Wilson is part of our family. If it were anyone else, we wouldn't have thought twice about doing the right thing.

Ultimately, I wanted this to be a life lesson that money shouldn't carry that much weight in our life

I opted to keep him alive. My son loves Wilson, and I didn't want to have that be a memory for him for Thanksgivings to come.

I had to make the decision, on Thanksgiving Day, to either put my cat to sleep or to pay a large amount of money for him to have surgery and clear the blockage