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What supplies are recommended in a pet emergency kit for other pets?

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Lesa Miller
Community Outreach Coordinator, Animal Welfare League of Alexandria
703-838-4774

Past employment includes veterinary technician assistant, wildlife rehabilitator/naturalist, & animal control officer. Currently, Lesa is community outreach coordinator at the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria, where she's responsible for teaching humane education classes in schools, working with the city's emergency services office in establishing a pet evacuation plan for pets of city residents, doing presentations for scout troops, civic organizations, CFC/CVC fundraisers, collaborating with other animal-related businesses, & helping with shelter special events.

What supplies are recommended in a pet emergency kit for other pets?

In this video Lesa Miller of the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria, Virginia discusses what to do in an emergency situation with your pets.

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Host: What supplies are recommended in a pet emergency kit for other pets?

Lesa Miller: Other pets will have special needs depending on the species and certainly if you have got parrots, rabbits, chinchillas, guinea pigs and other rodents hamsters and gerbils, even mice and pet rats may need to be housed, then we can accommodate that, but you will want to bring their litter pans, litter boxes and litter, things to chew on like wicker and cardboard for the rabbits. Exercise wheels so those rodents that like to, need to move around and burn some energy. Food and water and proper bedding and the cage, the aquarium that they are living in, they will have to have something to keep them secure.

With reptiles and amphibians, some people have exotics and we may need to accommodate them as well, in which case they need proper food and water and container that they come in, but they will also need heat lamps and heat lights, because they are cold blooded animals.

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