Really sensitive subject for me, sense I had to make this decision for 3 hurricanes that hit my home last summer.

I have lots of pets as many know and I would love to be able to load them all us and take them with me, but that is TOTALLY impossible. Where am I going to take Ducks, Chickens, Goats, Iggie's, Rabbits, etc? There's not a hotel in the world that will take them all in.

When the first hurricane hit me, we had 1 hour notice that it was coming. It turned that quick that we had no time to prepare, so we left, taking who we could and leaving those behind that we had to. Me crying the whole time worrying about them.

The second one came and we decided to stay and not leave our babies again. Well the closer it got, the bigger it got, the scarier it got. Family came and got us out, fearing for our safety and life. Paul's sister crying for him to come with her, because she couldn't deal with another death. So again we took who we could, again me crying, worried about those we left.

The third one came, eye heading right over our home, this one we had a place to go too and planed it out some, but again, we could not take all pets, there was no way to do that. We rented a house from a sweet old woman, who lets us bring 6 pets to the house, no more. So again some had to stay behind. Again me crying.

Life hands you some really hard chooses sometimes and even though I said I'd never leave my babies...........I did. Not because I love them any less then anyone else loves theirs. But because I value my life, my husbands life and the lives that would be effected by any harm/death that could come to us, Family members etc. I made one of the hardest chooses I have ever had to make.

In till you are really faced with it, you just never know what you will do, as much as you think you know. You live in a wood frame home, low lying area, a eye of one of the biggest hurricanes (size wise) is coming toward you and you look over at the man you love and you have to say, Lets go. If any harm came to my pets, it would kill me, but if any harm came to the person I love more then my own life...............I would die.

He left the home, because of his love for me and I left because of my love for him. The love of our pets is strong, but the love for each other is stronger, so you do what you have to do, no matter how much it kills you inside to do it.

Yes, I lost pets...ChiChi, my Chin, because our side wall was riped off, Baby rabbits, from stress we believe, fish from having no power for 3 weeks, no filtrations. It still hurts me to think about them, but did I make the right chosie............YES! What if my husband our I was standing near that wall, when it came off??
One of us could be a widow today!

Never say never.............as you never know. All situations are different, all answers to those situations are going to be different too. There is no black and white answer to all situations, choice will have to be made, quickly and some with no good answer. Picking the best of the worce, is all you can do. Then you pray.