Bentley the Ebola Dog's Monitoring Cost $27,000

splckt

nothing is too expensive when its paid for with other peoples money say the democrats

splckt

the democrat money printing tree is where they get it

Threeboys

Member of the family?

It's a dog. Mine will see a $1 bullet if faced with a large healthcare bill.

mavdog topcommenter

"Pets are fucking expensive"

so true, so true. but they're members of the family as it is said.

what is frustrating is the inflation in the price of food. what was previously sold as "premium" food, 40 lbs. for mid $40's, is now 30 lbs. for mid $50's. and that is not even "premium" food anymore, there's the frozen stuff of "organic unprocessed" food that sells for more per lb. then the steaks in the butcher case at the grocers.

and people actually buy it...

ScottsMerkin topcommenter

So it cost the city an additional $18k to for 8 days of paramedic work? Of the 21 day quarantine, they would have only worked 8 days. So was that OT to others covering their shifts? Those quarantined would have been paid whether they worked or were quarantined

ColonelAngus

"$27,000 -- just more than 17 percent of the total -- went to caring for Bentley, Nina Pham's King Charles Spaniel."

Ms. Pham showed amazing prescience in choosing both the breed and the name for her dog. Seriously, a King Charles Spaniel named Bentley? How did she know?

everlastingphelps topcommenter

WHO'S A GOOD DOG? WHO'S A GOOD DOG?

BENTLEY'S A GOOD DOG! YES HE IS!

whocareswhatithink

Thats what they think...they clearly dont have my tab of $100,000 for pain and suffering of watching Clay Jenkins unmovable face daily

ChrisYu

@Threeboys You can't swing a dead cat without hitting an animal rights activist.

merloibatx

@Threeboys You sound like the real compassionate type. Dogs are more loyal than people could ever be, and were bread to be our companions. Some people don't have any (human) family. Do you think you're tough because you could shoot your own dog? You think you could look right in it's eyes as you pulled the trigger? I doubt it. Keep your stupid, unempathetic thoughts to yourself.

ThePosterFormerlyKnownasPaul topcommenter

@mavdog

Pet food is marketed to the pet owners, not the pets. Of all the pets that I have had (dogs, cats, chickens, etc.) I have noticed that they will pretty much eat anything that is put in front of them.

Some of them do get a little excited when they have a favorite.

wcvemail topcommenter

@everlastingphelps

Sometimes the low-hanging fruit is truly the sweetest.

ScottsMerkin topcommenter

Talk about beating a dead horse....but that's am everyday occurrence at UP

ScottsMerkin topcommenter

@merloibatx I loved my basset hound, he was with my family for 12 years, the last 2.5 he became my 2.5 yo sons favorite thing. But he got a growth in a bad spot, it could be taken but it would be dangerous and could come right back. Yah, I wasnt spending over $2500 on him to maybe have the surgery not work. My family had much better ways to spend $2500

wcvemail topcommenter

@merloibatx @Threeboys

Q. When is Korean dinner ready?
A. When it quits barking.

And for the record, more than once I told my beloved Lab (not a "pet," but a "companion animal" as PETA would have us put it) that if the two of us were in a lifeboat, starving, ONE of us would eat, and it would be the one with opposable thumbs. Then I'd cock those opposable thumbs at myself. He knew.

Can I get a high dudgeon from you?

wcvemail topcommenter

@ThePosterFormerlyKnownasPaul @mavdog

"Pet food is marketed to the pet owners, not the pets." That's why dog food ads are in color, not B&W.

JustSaying

@ScottsMerkin @merloibatx When it takes more to fix a car than the car is worth that means the car is totaled. I suppose that applies to the purchase price of dogs as well.

Full disclosure; When I was 19 I had to have my Rottweiler that I had since 5th grade put to sleep because of a tumor that couldn't be removed from his leg. I cried like a little bitch.

ScottsMerkin topcommenter

I did this 2 months ago.... Ended up taking the day off work because it was more upsetting than I thought it would be

merloibatx

@ScottsMerkin @JustSaying I'm sorry about your Basset and your Rottweiler! I think that however much a person decides to spend or not spend on their pet is their business. When my Rhodesian Ridgeback was 3 he escaped the house and got hit by two cars; one in the front leg, one in the back leg. I chose to spend the money to fix him, which ended up around 10K when all said and done. It was an unbelievable sacrifice. He's currently 10 1/2 and is my best friend. For me it was money well spent because over the years there were times, that if not for the thought of there being no one to care for my dog if I killed myself, I most likely would have. It was my choice and wouldn't expect anyone to do the same.

My initial response was based on @Threeboys comment where he scoffs at the idea that a dog could be a member of the family, and the he would shoot it before spending a large amount of money on it.

I just had to shoot one of my oldest cows because she was so old (18 years old) that she could barely walk. Last weekend weekend she lied down and couldn't get back up - her time was up. So rather than coyotes eating her alive, I did what I did. That was a cow - a good and very friendly cow, and It was still really, really hard to do! It wasn't my dog that's been with me every single day for the last 10.5 years, through an unbelievable amount of instances and situations.

So I took exception to his comment.