Ok, read your last sentence. Then read it again :)
It's fair to ask a spouse to go through this once, but after that you have a pattern, not an event. And he's in his pattern again. I'd do him the courtesy of an ultimatum and you can even be nice about it, but be firm and don't issue it...
Logan, if you don't even have enough money to buy Purina Kitten Chow, you need to give the kitten to a rescue group. It's one of the cheapest foods around and it's not fair to take on the responsibility of a pet when you don't even have $7 for a bag of food.
I think part of the problem here is that with all these instant access ways of communicating that we have today, like IM and texting, people tend to expect others to be available 24/7. And if someone disappears for a day, they need to account for it. This puts way too much stress on long...