If the SHTF, would you take your pet with you or let it fend for itself?

Since I live on the family farm, in a disaster everyone else is going to be coming my way instead of my leaving. My furbabies of course stay with me. I like them better than most of my family.

Besides, I will need the warning that only a small pack of wiener dogs can give when the zombie hoardes are trying to rob and kill anyone who gets in their way.

plus. she wouldn't do well emotionally/mentally if I tried to uproot her from a familiar area and lug her around. She'd be 10X better off being left here than she would be with me lugging her around into strange areas and coming into contact with strange and possibly violent people. She'd be safer being left here. This is a rural area with woods very close that she could roam around and hunt in.

If it were a dog. I'd almost certainly take them with me.

I wish I wouldn't have to leave. But if it ever gets really bad where I have no electricity [for water - I'm on a well] or food I'd probably have to and it would be on foot because there wouldn't be any gas and I wouldn't have the money for it anyway. Honestly, unless I hooked up with some other people who were working together in order to survive and protect each other - I'd probably die either from starvation or being killed.

Recently it has dawned on me how vulnerable I am. No generator in order to start my jet pump on my well. I'm entirely reliant on the electric company for energy and grocery stores for food. I am a sitting duck, on a road near a major interstate - which means looters and bandits will comes down this road breaking into houses and killing people for food and anything else. If I had the money I'd get a manual pump built into my well, several types of generators, stock propane/fuel for them, massive food stocks, a couple of shot guns, lots of ammo, vitamins, water purifiers, light sources [those things you shake or crack to make light up], medical things etc etc. As of now, the only thing I have is access to a .38 revolver. I might would have to become a looter!

Any chance of getting a mutual protection agreement with neighbors? Or having some trusted friends or family move in with you; or have them bring a mobile home or RV?

Start think of ways to block the road in to your area, at least get a lot of rice & beans & store them in sealed mylar bags (can seal with an iron) Store water in empty bleach bottles & 2 litre bottes. Rotate every 6 mos. or so. Get a shotgun.

You need other people you can depend on. But start thinking about where you could bug out to if necessary.

All of you people who profess such love for your pets wouldn't hesitate to roast Fido over a garbage fire after a week without food. Pets are portable meat at best. Lose the emotional attachments, those pets don't have a human brain or soul, just meat robots filling voids in their owners heads.

Sorry David you are speaking for yourself with this post above and not for everyone else. Sorry you feel that way.

Has anyone seen the film, "A Boy And His Dog"
Quite a poignant scenario on life after "the bomb".

Actually I think there are several considerations when thinking these things out.

1 - Where are you now and where are you going (assuming you're going anywhere)?
2 - What situations are you going to encounter, urban, suburban, rural, or wild?
3 - What pets do you have (and how many) and what are their capabilities for survival and under what conditions?
4 - Will they be an advantage to have or not, depending on the above situational spectrum.
5 - Do you need to feed them or can they fend for themselves?
6 - Are they social or antisocial (imagine you end up in a camp/town/commune/whatever with other people and their pets)?
7 - What other cares do you have that should come first?
8 - How will you be traveling?
9 - Do you have what it takes to provide for them?

These are a few off the top of my head. I'm sure, given time, others will present themselves to the thoughtful.

Oh, and I'm not planning on going anywhere, but if I do, the dog comes.

I rather like the saying, "My wife, yes. My dog, maybe. My gun, never." but I must amend that. No one knows what they will do in an extreme situation until presented with it. We shall see.

You are pretty.
I mean, pretty insightful :)
I would hate to leave my dog and cat behind, but if I had to for my own survival, I would.
Don't feel bad, I think most people would do what they had to do in order to survive.

On another note, what kind of music do you listen to? I think we would be friends :) It would be nice to have someone my age to talk about GLP shit with, without feeling like a complete freakin weirdo.