I, like many of my customers have a great deal of extended family in the pet end. I take it to the extremes. I've had people that know me question what the heck is going to happen if something happens to you? It goes back to a point of what I tried to do originally with this business of getting people to make a plan, which didn't work very well no one wants to think about dying.
So what I've done is surround myself with pet lovers and hope for the best. I know in my heart if something happened to someone I was close to who had animals, I would do everything I could to find loving homes for their pets. It's just the way I am. If we all did this for people we knew, what an amazing world we'd live in. I'm not saying take everyone's pets on, just help... Keep them out of shelters. You probably know the story behind the pets you could market them, help them find homes that would be a good match.
How many people do you know that are elderly, living alone out of fear of adopting a pet, and leaving it alone after they pass, how much life would they have if they only adopted a pet. Many states are now offering free adoptions to the elderly in order to place pets who are overcrowding facilities. Can you imagine how many happy pets/people this would create?
None of us really know how long we have... I have parrots that could live 75 years, people say it's irresponsible to adopt them when you're older, heck you could be 5 years old and they'd still outlive you!
Nothing is guaranteed but the one thing that is guaranteed is the fact that pets extend your life, lower your heart rate and give you a reason to get up every morning!
Re-think it. Is there someone you could be there for and make their life better?
What would your life be without your pets... my pets have saved my life over and over again. I wouldn't even want to imagine my life without them, My logo, the heart with the paw prints around it, I designed based on what they mean to me their paws walk around my heart it's always been that way and it will be until the day I die.