Cat-homes

[primsong]

Some difficult decisions are harder to make than others - For some time now we've had to support a friend who has some kind of chronic fatigue and depression thing going and ran out of savings yet hasn't been able to get a diagnoses for disability - very stressful financially and emotionally, and has pretty much ruined the enjoyment we once had as friends. I am hopeful we can restore it someday, but right now our relationship is pretty much just meeting her physical needs and paying her bills. She has no family except an uncle, who is thankfully helping a bit with her medical bills.

We've decided to try shopping for a cheap condo in our area, to move her into so we don't have to keep dropping so much of our money down the black hole of her apt. rent - at least that way, we can sell it at some point down the road and get the money back, though she won't be able to pay us any rent. Sigh...

Rotten thing is the condos we've looked at so far are all "no pets" - and she has two cats that are her only 'family.' They are destructive cats, too - cooped up in a tiny apartment, they spray, dig up the carpets and piddle in the corners...but she loves them and dotes on them. Cat people can understand. Other rotten thing is even if we can manage to get some kind of govt. assistance for her, none of it pays a dime towards the cost of pets. After having to pay some very expensive vet bills for them this past year (what could I do, let her cat die?) I just can't let it continue... And if we invest in a condo for her, I can't have it destroyed by the pets, even if they are allowed.

And yet.

What do I do? I am faced with having to take away her 'babies.' And where in the world would I find anyone willing to adopt a matched set of huge, marmalade toms that really could use access to the outdoors? I feel so cruel and heartless, if I have to make her give them up in order to keep a roof over her head. And yet.

Gah.
/grumble.