[Darlin Beauxs]

Originally Posted by lil fu fu girl

When I first joined the board, a story was told by another rescue worker. The pup she currently was fostering was received due to a phone call from a women who said that the dog they currently owned had pancreatitis and she could not afford to pay for the meds and new food plan that the vet had prescribed.
The rescue worker decided to meet her at the vets to pick up the yorkie. When she got there she waited until a brand-new BMW pulled up and out came a women dressed to the nines, Gucci purse included, who had the poor little yorkie who could not afford the surgery!! In fact she had known about the illness for quite some time and yet proceeded to feed the dog its regular food escalating the disease on the already sick pup, explaining that things were just too tight to afford the meds and food.

So in answer to your query, finances and savings do not really matter in my eyes as I have seen those with practically nothing, create the funds for their pets needs, and those that have essentially everything treat their pet like garbage. In my eyes it is not a matter of finance, but a matter of humanity.

That is too sad, I was in this position this summer. The vet prescribed science diet I/D and I did feed it, even though it is ranked horribly until Cooper's blood came back normal. I resented it being so much more than food I knew was healthier, but the important thing was, IT WORKED. Before that, I was feeding Merrick, which I thought was good. I truly think the dehydrated chicken strips made him sick (I had changed to another brand)

BUT I want to shed some light on something. The lady dressed to the nines driving a fancy car could be poorer than you. The reason why I say this is because people always think my husband and I have money. We have decent cars but NOT BMW's, but we are very nice dressers and I have nice jewelry and a name brand purse collection. But those are things we bought when I was working, and we take good care of our things, because we are not buying new right now.

Looks can be deceiving.