If you live alone with an animal, this is two questions wearing one coat, and they have different answers. One is about a day you do not come home. The other is about a day you do not come home ever. Y.O.D.O. is built for the first and carries words for the second.
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The short answer
A person you chose. Y.O.D.O. does not look after your animal and has no pet feature. What it does is make sure that when you go quiet, the Delegates you named are contacted and asked to get in touch, which is the step that gets a door opened while an animal is still behind it.
Most of the worry is not about dying. It is about a night in A&E, a delayed flight, a fall on the stairs. You are fine, and you are also not going home, and nobody outside the house knows there is a cat in it. That gap is measured in hours, and it is the one Y.O.D.O. closes: miss a Check-in, let the buffer you set run out, and the people you named hear about it.
Y.O.D.O. does not hold a key, arrange care, or call anyone you did not name. It contacts your Delegates and asks them to make contact with you. That is deliberately small, and it is the part that works. Naming someone who lives ten minutes away is usually worth more than naming someone who is closer to you but two hours off.
Write down the routine, the vet, the medication and where the food is kept, and keep it somewhere a Delegate can reach today. Not in a sealed message. Sealed messages are released only after a passing has been verified, so they are the right place for what you want said about your animal's future, and the wrong place for what somebody needs to know on Tuesday night.
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