PETS/LIVESTOCK

If you have pets, domestic animals or livestock, include them in your emergency planning.

• Attach a permanent disc to your pet’s collar that clearly states your phone number, name and address. Microchip your pets.

• Ensure you have a carry box, towel or blanket, emergency food, and a lead and muzzle as part of your pet’s emergency getaway kit. Put your name, phone number and address on the box.

• In the event of an evacuation take your pets with you if you can safely do so. Take their vaccination records and essential medications with you as this will help your pet be re-housed if necessary.

• Community Emergency Response Centres will normally have an area allocated for pets but they are the owners responsibility. Only pets that have an official disability assist tag are permitted inside the response centre.

• Make in-case-of-evacuation arrangements with friends or relatives outside your neighbourhood or area.

• Keep a list of “pet-friendly” hotels and motels and their contact details in case you have to evacuate your home or neighbourhood.

• If you have domestic animals (such as horses, pigs or poultry) or livestock, know which paddocks are safe to move livestock away from flood-waters, landslides and power lines. In the event of an evacuation, ensure you have a plan in place so that they will be secure and have food, water and shelter. The responsibility for animal welfare remains with the owner.

• Check with your council about local arrangements for assisting with domestic animal issues.

• If the container is small, keep a large container with a snug-fitting cover available for waste disposal

• Line bins with plastic bags if possible

How to make an emergency toilet:

• Use watertight containers such as a rubbish bin or bucket, with a snugfitting cover

• Pour or sprinkle a small amount of regular household disinfectant such as chlorine bleach into the container each time the toilet is used to reduce odour and germs. Keep the toilet covered

• If your toilet is intact, put a bag liner inside.

Allied with Nelson Day Surgery, Tasman Day Surgery builds on twenty years of day surgery experience in the Nelson and Tasman regions.

Tasman Day Surgery offers an excellent option in private surgical care. The new hospital opened in March 2022 and was developed in response to the population growth in the region, and desire to provide Tasman residents a local option for surgical care.

Whilst endoscopy is a specialist focus of Tasman Day Surgery, due to New Zealand’s need to increase bowel cancer screening, we provide a full day hospital service within a compassionate, friendly and caring environment.

We are located in Lower Queen Street, Richmond, close to the racecourse, with plenty of parking available.