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Sometimes no expense is spared!!!

I think in my quest to change my life in two years, is to reduce my debt. Debt is a dark, horrible world which sounds like someone who is enslaved by someone or something. Get rid of those horrible mortagages and nagging bills which eat into our incomes like flesh eating bugs.

However I read this article which nearly floored me. A woman in Wales took out a loan for £1800 and lived on beans on toast for a year to save her pet chicken. Despite this article being three years old, it is still a highly read article which is why it deserves a mention. It is surprising that someone would get into such debt to save her chicken’s leg, cutting into her personal budgets by living on baked beans for nearly a year and cancelling her holidays to pay for the seven operations. I love my pets but I’m not sure if I could fork out nearly £2,000 for an operation, this lady is an inspiration, the only thing she hasn’t done is to remortgage her house.

I know that vet jobs are hard, having to operate on animals which may be unruly, but I didn’t think that operations would cost that much. But it does make you think, what if a human’s life was at stake? Your family or friend needed an operation and you had to pay that much money, would you do it? Obviously in some countries that does happen, people have to pay privately for treatment, we have the NHS which has its good publicity and its bad publicity. I am sure of one thing, people will sacrifice everything in the world they own for the one thing that matters to them most.