This is a depressing but important article.

I’m glad they discussed the consequences people face when not complying with evacuation orders due to not wanting to leave their pets and that it stressed the importance of having plans and provisions for evacuating and rescuing pets for the sake of not only the pets (of course) but of people who don’t want to leave their animals and the evacuation crews put at risk.

I couldn’t imagine leaving Pepper behind in an emergency. Before Nate started working from home, I’d always worry that an unforeseeable incident (like a fire in our condo building) would happen and we’d both be too far away from home to get the animals to safety.

Scary stuff.