Vet prices are absolutely absurd these days. It’s fucking bullshit that they are exploiting people like this. If your response is, “just buy pet insurance”, you are part of the problem. Pet insurance should NEVER have become a thing.
Seriously, what is the point of pet insurance, when no vet accepts it?
I am of the opinion that Medicare for All should include pets. No living creature should have to pay for healthcare.
It’s the same basic principle by which human health insurance companies operate. Make maximum profit by taking in premiums and denying as many claims as possible. Our whole system is fucked. In 2025 United Healthcare made $9.425 billion in profit. How many people had to die or live in abject misery to enable that?
It’s hard enough to convince some people that every citizen should get healthcare. Now try to convince them to give healthcare to every living creature.
All voters require healthcare for themselves. Not all voters have pets though.
It’s not vets that are the problem. It’s private companies buying up small business vetrinarians and then raising prices at all of their clinics. This is made even easier by the fact that said company also owns all of the drug companies as well.
My state has a massive vet shortage because of this exact situation. A company came in and bought up all of the small vet clinics in town, those amazing vets left because they weren’t getting paid enough.
Now we not only have less clinics to choose from, and the ones we can choose from seem like different clinics but are actually the same business, but we also have no interest in professionals living and working here because they wouldn’t make enough.
Please stop blaming vets for something that is clearly the fault of greedy corporate billionaires.
My cat would like a word. She ate an entire KFC drumstick, bones included. 12 hours at Kitty ER, and $1200.
i love my dogs and cat and tell them each they have a 1000 deductible. after that it’s the farm. i think the dogs get it. i know the cat is plotting something.
Sisters dog ate compost and got ill on Christmas day. We were at a beach holiday house and had to drive 1.5 hrs to the nearest vet. That was not a cheap day for them 😅
My wife’s favorite cat has pica. We learned this when she needed emergency surgery to remove a bowel obstruction. For the low price of 6500€ (about $7⁴00 USD), we received a cured kitty and a tangled mass of 38 elastic hair ties. That’s only about 170€ per hair tie!
I had named the cat - Eris. This was inadvertantly my fault.
Mine was born with weird knees due to her breed, and needed invasive surgery on both hind legs to fix her ACLs. $6,500 later… she is a happy doggo that can run and jump.
12/10, would do again.
My cat decided to eat a small dried decorative starfish, it got stuck in the little idiot’s throat last year. That was a very expensive emergency vet visit.
My parents saved up for years to get a really nice leather furniture set for the living room and were about to pull the trigger on it when the dog started having seizures.
They took the dog to the vet, and it stayed overnight and kept getting worse. In the meantime, my Mom still had to go to work, and when she got the call that Skippy needed to go to a canine neurologist near her office, she ended up calling my aunt (teacher who was home for the summer) and asked her if she could drive the dog from the vet by the house to the neurologist’s office near my Mom’s work as a favor.
Turns out dog neurologists are really expensive, but they’d just moved a bunch of money into their spending account to buy furniture so were able to cover it. And now my Aunt thinks my parents can casually drop 10 grand without having to call the bank first. The couch had to wait a few more years.
Skippy wasn’t expected to live, but she powered through. That was in 2015, and she’s still around. She has Addison’s disease and has to have monthly steroid injections on top of daily steroid pills, and stress and separation anxiety are still dangerous for her, but she’s a trooper. She’s the biggest Chihuahua you’ll ever meet due to the steroids, but it’s all muscle.
Mine just slipped on some ice and tore his cruciate ligament requiring VERY costly surgery.
This is my dog. He’s like 12 and he still does this shit. The last one was woodchips and it was like 4500$ I had a panic attack and full on meltdown in the vets office
I love pets. This is why I’ll have no more new pets. The bills just are too much.
