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It's absolutely ridiculous to even talk about this in the context of inflation and family budgeting. Fucking boomer bullshit is what it is.
However, to answer your question, there is a gray area for when to treat pets' illnesses. Dogs can't tell you how much it hurts, or ask for pain killers, or understand why this is happening. Chemo fucking sucks, can make your dogs lose their appetite, and won't necessarily extend the life of your pet.
Whether you treat your pet or not depends on how old they are, where the cancer is, how big they are, and another 20 or so factors your vet will discuss with you. It may or may not be in their best interest, and it may or may not be economically feasible to treat it. Those are two different questions.
Shit man, cancer drugs in general fucking suck. My wife was on tamoxifen for a year and she didn’t even have breast cancer, she’s just at very high risk. It’s played utter havoc with her hormones, causing all sorts of side effects in a systemic manner. To make matters worse, she metabolizes drugs very slowly, so it’s only now finally out of her system, months after ceasing treatment.
Now she’s saying fuck it, gonna get ‘em lopped off and replaced with fakes; as much as we both love what she has, the constant fear and agita she’s been getting from them is terrible.
This is with full knowledge and agency over what’s going on, so yeah, I get it, it’s [unintentionally] cruel to do to a pet.