Kitties

[masque12]

I've been looking at kittens available on Craigslist, just for the hell of it. I'm in no way ready to replace the Beast yet (he is irreplaceable), but there's a hell of a lot of really cute kittens on there. I want them all. If you are looking for a pet, however, I recommend checking craigslist out, and giving some of them a home. I think the Beast would appreciate it.

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[masque12.livejournal.com]

We'd also tried 3 different kinds of insulin, and he wasn't responsive to any of them. There was also an element of having spent several thousand, cumulatively, on his medical care in the past year, and we couldn't afford that anymore, not with him failing to show improvement for all of our efforts.

[00goddess.livejournal.com]

I wasn't questioning your decision to euthanize him- if he was suffering and couldn't be helped, then I think that's the best choice. I am sure you did everything you could to help him to recover- if it wasn't working, it just wasn't. I was just confused as to why you took him to the Humane Society if he had a vet already whom he had been seeing.

But your second comment actually gives me another question- did you take him to like a clinic at the Humane Society, to be euthanized, or did you surrender him to them?

[masque12.livejournal.com]

Oh I didn't think you were questioning me, but at the time I wrote the post you were replying to, I was still pretty hardcore broken up about the Beast, and I may have sounded more defensive than I meant to.

I took him to the Humane Society specifically to be euthanized. We had found out a short time before that his vet had basically been price gouging us on insulin. We went from one vet charging us $60 or so (per small bottle) for insulin that didn't work, to another vet charging us $130 (per small bottle) for insulin, to my old vet I took Mittens to up in the Woodlands who told us we could get insulin for $30 (per small bottle) at Walgreens. Unfortunately, none of those worked.

The one we considered the price gouger is http://catvetclinic.com/ on West Alabama. I do not recommend them.