It's the question I asked my husband and daughter recently when we rushed our new kitten to the vet hospital. We found a darling little kitten in our back yard and adopted it. The vet noticed he had a head tilt and several weeks later he looked as though he was in convulsions or something similar. I decided to pay for an emergency vet visit to see if something simple could be done. When we got there, a CT Scan was recommended. When I asked cost, I was told probably around $1,500. I told the vet that very frankly, while there were starving children in the world, we would not spend that money on a cat, beloved tho he was. There was nothing else she could do and she said she thought he would die within several days. It's been three months and we still have him. He does have some kind of neurological damage and so we don't know what his exact problem is or what his prognosis is. We've decided to enjoy him for as long as he has (which will hopefully be many, many years). However, we do spend money on the cat and even got another one (another stray). But we do set limits and try to be both reasonable and moral.
"But we do set limits and try to be both reasonable and moral."
I think that's about all you can ask of people.