Pets and Coronavirus - Very Concerned

You need to get in touch with the Cinnamon Trust, they look after pets when people are no longer able to look after them themselves.

Dogs Trust do a free service called The Canine Care Card - www.dogstrust.org.uk/get-involved/wills-legacies/canine-care-card/. Have a look at their website - it might be what you are looking for as it explains exactly what they do.

You are right to sort things out, its the sensible thing to do anyway. I have always assumed that my daughter would have my dog, having said that I haven't actually asked her. You have promoted me to sort it out.

The RSPCA have a home for life scheme too. I think they'll all be overwhelmed by an epidemic, though.

Lovely that you've considered your dog. ❤️

I lie awake worrying about my cats. My dD loves them but her partner is supposedly allergic, also my kitten has behavioural problems where he jumps onto the plate when I eat. I can't see anyone wanting him. My mother is too old so I'm at a loss about my babies, one is insured to go to kennels if I'm I'll but will the kennels and cattteries be full. I can see mass slaughter of pets if this virus takes hold. I often cry about this as they arr my family

I have thought about this too as we have no one to even come and feed our cats if we were out let alone should we be hospitalised or worse! There are several schemes available to register with who will take your pet should the worst happen but one of my cats is special needs and I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be able to rehome her I just hope it never happens!

I have thought about this too, and spoken to my adult children about it long before the Corona problem. Both of them have got pets so would not be able to take my much-loved and very timid and sensitive little rescue cat who is very needy and stops eating if there's the slightest change in her routine.

There is an organisation called Cat Guardians and I have registered her with them, but goodness knows how she would cope with being rehomed, and it upsets me to think about it.

I have always hoped that she goes before I do, because no one else would have the patience or understanding for her, which you will relate to ethel and Willow, and although I would be devastated to be without her, at least I will understand what's going on whereas without me she would be in a state and not understand at all.

If you contact the Dogs Trust they will take your dog and find a loving home for him. The Dogs Trust will never euthanise a healthy dog.

Our other children are 100 miles away, and to be honest I would not ask any of them to come to our infectious home to collect him and perhaps put themselves and their families at risk.
Happy you don't need to worry about that. The virus is transmitted via contact with minute airborne droplets which rapidly dry up when they settle on any surface - the virus within the droplets then quickly dies. If you do fall ill with it and get taken to hospital, your home won't be infectious and your family will be perfectly safe in it.

I worry that my dog will be at home alone all the time as she's hardly ever left and is a 'velcro dog'

The cinnamon trust are extremely good. If you had to go into hospital they would foster your dog with someone and walk him etc. Also if you are at home And fall I’ll if you phone them they have volunteers who for one reason or another can’t have a dog or cat if there own but they love animals and are but are registered to help out at short notice people who are ill to walk, feed etc look after your animal. I hope it doesn’t come to that for any of us with a pet but it’s nice to know someone will be kind enough to care if you’re unable.

ill not I’ll sorry!

grumpygran8 - although viruses do die after a period on a hard surface such as door handles and tables, they are not yet sure whether the coronavirus dies in a few hours or could take several days. So best not to assume surfaces are clean until we have more information.

etheltbags1 - Cats Protection have a Guardianship scheme to ensure furr-ever homes for cats should their owners pass away or be unable to care for them. Check their website. They will send you a form to complete which you then return and peace of mind will be your's.

I have contacted Cats Protection,
when I had a dog, I had arranged with my ds and dil to take her, but she , my dog, has pre deceased me.

so Cats Protection and spoke with family and friends.

I have two cats that are seriously nervous of anyone except me. My children and grandchildren have never seen them...hahaha. I have often thought about what would happen to them if I was ill. Cats are very resourceful though...they can look after themselves in the wild. Rose once jumped ship and was missing for 5 weeks. She went walk about for 3 weeks the following year. Dogs are different though. The RSPSA has a home for life scheme. Try them. I doubt they would be able to catch my older cat. The younger one possibly. I really must register with them. Once my cats reach their time I won't get another.

You need to make a provision in your will for him, with a list (in order) of people who you would wish to care for him. They would receive expenses from your will too. My animals are most important to me, of my whole estate goes to their care so be it, x

Ask the RSPCA. Surely they can give advice.

We have stated in our joint will that any animal in our possession at the time of our deaths if we go together in an accident, or when the survivor dies, becomes the property of our son, who may decide whether he will keep it, find a new home, or have it put to sleep.

I feel that an old cat or dog would probably miss us so much that it would be kinder to have it put to sleep than find it a new home.

I don't know what the British authorities are saying, but here in Denmark they are telling us that the corona virus is not particularly dangerous and that only people in very poor health will be at risk.

Here too we are more likely to be kept in our own homes than taken into hospital if things get bad. Try not to worry about it, but do make provisions for your pets.

I too have heard of cinnamon trust...but what I have done is provide £5000 in my will for every dog that is taken in by my daughter ( I presently have two) I think that is fair and should pay for their vet fees or insurance upkeep somewhat. I think that is realistic. Make it legal.

Before I got my Westie, ( I've had her for nearly 5 years from Westie rescue)I had already spoken to my daughter and son in law about looking after her if I was I'll or unable to do it myself. I now have 2 dogs and at new year when I had a chest infection they took care of both of them until I could do it again myself .As we get older we need to think ahead, and make plans for such things.

My daughter would look after my dog Alfie that's already been sorted. What happens to your pet if you are hospitalised or died should have been thought of when you first decided to take them on not just because Corona virus had tested it's ugly head

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