"Making Arrangements" for Cats

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:29:18 -0500, "CatNipped"
wrote:

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Anyway, what have others here done?
hmmm, sorry to say, but like and Victor so far I haven't done
anything. Making a will just isn't something a healthy person thinks
much about, although everyone probably should. I THINK my last will
was done when I retired in '93, but the only one I positively remember
was while deploying to the first Gulf war. Anyway, thanks for the
reminder, now to get off my a## and do something about it.
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I have it in my will that my friend (who is a vet and cat breeder) will take
care of any cats/kittens that I may have - I have also stated that none of
the kitties are to be put to sleep, if he can't keep all of the cats I trust
him enough to find loving homes for them.
I haven't made another will since I married earlier this year but we have
done a draft copy - must get on to that soon.

Lois

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Burmese are like potato chips, you can't just have one.

"CatNipped" wrote in message
...
I'm wondering at what the older members of this group (or any of you, for
that matter) may have done as far as making arragements for their cats to
be
taken care of if they should pass away before their cats do.

This subject was brought up on another group and it got me wondering. My
DH
and I haven't made out our wills yet (really, really need to - it just
hasn't seemed urgent since our kids are grown and, aside from our house,
we
really don't have a pot to p*ss in ;).

However, thinking about what might happen to my fur-babies should
something
happen to both of us has made it seem more urgent.

Giving them to my son is out of the question because his wife will not
tolerate a cat in the house (the cat my son has had since before his
marriage has managed just fine since she was born and raised outside, and
they live on a dead-end, very quiet street). Their current kitten will
probably join his other cat outside as soon as he's old enough in my DIL's
eyes.

My cats, however, have never been outside and would not know how to cope.

Neither would I want my daughter and SIL to take them - they have two d*gs
and are not really "cat people".

So, I have no idea what would happen to my babies, and have now gotten
myself all worried about it. I can only hope that they do not outlive me
and from now on only adopt older cats. Thankfully, my family is very
long-lived (my grandmother was still walking 5 miles a day when she died
at
age 105, and my mother, 78, goes dancing or bowling every day of the
week),
so I'm hoping this problem will never arise.

Anyway, what have others here done?

Hugs,

CatNipped

I have it in my will that my friend (who is a vet and cat breeder) will take
care of any cats/kittens that I may have - I have also stated that none of
the kitties are to be put to sleep, if he can't keep all of the cats I trust
him enough to find loving homes for them.
I haven't made another will since I married earlier this year but we have
done a draft copy - must get on to that soon.

Lois

--
http://zeotropeburmese.kiwiwebhost.net.nz
--
Burmese are like potato chips, you can't just have one.

"CatNipped" wrote in message
...
I'm wondering at what the older members of this group (or any of you, for
that matter) may have done as far as making arragements for their cats to
be
taken care of if they should pass away before their cats do.

This subject was brought up on another group and it got me wondering. My
DH
and I haven't made out our wills yet (really, really need to - it just
hasn't seemed urgent since our kids are grown and, aside from our house,
we
really don't have a pot to p*ss in ;).

However, thinking about what might happen to my fur-babies should
something
happen to both of us has made it seem more urgent.

Giving them to my son is out of the question because his wife will not
tolerate a cat in the house (the cat my son has had since before his
marriage has managed just fine since she was born and raised outside, and
they live on a dead-end, very quiet street). Their current kitten will
probably join his other cat outside as soon as he's old enough in my DIL's
eyes.

My cats, however, have never been outside and would not know how to cope.

Neither would I want my daughter and SIL to take them - they have two d*gs
and are not really "cat people".

So, I have no idea what would happen to my babies, and have now gotten
myself all worried about it. I can only hope that they do not outlive me
and from now on only adopt older cats. Thankfully, my family is very
long-lived (my grandmother was still walking 5 miles a day when she died
at
age 105, and my mother, 78, goes dancing or bowling every day of the
week),
so I'm hoping this problem will never arise.

Anyway, what have others here done?

Hugs,

CatNipped

This is a tangent to the discussion at hand, but I just had to comment
on this:

CatNipped wrote:

Thankfully, my family is very long-lived (my grandmother was still
walking 5 miles a day when she died at age 105, and my mother, 78,
goes dancing or bowling every day of the week),

WOW!!! Your family has some really good genes! (They also, apparently,
have some excellent habits.) They both put me, aged 50, to shame!

Sounds like you have a good chance of outliving your current batch of
kitties.


Joyce

This is a tangent to the discussion at hand, but I just had to comment
on this:

CatNipped wrote:

Thankfully, my family is very long-lived (my grandmother was still
walking 5 miles a day when she died at age 105, and my mother, 78,
goes dancing or bowling every day of the week),

WOW!!! Your family has some really good genes! (They also, apparently,
have some excellent habits.) They both put me, aged 50, to shame!

Sounds like you have a good chance of outliving your current batch of
kitties.


