A Michael Broad Blog
This is a short note about leaving a bequest of your cat and caregiving money to someone to look after your cat or cats in your will. You’ll need two documents. We are told that more and more people are doing this whereas at one time it was the domain of celebrities such as …
It is a peculiar question to me but some people do request in their will that the executor of their will has their healthy companion animal, usually a cat or dog, euthanized (actually killed) after they’ve died because they might believe that nobody can care for their pet as well as they could. And …
As the word at the beginning of the question is “can” I can discuss it theoretically. Theoretically a domestic cat could kill a human directly (physically) under very exceptional and infinitesimally rare circumstances but there are probably instances where domestic cats in countries other than in the West have killed humans indirectly by transferring …
I have to write about the biggest story in town: the Ukraine invasion – Putin’s mad plan. Putin has said that his invasion of Ukraine is going to plan despite the fact that to outsiders it looks as if it is not going to plan because his troops are bogged down and Ukraine is …
You should make sure that the relative that you ask to look after your cat on your death is both suitable and committed to the task. Common sense says that you have to discuss the matter in some depth with them beforehand. Suitability concerns the lifestyle of the individual, their attitude towards cats and …
Biscuit went missing about three years ago, shortly after his then owner, Keith Bigland’s mother, died. Biscuit was seen “fleeing” his home on a CCTV camera at 4 a.m. on December 1, 2017. Mr Bigland searched high and low for him for months. The cat is his last connection to his mother. He was …
In the immediate aftermath of your perhaps untimely and unforeseen death, you would like your companion animal to be protected and looked after. In the normal course of events, if you died of old age or of a chronic illness, the executor of your will would take care of your cat or dog under …
Here is a cat story which exposes a weakness in ensuring continuity of care for domestic cat companions after the passing of the cat’s human guardian. In Northwich, England, UK, three well cared for adult cats, aged about five, were abandoned in two cat carriers in an alleyway. They were two females and one …
