Pearl - Women Spending TOO MUCH MONEY On Pets

00:00:00.000 When Betsy Boyd's cat, Stanley, was diagnosed with stage 4 renal failure,

00:00:05.020 there was never a question about doing everything she could to save him.

00:00:09.460 Nah, again, it's an animal. At a certain point, honestly, if I'm too sick, they can put me down.

00:00:15.960 What up, guys? Welcome to my reaction series. Today, we are reacting to women that spend too

00:00:20.480 much money on their pets. Okay, so I have a personal experience with this. When I was 21, 0.99

00:00:25.680 um obviously I drank before I was 21 I lived in Europe when I was 18 so I drank most people in

00:00:31.860 America drank before they were 21 and I found out when I was 21 that I could get a dog and um

00:00:38.240 I love my dog but idiotically I decided to get a dog and um I got I wanted an English bulldog

00:00:45.880 because you don't really have to walk them that much I was like I want like a cat basically that's

00:00:49.640 a dog so i got an english bulldog and um i remember telling a guy in the cafeteria that i

00:00:56.720 was getting a dog and he was like oh well those are so expensive and i'm like no they're not that

00:01:01.960 bad guys i had to move this dog i could i could say i made this mistake i i love my dog but i've

00:01:09.500 had to move her countries twice i had a career where i traveled a lot of my 20s um do you know

00:01:16.180 expense dog sitters are i don't i have never done the math on this because it would be too painful

00:01:21.140 i don't want to know i don't want to know the cost i just went to the vet today because my dog's sick

00:01:27.780 you know it's like real rich rich with their dogs and like still sometimes i'm like

00:01:33.060 i don't know this is just it's also so weird i don't under i frequently live in the state of

00:01:37.380 like i'm having like an existential crisis like how am i here on the ground right and then you've

00:01:42.260 got this person paying thousands of dollars you know the dog's gonna die and then it's gonna be

00:01:47.880 ill right and it doesn't speak to you I don't know it's just I'm not even kidding so that's my thought

00:01:53.380 when I see people and they spend so much money on their animals my sister's got this cat named

00:01:58.760 cash and it just like furries around goes everywhere and they clean it and it's like part

00:02:03.440 of the family and then you know it's in the hospital I'm just why would you want to spend

00:02:07.360 money on something that's this fake thing that I know I don't know that's my we

00:02:12.260 like a real rich rich with their dogs and like still sometimes i know that's the thing okay i 1.00

00:02:16.740 have a dog but i still acknowledge that my dog is a dog and i do not understand these women that 1.00

00:02:22.020 treat their dogs like a person i'm like guys she's cute she's good and all but she's a dog 1.00

00:02:28.820 you know i've spent thirty thousand dollars on my dog oh hell no if my dog cost me 30 grand a year

00:02:37.620 I haven't done the math, but I know it's not that much.

00:02:40.300 Yeah, I would just call it a day.

00:02:42.560 I would call it a day, and I'm done with the dogs.

00:02:46.200 30, 3, 0.

00:02:49.840 In the span of me having her, I got her in 2019, 2018, and I would spend $30,000 more.

00:02:58.960 Fun fact, when I got her, she's actually from Texas. 0.80

00:03:01.400 She was heartworm negative. 0.73

00:03:02.360 And then about two months into me having her, she decided she was done eating. 0.99

00:03:06.740 on hunger strike and i took her to the vet and guess what they're like she just has colitis 0.98

00:03:12.980 okay we go about our merry life give her some medicine and then they call me later that day

00:03:17.380 and they're like actually you need some heartworm treatment immediately she has the grown-ups and

00:03:22.500 the babies and it's bad it's really bad so heartworm treatment is really really hard on their

00:03:29.540 body so i'm like this is really not fun but you know what this dog is my heart and soul it's

00:03:33.940 during covid because what happens is i've been to the vets they try to upsell you on all these like

00:03:38.460 problems with your dog or whatever um so yeah i mean that's the thing like they just include

00:03:45.980 all these tests and whatever and you have to tell them not to do it and they also tell you to take 1.00

00:03:51.660 your dog to the vet for everything just in case it's always scary because all my vets are women 0.52

00:03:57.320 um it just seems like all the vets now are women and i'm like i hope they don't kill my dog but i'm 0.80

00:04:02.240 not i'm not fully confident then one day she's gets real weird and they're like her immune

00:04:09.700 system is attacking itself you need to hospitalize her right now or she will die

00:04:13.120 ten thousand dollars here you go have the ten grand because whatever 1.00

00:04:18.660 this dog if she dies i die so we spend ten thousand dollars her immune system we're going 1.00

00:04:24.880 every single week for blood work she's on prednisone she gets as big as a house but

00:04:29.040 she's perfect she's a house hippo we're heart we're negative we moved to florida she is fine

