A home for Spot when you die

[Kadie]

A home for Spot when you die
Texas care center for orphaned pets is expanding


The Associated Press
Updated: 11:53 a.m. ET Oct. 1, 2004

COLLEGE STATION, Texas - Fifteen cats, 11 dogs, a pony and a llama live here, but this is no shelter, kennel or hobby farm.

The 8,300-square-foot ranch on the sprawling campus of Texas A&M University is an orphanage of sorts, a place for pets whose owners have died. Its caretaker, one of the country’s top veterinary medicine schools, runs the place like a home, just what the pets’ owners wanted.

Its success has been so great in its 11-year history — primarily from word-of-mouth by veterinarians — that the university on Friday will dedicate a 3,500-square-foot expansion financed by $600,000 in contributions.

‘My dogs are extraordinarily important to me, and I want to be sure they are really well taken care of, both medically and psychologically.'
— Elise Lee Wear

So far, 94 owners from 18 states have made arrangements for 250 animals to live at the Stevenson Companion Animal Life-Care Center after they’re gone. Among them is Elise Lee Wear, a retired University of Wisconsin nursing professor who has enrolled her two dogs.

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Baby, a 10-year old Catahoula herding dog, relaxes in the living room at the Stevenson Companion-Life Care Center on Sept. 29. The Center, run by a top veterinary school, provides a comfortable, spacious home for pets once their owners die.

[HEyHEY]

1. I was just gonna have him thrown in the cremator with me

[DS1]

2. Time for walkies

:evilgrin:

[Spinzonner]

6. How about the other way around ?

[DemExpat]

3. A nice homey kennel I can really imagine.....

but look at the interior decoration there!

DemEx

[SoCalDem]

5. Hell.. I'd live there and take care of the critters

It looks like a pretty nice place... WAIT.. Did you say TEXAS????

urm..um.. nevermind..

[havocmom]

4. The 90 Pound Hound has a dog-godmother who will take him if something

happens to us. He adores her and her youngster, loves the other pets there.

Should hubby and I go out together, the big guy has a loving ranch home retirement to see him through his days. And there are no silly cat and dog accent pieces around to offend his impeccable tastes like in that picture! :eyes: