In this week’s edition of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser continues with the theme of National Preparedness Months and talks about the topic of pet preparedness.

Topics discussed include steps you should take to ensure that you have incorporated pet preparedness into your family’s emergency planning, including specific actions you can take today to ensure that you are prepared to evacuate safely with your pets in the event of a disruption or emergency.

Related Episodes & Articles

Episode #6: Personal Preparedness

Episode #69: National Preparedness Month

Blog: Four steps you can take today to improve your personal preparedness

Blog: Personal Preparedness – Steps you can take today to improve the safety of your family when disaster strikes

Additional Pet Preparedness Resources

FEMA/DHS Ready Campaign: Pets and Animals

FEMA:  Pet Preparedness – 10 things you’ll need

American Red Cross: Pet Disaster Preparedness

Episode Transcript

Bryan Strawser: Hello, and welcome to the “Managing Uncertainty” podcast. This is Bryan Strawser, Principal and CEO here at Bryghtpath.

Bryan Strawser: In this week’s episode, I want to talk about an interesting topic, perhaps a little bit of an unusual topic, and that is pet preparedness, preparedness for your furry creatures or other pets that you have in your life and how you incorporate them into your personal preparedness planning. I’m doing this as a part of National Preparedness Month, the month of September, here in the United States. We’ve talked about it in a previous episode.

Bryan Strawser: The question is, when disaster strikes your home, your neighborhood, or your local community, what will happen to your pet?

Bryan Strawser: Now, if you follow the National Preparedness Month messaging from year to year, you know that the Ready Campaign, the campaign around personal and family and community preparedness from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, they recommend that every family have a plan that they make or buy a kit, and they get informed. They get connected to local alerting for disasters and national alerting for disasters through organizations like FEMA because we want to be prepared for a disaster that might impact them, an individual, or a family, or their local community.

Bryan Strawser: Including your pet or pets in your planning is an important part of keeping your family safe during a disaster because I’ve always had pets growing up. I’ve had cats, and I’ve had dogs and fish and other animals along the way. They all become part of our families.

Bryan Strawser: And so when we’re thinking about planning and preparedness for our families, including your pet in your planning, is an important part of keeping your family safe during a disaster.

Bryan Strawser: Let’s kind of break this down into a few things. We want folks to be prepared by making a plan and having a