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I did not mean that instead of paying whatever it costs to maintain a dog a person should take on the huge financial responsibility of sending a boy to yeshivah.
What I meant was that instead of wasting money on a dog put that same money towards a good use.
You might argue that dogs are fun etc. To this I offer what Rav Gamliel Rabinowitz of Yerushalayim said to me:
We weren’t put on this world to eat pizza.