RESPONSIBLE PET PARENTING
Estate Planning For Your Pets
Who’s going to care for your pets if they outlive you?
There will come a day when every one of us will leave this earth.
And, at some point in time, most of us with pets will ponder the uncomfortable possibility of outliving our companions.
Whether they’re dogs or cats, parrots or horses, winged, feathered or hoofed, more people today than ever before consider their pets as family members.
“My philosophy when it came to pets is much like that of having children: You got what you got, and you love them unconditionally regardless of whatever their personalities or flaws turned out to be.” Gwen Cooper, American Novelist
As with any family, life events can bring abrupt, unexpected changes. Suddenly the nephew you always expected to take your aging greyhound is moving to a college dorm out of state.
The neighbor who’d promised for years to take your two Persians “if anything ever happens” is now in a nursing home.
Your best friend, who’s set to inherit furniture, a car, and some cash, has made it clear she doesn’t want the responsibility of your poodle.
