Was this too harsh or am I just a synical bitch?

[Mel&Keith]

This thread just really got under my skin:
Live under your means!!!

After Sandy's long rambling defensive posts, I felt like she was changing the subject so I added:

I think that "stuff" does happen, you have the personal right to decide how you deal with it.

But having had drug addicted neighbors who had tons of tons of children all born into welfare and pets that they could not afford to feed I would get irritated When I would find out that that the mom was pregnant again or that they got another cat. When you know that you will not have the means to care for a pet (or a child for that matter) then I don't think you should get it (or have one). The city came and took their dog away several times for roaming the neighborhood and not having current shots. He finally bit a child and the city took him away for the last time and put him to sleep.

Who paid for the gas in the Animal Control truck and the euthanasia? Who paid for all of their children's food? My tax dollars.

I think there's a huge difference between knowingly putting yourself in a financial bind and having a tragedy or sudden change of circumstance happen in your life.

I've been on a bit of a rant run lately, telling off "friends" who have been anything but lately so Keith is worried that I may have been out of line.

On the same subject.....He just called me from the tree in our backyard to come look at the news helicopters filming an apartment fire full of illegal immigrants down the street. I just got a "delinquent" school tax bill that was due in Oct but some how got lost in the mail. They sent a nasty letter saying that they were going to foreclose on our house so maybe it's just a sensitive subject. I paid it immediately of course but the fact that they never sent a bill for taxes I don't feel I should have to pay since we don't have children just pisses me off.

 

[Jeremy Letkey]

I don't think that you were too harsh.

 

[Mel&Keith]

Well thanks, Jeremy. I don't even know why that thread got so heated. If you can't afford a pet, don't get one...doesn't seem like such a controversial idea to me.

 

[nwheat]

I'm afraid I've avoided that thread - but what you posted above sounds reasonable to me.

 

[Jeanne]

I didn't read the whole thread, but I get the gist of it. I think you are totally right Mel, and no I don't think you were being too harsh on them. You said the truth and if people don't want to hear it, well, then too bad.

In the words of a WISE women, "If you can't afford the Vet, you shouldn't have the Pet"