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Nope. If you cannot afford to feed a pet, you don't need a pet.
It pains me to see people who I know are really broke and who have always been broke, with several dogs and spending money that could feed their families on dog food.
Come on... get some goldfish or something if you must, but a dog costs a lot to feed.
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Pets are expensive. If you cannot afford to feed and care for a pet you don't need to have one. Pets are a want, not a need. It sounds so horrible but it's true.
Many people want the best food they can get for their pets which that can easily run $55 for a 25lb bag. I do not think that taxpayers should have to foot the bill to feed people's pets too.
Only an animal lover would understand, they become our children.
And that's taking it way too far. I have a cat, and she is considered my companion, not my child.
In a legal sense, pets are property, just like your car and your house. And like cars, houses, and other property that requires care and upkeep, if you can't afford the associated costs, you don't get one.
If they don't allow the stamps to buy kibble, people will just use them to buy what they can. such as meat & canned tuna to feed the animals. I know if I was in such a desperate situation, I would feed the pets & try to also feed myself, but they would not go hungry. I love them.
Kibble is garbage food anyway. A balanced meat-based diet is better for cats and dogs, both of which are carnivores, with cats being obligate carnivores.
The real cost of responsible pet ownership is vet and healthcare of the animal, not just the food. If people are allowed to buy people food totally without any nutritional value like potato chips, popsicles, cookies and soda, they might as well be buying pet food.
The pet food they would be buying wouldn't have any nutritional value either. Meow Mix, for example, lists its #1 ingredient as yellow corn - for an obligate carnivores that derives absolutely NO nutritional value from plant-based ingredients or plant-based protein sources.
So after they've lined up for cheap pet food using food stamps, how do they expect to pay the vet when that crap food causes health issues?
There's so many pets who need homes. I don't see why it's a bad thing to assist low income people to be able to home the pets.
There's already tons being spent on shelters, so use the money to give them homes.
And what's next, though? Vet bills are expensive, and Care Credit only goes so far, and you have to make every single payment if you go that route. Most vets don't extend credit either, because they've been taken advantage of too many times. Mine doesn't, I have to pay in full at the time of the appointment.
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