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Thank God for sleep.
No, like really. I’m usually overly agnostic, but right now I am sincerely thanking God for sleep. After all, if someone hadn’t stepped inside of my crazy mind while I was asleep and slapped it around a little, I’d be in big trouble right now. Because I honestly believe I was too far into stupid to set myself straight on my own.
Yesterday I almost spent $10,000 on a cat. $10,000 I don’t even have to spend on a cat. I don’t know how it happened. I don’t even know how I could have pulled it off. I just know that before I went to bed, I was going to get a $10,000 cat for us.
You’d be amazed the rationalization for this purchase I was able to pull off.
It will be an incredible investment for this blog! I told myself. I mean, surely a cat that cool would offer never-ending awesome opportunities for blogging and photos and everything else like that. The world would fall in love with this cat. I just knew it.
It will be an incredible companion! I told myself. It’s true, sometimes it’d be really nice to just see something move or hear something meow or woof when I started getting crazy cabin fever.
It will be a good way to teach Noah responsibility! It will be the talk of parties! It will entertain so many people! If I needed, to, I could breed it and make my money back! It will… it will… it will…
I don’t know what I was thinking. I just know my brain wasn’t going as per the usual while I was thinking it.
I mean, $10,000 for a cat? How about a new Harley instead? How about a trip to Europe? How about boarding school for my child? (I kid, I kid). How about 10,000 meals for children in Africa? Or, and here’s a grand idea, how about not blowing that kind of wad on anything at all right now? Especially when I don’t even have it to spend.
By the end of the day, I had thought of everything I could sell off to make it happen. I thought of how I could somehow scrape up the funds. I thought of where I could take out some debt. I thought of what bills I could eliminate. It was an “investment” after all! Yes, I thought of a lot of things. I had it all planned out. I was about to have the danged coolest cat in the world, and you would all LOVE this cat so much and the whole world would line up to see it, and e-cards and memes would be made out of it, and etc. etc. etc. etc.!
Then I went to bed. And I couldn’t sleep for the longest time because I was so excited about our new $10,000 cat.
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As an owner of an F5 Savannah I can say that she is the most wonderful addition to our family. She's cute, she cuddles, she purrs and plays fetch. I even take her out for walks in a harness and leash. My father-in-law owns a savannah and a serval and they are both very well behaved. (Living in Canada we have less strict rules on the savannahs and servals) much to the dismay of many people, Servals, don't eat children and other pets, unless you own frogs, bunnies, or birds. You can feed them cat food, but they get more nutrition from a raw food diet. https://www.facebook.com/DomesticatedServals?fref=ts While $10,000 is a bit much you wouldn't regret getting one of these gorgeous animals. (If of course you had $10,000 to spare for a pet LOL)
Who could blame you? Sometimes you just fall in love with a feline. It's not your fault that some jackass charges 10,000 for it.
But next time maybe drop by the animal shelter instead. Lot of great cats with no homes
my mom has Bengal cats and they look very similar (they don't get as big). Beautiful cats and much much cheaper!!!
I bought an exercise bike that I couldn't afford & never used. Does that count? I also watched a couple of relatives go into debt for an expensive vacation they couldn't afford (at the wife's insistence), she raided her husband's car fund & cut his spending money (not hers) for the next two years to try and pay down the credit cards. Then when a real emergency came up, they were in trouble. Sad part is, they neither one had a good time. Watching that bit of drama cured me of a lot of the "I want it-now's"......
The day I got married the second time. Next morning I woke up and knew it was a bad idea, oops. The marriage lasted 2 years.
Come on, people! You can stop with all the "adopt a pet!" crap! I think he gets your point. I haven't read through all the comments yet so I don't know if Dan responded, but I have a feeling that this post was at least PARTIALLY written as a humor post and that Dan has no intention of buying a $10,000 cat. Why is there all this hype when there are animals involved. Why isn't there more said when there is abuse of children or when children are needing to be rescued. I agree with Dianna Ray people are allowed to buy/breed/own pets of their choice. Way to go, Dianna!
I once had a weird half-waking dream (I figure that's the best explanation for it... I was aware of my surroundings and could have carried on a conversation had anyone been with me, but my brain was clearly functioning in dreaming mode, where things that SHOULD make no sense seem fully logical)...
