We've done lots of prep work for an emergency. I fully expect a forest fire will hit us one day.

I keep all the medications in a tupperware container. Just need to put the lid on & it's ready to go. Leashes are always in the truck or hanging by the door. I keep the dog food in a big truck toolbox. It would just get loaded too along with the rubbermaid tub of cat food. I have enough carriers for all the cats. I have a double decker dog box that can be loaded onto a trailer or on to my truck. It holds 20 dogs. The two big dogs, Kayleigh & Heyoka, don't fit in the dog boxes so they would go in the truck with one of us. Cats would go in the other vehicle as Kayleigh hates cats.

We have an agreement with a friend who lives quite a distance in the opposite direction from us. If the fire is approaching our place, the dogs, cats and us go to his place and stay with him. If it is approaching his place, he brings his horses, dog and two cats to us. It would be a gong-show with his horses at our place, but in an emergency we could make it work.