Hi there, Pat!
Don't you just love it? Your neighbor's attitude towards his 2 former cats, I mean. Yearly booster vaccines cost us $8.50 for each cat so that's a whooping $19.00 he'd have to pay on an annual basis. Neutering is as cheap as $15.00 and spaying around $25.00 unless the female is pregnant and then it runs a bit more and those 2 procedures are obviously a one-time only thing. I don't know many new cars selling for less than $15,000 to $20,000 nowadays and many cost much more so with interest on his car payments, I'm sure that he's paying well over $100,000 for those vehicles yet the jerk can't part with $40.00 to $80.00 to fix his pets or a lousy $20.00 bill a year for vaccines. Why do people get animals for pets if they don't want to take proper care of them? I will NEVER understand that sort of attitude. It's a life, maybe not human life, but a life nonetheless. Ghandi used to say that you could judge a society based on the manner in which it treated its most helpless members, their children, their elderly, and their animals. Oh, well, time to get off my Animal Planet soapbox for now. <Wink> Take care!
 
Leanne "Barbie Brat" :-) ;-)
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
----- Original Message -----
From: John Hawkins
To: leanne
Cc: candichat@dolls.de
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: ot Pets, Anyone?

2 cats once owned by our neighbor who had no intention of getting them neutered or 'shots' for them ( they couldn't 'afford' to do so , yet they have a car for every member of the family -4)...so I asked if we could & after we did all that ,they said we may as well keep them, so we did. They are a male yellow tabby, Tomtom very sweet & laid back ...& a female feisty Lucy , who I made the mistake of getting between her & a cat she was about to fight with & ended up in the ER to get shots for bad bites & clawing ..they are about 8 now. Pat H.