I was absolutely convinced that two people of my acquaintance had all the virtues of two different types of melons, and that they should have a kid because the kid would be one of those awesome hybrid melons. And I had worked out how I was going to explain this to them, and fully believed that it was so OBVIOUS once it was pointed out that nobody could ever disagree.
And then I woke up the next morning going "MELONS??? SERIOUSLY??? WTF, BRAIN!"
I LOVE the savannahs!! I have a F6 Savannah. One day I too plan on getting an F2 but not till my hub gets out of the military. I do however have an F3 Bengal cat. And another bengal female that I will be breeding. They are wonderful amazing creatures. And one day you should get an F2. Best to get when little. Just wait till you have the money. I dont recommend breeding early generations though. We had so many problems with my F3 having babies. Good luck in the future though. You should def get one!!!!
good greif with the "only adopt a pet stuff" lol...people can buy pets, because they like their color, their breed, their size, their coat, whatever. Shelters are often too strict, too demanding and frankly to preachy and up on their high horse and that's why people don't want to deal with them. People may get pissy that I said it, but we know it's the truth, and it's the REASON people often choose to purchase their pet, to avoid the melodrama and sanctimonious attitude of the people at the shelter. Rescuing animals is great, but people are allowed to want to own a specific pet for any number of reasons, geez.
@DiannaRay Love it! I got a cat from a rescue, which I am happy enough to do, because he was already two when we got him, and litter trained so I got to miss some of the messy kitten business, but this rescue group doesn't believe in neutering, so they gave my cat a vasectomy. A Vasectomy! Have you ever heard of anything more ridiculous? They also made me sign an agreement that I would never get him declawed. I haven't, but I have often wondered what would happen if I have a crazy rebel moment at the veterinarian's office next time we are in for shots!
@AutumnCabral @DiannaRay Just want to make a comment about declawing. I have to agree with Nancy that to do it on an adult cat is just wrong. But more than that, please consider that cats live often 15 to 20 years, and to make the decision that they really will never spend any time outside is honestly just preposterous. You don't know what life will bring you, and the decision to make your cat ill-equipped to handle outdoor life is a mistake. I declawed all my cats when they were kittens. I swore they'd spend their entire lives indoors, protected. But seven years later, we bought a house, and they wanted out so bad I gave in. Cats and any living things have much better quality of life when they can go outside. It's been eight more years and luckily they are doing fine, but if I could take back the declawing I'd do it in a heartbeat. Thank goodness their roaming days are mostly over and they spend most their time in the yard or garage.
@AutumnCabral @DiannaRay @momof2plus Autumn this is your hubby.. Damn that cat were going to get him declawed monday
@DiannaRay @momof2plus @AutumnCabral Right, I never said I was going to get my cat declawed - even though I keep my kitty indoors (we have coyotes around here). It was supposed to be fun, not the platform for a soapbox.
@momof2plus @AutumnCabral @DiannaRay and my cats are hardcore bachyard warriors and dead bird gift givers...and sadly cat scrappers, declawing them would be worse than death for them- so of course I've not even considered such a thing.
@momof2plus @AutumnCabral @DiannaRay whao, whao...I just don't even really know how it devolved to this...the original declawing comment was a jest, as was this post to a large extent- I'm not advocating for 10,000 dollar cats or declawing...I'm only saying that it is my personal feeling that people can choose to do whatever they like however they like- my personal preferences and opinions only matter to ME- I rescue- my sisters work in animal rescue, I do not declaw, I find it personally awful, but I don't go around yacking about it at every opportunity. I make my choices based on my convictions or beliefs etc. and go on with life. For the record, I have three cats, a dog, a rescued fat guniea pig that needs weekly foot massages due to a condition, some fish a friend was going to flush due to a change in living circumstances, and any number of habitats my sever year old has built to house her various backyard acquisitions while she inspects them prior to a safe and loving release (okay, mostly, lol), my point was never to say anything was appropriate or inappropriate or even in keeping with my personal preference, only that people can and will do what they choose to and I recognize that I am not the ultimate authority for OTHER people and their decisions.
@AutumnCabral @DiannaRay that is funny- so they couldn't reproduce but still looked ....um....natural?? is that right?! lol. oh dear.
