You know the pets-as-kids phase has hit peak craziness when a pet owner drops $5,000 to get her cat a gold tooth:
Clarisse Bosman, from Denver, Colorado, says: ‘When Tofu broke her tooth, the vet gave her real gold grills for $5,000.'
Tofu cracked her tooth chewing on a toy music box made of balsa wood.
The cat has a history of chewing on things it's not supposed to, and Bosman says the cat's last vet visit happened because it had chewed on the reeds of an instrument.
The vet gave them two options: tooth extraction or a hypoallergenic gold tooth.
(It seems like there should be a happy medium there somewhere, but Bosman opted for the expensive solution.)
There were a lot of practical reasons we chose it, but there were concerns about jaw alignment, her diet that requires her to rip and tear food apart, and safety reasons since we take her outside on supervised walks and hikes. If she, for whatever reason, gets separated from us, we want her to have the best chance possible.
That all sounds great, but getting the gold tooth cost $5,000.
One of the comments on TikTok sums up my reaction pretty well:
Witchinthehouse posted: ‘As a vet tech ... this is rich people veterinary medicine that I've never seen before.'
No doubt.
It sounds like something they might do in Japan:
Or Turkey:
Or with a tiger in India.
My other concern here is how quickly someone is going to kidnap these cats and steal their gold teeth.
I mean just this week, someone drugged a guy in Cape Town and stole his gold teeth. It seems like a much easier task to take a cat's … except the tiger's.
Those gold teeth might be more tricky to swipe.
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