Earthquake Preparedness For Your Dog

If you live on the West Coast, you have heard there will eventually be “the big one.” You know, the earthquake.  I’m no fan of the little ones where you stop and ask yourself, “was that an earthquake?”  It’s enough to even have it register as a possibility.

I was wondering how prepared my dogs would be should this event occur.  OK, so I wasn’t really looking at it quite like that.  What happened?  As I loaded the car for our long road trip, I had boxes and bags of clothing packed tightly in the back of the car with pillows and bedding nearest Zoe.  I had a few things in the front seat around where Mo would be riding.

I should have made an announcement to the dogs that should there be turbulence, the items around them could shift!  Shift they did.  I was maybe an hour out of town when the not-so-obvious vibration of the car on the highway caused a sudden movement of the items around the dogs.  I have to admit I laughed when I looked in the rear view mirror at the items covering Zoe and the other things in the front barricading Mo.

I quickly stopped and moved the items to a more secure position.  I looked at the dogs and asked them to think of this as a little earthquake preparedness drill.  They passed with flying colors.  Should they experience the real thing, my hope is the only falling objects are pillows.  They agreed.