When I read a thread where someone has asked a question or is seeking help, and the proper advice is given and then the poster comes back with some other thing or argument I usually read in it "The all-mighty dollar". Now I am not trying to start a fight here but I really needed to say this and did not want to hi-jack anyone's thread and I hope I'm not stepping out of line but this is just the way it is.

Money or no money our gliders need to be taken care of. I know money is tight right now. I know alot of people purchased gliders not knowing what they were getting themselves into (including myself) but when push comes to shove it is your/my responsability to do everything in our power including giving up that new outfit or that dinner out or that new CD or Video Game and get our gliders the right everything they need. Food, Friends, Vet Care, Proper Cages, Toys, Pouches and anything else that they need...period. Give up everything YOU personally can do without until they are taken care of and then YOU come second. That's it. Just because I'm not young doesn't mean I'm Rich. I live payday to payday but I always put my gliders first and put off things for myself until later.

Would we not do the same for OUR children. A story about myself as a young single mother.

I was 22 years old and had a son. His father turned out to be an alcoholic so I left him hoping he would at least support in some way his child. I personally worked two jobs. My mother took care of my son for me while I worked but I had to pay her. I remember one very terrible week. It was 4 days until payday. I had 20 bucks in my pocket, no food in the house for me to eat and no formula or diapers for my son. What do I do? I bought formula for MY Son, tracked down his father which took me hours and most of the gas I had so I could beg him to buy diapers and I did not eat anything but one meatloaf sandwich in four days. I was to proud to go to my mother for help for myself but one day while there picking up my son I was really hungry so I checked out her fridge. She'd made a meatloaf and I asked if I could make a sandwich and she said yes. I never told her about this until years later. She fussed me out really bad and said I should never do that again. She always had food I could eat. My pride you know but I took care of my son first and myself second.

I would do the same for my gliders or any of my animals or children still today. They are OUR responsibility and it is up to us to make sure they get what they need and they get the correct what they need.

Our responsibility is to do everything within our ability to care for them and if there is just absolutely no way possible for us to provide them with WHATEVER it is that they need our responsibility is to find them someone who can.

Your post about being a single mother brought a lot back for me. I had a great job when my daughter was born but without help from the father, it just wasn't enough. I remember times that I had to take a vacation day from work because I didn't have the money to pay my sitter. I also smoked and would have quit to save money but truly (at that time!) it was cheaper than eating. Sometimes I would buy a salad at McDonald's and it would feed me for two days. When my daughter was old enough to eat baby food, I would feed her and then I'd eat her leftovers -- the fruit not so bad and the rest was tolerable if you added a little salt.

What I'm saying in this is that most of us are or have been there BUT you as a parent -- whether human or animal -- you better be ready to do WHATEVER you have to do provide for that "child".

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Gizmo-n-Roos Mommy Posted - Yesterday : 11:49:11 PM
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Our responsibility is to do everything within our ability to care for them and if there is just absolutely no way possible for us to provide them with WHATEVER it is that they need our responsibility is to find them someone who can.

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Amen, Amen, Amen and Amen!

Ditto!

having pets is not a right, its a privledge. Along with the privlege comes the responsiblity to properly care for the pet.

Agreed with everything said here. Having a pet is YOUR choice, not the animals choice. So you better be providing them with all of their needs, or else find someone else who WILL!! And stop complaining that you "just can't afford another one right now"....If you can't afford another one you probably shouldn't have ever gotten one in the first place!

And don't get mad at the people who straight up tell you how it is!

Thank you all for sharing your stories. This reminds me of my own mother. She left my abusive father with three young kids and went weeks with eating nothing or very little to make sure we all had food in our bellies and clothes on our backs. She finally told me about this when I was a lot older, and I broke down in tears about her sacrifice. I know that I would do the same thing for my children, or my pets, thanks to the strength and values that my mother instilled in me.

My husband and I came home one night to one of our suggies ice cold and struggling to breath. At that time we had every thing hitting us at once financially and our account was pretty much drained. I called the emergency vet first thing they want is your bank card to bill you..we just looked at each other and said what ever it takes she needs this. Unfortunately she passed away but I would not ever hesitate to spend my last dime or pawn everything I could to make sure my sweethearts are taken care of.. I since then have started using an old bank account I was not using and have started putting away a little here and there as my suggie emergency fund. They are our responsibility and we do need to do what ever it takes to make sure they are taken care of..

I replied to someone idr whom. but they were yelling at a girl who was doing fine, and planned on getting a friend for hers. and the girl said she was tight on money but still would get 1. the person i argued with asked if she had vet money putt back in a rude manner. so i defended the girl and told the other person, that the glider is hers. yes i know ur trying to help, but, it is her responsability, her pet, her bills, her little baby. HERS. the girl is a teenager doing fairly well, and then has someone come to her and basicly say shes not. we all have our opinion of right and wrong. but this girl was well put together and her suggies christmas gift was a friend. so yes i yelled at the person. because when i wanted a suggie i was tight on money too. but i still got one whom i love very much, whom i would do anything for. to get her to the vet, get a friend, watever she needs its my job to get it to her. and i would if she needed it.do you ee my point here or shall i go on?? does any1 agree with me?

I'm sorry-I just can't say I do and you are now taking the thread out of context. She was trying to say it was OK to have only one if you read the whole thread. She didn't say until later on that she was planning on getting another. I hate to see all these threads get intertwined so let's not let this thread go that direction. There's already one going about it. This one is about responsibility. I think you can see how the vast majority feels.

im saying take care of ur gliders. its ur responsibility. but judging ppl is something else needing to be discussed as well

Then you should start another thread in general chat for that. I'm sure people would be happy to discuss it.