" Do you have any pets?” asked Max.
“Just a hamster. We used to have a cat, though.”
“We have a cat,” said Amanda. “Her name is Priscilla. She’s a snow-white Persian and she cost four hundred dollars.”
Four hundred dollars for a cat? I thought. Boy, you could get one free at a shelter. And you could certainly spend four hundred dollars on better things, like groceries. "
― Ann M. Martin , Poor Mallory! (Baby-Sitters Club #39: Collector's Edition)