The way Mark Shriver sees it, disaster planning officials throughout the nation have placed standards for treating pets in the wake of a catastrophe over the needs of nation’s most vulnerable citizens — children.
The chairman of the National Commission on Children and Disasters delivered that message last week in an address to The National Press Club. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, when residents refused to leave their homes without their pets, federal government urged communities to adopt measures to ensure that pets are dealt with.
“If we can do it for dogs and cats, we can surely do it for kids,” Shriver said.
