Meow.

I just want to start off by saying, yes, this is a serious post and I've been thinking about this a lot lately. No one really addressed the issue of pets and college, and I'm about to do just that.

I have a cat. Her name is Princess, and she's about 14 years old, but she's pretty healthy as long as I give her medication. For those of you who have spoken to me before, you know about her because I probably showed you every picture I have of her on my phone, in costume or otherwise. What can I say? I'm a cat lady. (She is trying to sit on my keyboard as I'm typing this.)

Anyway, she's my best friend. And because pets aren't allowed on pretty much every campus, this is something that can greatly influence my decision as to where I'm going to go. I think I mentioned somewhere that I want to go up north for college, around the Bay Area.

Even now I don't like the idea of leaving her alone all day when I go to school. And since I can't exactly take her with me to college in San Francisco, I'm having a hard time trying to figure out what I'm going to do.

I was thinking that I could maybe get a house or apartment up there, but it's ridiculously expensive.

I could leave her here with my parents, but they don't like her. At all. (Well, they like her enough to feed her.)  I wouldn't get to see her every day. My mom said that she would pay for me to fly back on weekends but that's also ridiculously expensive.

Sometimes we leave Princess at the vet when we take short trips, or at my grandma's house, which is great because I know she's being taken care of. But I don't think they'd be willing to take her for that long. And I don't want her to be confined to a cage or Grandma's guest bedroom for that long.
What do you guys think? What are you going to do with your pets?