Just be sure the people you make arrangements with are serious about complying when the time comes. A friend just took in a cocker a few months ago. The woman passed away - she had arrangements with another friend to take her 2 dogs. The friend backed out. More times than anyone cares to think about, relatives take the dogs to a shelter. We pulled a senior boy 4 years ago, whose owner had passed. One other call I never will forget -- a woman called me at 7 am one morning. Grandpa had died and if the dog wasn't gone by the time the shelter opened, that's where the dog was going. Grandpa wasn't even cold yet. I thought that was pretty callous.