Tax deductions

[David64]

Well, it's that time of year again and I've got a question : Why can't I declare my pets as dependents ?

If you have kids, you count them as deductions on your taxes, right ? You give them food, clothing, shelter and medical care.

Same thing with pets. One of my dogs is allergic to corn based products, so we have to get the high quality/no corn fillers dog food....and that stuff ain't cheap....and yes my wife buys them clothes. { Yeah, YOU tell her a 120 lb dog looks silly in a Christmas sweater }

Here in Ky it's mandatory for all dogs, cats and ferrets to have rabies vaccinations so that covers medical care. We also feed and give medical care, such as spay and neutering, to 14 stray cats and that ain't cheap either.

All these animals are completely dependent on us for everything, so I say we should be able to put them down as dependents the same as crotch goblins.

[PorkChop96]

Well, it's that time of year again and I've got a question : Why can't I declare my pets as dependents ?

If you have kids, you count them as deductions on your taxes, right ? You give them food, clothing, shelter and medical care.

Same thing with pets. One of my dogs is allergic to corn based products, so we have to get the high quality/no corn fillers dog food....and that stuff ain't cheap....and yes my wife buys them clothes. { Yeah, YOU tell her a 120 lb dog looks silly in a Christmas sweater }

Here in Ky it's mandatory for all dogs, cats and ferrets to have rabies vaccinations so that covers medical care. We also feed and give medical care, such as spay and neutering, to 14 stray cats and that ain't cheap either.

All these animals are completely dependent on us for everything, so I say we should be able to put them down as dependents the same as crotch goblins.

Wait, you file your taxes.......are we supposed to be doing that?

[FlyersFan]

....and yes my wife buys them clothes.

Yeah .. I"ve bought a sweater and a winter coat for our dog.  
A shiba inu. 
He doesn't need the coat except for blizzard type days.
(which around here happen very very seldomly.)
But the problem is, if I put the clothes on him, he refuses to move.
He hates them.
Which is sad, because he's cute in them.

[David64]

Wait, you file your taxes.......are we supposed to be doing that?

What Uncle Sam don't know won't hurt him.

[David64]

Yeah .. I"ve bought a sweater and a winter coat for our dog.  
A shiba inu. 
He doesn't need the coat except for blizzard type days.
(which around here happen very very seldomly.)
But the problem is, if I put the clothes on him, he refuses to move.
He hates them.
Which is sad, because he's cute in them.

We've got a Beagle and any clothes you put on her, she chews them off. Even my wife gave up.

[Roma]

We've got a Beagle and any clothes you put on her, she chews them off. Even my wife gave up.

What, like this?     Meet Bailey who's not too sure of her Phillies shirt.

[rickymouse]

We don't have any house pets anymore.  But, we have lots of deer that come to our door for potatoes, carrots, homemade toast, and apples.  It would be nice if we could get food stamps for those deer.  Three fawns now eat from my hand outside of the patio door, on the deck.  They get a little wild, I worry when they are kicking each other they may break the patio door.  The other two fawns don't come on the deck...but all three does will come up there but won't eat from my hand.

It costs us about sixty  bucks a month for the veggies.  They will eat five pounds of spuds a day and ten pounds of carrots last about a week and a half.  The apples are under a buck a pound this year, so we stock up when they are on sale.  They want their potatoes all cut into wedges, and the carrots have to be cut into carrot sticks so the little ones don't choke on them.  I cut the apples into eight wedges too, otherwise only one deer will get an apple... and two a day to feed ten deer over the day is what I can afford.  Getting everything on sale is necessary.  My name might be Rich, but I am not rich.

They might be yarding here this year, when I toss out food for two that come to the door, they all seem to start filtering in.   It is nice, but I know that they need to know how to forge in the wild too, and there are also four other houses nearby that feed them too, one does corn and another does day old bread they get from the store for five bucks a big bag, so I don't want to feed them more of those things.  They seem to expect donuts or cake once in a while, but I learned twenty years ago that sweets and too much bread is not good for them.  These deer are decendents of the deer we were feediong twenty years ago, they are family.

Yesterday afternoon two turkeys came into our yard, one of the fawns was checking it out, sniffing it, and the turkey pecked him on the nose.  Nine deer and fawns were staring at those turkeys walking through the back yard.  Now turkeys, big ones, I would say they would dress out at probably eighteen pounds for a wild turkey...they might not be safe at our house.  But right now we have two frozen Jenny O turkeys in the freezers, so they are safe for now.

The wife does videos of me feeding the fawns and takes lots of pictures of them and a few of those huge turkeys.  The bad thing about getting too attached to deer is that it sucks when someone shoots them at hunting season, and there is always dead deer on side the road around here.  We should be able to get a tax credit for feeding the homeless.  Their ancestors were here way before my ancestors were too, so they are native Americans.

[FlyersFan]

We've got a Beagle and any clothes you put on her, she chews them off. Even my wife gave up.

We had a Beagle.   
I bought her a leopard print coat with fake fur trim.
She wore it just fine.   
Looked adorable.

[sahgwa]

Well, it's that time of year again and I've got a question : Why can't I declare my pets as dependents ?

If you have kids, you count them as deductions on your taxes, right ? You give them food, clothing, shelter and medical care.

Same thing with pets. One of my dogs is allergic to corn based products, so we have to get the high quality/no corn fillers dog food....and that stuff ain't cheap....and yes my wife buys them clothes. { Yeah, YOU tell her a 120 lb dog looks silly in a Christmas sweater }

Here in Ky it's mandatory for all dogs, cats and ferrets to have rabies vaccinations so that covers medical care. We also feed and give medical care, such as spay and neutering, to 14 stray cats and that ain't cheap either.

All these animals are completely dependent on us for everything, so I say we should be able to put them down as dependents the same as crotch goblins.

This was actually a question on the radio the other day , LOL I did.

You win the internet today for teaching me the phrase 'crotch goblins' 

As far as the DJ or the government's answer, (I can't recall) it was something like, .'because they are animals.' Boring answer

[UltraBudgie]

really perhaps this thread has backfired

now i am wonder why it is fair that there is a per-child tax deduction

what sense does that make?

of course eliminating it at this point would effectively be raising taxes on those with kids which is fair either...

but hmm