. THERE SEEMS TO BE SOME CONFUSION HERE. I HAVE INDEED PREPARED FOR MY PETS, SO CHILL WITH THE HATEFULNESS.
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