Please take a look at this article from Animal Planet News ; I didn't want to waste any time so you can enjoy the good news !
June 5, 2006 — Animal welfare advocates on Wednesday said they had worked with the U.S. government to develop new measures to protect pets in the event of another natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina, in which tens of thousands of pets died.
"We remember Katrina. That's why we have pushed for including animals in the rescue plans," said Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society.
The group says that at least 50,000 pets died because no emergency plans were in place to save them after Hurricane Katrina flooded huge swaths of the U.S. Gulf Coast in August 2005.
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