The cat’s name is Cyrano. He weighs 20 pounds and is 10 years old.
Two years ago his owners spent thousand of dollars on radiation and surgery for cancer. Now he is partially disabled because of a painful leg and his owners apparently can’t bear to see him in pain, or with three legs, or dead.
Today a ten-member team of surgeons at a leading veterinary school were to have spent hours giving Cyrano a knee replacement. Surgeons and engineers have spent 7 months designing the artificial feline knee.
The cost? No one could say for sure but $20,000 has already been spent and one spokesman said that would only be a small fraction of the total cost.
I know people who aren’t certain about where their next meal is going to come, if they get one at all. People for whom the tens of thousands of dollars spent on this cat would go a long way toward helping a good number of them gain a measure of dignity and self-sufficiency.
I know a young man named Josue in Yuscaran, Honduras, probably in his late teens by now, who has a face so hideously deformed that people can barely stand to look at him.
Several words came to mind when I read the article about all the time and money spent on the cat. Two of them were obscene and opulent. I can’t put the others in print.
It’s a CAT and there are thousands of them.. We need to be more concerned about people no matter where the live or who they are. I can think of lots of words that come to mind about this article and stupid is one of them. Help a child….feed a family….send a child to school…Use this money for things that matter and will make a difference in God’s kingdom.