John Wilkes Booth

i had to help my mom kill her cat today. it sort of annoys me cause about a week or two ago she asked me to have it put down for her, and then on my way to the vet she calls me and tells me to come pick her up cause she feels the cat loves her and she should be there for it. i knew this was a bad idea since one time i went with her to have a pet rat put down that she had got stuck with through a long story that i won't go into. anyway she cried like hell over that rat that she barely knew and i knew if she came for this one it would turn into an ordeal. but i couldn't talk her out of it so i went and picked her up.

she felt guilty about having it put down so she asked the vet to first check and see if the problems it had could be fixed with an easy shot or something cheap like that. this tacked on an extra 40 dollars to the visit. the vet said that it could possibly be fixed by a shot and the way he broke it down, basically i would have to pay the same amount to try the shot that i would to just put it down. you know vets are animal people and my mom is an animal person and so basically i would look like an ******* if i said nah just kill it and get it over with. so i payed the 70 bucks and hoped like hell that this would be the end of it.

well, turns out the cat was more ****ed up than we thought and so yesterday my mom says you have to take it to have it put down. i did and she came again but this time she was able to handle it cause she knew it had to be done. i had to bury the thing too cause they charge an extra 40 to cremate it and i was already resenting that 70 dollars i wasted on it in the first place. the ground is hard as **** and it was an ordeal getting the hole dug up, but at least i didn't pay that 40.

i know i should just look at the 70 as paying for her to have peace of mind but part of me wishes i didn't come pick her up cause i know if it was just me that cat would have been dead and i would have paid 35 flat and it would be over and done with. i'm not heartless enough to not care about my mom's feeling but at the same time its an inconvenient time for me to be throwing away 70 dollars on a lost cause of a cat. if only she was a little more emotionally vacant like me i would still have that 70 dollars but then again if she was she wouldn't be her and so that's just life i guess.

Trollheart

Jesus Christ man! You're bitching about 70 dollars when your mother has lost her beloved pet? You are indeed coming across as very heartless, at least to me.

And count yourself lucky: here they charge 230 Euro to cremate a pet, and I had to get two of ours done (not at the same time) but it was money well spent as their little coffins are in my bedroom and always a constant reminder of the love we had for them, and that they returned to us.

You can't put a price on a pet's love. 70 dollars. GTFO and get over it.

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Chula Vista

Me too. It became obvious from the get go in the cat kicking thread that JWB does not hold animals in a very high regard, although he's got a really cute pup.

Last two times a balled like an absolute baby was both comforting a cat as it crossed over to kitty heaven.

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Frownland

Putting down pets is really rough. I've had to put down two dogs within three months of each other for my first experience. I just couldn't be with them when they died, I wanted my last memories of them to be of them alive and I don't think I could make it through watching them pass.

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Chula Vista

I think you owe it to them to be holding them and soothing them through the process. It's really painless - they simply go to sleep. Both of the vets out here we've used were great. The assistant patted my back both times while I bent over the cat. And then when it was done they both left the room and gave me all the time I needed to cry in private.

It hurts like hell during but in a weird way feels "right" afterwards.

(got all choked up just typing that)

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John Wilkes Booth

yea, i am sorta. especially when it comes to animals. i don't know why that's just how my brain works. you can get mad at me for that if you want but i am just being honest. i felt worse for my mom then i did for the cat.

but i also felt less bad than i would normally cause i know deep down she didn't love that cat too much. she got stuck with it cause my sister brought it home. she has been talking about getting rid of it for years now but she's just a good person so she still felt too bad to do it even though she wanted to.

i felt sorta bad for the cat the first time i took it cause i really didn't think much was wrong with it and i thought that sucks it has to die, but i was willing to get it over with. then it started having seizures and **** and it became obvious this cat was ****ed up so i didn't feel too bad for having it killed.


i can, though. i wouldn't pay 70 dollars for a pet's love right now. especially since i have real expenses and am kind of broke right now. you can say "70 dollars is nothing" but i pull in maybe 300 a week and i have a court case tomorrow where i'm looking at 500 in traffic tickets alone, with another one coming up for 160 plus i have to pay 400 for my classes without any financial aid. maybe you don't know what its like to be broke or maybe you're just way more sensitive than me.

i will feel worse when i have to kill the dog tbh. i dunno why but i just have a hard time getting attached to cats cause they are so distant and don't have much of a personality to me. it still won't make me cry to kill the dog though, just being honest.

edit- also not to revive that old argument but just to be clear i wouldn't kick a cat like that and i think it's a dick move. i'm not the type to make things suffer on purpose. i have even gotten into fights with kids for doing that kind of **** when i was younger. i just think jail time for that is counter productive.

Frownland

I get where you're coming from, I just don't have it in me. My older dog will probably pass away while I'm at school, that's going to be difficult.

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@JWB

Isn't it your mom's responsibility to be paying those bills? In any case you might look into carecredit if vet bills are an issue. They give you a year to pay off as little as 100$. I'm more or less in the same position financially and probably wouldn't be able to keep my dog without it.

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John Wilkes Booth

she carried me for about 2 years when i was trying to get my degree after having lived for years on my own scraping by with the kind of dead end jobs that a high school diploma can get you so now i owe her back. she's pretty broke just like me and she didn't have the money and i did. so i must have some kind of heart cause you're right really it wasn't even my problem technically.

ladyislingering

Sorry to hear about your mom's cat. Poor baby. It's such a shame that animals don't live as long as we do.

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