Canadian man must pay $200 per month in dog support

[baldguy]

Ex-wife's dog bites man in wallet

A Canadian man got off the leash by divorcing from his wife, but was ordered by a judge to pay 200 dollars a month in doggie-alimony.

Four-year-old St Bernard, Crunchy, is munching his way through a monthly bill of 200 dollars (150 US) in food, health bills and general care giving, the National Post newspaper reported.

more:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1516&ncid=1516&e=1&u=/afp/20040809/od_afp/canada_dogs_offbeat_040809151044

[SmileyBoy]

1. How is a dog gonna consume 200 dollars worth of goods in a month?

Sometimes I can't understand it. Like for example when a man has to pay 4000 dollars a month PER CHILD for child support.

And then we wonder why there are so many deadbeat dads out there.

[TXlib]

5. Who pays $4000/month per child?!

[whistle]

2. You know, this is not too far off as far as what it costs to keep a pet...

...dog. I have $1,600.00 budgeted for my dog including weekly trips to the groomer, food and dogie snacks, flea and tick prevention, shots and routine visits to the vet, plus a new doggier toy every 4 months and emergency contingencies. In Canadian dollars that's about right, although my dog is a 20lb Shi Tsu. A 200 lb St Bernard would go through quite a bit more Ecanuba dry dog food I would think. Did the judge allow visiting rights for the husband I wonder.

[histohoney]

3. I think

the article stated that the question of visitation was not apart of the order.
Heck man, I can only imagine how much a St. Bernard could eat. Plus there are hours of grooming and poopy scoping, $200 Canadian sounds pretty fair to me.

[histohoney]

4. Sorry

cumputer hiccup.