The Top 20 Benefits of Preparing a Pet Trust for Your Pets

Widespread Benefits of Preparing a Pet Trust

Preparing a Pet Trust to protect your pet’s future has many benefits. It’s the best way to care for your pets and enable them to continue living the lifestyle they are accustomed to. Pet Trusts comfort your pets and ease their stress when adjusting to life without you. Some of the benefits of choosing to use a pet Trust include:

The Benefits of Time

Peace of mind, which is priceless! You’ll rest easy with a plan in place. You know if you become sick, disabled, or die, your pets will be protected and cared for.
A Pet Trust can be enacted more than once during your lifetime, and again, when you die. (Providing care for your pet in your Will can only be enacted after your death) Sometimes, it takes until after the reading of the Will or Probate.)
Time is of the essence. Your pet will not be waiting, as often happens with a Will. Your pet will go into a loving home immediately.
Life in a shelter or being euthanized should not be an option for your special pet.
Your dog and cat’s care is provided by a few people working together . (Care Team)

Your Money is Spent to Enable the Current Lifestyle to Continue

Your pets should always be in a loving home where they should be safe and well-cared for.
The current lifestyle your pet is living can continue, even if you’re not there.
The guidelines provided in the Pet Trust should enable the Caretaker to take care of your pet as you do.
Your money can only be spent on the care of your pet because it is controlled by a Trustee, not the Caretaker.
Familiar products and services should comfort your pet, helping them to adjust to life without you.

Benefits Include Back-up Plans and Rehoming

If your original Caretaker can’t take your pet, you have a backup plan in place.
The Caretaker should provide a forever home for your pet following your guidelines.
Your Pet Trust can be legally enforced.
You no longer have to worry about, “What ifs.”
No one has to feel pressured into taking you pets, especially if it would be a financial burden for them.

Money is an All-Around Benefit

The new Caretaker shouldn’t have to pay for any pet-related products or services if they follow the protocol of the Trust and the trustee.
The new Caretaker should always have enough money to provide your pet with quality care and medical attention.
Your Caretaker should be awarded a monthly stipend in appreciation for giving your pet a loving home and following your instructions.
If you choose to add a Foster to your Care Team, there will be another person to love and care for the pet.
Preparing a Pet Trust demonstrates a lot of time and thought went into planning for your pet’s future. That means it wasn’t prepared on a whim. If litigated against by family or friends, the age of the document becomes important.

These benefits demonstrate that using a Pet Trust is advantageous to you, your pet, and anyone involved in your pet’s care. By establishing the Pet Trust no, you ensure the details of your pet’s care are clearly spelled out. Most of all, you keep your pet safe and loved by people who should provide care the way you want with products, routines, and services that are familiar to your pet.