When Jean Kelly's cat Cadbury stopped meowing, the vet diagnozed a paralysed larynx which was blocking its throat. So what did the pet lover do?
After a stint in intensive care, six days in an oxygen tent, four months nursing care and regular check-ups, the 13-year-old Moggy had run up a bill of £10,000. [...]
Cadbury is back at home and on the road to recovery in Olney, Buckinghamshire - sitting in his favourite spot in the conservatory and miaowing in delight. “It was never about me – it was about Cadbury and his quality of life. I know he’s not a young cat but I wanted to give him a fighting chance,” she told a Sunday newspaper.
(Photo: Steve Nicholson)
Yeah, because pets are all spoiled and worshiped and never, ever abused! No one's ever bothered to spend several times more money on curing a sick family member! Damn humans!
And I'm just sure sw doesn't have any money at all to spare on him/herself, seeing as how it's all been donated to the poor starving children in the world.
Pets are family and people can handle their money how they wish. Put up or shut up.
P.S. I love the way the British spell "meow" as "miaow."
Humans are usually worth the extra money. A cat? You have to draw the line somewhere. I'm sure a lot of people would be willing to fork out the big bucks to get their cat to shut up once in a while.
As we all know, even a "frivolous" operation offers a vet the chance to experiment, and learn. Ideas and solutions come from this.
According to this chart :
http://cats.about.com/cs/healthissues/a/agechart.htm
The cat had 68 years old. Is it worth that much money? I think that the operation, at that age, could do more arm than good anyway. The cat stopped "miaowing" probably because it's just getting older.
On a different note. I had not heard of a divide on US/UK spelling on “meow”/“miaow” so I did a quick search and apparently it can be spelt many ways eg miaow, miaou, miaul, mew which are all accepted English and not necessarily country based.
I don't know but I think 'miaow' is more common in Oz. However the question is...how does everyone pronounce it?
HOWEVER - if anything beyond trivial occurs she's for the chop.
*Googles* Wayside Soup Kitchen, then? I'm glad you're so greatly involved and that you actually act on your convictions.
She just walks around opening her mouth and trying to meow, but no noise comes out.
Its the funniest thing ever!