I would like to say that I will never leave my pets behind but really I won't know until something happens. Say a fire if there was a fire in my home and there was a cage in my way, I would definity grab the cage with animal inside it, but I don't think I could go around the house looking for pets. The birds and the guinea pig are by windows so if we had to we could break the window and get them out of the cage into a cat carrier. If there was a tornado we would grab the cages and dogs, then look for the cats because they usually hide, most of the time they hide in the basement so that's good but we had notice about a storm or something no doubt in my mind that I would take them, I love all my pets and couldn't bear to see them die because of me.