I hope you wouldn't take your "rebel" out on your cat. I worked at a veterinarian's office and saw how maladjusted adults cats got when they were declawed. It's cruel no matter what age it is done, but it is much, much harder on adult cats who have been used to living with claws. Plus, the healing time is much longer. Cutting off the first joints of anyone's toes is traumatic.
@NancyN. @AutumnCabral Read her full post before commenting starting with her first comment.
@AutumnCabral @NancyN. Dear Autumn, oh, for goodness sake, get real. People do those things. Maybe someday I'll have ESP and know when people don't mean what they say. I don't tend to joke about matters I consider serious. You'll have to forgive me.
@NancyN. Oh for goodness sakes. Lighten up.
This has happened to me, well, not about a cat, but some idea that I think is just GREAT and I'm obsessed with it all day, and then I sleep on it and wake up completely relieved that I'm too poor to act on my impulses and must by necessity sleep and hope to dream up some way to enact my new poorly funded idiot idea. My brain too does maintenance at night, and thank goodness it does. Of course sometimes I wake up with ANOTHER genius idea altogether, lol.
How about a "starter cat" from your local shelter? There are thousands of homeless dogs and cats out there who would LOVE to have a home. As the rescue groups and shelters say, "Don't shop, adopt!"
i just want a savannah... ;)
An ethical breeder does Not breed their purebred of choice just for the money. Instead, they only breed for the betterment of that breed. Please consider rescue - even check with the Cat Club of the breed you prefer to see if they have any cats in a rehome/rescue situation!
Ginger good for you. (Claps). Irresponsible people not spaying and neutering their pets will no longer be my problem it will be yours. =) I have done nothing but adopted my whole life. We then chose to get a Bengal and it was the best choice we could have ever made. So continue to enjoy rescuing the cat world.
I'm confused by many of the comments here. I read that whole blog post. Page one AND page two. No expensive anything was bought. So why are so many upset? I think it's ok to want something, dream about owning it, come up with ways you could afford it. Keeps your brain active, and amused. That being said, I too have dreamed about buying things I can't afford. Cars. Houses. Vacations. All sorts of things. Nothing wrong with it!
I got into about 7 grand once the fur stopped flying, but we sure love our buddy, so I guess it was worth it. Can always eat the cat if things get too tight
There is a breeder in Canada that has kittens starting at $3000, in case you're still interested ;)
Cats are wonderful companions under the right circumstances...I am grateful that you reconsidered your preposterous idea of buying any pet when I bet that "Petfinder.com" would have a recycled one at a fraction of the cost...Well, maybe not an exotic, but you never know! Please consider adoption always as your first option (C) And thank God you did not have to sell a kidney to buy the cat...Save that for college tuition!!!
I can't comment on the blog itself (the option isn't showing up), but I have never thought about that much of a financial investment! My biggest change was moving to be with someone. Of course, I am married to that someone and we have a child, but it took me a long time to work on that decision. I slept on it for months, changed my mind about moving multiple times, and even made up excuses. In the end, I did it. Not saying that you should have invested in a $10,000 cat... Really. Not saying that at all.
90% of all cats in shelters are killed. Only one in 12 cats born ever have a home. Buy a cat? Seriously? I'd have to "unlike" you. Anyone who breeds cats should be ashamed and no one should ever own a wild cat. They are wild for a reason.
No clue why, but I can't comment on your news post. Anyway, never thought about making THAT big of an investment. Well, not on anything other than a house. Got a good chuckle out of you having yourself so convinced though. Isn't it funny how our brain can talk us into weird things?
What happened to you bulldog, Buddha?
Hi, my name is Isabel, first of all sorry for my inglish, isnt my first lenguage, now sometimes I also fantasy whit get my dream cat (noruegan forest cat) but seems a luxury pay so much money for a fancy cat just because seems would make my life purrrfect (jejeje) but instead of I decide adopt 2 homeless cats, wich also provide us whit tons of fun, and cutest moments, and in this way you would do something good for a life (there are so many hoping for some love and care outside) and still will help you to show the value of responsability to Noha and would by greate company, moments of joy and fun, is not necessary a fancy cat or expensive one, for give you something to write for the blog or bring to your life almost all what you want o expect.
