If you live where severe weather strikes, keep your pets calm and safe
My wife informed me yesterday that we really don't live in the center of "Tornado Alley," but I'm not sure just where that is anyway. But I know we do live in an area with serious thunderstorm and tornado threats starting about now and running through probably September or October.
Yeah, the joys of living in the Missouri Ozarks.
And severe weather also means time to make sure our wonderful old cat, Tigra, is safe and comforted when the thunder boomers roll and crash around. (Actually, my wife is the calmest person in the house on those occasions, sympathetically comforting and reassuring both me and Tigra.)
We've had some nasty weather recently and the weather forecasting people are suggesting we have more coming on Monday. So I just thought it worth mentioning that we all need to care for our pets when severe weather hits. In our case, the safest thing to do is let our cat find the "hidey hole" she prefers and make sure she's physically safe. Specifically, she prefers diving under our bed and snuggling in the folded ends of some blankets we leave hanging down for her.
At times, if the thunderstorms aren't eminent but heavy rain is rattling down, she prefers just to nestle beside "Daddy's" leg in the recliner.
It goes without saying that you really need to make sure your pet is properly identified via microchip and/or a good collar and tag. If the ultimate disaster such as a tornado strike, hurricane strike, earthquake, etc., scores a direct hit on your neighborhood or home -- you absolutely owe it to your pet to be properly identified and have the chance of being reunited with you.
Meanwhile, we won't talk about all that negative, nasty stuff. Not when the sky's clouding up out there and we've had off-again/on-again storms. I'm too nervous for that and probably will need to have Tigra comforting ME!
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