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Originally Posted by Sirtel
That must have been awful. My heartfelt sympathies to you.
I've lost two cats within a year before, and my sister lost her two doggies also within a year (one of them wasn't even all that old, but he had serious complications from diabetes), but not within weeks.
It hurts, yes. But as you said, there's nothing to be done. It is as it is. Unless one adopts a Greenland shark as a pet, those are said to live for several hundred years (yes, literally). Then of course the problem would be reversed - the shark would have to lose its humans many times over.
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Hmmm...not sure, as long as the kibble kept up, if the Shark would really
care.
If it did, and if
you did (caring gets complicated here, keeping a pet that would
eat you), you'd have the parrot/turtle/?? A situation where you have to obsess about who will take over the animal's care when you're gone.
It's hard enough--believe me, I know--making arrangements with people you can trust to be the caretakers for your extant "normal" pets (cats, dogs, horses, hamsters, lizards and the such); you could never dead-hand from the grave to control who gets Bruce the Shark, 100 years after you're dead.
I would...it would
slay me, not being able to be SURE that the animal would get the kind of care I would give it. It drives me crazy NOW, and I
know the people that I've appointed in my will for this. Sheesh.
Great. Now, I'm gonna worry about Bruce. FFS.
Hitch