Her Family Is Pressuring Her To Cough Up $10,000 For Her Brother’s Cat To Get Surgery, But She Doesn’t Want To, Since She Needs This Money For Her Master’s Program
A 21-year-old girl currently lives at home with her mom and dad, and not too long ago, her 23-year-old brother, his wife, and their 2 cats were left with no choice but to move back in with all of them.
Her brother and his wife could no longer afford their apartment after their rent shot up, and so that’s how they wound up moving back into the family home.
She was actually happy that her brother moved back home, as she really did miss seeing him so frequently. Additionally, she really does like his 2 cats.
The problem with her brother living under the same roof as all of them, though, comes down to the puppy her mom and dad just got.
The puppy really doesn’t eat a lot, so her mom and dad have taken to leaving her food out, so she is able to eat all day.
Her brother’s 3-year-old cat named Fluffy has begun eating the puppy’s food nonstop.
“It feels like we have to keep watch over him more so the puppy,” she explained. “Fluffy, however, has had a bit of a bad health life and has developed urine crystals when stressed.”
“Recently, he had developed some and was rushed to an emergency vet and had to be hospitalized for 3 days. My brother and SIL did not have the 3k for this visit, so my mother footed the bill. Everything went well, and the vet put fluffy on a special diet and said no more outside food… Yeah, that hasn’t stopped him from going into the puppy’s food.”
Half a year after Fluffy had to go to the vet to the tune of $3,000, he started to seem like he had urine crystals again.
New Africa – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purpose only, not the actual cat
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Her brother took Fluffy back to the vet, where he learned that Fluffy now needs to have a really intense surgery that’s going to cost approximately $10,000.
As soon as her brother got that news, he lost it, as he does not have that kind of money. Her brother did tell her mom, but her mom said she does not want to take more money out of her savings to help pay for Fluffy, especially considering there is a chance that this surgery will not help Fluffy at all.
Her brother also has not yet paid back her mom for that initial $3,000 she gave him to help with Fluffy. Her brother and his wife make around $60,000 a year each, yet they blow it on absolutely everything while saving nothing. Her brother and his wife constantly turn to her to pay for their food or lend them money, and now they’re turning to her to pay for Fluffy’s expensive surgery.
“I’m currently a student, and the money I have saved up is for my master’s program that’ll start next fall,” she said.
“It has taken me a while to save this money up, and now it feels like it is being taken away from me, it sounds selfish I know. This surgery has a 30% chance of success for his state, and I feel like it’ll just lead to more complications down the line that my Brother and SIL can’t afford.”
She’s left wondering if she should give into her family’s pressure and pay the $10,000 for Fluffy’s surgery.
Do you think she should?
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