Wasn't sure which forum to post this, but this one seemed close.
My wife and I are having our wills drawn up. Although we hope it will be a lot of years, "time and chance" do happen to all of us, so we want to make sure that if any of our cats survive us, our executor won't put them somewhere inappropriate. Currently, all we have is that, at the executor's discresion, they can be adopted into another home, or they should be put to sleep. We want to be very sure that they won't end up in a place where they're going to be sent to a lab, or just kept in a cage and hardly ever noticed.
So what are some other options? I've heard that there are some colleges that have a "pet home" where students who love animals will live and take care of people's pets who have been placed there (you can get your pet there by donating to the college). What else is there available. We don't have any children, so we'll need some pretty explicit instructions in the will.
My wife and I are having our wills drawn up. Although we hope it will be a lot of years, "time and chance" do happen to all of us, so we want to make sure that if any of our cats survive us, our executor won't put them somewhere inappropriate. Currently, all we have is that, at the executor's discresion, they can be adopted into another home, or they should be put to sleep. We want to be very sure that they won't end up in a place where they're going to be sent to a lab, or just kept in a cage and hardly ever noticed.
So what are some other options? I've heard that there are some colleges that have a "pet home" where students who love animals will live and take care of people's pets who have been placed there (you can get your pet there by donating to the college). What else is there available. We don't have any children, so we'll need some pretty explicit instructions in the will.