Emergency shelters set up in Troy during flood evacuation
Kansas State Animal Response Team
Volunteers helping people through animal disaster education, planning, and response.
Volunteers helping people through animal disaster education, planning, and response.
Sunday, March 24 was a great day for families, pets and Kansas State Animal Response Team volunteers at the emergency animal shelter in Troy, KS. The ultimate reward for a response volunteer is to witness the reunion of a family with their pets after a disaster and that is what Sunday was all about, watching […]
The Kansas State Animal Response Team was requested by Doniphan County Emergency Management and Kansas Emergency Management to respond to support the residents of Elwood and nearby Wathena in north east Kansas. The Kansas State Animal Response Team sent volunteers and equipment trailers to temporary shelter pets at the Doniphan county fairgrounds. The deployment began […]
Shelter Opens for Pets and People in Manhattan Kansas The North East Animal Response Team and the Red Cross partnered to shelter pets and their families in one co-located shelter in Manhattan, Kansas during flooding this September. Mary Prewitt with the Kansas State Animal Response team said this decision was long overdue. “People will cross […]
Photo- Doug Gross (Patch Staff) Updated August 29, 2017 11:51 am Update 08/30/2017 KS SART is closely watching the animal response situation in Texas following Hurricane Harvey and is ready to offer assistance IF REQUESTED! Of utmost importance is that NO ONE SELF-DEPLOY! The nature of disasters is “hurry up and wait”. Texas is skilled […]
Photo: Tiele Dockens Trained Kansas Animal Response volunteers have been notified and given the opportunity to respond under one of our national animal response partners as animal sheltering volunteers. Some Kansas animal response volunteers are also involved in the hurricane response through remote liaison and resource coordination efforts to support a partner response agency out […]
Nadine Conner did something heroic early Sunday morning. She braved flooded streets in south Wichita and opened her shop at 1:30 a.m. to allow pets rescued in the storm’s aftermath to have a place to stay. Read more here.
Any rescue of a living creature is difficult, but a pet rescue is extra tough. For starters pets might not be listed as missing. Next, pets often run from their home area during or after the storm. Then, some pets are so small they can get wedged into the smallest of places. Such was the […]
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