7 years ago my mom went into the farm store to buy some dog food. My mom saw this cat up for adoption. She looks at him and complains that he's way too big for his cage. She comes home and that stupid cat is all she can talk about for days. After a few days she goes back to the farm store "just to make sure he's been adopted" she comes home all upset, "that poor cat is still there! Stuck in a cage that's way too small for him!" so a few more days pass and she still wont shut up about the cat. She begs me to come with her. (at the time we had 3 inside dogs that like to kill cats that get inside our fenced yard) to "make sure he's not still there" so I go, telling her the whole ride there that if that cat is there, we are NOT getting him. I already had my heart broken by cats before, I always fall in love with them, and then BAM they get their brain smooshed by a horse or kidnapped out of our car by a crazy lady who was never caught (true stories) but anyway I said it at least a few thousand times "we are not getting this cat!" we get to the farm store, I take one look at this giant cat, who is WAY too big for his cage, I walk away. I come back with a basket full of everything we would need for a cat that "we are NOT getting" lol yep we got that stupid cat. I named him Dude and he's still fat as can be. Definitely one of the best cats I ever had.
They're pretty cool, but I'm in love with ocelots--that's my dream kitty. Although, when I was a kid, I used to want a white Bengal tiger. How cool would that be?! :-)
Please, Please, Please............If you want a cat adopt from a shelter!
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who does this sort of thing. I have had to make it a habit to sleep on every decision, even the relatively small ones, because my enthusiasm gets out of control. 99.999% of the time, I wake up glad I didn't plunge in. (But a $10,000 cat...hahahaha. That's really kooky.)
If you still need a kitty that aren't $10,000... but still awesome! http://www.seattlebengals.com/
Nice to know I'm not the only person who is 'different people' in the same head. One moment I'll think something is a great idea, then the next, I'll totally disagree with myself! Also, at night, I'm just the world's worst pessimist. During the day, I'm generally very positive.
You should get a fluffy kitten! Exotics are all well and good, but if you can't afford one, an adorable fluffy kitten would be a great alternative! I have 3 fluffy cats, but none of them are super fluffy. I want to get a super fluffy kitten. :)
As a single mom of three kids with medical problems, I met a guy with three kids with medical problems. Marrying him seemed like a great idea, so I did. Many people questioned our sanity, but 15 years later, I'd say it worked out pretty well.
Please please please don't ever get a serval or savannah cat. The people that breed and sell these animals do not need to be encouraged. I have worked with those cats professionally (I am a zookeeper) and they do not belong in someones home. They can be sweet...but they can also be unpredictable and very aggressive. And they have strength that makes a house cat look like a hamster. I have worked with 11 species of wild cats and all my domestic cats at home are rescues. Plus like you realized, that money can be put to much better use.
Adopt a cat (or ANY animal really) because you look into it's eyes and cannot bear to turn and walk away. NOT because you like it's color, the pattern of it's coat, the shape of it's ears, or whatever else. You're adopting a four-legged, furry SON OR DAUGHTER, not some sort of motile throw-pillow or lap-blanket you can coordinate with your couch and/or carpet.
Why were you looking at a $10,000 Savannah if you want an African Serval? I just looked up Servals on Google, and found a breeder that has them for $5,000.
I'm all for adopting animals. We've adopted 3 dogs and a cat so far. But sometimes when you're in love with a breed you're in love with a breed. I LOVE Ragdolls couldn't find one to adopt anywhere near me but I did find an excellent breeder near me. We have had 3 of her cats and they are awesome! I miss my little rescue kitty too :( I don't agree that shelter animals any more or less grateful then pure breds. I think animals are as much individuals as people. 2 of my rescue dogs have been great, loving, obedient dogs and they other was a royal pain in the ass that I loved and miss every day. No matter where you get an animal they are a wonderful addition to your life.
There's a reason why they say, "Sleep on it".
$10,000 on a CAT? a CAT? a CAT? jesus .....
Yikes! Our pets tend to find us and rarely have we spent money to acquire them. Our favorites tend to be our rescues anyway as the love that develops between us & them is the most treasured and hardest to earn.
Shaming Dan or anyone who wants a purebred isn't making them more likely to adopt. No one wants to listen to a soapboxer, no matter how heartfelt or 'correct' they are.
FFS don't buy into the hype. Rescue a cat or kitten from a local rescue or shelter.