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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do the math and show them how much it costs. I don't understand why anyone gets pets. Just a lot of upkeep. [/quote]True, pets do cost money, but I'd guess that it's because people in the USA spend too much money on their pets.[/quote]

I’m not one to spoil my dog. He has one bed, no clothing, and eats dog-safe human food as an occasional treat. I paid $180 for his annual vet visit last week and another $350 for an emergency vet visit when he counter-surfed cooling  food and ate a nearly fatal amount of onion. Unfortunately, he also has a sensitive gut, so his prescription food costs $90 per bag. (Thank goodness he’s small enough that he doesn’t need a new bag very often.) Because we never get lasting hard freezes in this region any longer, he needs two tick preventives (oral a s topical) and heart worm preventive every month. Those medications run into the hundreds per year. When he was younger and needed training, multi-week classes were hundreds of dollars and each individual trainer session was $150/hr. When I travel, every day away costs me an additional $45. I can afford it, but it’s not a trivial amount of money.

Even pets that were low-cost in their younger years are often expensive as seniors. Many will end up on some sort of maintenance medication. Humane euthanasia alone is a  $300 expense even without paying for a pet cemetery burial or individual cremation, either of which really drive up the cost.

When most Americans do not have an extra $500 around to cover an unforeseen expense, I think it’s fair to say that per ownership is a costly thing.[/quote]

This! Back when people didn’t do all this and dogs ran free (the 1960s) all these expenses were just ignored. But today: yes expensive especially in the city. [/quote]

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