I agree with you about the OW. Band-aide on a gunshot wound and all. It's just another excuse to not deal with the true problem at hand. Also, it's insulting to the LBS that has loved and supported them all the years before.
I also understand how easy that is to say than to DO. When you are dying inside for a scrap of affection from someone you love, you'll pretty much take anything. I see these ASPCA commercials of all these battered and abused pets on TV. They talk of being afraid of the one that they love the most. We should have our own spot on TV for LBS. ASPCLBS.
Do I think you are too full of pride? No. You have just reached that point where you have reached that point. No, I didn't stutter. At the risk of being censored, Sh!t or get off the pot. That's your position. No two ways about it.
Anyway, that's my take on your position, and I admire your strength in holding to it.
