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During some holiday chat with relatives and friends, I had so many people make side comments to me about how pets aren't really important and why in the WORLD do I have so many and spend so much money on them? To quote my Uncle, "If I ever had a pet that cost me over a couple of hundred, it would be gone."
I shaked my head and laughed and said, "What I don't understand is how people can think spending a couple of hundred on an electronic that isn't alive, has no emotions, and won't be able to comfort you isn't a waste of money but they think an animal is."
Then I had a friend and a cousin come to my defence and say that having an animal is like a hobby. People spend money on what makes them feel better. They don't understand the half of it, and it really makes me feel sorry for them. My animals are like my children and some people take offense at that. I just shrug it off and say, "I don't care, I have my dogs' devotion, why do I care what you think about it?"
It does frustrate me at times, but I try to just ignore people's comments.
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