Posted on 02/27/2018 5:03:41 AM PST by simpson96
Edited on 02/27/2018 8:06:20 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
How far would you go to save your favorite feline?
Would you give up a new car? Cut back living expenses? Dip into your children
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I hate cats just as much as the next guy. That’s just several levels of stupid.
I live in Baltimore. I brake for dogs. Sometimes the brakes don’t work with cats. Cross my streets at your own risk, Stanley.
>>I hate cats just as much as the next guy. That’s just several levels of stupid.<
Would you do it for your kid? That is how many people feel about their cats.
You may not agree but that does not invalidate their feelings.
Putting a 17 year old cat through that borders on animal cruelty. One selfish, self centered woman.
Better solution. Palliative care for the elderly cat, and adopt the putative donor anyway.
I read this as she bought a 2-year old cat for $19,000. She will grow to love the new younger cat soon enough - perhaps not like Stanley, but in a new way.
A human being is not a pet.
“— which would have replaced her 2009 Toyota —”
I’m guessing...wait for it...a Prius.
(Anybody, reading the article, initially think this crazy cat lady was donating one of HER kidneys?)
>>A human being is not a pet.<<
That is true. That changes not a whit how people feel about their pets nor does it invalidate their feelings.
This person chose to use her own money to take this extraordinary step to save something she loves dearly.
Who are you to say that is bad?
I deeply mourn the loss of the cats I had for 18 and 25 years respectively to this day and it has been 10+ years since they passed. Is my pain any the less b/c they were not human?
“Hey, 3 year old twins, I know you’d like new clothes and stuff, but there’s a chance our 17 year old cat could live another year!”
And the article makes her sound like a martyr for not replacing her 9 year old car - news flash, it’s younger than your cat!
Bernie voter.
Next thing ya know, some one will start a Gofundme account and she’ll reap $50 grand......cuz no one is that dumb.
My concern is whether the donor cat was a willing participant or did they just take its kidney......
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Last I heard it was in a bathtub, on ice in a back room in China.
My sister-in-law was saddened by the loss of the family dog,a German Shepherd named "Schultz".She deeply mourned the death of her 18 year old daughter in a drunk driving accident and did so until the day of her death 25 years later (It was the *other* driver who was drunk).
Was it "bad" for this woman to have done what she did? No.Was it silly and frivolous? Yup.
Did you spend your kid’s college fund on your cats?
It sounds like she had saved money for a car purchase.
As emotionally attached to the cat as she was, do you really want this person teaching children?
Outside of a bird that belongs to my daughter, we don’t have pets. But, I understand the bond. My brother’s dog just died. Within a couple weeks, they got another one.
It’s her cat and her money. The anti caters have never had one as a house pet. You will do their bidding quickly. It is like this weekend. My wife comes all panicked but laughing about one of ours. She was getting ready for bed and looked over and one of ours was perched up about 18 feet in our bedroom on a plant shelf. She asked me to go get a ladder and I said no. It figured out how to get up there it will figure out how to get down. 15 min later it jumped on my lap purring.
Their personalities are all so different. We had one who was a klutz and would trip all the time over mundane stuff and now we have one that thinks it is a flying Wallenda.
It’s Betsy Boyd’s money - she can spend it any way she wants to...
Clearly in the more money than brains category. But my heart goes out to her. People generally don’t let their “animals” go easy if they don’t have to.
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