00:04:34.880 she is great she is amazing then she tears her acl take her to three orthopedics they get three

00:04:43.000 very different answers but the one that i trust the most says to be completely honest i am an

00:04:46.520 orthopedic surgeon i wouldn't do the surgery to my dog because here's the thing unless you plan

00:04:50.940 on creating them 24 7 she will break her leg because she's she's not gonna chill she's a 1.00

00:04:56.340 terrorist. Last night, she goes outside in the rain, comes inside, runs and drives herself on 0.91

00:05:02.680 my couch, jumps off the couch from the top of the couch, won't use her back leg. She's walking like 0.85

00:05:08.940 this. I'm having a mental breakdown because, again, if that dog dies, I die. Tell me why she comes 0.99

00:05:15.900 outside earlier to go pee, hardly walking, goes back inside, runs and jumps on the couch. 0.59

00:05:21.540 when this dog goes one day you need to take me to therapy okay 0.99

00:05:29.880 i can't make this shit up i would spend 30 000 more dollars yeah um and then they're gonna ask 1.00

00:05:37.240 you to pay like you gotta remember women get dogs and then ask you to pay off their college debt 0.99

00:05:41.480 it's like well why'd you get a dog you know when betsy boyd's cat stanley was diagnosed with stage

00:05:50.340 for renal failure there was never a question about doing everything she could to save him

00:05:55.900 nah again it's a it's an animal um at a certain point honestly if i'm too sick they can put me

00:06:02.720 down like if it costs two hundred thousand dollars or like half a mil like if i if you're

00:06:08.580 gonna put everybody in debt around you trying to save your life just put me down i'll just call it

00:06:12.980 a day hopefully like make it better you know the next time around happy birthday stanley

00:06:18.060 oh my god you don't look a day over five but you're 18 today to help her 18 year old feline

00:06:25.920 betsy spent 19 000 on a kidney transplant for him while the decision to spend 41 percent of

00:06:35.060 her salary on the surgery didn't come lightly she doesn't regret it at all according to her

00:06:42.280 he makes eye contact and understands how to read emotions comforting her when she's sad or giving

00:06:49.060 her space when needed. While there has been some backlash about her spending Betsy told radio.com

00:06:56.400 that she's normally very careful with her money but that Stan is her best friend and she'll never

00:07:02.220 have a relationship with anyone else like theirs. She said there has also been some lovely comments

00:07:09.580 acknowledging that's life in 2018. Their friendship may seem unconventional but for Betsy

00:07:17.320 it's positively perfect. Yeah again my dog cost me 10k in the first year. I'm telling you not to

00:07:25.660 get a dog because it's too expensive. It's probably too expensive. In the first year of owning her I

00:07:30.660 spent approximately ten thousand dollars. I don't know what I spent. I spent so much time getting

00:07:35.340 my dog overseas there's so much paperwork oh my gosh oh I had to do it both ways I'm like

00:07:41.960 I brought her in the airport and my dog is potty trained but the airport's just kind of a long time

00:07:48.180 and I remember she pooped oh I'm glad I wasn't peeing because the poop's easier but she pooped

00:07:54.360 in the middle of the airport and I'm like Billy we are not doing this right now I'm like no no 0.98

00:08:01.820 was so embarrassing oh my god i did not have to be able to manage her some of that was her spay

00:08:08.280 and the vet bills and the vaccinations and all of that stuff also opted for e-collar training which

00:08:13.140 cost me two thousand dollars my dog was already spaded when i got i got my dog on craigslist so

00:08:17.760 she was kind of she was like 500 bucks but she's a pure english bulldog so it's pretty 1.00

00:08:22.220 pretty good deal the biggest expense for me was that she had such bad urinary tract problems when 1.00

00:08:28.820 I got her as a puppy she soiled the entire living room carpeting area in the house that I was living 1.00

00:08:33.680 in at the time to the point that it soaked down to the subfloor I had to have all of that material

00:08:38.280 replaced I was not prepared for that amount of money to be invested in something that was not

00:08:43.360 me so I have to account for her now should not underestimate people tell you how expensive it is

00:08:48.180 to own a dog if you have someone in your life telling you not to get a dog because it's too

00:08:51.380 expensive it's probably too expensive in the first year of owning her I spent approximately ten 0.97

00:08:56.620 thousand dollars that i did not have to be able to manage her some of that was her spay and the 1.00

00:09:02.380 vet bills and the vaccinations and all of that stuff also opted for e-collar training which cost 1.00

00:09:06.720 me two thousand dollars biggest expense for me was that she had such bad urinary tract problems 1.00

00:09:11.820 when i got her as a puppy she soiled the entire living room carpeting area in the house that i 1.00

00:09:16.620 was living in at the time to the point that it soaked down to the subfloor i had to have all of

00:09:20.960 that material replaced i was not prepared for that amount of money to be invested in something that

