... when your teen admits that asthma exacerbation and airway remodeling is not a reasonable cost for keeping a beloved pet. Also, when that teen tearfully but pragmatically agrees to find the pet in question a new home. This week.

(Yes, sad days at our house.)

She's agreed to this in part because having to keep the cat isolated is breaking the cat's heart, too. frown She knows this is hard for her-- but far worse for the cat, who doesn't understand why it is happening.


I really love her rationality, but at times it is pretty hard to remind myself that she's a teenaged girl.

Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.