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Pampered Pets, Hungry Kids
Zenit News Agency ^ | December 17, 2005

Posted on 12/17/2005 6:16:37 PM PST by NYer

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To: NYer

I shall ask my dogs their opinion of this article before I comment as soon as they get back from their golf game.


61 posted on 12/18/2005 8:18:39 PM PST by U S Army EOD (LINCOLN COUNTY RED DEVILS STATE CHAMPIONS)
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To: NYer; Porterville; metmom; technomage; ridesthemiles; Hillarys Gate Cult; GodBlessRonaldReagan; ...
In some cases pets are even better off, as pet medical insurance covers almost everything.

This is BS. Just try getting (or keeping) insurance for an elderly pet. And the treatments which are covered are very limited, compared to all the available treatments.

Darrell and Nina Hallett . . . spent $45,000 on a stem cell transplant for their golden retriever

This is an example of the private sector financing research which contributes to the progress of human medicine. I have a cyber-acquaintance who got a kidney transplant for her cat. The surgeon used an experimental stent that had never been used on humans -- a very tiny one to fit the tiny ducts of a cat. A few months later, based on the experiences of this and other veterinary transplant surgeons, the stent was successfully used on a premature human baby. I imagine that baby's parents aren't too troubled over the "decadence" of people who spend this kind of money on their pets' veterinary care.

62 posted on 12/19/2005 8:17:50 AM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: CzarNicky; ZULU; MoochPooch

So true. Sending money to "help" third world children is like spending money to feed a colony of feral cats but never getting them spayed/neutered -- just expands the problem and expands the suffering. It may make some of the givers feel better about themselves, but on the receiving end it just ensures that there will be a larger number of children suffering unspeakably in those hellholes.


63 posted on 12/19/2005 8:21:50 AM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: NYer
Spending on pets is skyrocketing. Animal owners in the United Kingdom will spend around 85 million pounds ($150 million) on Christmas gifts for their pets

Another sign of a dying culture.

64 posted on 12/19/2005 8:26:36 AM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: DejaJude
Moreover, the text explains, while one can love animals, "one should not direct to them the affection due only to persons."

Animals don't get into bad situations because they tossed away their resources on booze and lottery tickets. Animals don't elect politicians who demand more and more wealth transfers.

Which is really more "due" my affection?

65 posted on 12/19/2005 9:10:32 AM PST by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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To: DancingMyRainbow
I don't know what to make of that statement. There's nothing that says that the money that people spend on pets would automatically be directed to hungry children if those people didn't spend it on their pets.

Furthermore, if people didn't spend money on their pets, the children of the pet store owner would... wait for it... GO HUNGRY!

Duh.

66 posted on 12/19/2005 9:11:57 AM PST by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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To: Aquinasfan
Sounds like a healthy capitalist* culture to me.

*This post sponsored by the Department of Redundancy Department

67 posted on 12/19/2005 9:15:54 AM PST by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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To: NYer

oh no another chick thread


68 posted on 12/19/2005 9:18:06 AM PST by wardaddy (They took most of my Dixie heritage......they'll have to take Christmas from my cold dead hands)
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To: steve-b
Sounds like a healthy capitalist* culture to me.

Culture and economy aren't synonymous.

69 posted on 12/19/2005 11:06:09 AM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: NYer

When you have 2 children per household for 50 years, and those children have 2 children per household, money that once was spent on children and grandchildren can be better spent on . . . dogs. What a world we live in.


70 posted on 12/19/2005 11:10:03 AM PST by petitfour
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To: arbee4bush

God Bless you! You deserve all the success you get and I hope you get a lot!


71 posted on 12/19/2005 11:11:13 AM PST by Paved Paradise
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To: Ostlandr

Well said! I hope things improve for you and your family this coming year. You,however, are already rich in the important ways, and one of those ways is having a charitable heart!

God bless and Merry Christmas to you and your family!!!!!!


72 posted on 12/19/2005 11:13:27 AM PST by Paved Paradise
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To: Porterville

I'm glad there arent any hungry kids in your house too.

I'd hope you'd feed 'em. ;)


73 posted on 12/19/2005 11:16:04 AM PST by wallcrawlr (Pray for the troops [all the troops here and abroad]: Success....and nothing less!!)
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To: Fzob
I've got nothing against commerce, but the fact that these stores have a market, points to consumerism gone bad.

Someplace I read that people in rich countries have less kids and more dogs. Something about getting the emotional companionship without the big financial effort.

74 posted on 12/19/2005 11:18:23 AM PST by A Ruckus of Dogs
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To: MoochPooch
A friend of mine, a social worker, said you can tell a society by how it treats its weakest members. If the children reflect their society, I don't want anything to do with it

In all fairness, the West once treated its kids badly too. Kids working in mines, factories, living on streets, etc ..

but I care more about a stray dog than I do about some of the children (& adults) in 3rd World countries.

The kids are just as innocent as the dogs. The adults, however, do indeed deserve blame.

75 posted on 12/19/2005 11:23:09 AM PST by A Ruckus of Dogs
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I used to say that all the time. I already donate through my government, don't need to donate any more.


76 posted on 12/19/2005 11:24:49 AM PST by A Ruckus of Dogs
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