What will become of ...

[Deanna]

I'm posting this in off-topic because it applies to us all, with furred and feathered fids.

Off and on over the last many months (for about a year) I have been putting together "Care Sheets" on my puppies, kitties and fiddies. It is hard to keep them up to date as our routines seem to change quite often. I include all of their routine care instructions, veterinary emergency numbers/contacts, personal emergency numbers/contacts, and what to do in case I die.

Now, we are getting ready for a long weekend away and have arranged for a pet sitter. And, my pet sitter, very professionally, is requesting information about what to do with my pets in the very unfortunate case that we die or become incapacitated.

So, very reluctantly, I am revisiting this issue again. It is easy to procrastinate about it ... none of us like to think about having something bad happen ... and, even worse then that, we hate to think about our poor little pets and what will ever become of them.

So, I am once again going back through my instructions and care sheets, updating them ...

It is very difficult ... it isn't like sitting down to write a short story LOL ... it makes one think about the care and welbeing of our beloved family members.

Last night, I contacted my best friend who will be taking my favored (I know you aren't supposed to have favorites, but it's hard not to with Ben) Border Collie Ben. She will be taking him in and facilitating the adoptions of all of my other animals. I broke into tears on the phone just talking about it!

But, it is just something as parronts that we must do to ensure the safety of our loved ones.

 

[birdcrazy]

awww- i know my dog/dogs would always stay with my parents and the teils but i don't know what would happen to my baby Sidney. I would like to think they would keep him cuz they know how much I love him,but I don't know I guess in the situation i am in right now I would hope they would return him to his breeder who loved him to death and would take good care of him untill another suitable home came along. You're right nobody likes to think about this stuff but it truly the sign of a caring pet owner. After all one of the reasons I love my fiddies so much is because they live longer than any of my furries so i don't have to say good bye as often.

 

[Deanna]

... I'm done with the complete instructions and my "Will" for the cats and doggies. I'm stuck now that I am working on the Parrot Care and Will.

Golly gee, this is difficult. But, I must keep hard at it as it must be done ...

**Deanna sulks off with tears in her eyes**

 

[Peta]

I have done the exact same thing, with all of mine The fids list is more indepth,
Vets no.
favourite foods,
what they like and don't like
favourite treats
things they definately won't tolerate.

It was a very hard thing to do, and what makes it equally hard with the Grey Guys is I want them to stay together, I've even been in touch with Bird World here and had a word with them and as long as I will my birds over to them thats okay. They will keep them together always. I'm always adding to the list as well.

 

[TexDot33]

Peta, you can send the boys over here ... anyone here would keep those two together for you!

 

[Peta]

Okay Tex, (I do hope I'm not gonna get into trouble with Christy on this one. CHRISTY IT WAS TEX' FAULT)
When I go to the great beyond you can have my Guys. At least I'll know 500% that they were being looked after and loved.

 

[indigo]

Doing this is as important as if you had / have a human child. People just don't think of this part of things.

 

[Deanna]

Doing this is as important as if you had / have a human child. People just don't think of this part of things.

Oh, I've thought about it ... perseverated over it ... cried over it. I knew/know it must be done ... it's just "doing" it that is so difficult.

I do, I can now say, have all of my instructions of care and re-homing done. Not a small feat! Cried many tears. But, yes, indi, it is a *must do* ...

 

[indigo]

I don't see doing this kind of thing as a sad thing personally ... I see it as loving them enough to ensure their care will be handled when and if I cannot care for them. I completely understand the emotional uproar though that happens. Gawd knows I am an emotional person lol. Spent the morning crying from stuff (in the process of doing my long over due divorce). Sometimes love sucks, but its always always worth every second.

 

[Deanna]

I don't see doing this kind of thing as a sad thing personally ... I see it as loving them enough to ensure their care will be handled when and if I cannot care for them. I completely understand the emotional uproar though that happens. Gawd knows I am an emotional person lol. Spent the morning crying from stuff (in the process of doing my long over due divorce). Sometimes love sucks, but its always always worth every second.

yah, indi ... you are right ... it ensures their care. i just worry about my couple that are special needs (Cecil the biting Sennie, being one of them). i have no one to care of ANY of my parrots and they will need to be placed with the Gabriel Foundation in the event of my passing. i am very explicit in their personalities, foibles, needs, characters and whatnot ... trying to help anyway i can in placing them in appropriate, loving homes.

even tho dan is not a bird person ... i believe he would keep cecil in the event that i passed alone. he is just to involved on an intimate basis with her to let her go. unfortunately, tho, moj and lil timothy would go to the Foundation for their expertise and care.

ugh, what a thought! none of us wants to leave our fiddies nor furbies. where is that fountain of youth that everyone talks about???? LOL :47:

 

[TexDot33]

Doing this is as important as if you had / have a human child..

I wish that everyone who was thinking about getting a bird understood that birds (and really any pets) should be thought of as children. They should be cared for as one would care for a child ... and the decision to get a pet should be just complex as the decision to conceive a child. The decision to give up a pet for adoption should be just as agonizing as the one to give up a child for adoption ... just like this decision for "who will care for - if" should be just as tough ...

 

[TexDot33]

Okay Tex, (I do hope I'm not gonna get into trouble with Christy on this one. CHRISTY IT WAS TEX' FAULT) When I go to the great beyond you can have my Guys. At least I'll know 500% that they were being looked after and loved.

Though I know this isn't ever going to happen, the fact that you have put this here into words is an honor to me, I don't even care what Christy thinks about getting two more birds!

 

[Deanna]

I wish that everyone who was thinking about getting a bird understood that birds (and really any pets) should be thought of as children. They should be cared for as one would care for a child ... and the decision to get a pet should be just complex as the decision to conceive a child. The decision to give up a pet for adoption should be just as agonizing as the one to give up a child for adoption ... just like this decision for "who will care for - if" should be just as tough ...

Amen. Well spoken.

 

[TexDot33]

*takes a bow*