They are saying we can have hurricane force winds for 10 to 18 hours. I remember Fredrick's winds being very bad for 4 to 6 hours. When they say hurricane force winds with Ivan they mean 75mph or higher -- Don't they? How long do you think the very strong winds (over Cat 2) will last?
How long will we have Cat 3 or higher winds?
I'm sorry to be such a bother, but I am really scared. I just can't leave because of my animals. I love them too much.
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jes wrote:I'm sorry to be such a bother, but I am really scared. I just can't leave because of my animals. I love them too much.
Jes - how many and what type of animals do you have? ie - can you put them in your car/truck and head to a pet-friendly hotel inland if you've been ordered to evacuate?
I totally understand your fear of the storm and your concern for your pets. I am more than hurricane weary and wary.
We had Charley and France pass over us in Central FL. I had eleven cats (six were hurrican guests) riding out Frances with us. And I just returned from the Abacos where our home there did take some minor damage.
I'd invite you and your pets to my house, but I'm not going to feel Ok about central FL and Tampa coast areas until Ivan hits land. I remember Elenas loop-de-loops.
Get some sensible plans together and be prepared to calmly act on them. Staying put, if ordered to evacuate is not a good thing.
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Jes,
I've heard that lots of hotels (and even some shelters) that are not pet friendly officially look the other way at crated animals, especially in emergency situations.
Pack up your animals and take them with you--in crates or carriers--or even securely tied boxes. Cats travel best in pillowcases with the mouth severely tied. Tiny animals can travel in pockets, as well as small boxes.
Make sure that you take your pet's medical records with you!
The bottom line is that if you are unsafe not evacuating, your pets are also unsafe not evacuating. And people in the places you evacuate to are sympathetic to problems faced by pet owners. And remember that their possibilities are not stressed by zillions of their own animals in "shelters."
But please go--and take your animals with you so they will also be safe. Unless there are 16 large dogs or something, you should be able to just "sneak them in" if worst comes to worst. My grandmother used to do this and I only remember her being caught once...
Good luck--but go to a safe place.
I've heard that lots of hotels (and even some shelters) that are not pet friendly officially look the other way at crated animals, especially in emergency situations.
Pack up your animals and take them with you--in crates or carriers--or even securely tied boxes. Cats travel best in pillowcases with the mouth severely tied. Tiny animals can travel in pockets, as well as small boxes.
Make sure that you take your pet's medical records with you!
The bottom line is that if you are unsafe not evacuating, your pets are also unsafe not evacuating. And people in the places you evacuate to are sympathetic to problems faced by pet owners. And remember that their possibilities are not stressed by zillions of their own animals in "shelters."
But please go--and take your animals with you so they will also be safe. Unless there are 16 large dogs or something, you should be able to just "sneak them in" if worst comes to worst. My grandmother used to do this and I only remember her being caught once...
Good luck--but go to a safe place.
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Cats?
Cats travel best in pillowcases with the mouth severely tied.
Cats can go in pillowcases, but why and how would tie a poor cat's mouth????? Just get a carrier or put them in a box with holes in it.
Poor kitties
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Cats travel best in pillowcases with the mouth severely tied. 
I'm assuming the poster quoted above was trying to say that they closed the opening of the pillowcase with string or something, but goodness, please just use a sturdy box, or pick up a cat carrier at walmart or someplace like that. I've had cats for years...and they travel best in a carrier. Best to choose one where they have some room to move around.
I'm assuming the poster quoted above was trying to say that they closed the opening of the pillowcase with string or something, but goodness, please just use a sturdy box, or pick up a cat carrier at walmart or someplace like that. I've had cats for years...and they travel best in a carrier. Best to choose one where they have some room to move around.
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Big Blooper! Tie the mouth of the PILLOW CASE--not the cat... (posted in a hurry--fingers faster than brain!) (is there a shame-faced emoticon?)
If you have cat carriers, they are best. If you don't have cat carriers, they travel very well in pillowcases--I've moved a bunch--(we evacuated elderly woman with 7 cats for one 'cane and 5 cats for another to our house and we could handle in pillowcases without them escaping (no cat carriers available in time frame available to us.) Our experience is that pillowcases work better than "sturdy boxes." Cats get out of sturdy boxes--even the "cat carrier type "sturdy boxes" the vets use and in an emergency, the last thing you want is to chase after the cat who is going to be very upset with move.
Also, you can carry the cats in pillowcases a lot better than you can manage multiple carriers. I have a photo somewhere of my husband carrying the woman in question and 5 cats through knee-high water from her house.
Anyway, I agree that in an ideal world, crates or carriers are best. However, if Wal-Mart is out of them, or you need to go quickly, or cat is less frightened when the cat can't see, pillowcases are very effective cat carriers--and also our experience is that they are more likely to go to sleep in a pillowcase than in a carrier. In fact, with a couple of those cats (for the second evacuation, we went with cat carriers to pick her up) we ended up putting them in pillowcases in the carriers to calm them down.
In any case, I think it best to take the animals and go.
If you have cat carriers, they are best. If you don't have cat carriers, they travel very well in pillowcases--I've moved a bunch--(we evacuated elderly woman with 7 cats for one 'cane and 5 cats for another to our house and we could handle in pillowcases without them escaping (no cat carriers available in time frame available to us.) Our experience is that pillowcases work better than "sturdy boxes." Cats get out of sturdy boxes--even the "cat carrier type "sturdy boxes" the vets use and in an emergency, the last thing you want is to chase after the cat who is going to be very upset with move.
Also, you can carry the cats in pillowcases a lot better than you can manage multiple carriers. I have a photo somewhere of my husband carrying the woman in question and 5 cats through knee-high water from her house.
Anyway, I agree that in an ideal world, crates or carriers are best. However, if Wal-Mart is out of them, or you need to go quickly, or cat is less frightened when the cat can't see, pillowcases are very effective cat carriers--and also our experience is that they are more likely to go to sleep in a pillowcase than in a carrier. In fact, with a couple of those cats (for the second evacuation, we went with cat carriers to pick her up) we ended up putting them in pillowcases in the carriers to calm them down.
In any case, I think it best to take the animals and go.
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