Obligations toward extended family pets

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Anonymous wrote:It is absolutely your right to speak up and be blunt about it!

This happened to my friend with her in-laws. Her MIL got a lab puppy in her 80s! Nothing her kids could say dissuaded her. And then MIL couldn't walk her. MIL went into a nursing home, dog ended up at my friend's house. Luckily the dog is healthy and pleasant.

I wonder if some elderly people are still mostly with it mentally, but have just enough cognitive decline to overestimate their capabilities and underestimate the likelihood of a significant decline in the near future.

It's not necessarily "cognitive decline" just optimism and denial. Look at all the former high school beauties in their 50s with saggy batwings and armpit fat and midriff bulge wearing tank tops snd spandex.

[Anonymous]

I would never adopt a dog at 80. When you adopt a dog you adopt it for life and obvioiusly the dog will likely outlive them. How unfair to the dog.

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Anonymous wrote:Disagree, i think now is the time to let them know that if they get another pug-a-poo or whatever horror the puppy mills are selling, you will not be able to petsit, nor adopt it. Be very clear that they will be boarding the little mutant, and make sure they accept that.

This. "When the queen was your age she stopped getting new corgis because they would outlive her and that's so stressful and sad for the dog. If you really have to get one, who is going to take it if "the worst" happens? We cannot."

The queen died with four dogs?

I’m not the one who brought up the queen, but I thought I remembered that too, so I looked it up. She had stopped breeding her dogs in 2015. She would have only had 2 dogs left (and no puppies) when she died in 2022, except that Andrew gave her dogs in 2021 to cheer her up because of Covid and Prince Philip’s decline and death.

She had plans for all her pets. The dogs went back to Andrew and his family and the horses went to Camilla who loves horses.