Not quite four months ago, Betsy Boyd spent 41 percent of her annual salary on a kidney transplant for her ailing 17-year-old cat, Stanley.
As a condition of the $19,000 surgery, she also adopted the kidney donor, a 2-year-old tabby named Jay, bringing the total number of felines in her household to six. Both cats are thriving post-surgery — but if Stanley were tragically to die tomorrow, Boyd said she would have no regrets.
"He's on immunosuppressant drugs, so he could get an infection," she said.
"Anything could happen. If Stan did pass away sooner rather than later, I'd know I had done what I could for him. We've already had a few really good weeks. He's really happy, and that alone is worth the price."

Boyd isn't independently wealthy. As a part-time member of the University of Baltimore's creative writing faculty, she earns about $46,000 a year. Her husband, Michael Yockel is a freelance journalist and stay-at-home dad who cares for the couple's twin sons, 3-year-old Texas and Miner. The couple bought their home in Baltimore's Belair-Edson neighborhood for $95,000 — and paid cash.
"I'm smart with money," Boyd, 44, said. "I'm very frugal. I drive a used car and wear clothing from consignment stores, and I have no debt at all. The message I'd like to get across is that if you save your money carefully, you can spend $19,000 on something that moves you."
And there's no question that Stanley matters to her, and matters a lot.
"Stanley is the only human cat," she said.

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