I think it may be a bad sign that I read that as rickrolling! I think I may now have to exit the internet.

Rollicking: telling-off, shouting at, scolding

"Pawn your stuff. TVs and VCRs can be replaced. Your pet can’t."

on the outside, that sounds really insensitive and trying to coerce people who are having a hard time into parting with cash, but the vets I've seen aren't like that at all, they all seem to genuinely care about your pet. My girlfriend and I lost our hamster last year, and I know it sounds silly, but we would have done anything for her. We took her to emergency vets, and spent loads on medicine for her because we loved her (well, we still do). I'd spend the money again, too. I honestly believe that I couldn't love a child as much as I loved that hamster, and that's what it really boils down to - you can't choose what you love, and species is irrelevant. If you love a dog (and I mean really love a dog) then you'd do just as much for an ill dog as you would for an ill child.

We were devastated when we lost our hamster, and we still miss her like crazy. It sounds weird, even to me, that you can love something but never make it understand what that means. You just have to do whatever you can for them, and know what that means to you.

Get me, rambling!