do you have a good plan for their care after you leave this life? I am stumped on this. I can't ask my kids to care for them (for legitimate reasons -- long story.) But what to do? Hope you have some clues. Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
Tigger
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I am planning on outliving my pets but if I happened to drop dead, my kids would be happy to take them'
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Good question. I have two cats who are under the age of 10. Assuming I live a long life, I have decided these will be my last cats, which in a way, bothers me because none of us knows how long we have. I adopted two females after my 18 year old cat died and the one got kidney failure and died only four years after I adopted her. That was heart breaking. I do believe that pets make the quality of our life that much better that it will hurt me a lot to not have a cat because I've always had one...but what if I have to go into a home one day and can't take the cat? That's a concern. So I thought perhaps it best if I just not have another pet after these two go. I don't know!
When I had my will made up I mentioned them in the will that someone would care for them and my attorney said he would handle that.
I don't have any family who would take them.
It's hard.
My aunt us 90 and loves animals and has a 2 cats and a dog and I don't know if she has plans for them or not but her health is not good but I can't take them if something happens. The cats are feral and she has them living in the house and the house is all peed up!
Dorothy C
This is one of my greatest concerns. I have an indoor cat, that had been a stray, near death, when I took her in 14 years ago. Since then, I can open all my doors and windows and she won't leave. She is very attached to me, and my large home. She is always waiting for me when I'm out.
When my husband died 8 years ago, she grieved along with me. She was very aware of his absence.
Therefore, even though I have found a younger person willing to take her in, I'm still very worried. I have put these arrangements in my will, and also left some money for her care.
I also think about, what will happen if this person is on vacation, maybe out of the country, when I die. Or what if something happens and she can't take care of the cat, then what?
I'm glad that my cat is a senior like me. My biggest wish would be for us to go at the same time. I have no children, and my brother absolutely hates cats.
It truly is a worry.
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This is an excellent question and makes me think hard. Our dog is between two and three years old and I recently adopted a cat which the vet thinks is between two and three as well. I am in poor health and should not have taken on the cat, I know that. But my old cat died last fall and I missed having that little furry fuzzball around. However, my daughter and her husband are cat lovers and will take her if I die and my husband needs them to and I just this minute told him that. Dogs are a different story because their upkeep is expensive and they can be an unruly addition to a home. I can only hope that my husband can take care of the dog. I know these will be our last pets and I love them dearly.
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My husband and I have tentatively decided that Otto will be our last dog. That will change if, God forbid, Otto dies young. We're comfortable having a good dog around and would be less happy if we didn't have one.
If Otto outlives us, my nephew, whom Otto knows and loves, will take him. We're comfortable with that arrangement.
We also have three indoor cats. The last cat we had, before these three, lived to be 21 years old, so there's a good chance our cats will outlive us, too. One of them will go with our daughter, but I'm concerned about the other two. I know fewer cat lovers than dog lovers. There is a good no-kill shelter here and Pirate might not hate it, but I can't picture fat fluffy Pearl being happy there. I'm working on the problem. I can understand why the ancient Egyptians wanted to take their pets with them to the afterlife.