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No pet left behind: St Louis County has one of two Pet Disaster Relief trailers in Minnesota

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson
Published April 13, 2017 at 12:19 PM CDT
St Louis County/Duluth Kennel Club

Hurricane Katrina changed a lot of things in this country.

Since 2006, the year after the storm, federal law says emergency preparedness plans need to be in place for both people and their pets.

There are two Pet Disaster Relief trailers in Minnesota, equipped with everything needed to create, basically, an emergency animal shelter next to one for people.  One trailer is in Anoka county and the other is here in St. Louis county.

For more information about St. Louis County's Pet Disaster Relief trailer, plans and training, contact Emergency Management Coordinator Duane Johnson at 218-726-2936.

More information about the American Kennel Club's Pet Disaster Relief eff0rts and AKC Reunite are here.
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Lisa Johnson
Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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