Vet bills are a bitch. Maybe a corporate sponsor with little ads?

If you think unbridled free roaming cats are expensive, you really should try tying something to one and letting them run amok through your house.

I had a unmitigated asshole of a roommate who once (once) thought it would be amusing to tie - of all things - a buzzing nose hair trimmer to my cat's tail with a length of string.

My poor cat freaked right the fuck out at the sound if it and went apeshit around the house and all over the shelves and through the cupboards trying to get away from it. She broke a fair amount of stuff, and I nearly broke the asshole's neck.

Though mulecat is an amusing concept. I could just see it now. Cat would take about two steps, realize that actual work was being done and then lay down until harness was removed.

The cat I got for free is the most costly thing in my house.

I finally paid of the $3,000 vet bill from Rupert's intestine surgery. I hope Bear feels better soon.

loquacious, he deserved to have the same punishment but instead of a buzzing razor, it should be a chainsaw on a bungee cord. Economies of scale and all.

People that abuse animals should be put in a bag, taken down to the river and tossed in.

weretable, my pal has been treating his dog for kennel cough for the last six months at a cost of something like $120 in pills every two weeks. It is insane! Oh, and the dog seems totally fine but they have to continue the treatment for another month.

I'd like to know (or maybe not) how much this cat has cost total. I know that despite being a freebie that was born in a barn where I used to live, she is the most expensive pet I have ever had. As a kitten she had a prolapsed rectum and we took her to the vet over and over and over and over with it. Then she had pnemonia a couple of times. And at least once or twice a year she gets some sort of cold or virus or something that requires me to take her back, usually more than one visit each time. It is weird that she gets sick so easy. In ways she seems like the strongest/healthiest of my cats. Although he had bad pancreas problems when he was a kitten, I have not had to take Garfield to the vet on account of being sick in at least a few years. Fluffy either.

You start wishing you had fewer pets when you have get flea medicine too. At least I figured out I can get it online cheaper than from the vet.

fuckin tell me about it dude.

I had a unmitigated asshole of a roommate who once (once) thought it would be amusing to tie - of all things - a buzzing nose hair trimmer to my cat's tail with a length of string.

I think I'd have to beat the fuck out of that guy.

Yeah, I pushed him around a little. I told him in no uncertain terms if he even looked at my cat sideways ever again I'd do more than grab him by the collar and slam him up against the wall.

The guy was an ex con, ex heroin addict tweaker fuckoff who had a pretty severe napoleon complex and played stupid intimidation games with people.

He ended up getting forcibly evicted by me a few months later in an unrelated incident involving him threating my nice, lease-holding roommate with a baseball bat.

I confronted him, he tried to attack me. I divested him of the bat, ended up pinning him to the wall by his head with one hand and his feet off the ground with my other arm cocked back, politely asking him to give me a good reason to rearrange his face.

Which, probably fortunately for my hand, he did not. Being bodily picked up and held by your head is probably a little unnerving.

I haven't had to actually take a swing at someone since high school, and I've been pretty good about being able to control confrontations and defusing them nonviolently ever since, even being able to drive the point home that I won't tolerate such bullshit even if I won't immediately sink to that level.

Sorry, I'm digressing, derailing and totally tripping down memory lane. Just saying the fucker got his due, eventually. Last I heard about him was that he spent about a year living out of his car after that instant eviction.

We had eye dog to the vet with a swollen eye today (not sure the cause). $100 bought us an examination, a corneal inspection with florescent yellow dye, a shot of penicillin and a thimble-sized vial of eye drops.

We had THE dog...

Approximate cost of Lulu since I got her 2 weeks ago.

$250 - how much the mixed breed (pug/chihuahua) dog cost at the private shelter (their small dog adoptions carry the entire shelter and naturally I was IN LOVE with her before I found out the price.)

$67 - vet visit (dewormer + heartworm prevention stuff + poop search - the physical exam portion was FREE because of a deal with the shelter)

$20 - nylon portable crate/tent thingy.

$9 - harness

$6 - leash

$7 - rhinestone collar (for her id/vaccination tag to hang on)

$6 - id tag

$20 - toys/treats

$60 - six months of frontline plus (got this online which is what I'll do with the heartworm stuff in six months since I dropped more on that at the vet than I should have.)

$99 - dog classes which I'm signing up for this week.

The price of the dog at the shelter sent me into severe sticker shock. I figured they'd be similar to the humane society or animal care & control. I was wrong, though. BUT LULU ROCKS YOU.

Sorry about Bear!

Vet bills are a bitch. Maybe a corporate sponsor with little ads?

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Apple is already on the bandwagon, as is O'Reilly. And I think that's MoveOn in the middle. I guess they had to do something with that superbowl commercial money.