If you haven’t seen this article from Julie Shea yet. Take a moment to read it. http://www.thespec.com/news-story/4384201-personal-finance-pets-can-steal-your-heart-and-your-pocketbook/.
If this is not the truest statement ever spoken! I have two small terriers and although, I would not trade them for the world, pet ownership can be expensive. When I found out that I may be moving to Hawaii I immediately started to get my dogs ready $500 worth of vet visits later I was ready to purchase their plane tickets and not was nothing to smile at either. When we contemplated not bring our dogs with us, that’s when the water works started. We took a lesson from the Dave Ramsey Playbook. and Created a fund for our pets. This way when things come up, it would not put us in the dog house. In total the Hawaii experience costed us only the $500. and we chalked it up to “Just another expensive lesson learned about managing personal finance”
Corey Stokes 