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Advice to pet owners?
Notification today about a fire in NJ where some pets perished hit close to home for me. This is a topic near and dear to my heart as I also share my home with 4 dogs and 2 cats and one of my greatest fears is that a fire would erupt in my home while the family is out grocery shopping.
While we nationally do a go decent messaging job about how not to die in a fire (smoke detectors, escape plans, fire prevention programs), were I asked to give pet owners advice about how to save or improve the odds of rescue for their pets, I'm not sure I'd have "all the right answers". Thus the following questions to the FF Nation:
1. What advice would you have for me regarding how to best keep my pets safe from fire (beyond the typical things we tell humans - I'm looking for specifics like "Install pet doors so they could escape without me being home") type of responses.
2. What sort of priority would you suppose should be placed on keeping pets safe from fire dangers in the national scheme of things given humans are still burning up for preventable reasons? In other words, would messaging about pets detract from the overall human life-safety message we're trying to put out there?
Thanks,
Talbot
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Permalink Reply by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on
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LOL - I LOVE TONKA !!!
HYSTERICAL
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Permalink Reply by Talbot Brooks on
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Fantastic answer - giggle for hours - thanks!!!
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OK, since we're bordering on goofy a little here, try this on for size...
My mom (leave it to her) had an interesting idea that would probably prove annoying, but presents an interesting concept - what if someone clever invented mini-smoke detectors that would fit on a dog or cat collar? I chuckled at first, but with some thought - and setting the obvious troubles aside like the dog rolling around in dust - the strategy kinda makes sense and it might well work for people too. A detector like this would functionally operate like a pass device - make lots of noise and light to help locate a target in a fire. It also draws on a second concept pet that some pet owners already use - GPS on the collar to locate the dog/cat when it goes missing. So out spins a bigger concept I'll help her patent - if such a mini detector could work for pets, why not make them small enough for watches or buttons on clothing?
Just to make clear - I'm not the guy at your station who has to have all things electronic - I cannot stand these new digital pump panels - please give me my throttle knob and manually set relief valve back! And no, I don't watch Star Trek re-runs all day...
BTW - here's my inspiration for the original post, taken through the window as I came back from a late night call.
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Permalink Reply by Jack/dt on
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I'm a dog person, would I risk our safety to rescue a dog? Probably not. Would I risk our safety to rescue a cat? Never. That being said, I did pull out a dog that fell through the ice. Would I do that for a cat? No. Cats are like squirrels, plentiful, annoying and something to aim at when driving.
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Permalink Reply by Brian Dumser on
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And if you fry them up just right, they taste like chicken!
For all you PETA people, I was just kidding. (they don't taste anything like chicken!)
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Permalink Reply by Derek R. on
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younger the cat=more tender the meat.
"For all you PETA people, I was just kidding. (they don't taste anything like chicken!)"
I said the same thing when I had.....take-out last week.
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