00:09:26.100 was not me so i have to account for her now should not underestimate people tell you how expensive it

00:09:31.200 is yeah it is really expensive all right let's see okay you can't complain about isn't it crazy

00:09:38.220 that women are so lazy to walk our dogs we get daycare series every month right what i mean i'm 1.00

00:09:43.860 saying all the new um millionaires and billionaires are going to be like selling stupid stuff to women 1.00

00:09:48.840 guys i'm telling you open like a dog daycare i believe there's money in it 30 bucks a day 0.99

00:09:56.040 I know how much money I spent on my dog that month, and the series only keeps getting worse

00:10:02.140 with time. I thought the first one was bad, and every month has increased since. We had quite a

00:10:07.640 few unexpected expenses this month, so this one's going to be a doozy. Let's get into it. So first

00:10:12.720 of all, my boyfriend ended up having knee surgery this month, so every time I go to work, Winston

00:10:16.680 does have to go to daycare because he's literally on crutches and cannot walk. So Winston went eight

00:10:21.400 times which came out to $240. We also had some allergy issues come up this month and a vet visit

00:10:26.640 which we will get into but we ended up needing to buy Winston a prescription dog food that was

00:10:31.100 $150. I stopped up on some bully sticks because we have an upcoming trip with Winston. Want to

00:10:37.580 make sure that he is entertained. That came out to $25. I was pretty frugal here so I found three

00:10:42.640 tug toys at the Goodwill for $6. That was a steal and I also grabbed some more toys for that upcoming

00:10:48.220 trip we have came out to 28 at pet smart so we're looking at like 35 for the toys now this

00:10:53.560 miscellaneous section is always where i expose myself this is where it's the unnecessary stuff

00:10:57.500 i bought a new treat pouch which i absolutely love it came out to 42 35 bought myself a poopy

00:11:03.140 loop if you haven't seen them look up whoop and wonder they're freaking adorable and they're

00:11:06.540 awesome for holding your dog's poop while you're on a walk that came out to 10 83 we ran out of

00:11:11.600 poop bags we bought a huge pack on amazon came out to 14 and then we also bought winston a life

00:11:16.620 jacket for the summer, which came out to $38. So this section was a little over $100 of kind of

00:11:23.000 necessary, kind of not necessary stuff. So this is the category that gets me every month. We have

00:11:27.360 not had a single month without a vet visit in like four or five months. So this month's was $259 on

00:11:32.960 top of the $150 prescription dog food we had to buy. Also got Winston's nails trimmed, which we

00:11:37.900 don't have to do very often, but it came out to- Head insurance. Oh, hell no. Ellie, I'm sorry,

00:11:41.960 you're a dog if something happened you're if it's too expensive i'm not getting pet insurance

00:11:47.880 oh he also started showing signs of having an ear infection we bought zymox off of amazon if

00:11:53.800 you've never tried it and you have a dog that's prone to ear infections lifesaver we definitely

00:11:57.640 saved a vet visit there and his ear infection's gone and then our monthly pet insurance comes

00:12:02.520 out to $43 a month. So this section was like $350. Painful. Yeah, again, women are spending

00:12:13.860 money that would previously have been spent on children, on dogs. Expensive things I bought for 1.00

00:12:21.860 my dog and whether or not they were worth it. You in a dog bed. She got an orthopedic bed for her

00:12:29.020 dog. 5 out of 10. Oh my gosh. Aesthetic dog crate, 10 out of 10. So cute and worth it. I've had it

00:12:38.820 for three years now. It looks as good as new. It looks so cute in my living room. Yeah, maybe.

00:12:46.640 Actually, I could see the appeal for that because dog crates take up a lot of space.

00:12:51.560 I mean, I just have a normal one. Okay, let's see what's next.

00:12:59.020 9 out of 10 if your dog has chronic joint pain these dogs are living better lives than most

00:13:06.200 people custom long leashes okay a pet friendly couch I love the way the couch $2,000 0.98

00:13:19.800 damn 1.00

00:13:24.480 and she didn't even like it 0.99

00:13:26.640 8 out of 10

00:13:27.380 a Ruffland Kennel

00:13:30.140 well

00:13:34.160 wow this is a lot of money

00:13:37.100 $2,400

00:13:39.520 $500

00:13:40.980 $25

00:13:43.360 $2850

00:13:45.400 $9

00:13:48.420 uh three three one three three it's like around three three three thousand three hundred dollars 0.51

00:13:58.640 wow you know it's crazy women won't buy men dinner or buy men anything but they'll best 0.92

00:14:04.680 spend three grand on their dog that's incredible all right guys let me know what you think in the 0.50

00:14:09.160 comments i love you thanks for watching like the video and i'll see you next time

Pearl - June 03, 2026

Women Spending TOO MUCH MONEY On Pets

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