Jack Monroe #600 If I don’t have a sieve, where am I getting a carabiner from?

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Ms Biscuit said:
Aaaahhhhhh, we have been worrying about Coops's health for months! Months! We diagnosed the kidney issues! We diagnosed the eye issues! He's a young cat, this shouldn't be happening! I am inarticulate with anger! Aaaahhhhhh!

Also, like HELL she has been setting aside the money she would have spent on insurance. Why not take him in sooner, in that case? You've never set money aside in your life, Jack. You plow it straight into sideboards and Viv (RIP) and yomps to Celery Town. duck offfffffff.
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my cat is the absolute love of my life and I worry about him the second he shows anything slightly abnormal. I waited until I was financially stable enough to get a pet and look after him and give him the wonderful life he deserves. He’s insured, gets yearly vet check-ups, and we make sure he has everything he needs and more. as anybody should. and we don’t expect head pats and praise for doing what anybody who adopts an animal should be doing. nor do i use his vet care to make a vague, crowbarred and bizarre point about selling off the NHS (??) to scoop up some attention and stroke my overinflated, narcissistic ego.

the way she treats her animals is the way she treats her son: uses them for online clout and to tie them to her being Absolutely Outstanding in some way, for financial gain by rattling the tin, however vaguely, any time one of them needs something that she herself should be providing (because she knows fine bleeping well that loaded moaning and groaning about how much this that or the next thing costs will inevitably lead to some poor soul in her following offering something up), but ultimately she views them as inconvenient and treats them incredibly poorly when the benefits to her have been bled dry.

she can’t look after herself, her income (according to her) is sporadic, small and unreliable* - any reasonable person wouldn’t bring animals into the equation. but she can’t see beyond her own selfish wants. she left a poor, sick kitten to die in pain against multiple vets’ advice because she wanted to look like the saviour, super-pet-owner and milk this tiny, sick animal dry for all the online clout and cash she could.

*except by all accounts her income isn’t small - she just chooses to spend it on herself instead of doing the bare minimum for the child and animals who depend on her.
 
Darvos said:
This is it. How can an owner of multiple pets be surprised at the cost? Our much loved hairy kid died earlier this year, at the same age as Adrian Mole when he kept his first diary. We insured him straight away as a pup and had many years when the only vet visit was for jabs, however, early days saw a multi-day stay for eating raisins and double cherry eye surgeries. Then there was necessary anal gland removal (praise be), periodic times he’d twist something or other on a walk and need anti-inflammatories, then the horrible weird thing that took him 🍉 with its old age companion of Cushing’s Disease (£200 pcm for meds alone), plus saying goodbye. Alongside we’ve had 3, 2, 1, 2, 1 cats with cat stuff. Petplan have had over twenty years of seeing a whole load of our money and I reckon we’ve seen it all back again. Had we not, no matter, we’ve never had to pay more than the excess for any treatment.

However, guest does have the money to pay and insurance is a choice. Just don’t act surprised at what are pretty standard vet charges or it makes you seem like an irresponsible owner who avoids taking their pet for care when they are under the weather.

When I first joined BS I saw a series of posts, all from the US, of people needing a temporary hand and requesting ‘mutual aid’ from followers in the form of a GFM or PayPal. I watched them with interest and wondered how long until guest discovered the term…
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QMLAtwat cos I’ve been twitchy since posting this because it was a load of waffle saying little. Now, who do we know who does that?

What I wanted to say: the takeover of veterinary services (and pet crematorium services) in the UK by a few companies is an animal welfare time bomb. It’s gutting that people with limited incomes and animals that need decent homes are going to be less able to get together, or are going to be under significant financial or health stress if they do so. duck you, guest, with your massive grifted funds, for sniffing out and co-opting this space too.
 
She's such a bleep, and a raging bleeping idiot. If I had her history, and 600 threads outlining my financial affairs, my grifting and my animal neglect, I would be bleeping SILENT about how much my uninsured cat had cost me at the vets. She is truly vile and so thick she couldn't solve a two-piece jigsaw. The arrogance of her to bring up her neglect and incompetence and expect sympathy. She makes me rage, honestly.

Large, neutered male cats are prone to bladder and kidney issues. I have a large, neutered male cat. When I got him I took out insurance, specifically the kind that will pay the vet directly, as I knew I couldn't afford a large lump sum.

I'm poorer than Jack (although I wouldn't describe myself as poor because I earn above the national average and can afford to live alone) and I'm more likely to sprout bleeping wings, fly off and have an affair with the Pope than I am to ever own my own home (Trapped! Renting! Woe! etc.) and yet I still manage to shell out what is now £70+ a month insurance for my two cats because I adore them and I would be devastated if I had to be without them.

