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Have an up vote. It does feel insulting (awkward?) to say "own" when there's talk regarding pets since they're often family. I responded to your post because
by shortoncash 9y ago
Have an up vote. It does feel insulting (awkward?) to say "own" when there's talk regarding pets since they're often family.
I responded to your post because one time there was smoke in my building and what I thought was a fire when alarms went off. I immediately ran to secure my pets before everything else without even thinking about it. I even had thoughts going through my head about how to jump off the balcony if necessary. The difficulty I had is that the loud alarms caused the pets to hide and it made it difficult to retrieve them efficiently in an emergency situation.
- wkonk 9y agoI forget where I read this... set off your fire alarms every now and then and give your pets treats. That way they come looking for you when the alarm legitimately goes off.
- throwawayjava 9y agoDogs can be very easily trained to go to a specific spot when they hear a fire alarm if your fire alarm is an old school one that just beeps at you (and not part of a larger whole building system). Just scatter treats around the evacuation point, turn on the fire alarms manually, and guide the dogs to the pile of treats. Repeat until they get it.
- DanBC 9y agoCurrent fire safety advice is for the humans to leave. In a real fire animals are prey good at getting out. It's a tragedy for humans to die when they're looking for animals who've already escaped.