From: Ahh_YEs_HaPPyTrailz_back_again@webtv.net   
      
   Providing for our dogs if we die?   
      
   Group: rec.pets.dogs.misc Date: Fri, Mar 25, 2005, 10:40am (EST+5) From:   
   buffys97@earthlink.net (Buffys97)   
     Hopefully someone will take me seriously enough to point us in the   
   right direction to accomplish our goal, which is -- if we die (and we   
   aren't planning to go any time soon (-:) we wonder who will care for our   
   dogs? We would like to take care of this matter. We have no children and   
   my sister lets her dogs run wild, so she is out of the question.   
   We would, of course, provide for the care of our dogs by rewarding   
   someone that we know with a more-than-adequate amount of money to care   
   for the dogs. And of course, additional money for them for taking on the   
   chore. Who might oversee this? Their Vet? He might make them the "blood   
   dogs" at his practice. That would be unacceptable....   
   We have presently two dogs and we will never have more than that. Our   
   dogs are well behaved, trained in the social graces and friendly.   
   What prompts my inquiry is that I just heard on the radio that Hawaii   
   provides for a trust that one may set up for such pet care.   
   We have an existing will but it doesn't provide for animal care. I tried   
   writing a new will with a computer software program, but it did not   
   allow you to leave money with strings attached -- such as, "I leave $$$   
   to So-and-So for the care of Fido and Fluffy."   
   Yeah, I could leave my money to a better cause, but I chose to do this   
   instead. We adopted the dogs knowing in our hearts that it was "for   
   better or worse." Whatever happened to the dogs, we were going to be   
   there for them. And we don't have kids. So I guess I became one of those   
   old ladies who made her dogs her kids (-:   
   I wouldn't want them tossed in an animal shelter should we both   
   die.....I do love them.   
   Before I see a lawyer, I thought I would like to know what my options   
   might be.   
   Trixie   
      
      
   Hi Trixie. U know something my husband & I think about this all the time   
   & we have 3 dogs 5 cats. I'm 62  He's 50. We're not going to live for   
   ever especially with me smoking rolled cigarettes from tobacco out of a   
   can & him doing the same plus his beer. We keep asking each other what   
   is the person that's left after the other one dies is going to do about   
   the animals. My dogs are between 10 & 12 yrs. old. My cats range from 10   
   to 2 yrs. old. So I know for sure some of my  cats will out live me. I   
   don't know of any one that my dogs would feel comfortable with, So I can   
   only hope that they die before me. I know I have to talk to a good   
   friend of mine just incase my husband & I both die the same day about   
   this subject. Can't even afford a lawyer for this. I definitely don't   
   want to abandon my pets. Please if you come up with something? Let me   
   know? I live in Massachusetts. Don't know if my state has the same thing   
   as Hawaii does or how much it'll cost   
      
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