Spending money on pets

Why is it Margaret James’ (5/10, Voices) or anyone else’s business how people spend their money? If the couple wants to pay for their dog’s funeral (5/7, FYI, “For whom the bell tolls: Rover”), it’s their business. I read the article twice and did not see where they were asking for donations.

I hope the money Ms. James sends to “hungry children” gets to them and not the government.

Shirley Johns
Bonner Springs

To Margaret James, I would say M.Y.O.B., as I doubt seriously that she was asked to contribute. Perhaps she should focus on the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on this war and the food and health care that could have been provided to those in need here in our own country.

David Vaughn
Kansas City