I don't have any pets any longer, though I've had quite a few over the years. I understand both points of view - you can get emotionally attached to them, but if a large financial outlay jeopardises the quality of life for your kids, say, then you have a tricky decision to make. Condemning spending on them because there is poverty elsewhere is futile, as most of the things we in privileged countries spend our money on are equally unnecessary - and probably more meaningless.
We earned our money and spend it on what we decide is iportant and that includes our dogs even the present little fooker
Lovely lad. Used to be free and you'd always be able to get a pup. Just the sort of trouble I'd like to have.
its a bitch from a rescue centre but still cost £250 in fees which was a bit of a jump from Shep the previous one . Should point out i don't call her the Little Fooker for nothing .
We were lucky, our cat that got diabetes would let you do anything to him as long as you were touching him. Stabbing him with a needle twice a day in the scruff of the neck... "Ahh they're touching me". What sucks was going on holiday and the person who was helping us leaving the $70 bottle of insulin out of the refrigerator.
You might not. But between a third and half of all people in the world have it and whereas cats are a very common vector, not everyone who has it has cats. If you eat lamb, or shellfish... any meat actually, you might have been exposed. It can survive a light cooking. Also unpasteurized milk, or anything made from unpasteurized milk such as clotted cream.
