Furry Fire Safety
The Pickett Fire and Sky Fire are active in or near Napa County, making it important to prepare an emergency plan. Please include animals in your plans.
Start by packing a “go bag” containing at least one week’s supply of food, water and medications, along with medical records, bowls, comfort items and litter box supplies for cats.
It is equally important to create an evacuation plan. Research places that accept animals ahead of time—identify animal-friendly hotels, shelters, campgrounds or friends willing to help. Keep a printed list of addresses and contacts in your bag.
In case of accidental separation, all animals should be microchipped and wear ID tags with current contact information. Take animals with you in an evacuation. Transport dogs on a harness and leash and cats and other small animals in secure carriers, as frightened animals may bolt. If authorities force you to evacuate without your animals, never leave them tied up or confined.
We can’t control when and where wildfires and other natural disasters happen, but we can control how prepared we are.
Melissa Rae Sanger
The PETA Foundation
Prop 50 is Nifty
Our governmental system, our vital checks and balances, our human rights, our economic freedom, and most important to me, our beloved, hard-earned democracy, are eroding in front of our eyes. We have to do more than observe, hope, pray and just believe it will get better. I write to appeal to you:
This Nov. 4, we Californians will be asked to vote on what may be the most important election of our time. California’s Prop 50 is a vote for democracy.
Vote yes for temporary redistricting; it is our only hope of retaining our democracy. The Texas legislature and governor started this; we the people of California will stop it. This is not about Gov. Gavin Newsom’s political record or red or blue; this is about us. Vote yes on Prop 50.
Brigette Mansell
Healdsburg
