The Last Meow Analysis

The Last Meow Essay

The Article, “The Last Meow” written by Burkhard Bilger is about a cat named Lady that is dangerously sick. Her owners Shawn and Karen Levering spend thousands of dollars to put her through surgery.

Bilger reminds us that many Americans spend $19 billion dollars on veterinary care a year for their pet’s. Including pet food and other products added up to $47 billion dollars a year. I agree that people spend too much on their pet’s, because of my experience of spending almost $200 dollars on my guinea pig just to check his ears confirms it.

I agree with Bilger’s statement about people spending to much money on their pet’s, because Shawn and Karen Levering spent over $15 thousand dollars for Ladys kidney

transplant. Shawn had to pull out about $6 thousand dollars from their savings to pay for the surgery, and ended up going into debt because of it.

Many people who own pet’s tend to spend way much more on them than on themselves or family. Some will go and buy $200 hundred dollar cashmere sweaters for their pet’, including spending up to a couple hundred on getting their pet’s groomed, and buying them leapord skin beds to sleep on.

Karen Levering says “I don’t know what I would have done without the cat’s”, because when she first met Shawn in 1997 she was a teacher at a Christian school and she got re-ended twice, so it was hard for her to stand and teach. While she was at home resting alone because Shawn would work long hours, Lady would be there to comfort her when she would cry. Karen also believes that cat’s deserve “the respect of life”, because since her accident she was unable to have children of her own so her cats were practically her children.
With all that has been said on pet owners spending $19 billion dollars on medical care, $200 dollars for clothing ,and a few hundred on leapord skin beds for their pet’s is completely unnecessary. I truly hope with those of you who own pet’s and tend to spend more on them, will rethink about buying them something they don’t need before possibly going into debt because of