Originally Posted by shakran

I'm going to be blunt. If your parents are not willing to pay to have the cat treated when it needs to be treated, then they have no business having a cat. Frankly the cat should be taken to a no-kill shelter so that someone who IS willing to pay to care for it can adopt it.

there is absolutely NO EXCUSE for the adults in the house not to take care of the animals that they are responsible for. In fact, in some states it's a crime. In NYC your parents would be cited with a ticket (and could be sentenced to jail) if the ASPCA found out about this.