Natural disasters create several issues for humans and animals when they strike. While humans can access emergency evacuation plans and services in advance of severe weather, animals often go without aid and end up lost, injured, and displaced. As conditions improve for humans, animals continue to go without homes or shelter. Concerned individuals and natural disaster groups should step up and lend a hand whenever and however possible. Here are six ways to help animals after a natural disaster.

Human and animal healthcare are two professions often considered to be separate types of medicine. This can be easily assumed since the physicians require specific training in their designated fields, attend different medical schools and treat different types of patients. However, what many may not realize is that animal healthcare is almost identical to healthcare for people.