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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree about pets.

Anyone who says pets are not expensive is delusional. They're insanely expensive.  Quality food costs over $100 per mo, perhaps even several hundred a mo. Vet bills are always, always, aallllllways a couple hundred every.single.damn.time and vets constantly try to get you coming back multiple times for many visits/follow-ups, tests, lab work, and additional medicines/procedures.  Teeth cleaning alone for a cat or dog is almost $1000, and you should be doing that 1x a year or so.  We spent soooo much money on vet bills for our cat. Towards the end of its life, I think we blew almost $10k in a year on a never ending stream of vet visits, tests, labwork, exams, medication, and special diet food.....he died anyway. [/quote]

+1. When our dog was diagnosed with a terminal illness, the vet tried to get us to come in every 2 weeks for lab work at $650-850 each time. We declined. We bought her the expensive food and medicine, but it's not like the vet could do anything to save her and the food and medicine were the only things to extend her life/quality of life. Plus traveling was an issue with hoping to get the expensive boarding spot for her and not being able to take spur of the minute trips if we couldn't get one. Honestly we bought a beach house in part so we could just easily travel with the kids and dog. And we bought a beach house instead of a condo so she could have a yard to run around, which cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars more.

She died over a year ago and I'm still really sad about it. I mourn her every day and just can't really get over her. I don't see us getting another dog any time soon.[/quote]

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