Aforementioned big neutered boy did get bladder trouble, had to be rushed to the OOH vets, catheterised and kept in cat hospital for a couple of days for an obstructed bladder. It cost £1500, which, considering he was at death's door and they saved his life, was a bleeping BARGAIN. It recurs in 40% of cases but we've been lucky, and also I've spent a fortune on a water fountain, supplements, bigger, better litter trays, special food because he's a lovely lad and deserves as lovely a life as I can give him, and thankfully he's had no trouble at all since.

The irony is people like Jack are the ones who whinge and cry the loudest when their pets die even though they don't think they're worth the financial outlay to save them. As ever, my insane friend was exactly the same. Didn't take her poor cat to tbe vet when her teeth were falling out of her head, but didn't miss the opportunity to post about how much she loved her when she died. But "love" isn't what you say or how you feel, it's what you do, and you don't watch someone you love in pain and do nothing when you can prevent it. I honestly don't believe these people are capable of love or empathy. Failed human beings.
 
Trying to compare her cat vet costs to the privatisation of the nhs is just such a Jack low level reach. All she really wanted to do was to complain about the bill. In my experience - two dogs and a cat - for what she received I‘d have been expecting. She‘s spent duck all on the health of that poor cat. I doubt he’s even neutered as from the looks of his nose he‘s a tom cat brawler. Don’t even get me going about the dog….
 
Lumpyspaceprincess said:
Carpman is not ready to move on

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Is that...is that a bleep on a punt?

So happy to still be here at thread #600. It's been almost 4 years since I stumbled across the Jackelope thread and innocently commented that she seemed like a bit of a dick, not knowing the vortex I'd be (happily, peripatetically sort of a hole-like) sucked in to and the Ninnies I'd meet on the way down.
The Cooper situation is quite raw for me. I lost my best friend Pooh to kidney disease despite feeding him the best quality food and whipping him up to the vet as soon as he showed signs of a UTI. Our local vet offers payment plans so we did everything we could possibly do.
I'll never forget my normally unemotional husband sobbing his heart out and asking me if there was something we did wrong.
If I disappear from the thread for a bit it's because I'm still grieving my baby and it's got a bit too much.
 
IcanSpellBéchamel said:
When was it that she showed the meagre balances of a few bank accounts, and assured her Glasto-sized audience that they were all the accounts she had? Before or after getting Cooper - if after, then either she was lying then about having no more accounts, or lying now about putting cashos away in lieu of taking out insurance. Or lying both times. And if she insured Content, why not insure Cooper at the same time? Lying, animal-abusing bleep.
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That was less than two years ago.
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She’s responding to this guy:
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He’s asking where her “ring-fenced” legal donations are being held, because she was 9 months into Sue Lee and still implying that action was proceeding.
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No contents insurance when she (allegedly) got burgled. No pet insurance when she's had a clearly poorly cat for quite some time. But plenty of money for sideboards and bleeping stupid leather hats 👍🏻

'You too could afford this pet insurance if you lived on value tomatoes for years or some such shite'
 
I wonder if she’s lying (shock horror!) and does have pet insurance, but saw supertanskii’s successful pet-illness-grift last year (or so 🤷🏻‍♀️) and thought she’d have a piece of the action.

Either way, poor Coops, having to deal with whilst being poorly must be unbearable.

edit. I’ve worded this badly, but I’m tired and busy, do you want me to stop breathing?!
 
What a grunk, nine threads... it should have been the work of a weekend, but, like an overloaded Yaris, it seeped out all over the sloppy place and not even 344 spoons could contain it.

There was many a night I had to put my sewing down and grunk. And grunk I did.

Thank you for cheering me on, tender frauen and herren and dearheart @Valiofthedolls for the spookily accurate videos of me in various stages of grunk. I love you all and I'm proud to be with you all again in real time.

10/10 would grunk again but I

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Now duck off ❤❤❤
 
Poor Cooper. We could see he had kidney issues just by the look of him - confirmed by the ‘haha - look at my cat drinking from the tap for 6 minutes’ or whatever it was.

There’s a few knobbers on BS spouting BS about insurance being a waste of money. They really don’t understand the concept of insurance - do they?

Google says ‘insurance provides protection against financial loss for people and companies. Insurance companies are paid to take risks from customers who could not afford to pay the loss if the risk turns into reality‘

Personally, I’d rather pay for the peace of mind that should my cats need treatment, a majority of the cost would be covered. They’re family and I’d sell a kidney pay for their care.
 
I was fully betting on some horrible illness striking out valient guest down, making her lose her job and income earning abilities, won't someone help a poor smol disabled single mother lesbian in need but I guess she felt more people on BS like cats. It was quite USA centric too, perhaps they don't know all the good that she does.

I hope that cat poops in her shoes.
 
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