Fellow seniors who love your pets...?

I am planning on outliving my pets but if I happened to drop dead, my kids would be happy to take them'

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!

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.

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.

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.

Here in the UK the RSPCA, Royal Society for the Prevention

of Cruelty to Animals, have a scheme whereby pet owners

may sign up to an agreement to the "home for life" scheme

which cares for and protects the pet for the rest of it's life

when an owner passes away. Perhaps the ASPCA has a

similar scheme? They may prove helpful.

Check out the UK home for life scheme here:

http://www.homeforlife.org.uk/

Once you have signed up for this scheme,

you will need to change your Will to make

the executors aware of your wishes and

let them know that your pet is signed up

for the scheme.

We have lost several cats because they have wandered into the road and been killed by cars. One remains and will not be replaced so, hopefully, there will be no pets to worry about later. We had one dog which had to be put down when very ill.

I would not wish to burden someone else with a pet. It would not be good for relative or pet i.m.o. unless they were already very attached to each other.

I at present don't have a puppy, yet final week there grew to become right into a fly humming around the abode. He stored touchdown on the television demonstrate. He the two loved the instruct or he knew I wasn't going to swat he on the liquid crystal demonstrate demonstrate. BTW, if a fly hangs around one's abode for each week, does he qualify as a puppy? of course he grew to become into finding some thing to consume right here.

I have parrots and they are long lived plus all my dogs. I'm stuck too. I don't have anyone I can trust to find them good homes. I had thought of leaving money for their care but I know another woman that did that and her dogs ended up being put down anyway.

Our daughter has already offered to take Bud. He goes there when we go out of town and he loves it.

When my Mom died and my Dad had to go into a home they had an extremely shy cat named Hobie. It took my brother 3 days of staying at their house to coax Hobie out of the drain pipe in front of the house. We all knew she wouldn't be happy anywhere and we could see she missed our Mom terribly. the three of us 9older sister, too) made the decision to have her put down. She was 17. I don't regret it.

A friend has a cock a too who will most surely outlive him. He belongs to several "bird groups" and one of them will take Peaches when Bob dies. Bob take Peaches visiting to his future home quite often.

Bob and his late wife, Sally, had no children and when Bob dies their estate (quite large) will be going to Michigan State University to go towards a scholarship for a veterinary student.

Both my brother and sister have assured me that they will care

for Spike. I was recently in the hospital for a week and they both

came to my home to care for him every day. They both tried to

take him home with them but he refused to get into their cars.

If I were in your situation I would visit your local dog park and get to

know some of the regulars. They can be a great resource in helping

you with your problem.

Good luck.