If I Drop Dead, Someone Please Feed My Dog

The tool every dog owner needs but nobody has created yet.

This article is published in The Money Room - a dedicated section here at Homebody(ish) Magazine. It’s like a home office where income ideas and opportunities are practical, creative, and often wildly amusing. They’re designed to fit real lives and real energy levels while skipping over the grindy nonsense that never worked anyway.

Dropping dead is a super uplifting topic for a Tuesday, I know. 😆 But stick with me for a sec because this could be somebody’s next BIG business opportunity.

This idea came to me because I have to move later this year and I’ll be living alone with my very large dog once again. It’s not like I’ve never lived alone with a dog before, but the last time, I didn’t have nearly as many health problems as I do now.

Occasionally, my brain wanders into the territory of ‘What if something happens to me and nobody knows?’

When you live alone, there’s a nagging little voice humming in the background: if you drop dead in your house, there is a decent chance nobody will notice for a while. If you have a dog, that becomes a bigger problem. Not for you because you’re already dead, but sadly, for your dog.

It can’t just be me who wonders these things, can it?

This is the type of person I am: When I watch movies about people and dogs, and a dangerous situation arises, I’m not necessarily worried about what happens to the human, as long as the dog is safe.

I’ve thought about this more times than I care to admit. 😬

My dog knows the world revolves around her, but if I die in my sleep on a random Thursday night, she would be stuck until someone eventually figured it out.

That thought alone is enough to keep a person alive out of sheer responsibility.

Then I remembered something that actually happened when I lived in a condo building years ago. A man who lived alone passed away in his apartment and nobody noticed for over a week.

Yes, it was as grim and heartbreaking as it sounds but it’s also not rare.

I’ve had migraines SO painful and bad that I’ve actually left notes on my kitchen counter saying, “If I’m dead in the morning, it was a migraine that killed me.” Just so they know what to investigate first. 😆

People live alone everywhere. Divorced or widowed people, or single people like me. Those whose kids live far away, or even people who have built lives that don’t revolve around family structures.

It seems more common these days for those people to have pets for companionship, which is exactly how this business idea was born.

It’s literally the simplest app idea I can think of and if you copy/paste from here down into ChatGPT or Claude AI, I bet it’ll vibe-code the entire app for you…like right now.

If you don’t know what vibe coding is, this YouTube video explains it in under 2 minutes!

Now back to my idea, a.k.a. YOUR newest money-making opportunity.

So, this pet-lover’s app would be called L.E.A.S.H., which stands for Live Emergency Alert for Solo Humans (with pets)

And here’s how it would work…