So I learned a hard lesson.. last night my apartment building caught on fire and I had to leave my pets inside.. it was terrifying. The fire alarms went off around 2am so they woke me up from a deep sleep, and by then my apartment was already filled with smoke.
I jumped up and tried to find my cats but they were both hidden and I couldn’t really breathe or go searching for them. I grabbed my rabbit from his cage and went to my closet where I keep the carriers and realized they were buried. I would have had to stand there for a few minutes to get it out which is time I didn’t really have. So I just held him in my arms and left and ran down 8 flights of stairs. When I got outside several of my neighbours were there holding their cats and other pets as well. A lot of them had the same issue as me and couldn’t pull out their pet carriers fast enough.
In a situation like this a pet carrier can be important because 1. You don’t know how long you’re going to be outside waiting. It’s more comfortable for both you and your pet to not hold them by the hour 2. You risk losing them if you are holding them or have a harness on (which realistically in a fire you don’t have time to mess with a harness either) 3. It’ll make them feel safe, hidden, and protected while they’re terrified
Thank GOD the firefighters put it out really quickly and nothing terrible happened. All pets left inside the building were safe, including my own, and nobody got hurt.
But the lesson here is to keep your carriers easy to access incase of emergency! Whether it be a fire, your pet having a seizure, earthquake or tornado.. whatever you can think of. Nothing is worse than being in a panic, trying to find your animals, and not being able to take them because you have no way to safely transport them. There’s no way I would’ve been able to carry both cats and my rabbit without one of them wiggling out on me. So this is just a warning that you should always keep them in a place where they’re quick and easy to grab, and if you do have them in a closet or storage be mindful not to bury them! Thanks for reading
TL;DR- my apartment had a fire last night and many of us had to leave our pets inside because we couldn’t grab them and get them into carriers safely. Only a lucky few managed to bring their pets in their arms. Always keep your carriers in a place easy to grab and don’t bury them in other stuff incase of emergency! Yes all people and pets are now safe.
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from Pets https://www.reddit.com/r/Pets/comments/bv96al/psa_keep_your_carriers_accessible/
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