Who takes the pet for the first week

If there is a pet, you note who takes it in for the first week. A name and a telephone number, and the animal by name, so it is clear which animal you mean if there is more than one. Add the name of the vet and of the clinic, with a telephone number. Where the food is and where the crate is may go in one short line, because the first day is practical. A microchip number may be added if you want, as a fact, not as proof of something else. The arrangement is about the first week. It is not a plan for the years after that and not a story about who is fondest of the animal. Keep it to the name, the number and the vet.

Write with it that this is a wish. The person named may be ill, may move or may refuse, and then someone else has to take the animal. The wish does not fix that as a duty. Do not promise in the text that the family can enforce the wish. A life file appoints no heir and no executor, and it does not turn the animal into a bequest (legaat). Whether a will or a handwritten codicil says anything about this animal is in that document, not in this note. A codicil has its own, strictly handwritten form. A typed line here is not that form. At most refer to the place of such a document, if it exists, without copying the text when it does not need to be shared.

Do not give a dosage of a veterinary medicine, and do not give a schedule that looks like a prescription. The clinic has the animal's file. You name the clinic, so that it can be called. Do not name a medicine with times or quantities. Write that the vet knows what the animal receives, if that is so. Ervazo stores these lines and does not send them to the clinic and not to a notary. Go through the arrangement when the friend moves or when the animal is no longer there. An animal that is no longer there, you take off the list. A new person to take it in replaces the old name, so that there do not seem to be two people designated for the same first week.

A life file is a note for later. It is not a will, not a medical instruction and not advice. The line about the animal is a wish for the first week, with a name and a vet. It is not an instruction to a doctor and not an allocation of the animal. An executor or an heir is not appointed here. That appointment belongs in a notarial will, if you want it. Ervazo does not send the note to a doctor or a notary. Whoever collects the animal does so because the wish has been read, not because this file gives a right. If the person does not come, the family looks for other care. That belongs in one sentence with the wish.