Do Your Part is an independent publisher of plain, calm emergency-preparedness guides for households with pets. The idea is simple. When a hurricane, wildfire, flood, or a sudden vet emergency hits, you should already know what to do and where your pet’s things are, instead of figuring it out at the worst possible moment.
What we cover
Two things, mostly. The first is getting ready before anything happens: building a pet go-bag, writing a family disaster plan, microchips and ID, and the steps for the disasters most likely where you live. The second is the fast stuff, the pet first aid you hope you never need, like choking, CPR, poisoning, bleeding, heatstroke, and what to do about a dog left in a hot car. Every guide is written for the moment it matters and then trimmed down to what you will actually do.
How we write
We build each guide on guidance from the people who do this for a living, including Ready.gov, the American Red Cross, the ASPCA, and FEMA’s pet guidelines, then say it in plain English. On the medical pages we point you to the help that actually answers in a crisis, like the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center at (888) 426-4435 and the Pet Poison Helpline at (855) 764-7661. None of it replaces a veterinarian. If your animal is hurt or sick, call your vet or the nearest emergency animal hospital.
How this site is funded
Do Your Part is independent. No sponsor decides what we recommend, and we will tell you when the cheap option is the right one. We do not run a donation program and we never ask readers for money.
A note on the name
This domain was once used by Do Your Part Inc., a disaster-relief nonprofit that has since wound down. This site is a separate, independent content publisher. We are not affiliated with that organization, we do not continue its work, and we do not collect or solicit donations on its behalf or our own.
Who writes this
Guides are written and edited by Aaron, who has spent years building practical, no-nonsense reference sites and lives in a part of the country where wildfire and evacuation season is a normal fact of life. The goal here is not to scare anyone. It is to make the prepared version of you the easy version to be.