Why YSK: There are a lot of people these days living alone with pets and if anything happened to the owner, others may not know to attend to the pet. If something happened to you, a coma, an accident, death, etc, your wallet would be the first place anyone would look for info about you and it would probably be the fastest way to bring attention to your small loved ones.

    • fosiacat@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      in fairness, my family lives 6 states away, and my friends would still take a few days before anyone noticed something was up.

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        1 year ago

        Oh wow. I can’t imagine living so far from family. 30 mins was my maximum amount of drive time away from my family. I ended up getting a house that’s 20 mins away.

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      1 year ago

      exactly what I thought. If you get incapacitated in one way or another… someone has to notice that there’s a pet. Just… someone

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      1 year ago

      I would say my first reaction to hearing my parent is dead/severely wounded would not be to look at home how the dog is doing but how my parent is doing or grieve.
      After maybe 2 or 3 days I would maybe have a clear enough mind to think about a pet, that’s not even mine.