Animals in emergencies

If an emergency happened today, do you have a plan in place to save yourself, your family, and your animals? Learn how to prepare to ensure the welfare of your animals during a disaster, such as an earthquake or flood.

Include animals in your emergency plans

Your animals are your responsibility. You need to include them in your emergency planning and preparation. Prepare an emergency plan that covers the major disasters that could affect animals in your family, farm, or workplace.

Discuss your plan, record it, and practice it with your family and co-workers. Keep your plan somewhere it can be easily seen. In your household, this could be on the fridge or by the front door. In a farm or animal facility, this could be kept in a dairy shed, stable, or shearing shed.

Animal welfare – Preparing animals for emergencies

Get information on how to plan for every type of emergency from the Ministry for Primary Industries website.

Go to: Preparing animals for emergencies at mpi.govt.nz

Lifestyle block emergency preparedness handbook

This handbook from the Ministry for Primary Industries website, provides detailed advice on how to prepare for an emergency, what to do and who to reach out to.

Download: Lifestyle block emergency preparedness handbook from mpi.govt.nz (4.1MB)

Make an emergency plan – Lifestyle block

Use this template from the Ministry for Primary Industries website to keep your whānau and animals safe. Please refer to the 'Lifestyle block emergency preparedness handbook' available above, to help you make your plan.

Download: Make a plan - Lifestyle blocks template from mpi.govt.nz (6.3MB)