Win £100 Amazon Voucher or Equivalent

 

Win £100 Amazon, PayPal  transfer or equivalent in your own currency just in time for Christmas. Enter by completing the Gleam entry form. If more than 100 people enter I will add another competition later this month! Good luck. Competition is open worldwide, closing date 30 November. 

IMPORTANT: for the third comment on a post option just choose one of the selection. I tried to change them to be relevant to the question but it didn’t work. 

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Pet Guardianship Schemes

 

Death and what happens afterwards seems to a subject that seems to gauge very little interest or discussion. People will write a will, maybe plan their funeral but what happens to an important part of your family, your pets? Pets are classed as property in England so cannot be beneficiaries in a will. Money must be left in a Trust for them and as most of us haven’t got Karl Largfeld and his cat Choupette’s level of riches this is way beyond our means (although i would love to be able to provide my 4 cats with a full time carer so they could stay in their own home. 

Several animal charities have set up pet guardianship schemes whereby the owner registers the animal with that particular charity and you must a clause in your will stating that the charity is going to rehome your pet. When the time comes the executor of your will informs the charity and volunteers from a local branch will come and collect the animal, take it to the local branch and rehome him/her, The charities dont require payment but I have left a donation in my will to cover the costs for my cats and all the other cats that need rehoming. I have only included the details of national charities but do check to see if any of your local rescues offer this service. 

I have a degenerative spinal condition and various other health issues and what would happen to my beloved pets was a huge issue weighing me down. I was so relieved when I realised there is help available to rehome pets and make sure that they are safe during an upsetting and unsettling time for them, their slave/carer/human has gone, they need food, shelter and stability whilst someone finds them a new home. 

Dogs Trust: Canine Care Card. Rehome dogs:

https://www.dogstrust.org.uk/get-help/canine-care-card

Cats Protection: cat guardianship scheme. Rehome cats:

https://www.cats.org.uk/what-we-do/catguardians

Blue Cross: Pets Peace of Mind, covers rehomes all small animals.

https://www.bluecross.org.uk/pet-peace-of-mind

The Cinnamon Trust: helps people over 65 or terminally ill care for or rehome their pets. 

https://cinnamon.org.uk/support-for-you-and-your-pet/

Potential Christmas prizes

 So I am trying to get my blog reindexed by google and get my X permanent suspension for supposedly being a bot - I retweeted too many find my pet/ animal rescue posts! Lifted.

I want to choose some great Christmas prizes for those who have either stuck by me or have found my site this year to enter. The prizes I am considering are;

£75/ £50 or that amount in your currency 1st and second prize 

Swarovski Disney jewellery

Pandora voucher (£100)

Amazon voucher  (£100)

Any high street voucher (£100)

Please leave a comment which one you would prefer to enter for or if you can think of a better prize! 

Book Review: My Billionaire Fake Fiancé by Heidi Rice

My Billionaire Fake Fiancé is written by Heidi Rice and is the second novel in her mini series Billionaires After Dark. 

Introduction:

Orla Calhoun is the heroine of this novel. She is working frantically to try and save her family’s an Irish stud farm and the last 6 horses. Her father ran their family business into the ground, died and now she is trying to salvage what she can. She is rather socially awkward, more comfortable around animals than people. Sheikh Prince Karim Jamal Amari Khan is planning to buy the stud farm but is also in need of a fake fiancé as his father is pestering him to get married. He realises he could kill to birds etc. Orla becomes his fake fiancé, keeps a c connection to the farm whilst Karim owns it. Of course this doesn’t go to plan and there is chemistry between the unlikely pair but will it lead to a HEA?

Review: 

The novel is written in the first person, each chapter focusing upon the thoughts, view point etc of either Orla or Karim, I don’t particularly gravitate toward novels written this way as I find it difficult to gel with the characters. I can, however, see the skill it takes to do this properly and the characters still engaged and interested me in the storyline. The storyline itself isn’t innovative: Irish stud farm losing money, bought out by very rich prince etc but in this case it didn’t feel like an overdone trope. The whole novel was engaging, with cgg uc stackers that were well thought out. The storyline didn’t drag and I enjoyed the novel much more than I thought I would. I do recommend this book and I will reread it in the future. 

I received this book via Booksprout and Heidi Rice in exchange for a honest review. #gifted