How you value your life.....a discussion

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Don't feel bad.. if you had to break your leg to save your cat, you know I would be there in a heartbeat to take care of YOU both!

Nomi...you just know that I would do the same for you. {{{HUGS}}}

Maybe I am just not that good of a person.

Jen, you just have to know that this is totally untrue. I, for one, know that if your place caught on fire, you'd be the first to run into the burning building to try to save the lives of your precious furbabies.....that is if you didn't get them all out first. I hate pain too, but wouldn't a Mother take a risk to save her child?

Your niece obviously doesn't know animal love. I would risk my life also. They are worth that and so much more. I feel bad for your niece because she is really missing out on something special.

Val, honestly, she really does know animal love. My two nieces grew up with dogs and cats and all furbabies were very spoiled. When she was younger she was different. It's just now she's in her twenties, somehow her outlook on life has changed, as it should be. However, she's becoming more opinionated and confrontational.

But would I die for them? No, I would not. I would not leave my child an orphan and my family distraught to save the life of one of my pets.

You see, that's where the controversy lies. I totally understand that logic TD and that's why I put this in the Dog House. So what does that make me?

Gini, they currently have two very, very spoiled kitties...brothers, Martini and Maverick. There is nothing that family wouldn't do for them. What really bothered me was my niece was actually getting angry over my statement that Max and Speckles were my children and I would do anything for them. She just couldn't understand why I would put their lives ahead of my own. Maybe it's just youth, like Richard says, but finally I realized I was knocking my head against a stone wall so I changed the subject. At our Thanksgiving dinner in October she really spoiled it in the end by trying to give us a lecture on why "ladies only" gyms were better because in a "co-ed" gym you are constantly a victim of sexual harrassment." Oh yes, and don't even get her started on women's oppression, unfair wages, etc.

Last night I felt like telling her to smoke a reefer and chill out.....better yet "here's a stick of chewing gum..."

I'm a pet parent and proud of it.