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What is the difference between a regular shelter and a co-shelter?

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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 is the difference between a regular shelter and a co-shelter?

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 is the difference between a regular shelter and a co-shelter?

Lesa Miller: A regular shelter is for example what the Red Cross the American Red Cross set up, when there was an evacuation and people need a place to be housed during a disaster until they can get back home, if they can get back home.

A co-shelter is sort of a new term, that has been coined for people who are going to be evacuating with their pets and they need to stay with that animal or those animals. The people in co-shelters may or may not be housed directly with their animals. Sometimes it just depends on the site and what the arrangements have been made for; the school or whatever venue it might be. So if they are not sheltering directly with their animal and care taking for the animal during this disaster, then they maybe in an adjacent area at the other end of the school building for example when the animals are at one end and the people on another end. So it just depends on the arrangements made by the authorities.

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