i had to help my mom kill her cat today. it sort of annoys me cause about a week or two ago she asked me to have it put down for her, and then on my way to the vet she calls me and tells me to come pick her up cause she feels the cat loves her and she should be there for it. i knew this was a bad idea since one time i went with her to have a pet rat put down that she had got stuck with through a long story that i won't go into. anyway she cried like hell over that rat that she barely knew and i knew if she came for this one it would turn into an ordeal. but i couldn't talk her out of it so i went and picked her up.
she felt guilty about having it put down so she asked the vet to first check and see if the problems it had could be fixed with an easy shot or something cheap like that. this tacked on an extra 40 dollars to the visit. the vet said that it could possibly be fixed by a shot and the way he broke it down, basically i would have to pay the same amount to try the shot that i would to just put it down. you know vets are animal people and my mom is an animal person and so basically i would look like an ******* if i said nah just kill it and get it over with. so i payed the 70 bucks and hoped like hell that this would be the end of it.
well, turns out the cat was more ****ed up than we thought and so yesterday my mom says you have to take it to have it put down. i did and she came again but this time she was able to handle it cause she knew it had to be done. i had to bury the thing too cause they charge an extra 40 to cremate it and i was already resenting that 70 dollars i wasted on it in the first place. the ground is hard as **** and it was an ordeal getting the hole dug up, but at least i didn't pay that 40.
i know i should just look at the 70 as paying for her to have peace of mind but part of me wishes i didn't come pick her up cause i know if it was just me that cat would have been dead and i would have paid 35 flat and it would be over and done with. i'm not heartless enough to not care about my mom's feeling but at the same time its an inconvenient time for me to be throwing away 70 dollars on a lost cause of a cat. if only she was a little more emotionally vacant like me i would still have that 70 dollars but then again if she was she wouldn't be her and so that's just life i guess.
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