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| Everything is cheap or expensive, depending on your situation. Let's | see: a can of high quality cat food is about 80-90 cents where I live. | Twice a day that's $1.70 on the average -- around $50/month. Just for | food. Treats are extra. Some cats have ongoing problems so they need | prescriptions. Toys. Vet visits. It could add up. You could easily | spend $100/month average on a single cat. I don't even spend that in a year and the cat is being looked after well... I mix premium food and good quality supermarket food half and half. The cat cushion I sewed myself from leftover material. With 8$ a month I can even buy some treats. (Vet visits are excluded.) Carola |
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I guess you'd prefer to feed both your children and cats crap. While I
would prefer to feed my children, and if possible my cats, high quality food. Yes, fresh vegetables and fruits are more expensive than a happy meal, but I would want my children to haev fresh fruit and vegetables. I also would want to be able to pay for medical insurance should my children need medical care. Anyway, we'll just have to disagree at this point. Are you being accidentally obtuse or doing this on purpose? Of course, I don't prefer to feed my two cats junk (and I don't). But what is this "death before Friskies" cry? You really think that if someone is so unfortunate as to genuinely need the $20/month difference between good and bad food for a while, they should think, "oh no, what horror - much better to tear the cat from it's home, put it through the terror and trauma of being locked in a cage, and then a trip to the gas chamber - rather than having one morsel of that junk hit it's precious lips". At the point that thought goes through one's head, it is probably best to see a psychiatrist. And not that it matters much, but here where I live, fresh fruits and vegetables from a Farmer's Market are much cheaper than Happy Meals and health insurance is available to all young children from the state at very low-cost throught the Healthy Families Program. |
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"M.C. Mullen" wrote in message ...
| Everything is cheap or expensive, depending on your situation. Let's | see: a can of high quality cat food is about 80-90 cents where I live. | Twice a day that's $1.70 on the average -- around $50/month. Just for | food. Treats are extra. Some cats have ongoing problems so they need | prescriptions. Toys. Vet visits. It could add up. You could easily | spend $100/month average on a single cat. I don't even spend that in a year and the cat is being looked after well... I mix premium food and good quality supermarket food half and half. The cat cushion I sewed myself from leftover material. With 8$ a month I can even buy some treats. (Vet visits are excluded.) You don't spend $100 a year to care for your cat? I live in the US and there's no way you can spend less. Consider yourself lucky. |
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| Of course, I don't prefer to feed my two cats junk (and I don't). But
| what is this "death before Friskies" cry? You really think that if | someone is so unfortunate as to genuinely need the $20/month | difference between good and bad food for a while, they should think, | "oh no, what horror - much better to tear the cat from it's home, put | it through the terror and trauma of being locked in a cage, and then a | trip to the gas chamber - rather than having one morsel of that junk | hit it's precious lips". | | Actually, the difference in crap food (.30/can) and premium food | (.90/can) is about $40/month FOR EACH CAT. Yes, better they go to | other homes where they can get good food rather than poison/crap food. | As Sting said, if you love somebody, set them free. Don't try to keep | them for your own selfish reasons at the expense of their health. My vet says - and he is a capacity around here - that as far as wet food is concerned it doesn't matter what you feed. I myself have noticed that a lot of tinned cat food contains sugar and I try and avoid that. (Of course cat likes the sugary ones better...) But with dry food there *is* a difference, and it matters what we feed the pets. Carola |
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In rec.pets.cats.health+behav Ray Ban wrote:
Well, it's not that simple. Suppose I have a cat. Now a baby arrives. I can't afford to feed and care for both. Who should go? In some cases, it takes much more than just a little bit of thought and a If you were that tight on money, why the hell did you have a baby in the first place?!!!!! Honestly... if having a baby makes it so you can't even afford to feed the cat, you really don't have enough money to have the baby anyways beccause you don't have enough money for even the slightest thing to go wrong. Babies (and health problems and whatnot) are a lot more expensive than a cat. I'd say if you were int hat position, you werne't a responsible person and I feel sorry for both baby and cat that they were in such an irresponsible person's care that they couldn't wait until they truly could afford the baby. Alice -- The root cause of problems is simple overpopulation. People just aren't worth very much any more, and they know it. Makes 'em testy. ...Bev |\ _,,,---,,_ Tigress /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ http://havoc.gtf.gatech.edu/tigress |,4- ) )-,_..;\ ( `'-' '---''(_/--' `-'\_) Cat by Felix Lee. |
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In rec.pets.cats.health+behav Ray Ban wrote:
Everything is cheap or expensive, depending on your situation. Let's see: a can of high quality cat food is about 80-90 cents where I live. Twice a day that's $1.70 on the average -- around $50/month. Just for Guess what? I feed my cat's Nutro dry food. Not cheapo food. It costs me at most 30 dollars for *2* months. Seriously, even with the costs you are saying, if the baby makes your money that tight, you cannot afford the baby. 50 dollars can easily be eaten up if your baby ends up having even a common health problem. Shoot, it probably can easily be taken up just by the added health insurance (if you can even afford it... most are more expensive for one person than 50 dollars a month) the baby will give you. once again, I state that if you are in the position you hypothosize, you should have had some forethought and used birth control! Alice -- The root cause of problems is simple overpopulation. People just aren't worth very much any more, and they know it. Makes 'em testy. ...Bev |\ _,,,---,,_ Tigress /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ http://havoc.gtf.gatech.edu/tigress |,4- ) )-,_..;\ ( `'-' '---''(_/--' `-'\_) Cat by Felix Lee. |
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