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What resources are available to the public for information on how to prepare to evacuate their 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 resources are available to the public for information on how to prepare to evacuate their 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 resources are available to the public for information on how to prepare to evacuate their pets?

Lesa Miller: There are a number of resources for various animal organizations, ours is one of them, we have a new pet emergency preparedness pamphlet that we like to call the 'Pet Program' and it is getting people excited and interested in learning how they can prepare. So we have that specific to our town, but we also have this homeland security brochure that has some real great pointers and goes into in-depth on what to do to prepare. The American Humane Association also has wonderful information, United Animal Nations, their emergency animal response crew has wonderful resource as well as The Humane Society of the United States and many others I am sure. If you just tap into our website or their websites and get information from us.

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