Burn wrote:Going to get serious for a moment (we can get back to stupidity later I promise). Would really like people's opinions on this.
Read it in a Facebook local group I frequent. The conversation was about our local animal refuge which is currently closed down. The groups admin posted this.
I want to ask you to think around the issues of veterinary costs. My perspective, and I may be wrong, is that vets capitalize on peoples vulnerabilities, their emotional bonds with their pets. Like drug dealers they reap huge amounts of money from people who love their pets. I believe the reason we have so many discarded animals is the cost of vet fees. I think it is wrong and it is time animal lovers stood up against the extortion that is taking place right under our noses. Doctors do the same thing. Reason demands that we stand back and look at weather a pet is worth thousands of dollars. I know people who have spent that kind of money on a pet. Some people will go into debt to save a pet. That is extortion.
I personally am incredibly disgusted and angry over it. Yeah, a vet bill can be expensive, but to me, if you love an animal, like you love another human being, you can't put a value on its life.
Is Sly isn that group?
But seriously, that's a personal matter. I'm all for life (as a vegetarian (you may make fun of that)), but I do consider animals on a different platform than humans. So in the end, if the cost is too high for Fluffy to live and I need food, it's cold, but there you go, Fluffy. It's harsh. It's hard to put a price on love and life, and yet it happens. Which means that sometimes Fluffy bites the dust. However, if you're going to own a pet, you take responsibility. To me, that means that the pet has a life that you will extend as long and as well as you can. So that means paying up from time to time.
Calling veterinarians 'emotional extortionists'... Is odd. Odd in the same sense that you could call doctors the same thing. They'll hold you hostage over your cancer,those bastards.
