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Seniors and Outliving Your Pet
Posted at 12:10 AM, Dec. 14, 2006
For many of those clients 50 and beyond, pets are beloved family members and almost like children. For them, a huge source of anxiety stems from wondering what will happen to a pet if it outlives its human companion or that person becomes incapacitated and cannot properly care for the pet. At the very least, older Seniors should make a pet plan and ask trusted friends or family to care for pets and write out instructions about how best to care for the animal. Feeding preferences and schedules, medications, special medical conditions, and the pet's preferences - sleeping habits, favored toys, dislikes, and so forth - all should be noted. Some people are taking it a step further and including their wishes for their pets in their wills and earmarking funds for pet care. For clients interested in long-term planning for their pets, here are some Websites that provide more information.
http://www.estateplanningforpets.org
http://www.pet-trust.net/index.html
http://www.professorbeyer.com/Articles/Animals.htm
http://www.animallaw.info/topics/spuswillstrusts.htm
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