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- From: ren@Turing.ORG (Karen Prestemon)
- Subject: Re: Neutering question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.150648.24012@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:06:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.212236.26128@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> rkn3u@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (R. Keith Norwood) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov16.194804.3493@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> barlow@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Rebel) writes:
- >>
- >>the same? This just buggs me alot...in league with people who think
- >>33 cents a can for food is WAY too expensive for a cat!! Please!
- >>
- >>Jen (proud mommy to Zeb
- >
- >Unless you have a fat wallet, there is a limit to how much you will spend
- >on your cat. This amount varies with the individual but there is no "correct"
- >amount.
- >
- Agreed. We adopted a kitten from the animal shelter, and my husband
- at the time said that if anything happened to her that would require
- great medical expense, then we would put her to sleep and get another
- one. Its not that I don't love my kitten, and its not that I think
- one cat is the same as another, but it is that we owe thousands
- of dollars to credit card companies, in addition to owing the people
- hospital $600 for ER visits. If my cat broke her hip, we would have
- to let it go or put her down as well.
-
- I wish I had the money to spend al I wanted, not only on the cat,
- but on myself as well. And the cat doesn't get 33 cent cans when
- we have difficulty feeding ourselves because money is tight. I
- am not mad and not trying to flame, but other people telling me
- how to spend money that doesn't exist kind of irks me. This
- actually reminds me (not on the subject of cats) of a recent
- episode in my life. My husband was on the phone complaining to
- his mother about what a mess the car was in, so she had her
- husband make an appointment to have someone look at the car.
- Well, naturally, we thought they were offering to take care
- of the cost for us, but that wasn't the case. they just
- made an appointment to get the car looked at us, expecting us
- to pay for it, because they seemed to think that the motivating
- factor behind not getting the car fixed was that we were too
- stupid to know to take a car to a mechanic, not that we knew
- we couldn't afford it! Grrrrrrrr..... I wonder about people
- sometimes.
-
- Sorry for the non-cat strory--had to get that off my chest somehow!
-