Speaking of Storms
Chase was just hanging around in his backyard in Richton Park, Illinois, when a tornado swept through, taking him along for the ride. “People started coming up and saying ‘we saw your dog in flight,’” said Holmes, Chase’s owner. Miraculously, Chase was found a block away, baffled and terrified, but alive.
Sarah, an outgoing black lab, was swept out of her owner’s home when a tornado hit Windsor, Colorado. Fortunately, the local Sheriff’s department created a plan four years ago to deal with reuniting pets with their owners after a natural disaster. After almost 24 hours of frantic searching, Sarah was found at the Emergency Operations Center where all kinds of bedraggled pets were given refuge. Besides a few bruises and one scar across her eye, Sarah is well and grateful to be back home.
June 27th, 2008 at 1:51 am
How great that there is a plan and people watching out for pets. Not just for the sake of the pets, but people have died trying to save their pets in a disaster.
June 27th, 2008 at 4:01 am
Thank God my lot are microchipped. My cell phone, home phone and sister’s phone numbers are all registered with the company in the event we were to be seperated.
There were tornado warnings last night and we were up at midnight with the sirens. My game plan involves us piling the dogs into my car and my husband/son in the other and to get out of dodge.
June 28th, 2008 at 2:41 am
That’s pretty good that a city has that plan in place for pets during natural disasters like that. I can’t believe a rottweiler was carried away. Can’t imagine seeing that. I’m glad those dogs ended up OK.