Burkhard Bilger The Last Meow Summary

Unnecessary money spent on pets Bilger's arguments and statistics speak for themselves. I'm on his side because Americans spend an absurd amount of money on pets either poor or rich. The amount of money spent on pets back in two thousand three was forty seven billion dollars and present day it is nearly seventy billion dollars the pet industry is booming! Some of that money is being put to good use on pets for food and medicine but a nice portion of the billions spent every year are on unnecessary things.
Why? Because Americans love to pamper their pets and are willing to do anything for them as if they were their own children. In the article “The Last Meow by Burkhard Bilger” his data shows the unnecessary amount of spending on pets. Example one “we’re looking at spending a thousand dollars in the next twenty four hours and between three and four thousand in the next week” That is a lot of money for Shawn Levering and his wife Karen who both live in poverty, these are the owners of Lady the cat that needs these expensive
Bilger shows a crazy way one lady did such thing “I thought of the German countess Carlotta Liebeustein, who in 1991 bequeathed her eighty million dollar estate to her dog Gunther. Isn't that nice a dog with a nice eighty million dollars too bad the dog can't keep that money because a pet is property and property cannot own property. But if Carlotta left the money to Gunther the dog and hopefully a human that dog and human would be living a lavish lifestyle. Here's another of Bilger’s examples of people with too much money. “Of J. Paul Getty, who refused to return from Europe when his twelve year old son died from brain cancer but had a vet flown in when his dog developed cancer” Did Mr. Getty really love his pet that much more than his sun? Because that's what it seems like that's