YSK that if you live alone and have a pet, you should carry a card in your wallet to notify the appropriate people of your pet's existence.
Why YSK: There are a lot of people these days living alone with pets and if anything happened to the owner, others may not know to attend to the pet. If something happened to you, a coma, an accident, death, etc, your wallet would be the first place anyone would look for info about you and it would probably be the fastest way to bring attention to your small loved ones.
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This assumes you have no friends or family. OP, are you ok?
in fairness, my family lives 6 states away, and my friends would still take a few days before anyone noticed something was up.
Oh wow. I can't imagine living so far from family. 30 mins was my maximum amount of drive time away from my family. I ended up getting a house that's 20 mins away.
I can’t imagine living 30 minutes from my family.
exactly what I thought. If you get incapacitated in one way or another... someone has to notice that there's a pet. Just... someone
This is the point of an emergency contact, is it not? Hopefully you choose one who knows enough about you to know whether or not you have pets.
exactly.
Thanks, I'm okay.
I would say my first reaction to hearing my parent is dead/severely wounded would not be to look at home how the dog is doing but how my parent is doing or grieve.
After maybe 2 or 3 days I would maybe have a clear enough mind to think about a pet, that's not even mine.