He probably feels personally attacked by a 16-year-old climate activist, too.

My cat lived to 14 and cost me $5k for one emergency pet visit. Over 30k in the life of the pet.

“NOBODY wants you to travel halfway around the world/or cross country at X-Mas to see thier little grand pets. nobody want’s to go to your cat’s birthday, you will never see your cat graduate from cat college, or get married”

Oops, looks like you conflated having a child with self worth.

Counterpoint...

Someone did a head to head comparison test between a kitten, a puppy, a baby, and a new video card. The baby came in dead last.

Jump out from up your own ass and go fuck yourself.

Who in the hell uses it seriously?

Graduating from college and getting married is important?

So roll your eyes when people say that and move on with your life. If you said this to someone’s face, you’d look like an asshole. It may feel better to say it as a faceless commenter, but I assure you, you still kinda sound like an asshole. 

I was at an exotic car show in Sterling, VA a few years ago. It was held at a Lamborghini dealership. A family showed up with 2 young kids who started touching and jiggling the door handles of every exotic car they saw. They’d fall or just play in the grass and dirt and then rub their dirty hands on these beautiful…

Are you the type of person who brings a baby to a nice restaurant and then make a scene when people give you looks to make it stop crying?

20k on a cat? You’re doing it wrong.

You took the first paragraph personally, doing ok over there?

Who took away your fucking Snickers?  

I’m sorry that you feel marginalized by pet owners.

As a recent parent, experiencing all the parenting things - sleepless nights, a constant flow of money out of my accounts, pooping and peeing with reckless abandon, and and a constant base level of stress about his health and wellbeing.... I think you need to calm down just a touch.  No one is implying raising a cat…

MEOW!

I mean, everything you just listed convinced me that having a pet over a child was the right decision.
#Furbabies #FelineChild #Cheaper #LessStress #SelfCleaning

Can’t blame the toddler. But what kinds of parents let a three year old wander around a car lot (or really any public place), presumably alone? That’s just asking for her to get hit / abducted / in various forms of trouble. A ~$9k settlement is one of the better outcomes from that sort of negligence.