If you decide to get an animal, you aren't just getting a fun little plaything to fool around with when convenient and then discard when things get harder. You're taking responsibility for the care and wellbeing of a living animal. Animals sometimes cost money. We recently dropped 3 grand on back surgery for my dog. It sucked, but it happens. If I don't want to risk spending money, then I shouldn't get an animal.
Oh, that said, the humane society was grossly negligent in not checking the cat over before they allowed you to adopt it. The hum. societies here, anyway, will not even let you consider adopting an animal until they're sure it's as-healthy-as-possible, and has been neutered/spayed. They should have treated the cat before you got hold of it, but at minimum they should have been aware of the cat's condition and informed you about it. I suspect this "humane society" isn't a very good operation, since it seems they don't even bother to have a vet check their animals over.
Last edited by shakran; 02-09-2009 at 10:26 AM..
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