Patent ID: 8669875

Claim:
A pet care notification system for helping to ensure that a level of care will be provided to a pet or an animal owned or managed by a subscriber to the pet care notification system in the event the subscriber becomes unable to provide the level of care, comprising: (a) a database operatively connected to a computer, wherein said database includes information about the subscriber and information about a person who has been designated as a contact person by the subscriber; (b) means for uniquely identifying the subscriber of the pet care notification system; (c) wherein, subsequent to an occurrence of a trigger event, an employee or operator of the pet care notification system is provided with an alarm by the pet care notification system of said occurrence of said trigger event; (d) wherein subsequent to said alarm said employee or operator is able to access said information about said contact person from said database; (e) wherein said employee or operator follows an established procedure to attempt to communicate with said contact person; and (f) the subscriber providing a predetermined time by which the subscriber agrees to contact the service, and wherein an event is created by the service, and wherein a timer uses said predetermined time to either cancel said event or to provide said alarm to said employee or operator, and wherein if the subscriber contacts the service prior to the predetermined time said alarm is canceled, and wherein if the subscriber fails to contact the service prior to said predetermined time, a step of providing said alarm to said employee or operator of the pet care notification system is accomplished.