07-02-2018, 09:16 PM
Shorter term consideration:
Even if you don't bite the big one just yet, you never know what fertilizer is going to hit the rotary circulator any given day. You may not return on time, or even for days or weeks. Health issue, car accident, work related. Or even someone blows your cover for you. Every time I leave the premises I have enough food, 5 gallons of water for each kennel, heat/air conditioning set on standby. Stock tanks full to the top, barn doors open, no one locked inside (temporary exception; I have a mini-cow in training just now. No, not that kind of training, that will come later. She came to me as feral, needs socializing before she gets the run of the farm, or I might not get her back). The place is set up so that if a temporary caretaker becomes necessary they can have access to the animals without access to other places and things that are best left private.
Just saying, dying isn't the only thing that could leave your animals in distress.
