I am certainly not saying anything is wrong with your heart. I'm stating how I personally feel and my feelings only. You should not have any bad feelings about any decision you make in life, whether it be buying a purebred animal or anything you decide to do in life. Someone else's feelings should not have an influence on you if you are happy doing what your doing and should not make you feel sad, if it's truly what you want to do.Originally Posted by tiffanyjbt
I just spent $1200 on a bengal kitten. Do you think there's something wrong with my heart? I know you'll say no, but thats what you (and others) seem to be implying when you say this. You, and many others here, obviously feel its a huge waste of money to do 'such a thing' as what I have done. This really makes me sad.
My 'mouse relocation program' that I mentioned earlier is something that a lot of people here would also find to be a waste (at best). My husband and I find mice in our birdfeed all the time. Instead of letting the cat have at them (which we would NEVER do anyway), we catch them in a plastic container and drive them over to a forest preserve to drop them off. My mom (and just about everyone else) thinks we're crazy! We have 'raised' a baby opossum in our back yard and taken care of a colony of quaker conures that live in an evergreen nearby... not to mention the stray cats and dogs and donations to rescues and shelters... I've done a lot to help animals in general and I very strongly believe that this is one of the few situations where I can have the best of both worlds. It kind of hurts my feelings that people are implying that I somehow care less about animal welfare because I spent what some consider a lot of money on one animal....
I'm sorry if I came across a little harsh. I just have strong feelings on this subject, and they are just that... my feelings and how I feel.