What pet owners need to know (2010)
Archive of the former Pet Safe Coalition's website. This site is not that group.
Nancy Hassel wrote this piece for Examiner.com on 5 March 2010, after the Haiti and Chile earthquakes had made readers ask what they would do with a pet in a disaster.
It said Suffolk County had three dedicated pet-friendly emergency shelters at the time, set up after Katrina, and that Nassau County had none. It named the Pet Safe Coalition as a nonprofit working to educate owners and public officials.
It quoted the group's president saying shelter plans would take only a fraction of Nassau's pets, so owners must plan. Advice in the piece: put a collar and ID tag on every pet, keep a pet first aid kit in the car and house with a week of food, keep a spare leash and collar in the car, ask friends outside the danger zone about boarding, call hotels about pet policies, and have a carrier for each animal.
The shelter situation described is from 2010.