Queen of Versailles - dead pets

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Has anyone watched Queen of Versailles?

Please please please give up your pets if you don't want to care for them rather then letting them starve to death.

It's just making me think so much of all the lockdown pets which have been brought. If you get to the position where finances are tough and you cannot care for your pets (which really was their choice not to care for them, I am pretty sure they could have sold some posessions) please give them up for a rescue centre to rehome.

feeling really wobbly today, so please don't start bashing me for this

Was it the reptile? Vile family.

It was the lizard and the fish that was shown...

It has really, really upset me (sorry I know over 1000 people have died of covid today and I feel rubbish saying this, but watching it the deaths just felt so avoidable)

I'm not sure it was so much they didn't have money to feed them but they were used to servants doing all the maintenance and were genuinely shocked that the animal wasn't being fed by someone else.

@Sippingonginandjuice yes - they had so much stuff they could have sold. They just didn't prioritise their pets I guess.

I always felt so sorry for their daughter who died of a drug overdose. Between that documentary and the fact her mental health issues were medicated so inappropriately, it all just felt like they'd failed to do the best by her.

They also had no excuse for neglecting the pets... from memory, it happened because they cut their household staff during the financial crisis yet Jackie was still going on crazy shopping sprees etc.

I haven't got to the part where the daughter dies yet (that's really sad).

I have just paused at the panic on where the puppies are because the python may have eaten them...

She died a few years after, v glad it's not in the documentary. They published her diaries after she died.

Another pertinent thing to remember is to have an emergency plan for your pets should you end up in a situation where you can't care for them temporarily. Someone who knows how to feed and care for them, and can be available as an 'emergency' contact for this role.
I've been gradually getting my DP more involved in feeding my pets so if I were to end up in hospital, he could feed and water them. I don't have a fall back option beyond him, because a) I don't have many friends, and b) few people are confident around tarantulas! Fortunately my tarantulas can go without food for weeks at a time, but many pets need fed and cared for multiple times a day. So just another good reminder.

That’s horrific about the daughter.
The show really showed them up to be pretty helpless once their help left. They could have solved their money problems easily but didn’t seem to want to give up the lifestyle.