Should people who can't afford medical treatments for pets own a cat or dog?

[TheBlackAdder]

48. Per Post #6, You're NOT planning ANY medical care?

You need to provide basic animal care just to get your tags from the township.

Not having the animal routinely checked exposes you and others to possible infection while also denying the animal low-cost preventative care, which could least to high-cost medical issues and euthanasia.

If you cannot afford basic medical car for the animal - you won't be able to afford feeding them either.

I've seen folks in your position routinely abandon animals. The problem is, you get them when they are puppies and were easily adoptable to proper caregivers -- then they are adandoned when they are older and the possibility of adoption is far less for them.

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If you can't afford basic care... don't do it. I was under the assumption that basic care was a given.