Joyce

wrote in message
...
This is a tangent to the discussion at hand, but I just had to comment
on this:

CatNipped wrote:

Thankfully, my family is very long-lived (my grandmother was still
walking 5 miles a day when she died at age 105, and my mother, 78,
goes dancing or bowling every day of the week),

WOW!!! Your family has some really good genes! (They also, apparently,
have some excellent habits.) They both put me, aged 50, to shame!

Sounds like you have a good chance of outliving your current batch of
kitties.


Joyce

Yeah, well, I'm not as good as mom and grandmother about staying fit -
although I'm trying to make up for it now at age 52. I exercise for 45
minutes a day 4 days a week, but that's *very* recent and only because,
after my gastric bypass surgery and losing 80 pounds in 6 months, I didn't
want to have to pull my @$$ up from around my ankles!! ;

I hope I outlive them for *their* sakes, not mine.

Hugs,

CatNipped

wrote in message
...
This is a tangent to the discussion at hand, but I just had to comment
on this:

CatNipped wrote:

Thankfully, my family is very long-lived (my grandmother was still
walking 5 miles a day when she died at age 105, and my mother, 78,
goes dancing or bowling every day of the week),

WOW!!! Your family has some really good genes! (They also, apparently,
have some excellent habits.) They both put me, aged 50, to shame!

Sounds like you have a good chance of outliving your current batch of
kitties.


Joyce

Yeah, well, I'm not as good as mom and grandmother about staying fit -
although I'm trying to make up for it now at age 52. I exercise for 45
minutes a day 4 days a week, but that's *very* recent and only because,
after my gastric bypass surgery and losing 80 pounds in 6 months, I didn't
want to have to pull my @$$ up from around my ankles!! ;

I hope I outlive them for *their* sakes, not mine.

Hugs,

CatNipped

CatNipped wrote:

wrote in message
...
This is a tangent to the discussion at hand, but I just had to comment
on this:

CatNipped wrote:

Thankfully, my family is very long-lived (my grandmother was still
walking 5 miles a day when she died at age 105, and my mother, 78,
goes dancing or bowling every day of the week),

WOW!!! Your family has some really good genes! (They also, apparently,
have some excellent habits.) They both put me, aged 50, to shame!

Sounds like you have a good chance of outliving your current batch of
kitties.


Joyce

Yeah, well, I'm not as good as mom and grandmother about staying fit -
although I'm trying to make up for it now at age 52. I exercise for 45
minutes a day 4 days a week, but that's *very* recent and only because,
after my gastric bypass surgery and losing 80 pounds in 6 months, I didn't
want to have to pull my @$$ up from around my ankles!! ;

I hope I outlive them for *their* sakes, not mine.

Hugs,

CatNipped

It is a worry, about what happens to the kitties. My big hopes are two
nephews whose wives adore cats (the boys like cats too but it is the
wives who look after them) If DH goes first I intend to ask them to
take the kitties, if they say yes I will make sure enough money is left
to them to finance the gang. I intend to outlive the kitties though

Bev
--
The email of the species is more deadly than the mail.

CatNipped wrote:

wrote in message
...
This is a tangent to the discussion at hand, but I just had to comment
on this:

CatNipped wrote:

Thankfully, my family is very long-lived (my grandmother was still
walking 5 miles a day when she died at age 105, and my mother, 78,
goes dancing or bowling every day of the week),

WOW!!! Your family has some really good genes! (They also, apparently,
have some excellent habits.) They both put me, aged 50, to shame!

Sounds like you have a good chance of outliving your current batch of
kitties.


Joyce

Yeah, well, I'm not as good as mom and grandmother about staying fit -
although I'm trying to make up for it now at age 52. I exercise for 45
minutes a day 4 days a week, but that's *very* recent and only because,
after my gastric bypass surgery and losing 80 pounds in 6 months, I didn't
want to have to pull my @$$ up from around my ankles!! ;

I hope I outlive them for *their* sakes, not mine.

Hugs,

CatNipped

It is a worry, about what happens to the kitties. My big hopes are two
nephews whose wives adore cats (the boys like cats too but it is the
wives who look after them) If DH goes first I intend to ask them to
take the kitties, if they say yes I will make sure enough money is left
to them to finance the gang. I intend to outlive the kitties though

Bev
--
The email of the species is more deadly than the mail.

Victor Martinez wrote:
Margaret Fine wrote:

rest of the pet's life. 2) For $25,000 they have a life care cottage
where your pet will spend their remaining days in a home like setting
being cared for by the SPCA.


How many pets (including horses!?!?!) can you fit in one 2,500 square
feet home?
http://www.spca.org/site/PageServer?...e=AP_Life_Care


I wondered the same thing. I bet in reality they don't have too many
people who will do the $25,000 option. I wonder if each horse gets
their own bedroom? ;-)

--
Margaret Fine