Pets and People

I hear a lot about pets these days getting all kinds of modern medicines, and apparently joint replacement and other highly sophisticated medical procedures. There are people starving all over the world, and we are paying thousands of dollars to pump our cats full of high cholesterol medicine and joint replacement? PETA must love this - I mean, if a dog is the same as a person, they should be guaranteed the same rights to health care, I suppose. Maybe Hillary can throw in universal coverage for all our pets, too. For those rational people out there, how about we either let the cat deal with her hypertension, or put her to sleep, and send our money to people who desperately need modern medicine? You could save several lives with the money you were putting away for your dog's hip procedure, or you could provide your dog with a couple more years of frolicking and leave those other people to their own devices. What?