Emergency Support Function 11: Animal Care
PURPOSE
ESF-11: The Cornell Center for Animal Resources and Education (CARE) coordinates the provision of services to support the welfare of Cornell owned animals at the Ithaca and remote New York State facilities.
CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS
Coordinating Unit: Cornell Center for Animal Resources and Education (CARE)
(CARE) has primary responsibility for oversight of the welfare of Cornell owned animals and is responsible for coordination of animal care services to support the welfare of those animals. This ESF does not include client owned animals at the Cornell University Hospital for Animals (CUHA) but it does not preclude CARE from providing support to CUHA if deemed necessary. This ESF does not include Cornell owned animals at Weill Cornell Medicine.
ESF ACTIONS
Cornell Center for Animal Resources and Education
- Coordinate animal care response and recovery activities involving Cornell owned animals
- Coordinate provision of the following animal care services:
- Emergency veterinary care
- Relocation of animals
- Emergency/temporary housing/sheltering of animals
- Recapture of escaped or released animals
- Animal water, food, and medical supplies
- Coordinate activities related to animal diseases which have public health significance including:
- Actions to identify, prevent and control diseases
- Epidemiological and environmental health activities
- Act as liaison with outside animal regulatory agencies and facilitate notification to appropriate outside regulatory and accrediting agencies and Cornell committees including but not limited to: IACUC, AAALAC, OLAW, USDA, ORIA, and the Institutional Officer
- Coordinate the request for and use of resources from campus animal facilities including those from:
- College of Veterinary Medicine
- College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- Cornell Athletics