I apologize if this doesn't belong here, I just need to vent.

[Scooby4]

My cat recently got hurt. It's got one broken hip and a dislocated one. Don't know what happened. I panicked and drove to the nearest Emergency Vet clinic. The ONLY vet open for 150 miles! I called my father to ask him to help me cover the bill since I was unemployed. The vet clinic demands payment upfront or you don't get the cat back I knew the bill would be atleast $200. (It was $280 in the end). My father tells me that I should let the cat die AND that he would NOT lend me the money for a cat bill!!!!
It hurt my feelings. I then called another friend to help me. She then told me to let my cat die too!!! That the cat was just going to be "in pain" and that was cruel to the cat!!!
My cat broke it's hip years ago and I was told it would never jump again. She survived and jumps up on the bed which is over 3 feet off the ground! There was NO reason for me to put the cat to sleep. Even the vet did NOT mention it was that serious of an injury. It was marked down as "Fair" as it's condition!
I get soo mad when people tell you to put an animal to sleep at even the minorist of offenses or injuries. Who's to judge when to put an animal to sleep until that animal let's you know?

[Sevaede]

What a grade A, five star, galactic class, platinum-plated *$#@@!!!

My sentiments exactly. I couldn't have put it better myself.

[Sevaede]

I hear what you are saying .My stepdad was the same way i grew up on a farm,and there used to be cats tons of them and there was always kittens,well as a child i thought they should be in the house.But dad never agreed on that i find most Farmers have a bad attitude against animals in there eyes they only babied the cows (They made them money right)Not all are like that but a good majority are Now that he is older he has a total different attitude towards them as me and my sister have animals and they love them to death.Sometimes people need eye openers too see how precious these animals really are and how they bring so much love into our homes and THEY MAKE OUR HOMES HOLE!!!

Yeah, my dad was never really keen on animals up until he married my stepmother (awesome gal who brought in, originally, two doogs and two ferrety little monster faces). We had TONS of fish, crabs, and frogs. My brother had a lizard. My aunt moved in for a while and we even had a cat and a Rottie. You would never imagine how heartbroken he was when "his" German Sheppie girl or the sweet little Mimi ferret passed away.

[Catty1]

Here is a wacky idea...someone who posted here said your FIL might be doing it for the attention(sorry, forgot the name).

Treat him like a teenager who acts bad to get attention. Just say, "Oh," and carry on whatever you are doing.

It's the only attention he can get...I am willing to bet that when he doesn't get attention(even bad attention is better than none, and he feels he has WON when you react), he will eventually stop.

Just a thought.

hugs
Catty1

[Sevaede]

Here is a wacky idea...someone who posted here said your FIL might be doing it for the attention(sorry, forgot the name).

Treat him like a teenager who acts bad to get attention. Just say, "Oh," and carry on whatever you are doing.

It's the only attention he can get...I am willing to bet that when he doesn't get attention(even bad attention is better than none, and he feels he has WON when you react), he will eventually stop.

Just a thought.

hugs
Catty1

I'll give it a try. Usually, I just raise my eyebrows and walk away.

hugs

[Catty1]

Also...the squirt bottle works for cats, so...naaah....never mind....

[Sevaede]

I moved this into the Dog House, where upsetting things belong.

What a sad, sad, ignorant man. Thank goodness your husband didn't inherit that attitude!

Ah, okay.

He is terribly ignorant and arrogant. You'd wonder how my quiet, darling, AWESOME husband ever sprung from such a neanderthal.