Heartbeat: Pet Emergency Plan

You are probably here because you already had the thought. You live alone with an animal who cannot open a door, and you worked out that if something happened to you, the problem would not be you — it would be the two days before anybody noticed. Here is the whole of it, without the glamour. You add your pet and the notes a stranger would actually need: the food, when the medication is due, where they hide from people they do not know, which door, which key. You add the people you would want called, in the order you would want them called — and each has to agree first. You send them a link, they read what they would be agreeing to, and they text us six digits to agree — until they do they are not on your plan and we will not text them. Then you say how long our silence should run before we go looking. That is the setup. After that we ask, and you answer. When your phone can tell us by…