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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]you've sold your kids the idea of "sooner rather than later" with the promise of a new puppy?

Please don't get a puppy. That's just a terrible idea. You should be pet-free.[/quote]

No, a puppy hasn't been offered up to make them feel better about the potential loss of the cat. The puppy discussion started a good while before the recent major cat issues, and I told the kids that we couldn't get a puppy unless everyone in the house would be comfortable, and that included the cat. The kids know the cat has a life expectancy. They really want a puppy (like most kids), so now they are both very loving and kind to the cat but also sort of okay with the idea that someday she will expire. [/quote]

I think you should wait until your husband is gone to get any more pets. If ever.

Foster, if you need animals in your life.

[b]Pets are a lifetime commitment[/b]. Not an until it's convenient commitment.

And let me be clear: I am not opposed to euthanasia when that becomes necessary. And I think that "becomes necessary" isn't limited to, the cat is dying of cancer today. But your language and reasoning in talking about this cat is horrible. It just is OP. I've been one of the people who's tried to make suggestions for you - I suggested you reach out to the cat behaviorists, and said you could also contact cat rescue groups with the offer of a big donation, if you preferred that route.

But I just cannot imagine talking about my pets the way you are talking about yours here. As if you don't have a shred of feeling for this animal. It's a kind of coldness that chills my blood.[/quote]

The "pet lovers" say this so much it's like they know how ridiculous a concept it really is and are trying ot convince themselves/others of it.

To some pets may be a lifelong commitment. But legally pets are property. They have some rights, but the right to the same owner for their entire life is not among them. Would you tell the Michael Vicks of the world their pet is a lifelong commitment? if it's OK to rehome or even euthanize clearly abused pets to improve their Q of L/end their pain, why isn't it OK to rehome or euthanize pets like OPs?

as for those of you judging OP's language, you are forgetting a basic rule of internet communication: everyone uses language differently and you have very little access to what someone else means by a given string of words. Why would you judge OP by a single tongue in cheek phrase in her subject line instead of what she's said in her dozens of passionate posts that clarify her position further? Where she's made colear she's done right by this cat for over a decade and the humans in her life (also animals byt the way, and ones to whom she actually HAS made a lifelong, legally binding commitment) need something to change?

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