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To take care of people like Gail and Dorothy, who call us money grubbers and only the dollar talks…well if the dollar was talking, you would have no one willing to take care of your animals at all. So you just have a good day and complain about a field you actually dip your toe and deal with.
I make less than seniors on income and some how manage to afford my pets. My excuse is not that the vets are robbing me! Thank you Ashley! NO ONE owes you anything in this world. So stop bemoaning the fact that vets need to get paid because at the end of the day every single thing that you want for free that vet had to pay for. And no government entity subsidizes any veterinary hospital anywhere unlike many human hospitals.
Until electricity, water, buildings, medication, equipment, and staff are free, then the vets will have to charge for their services. Use your head. Charity sure is a great idea when you are on the receiving end.
But when you give and give and give then at some point it becomes cost prohibitive. My wonderful vet is worth her weight in gold, she has put her heart and soul into saving the life of one of my beloved dogs……I do not regret one penny I have spent nor would ever begrudge her the right to earn a decent ,living wage. I am retired and also on a fixed income, but would never use this as an excuse to deny my animals of the care necessary to keep them healthy.
They are MY responsibility and mine alone. Believe me, a corporate vet will not leave their home in the middle of the night to sit with an animal in crisis …as mine has done many times in the last year …thanks but no thanks Thrive. And you should include taxes that an animal hospital must pay. Yes, taxes so 47 million people can get food stamps and Medicaid and school houses to attend and teachers. There are no food stamps or any of this for animals. So that means that veterinarians and vet techs should give their services for free?
Do you have any idea how much it costs to become a veterinarian? Not to mention the cost of running a practice — overhead, inventory, electricity, insurance, the list goes on. I have 2 animals, and I afford them because I save for them. They are simply trying to make a living and the profit margin is not what the general public makes it out to be.
People need to open their eyes, stop being entitled, and do what they can to support the choices they make in life. Getting a little help to get by once in a while is fine, but depending on it to make your own life work permanently is an entirely different story.
Vets do so much pro bono already that clients never know about, it is a sad day when I hear my beloved profession or dedicated colleagues talked about as if they were in corporate America at the top of some ponzi scheme. These are highly trained medical professionals that are paid pennies on the dollar compared to their human medicine counterparts, and yet put up with so much abuse it is absolutely appalling.
The veterinary field has a higher rate of suicide than almost any other profession out there, due to overwhelming debt, lack of financial security, and complete lack of appreciation by clients who seem to think that because they live on a fixed income or limited income that veterinarians should give them everything that had to be paid for up front like medications, staff, equipment, etc for FREE.
Otherwise, it is perfectly acceptable to call that vet a money grubbing, no good person who doesnt care about the animals at all. Horrible horrible world we live in when clients think that the vet is the bad guy, and take no responsibility on themselves that they chose the animal and the costs that go along with that ownership all of their own free will.
Terrible terrible people that would stoop to say such things. I cannot afford the high cost of veterinary care. Warren Ohio is so expensive my cat has an upper respiratory and conjunctivitis coat over dollars to see a vet.
We need Thrive for sure. I have multiple cats. I have dealt with the same issues you have. If these health concerns, I recommend fish mox. Buy triple antibiotic eye ointment for the pink eye. Turmeric wash works too. What in the hell is wrong with you? Its illegal to practice veterinary medicine without a licence, fyi. Giving dosing advice is exactly that. Hopefully they will make it soon!!!! Corporations exist for only one purpose in this world, to make money!! So why in the world would this not be glaringly apparent when it comes to corporate veterinary medicine?
Do you honestly believe that this is what you NEED? Because WOW, what a sad day for our species if you think that corporations are the wave of the future. Why can people not see this? Petco with another bad idea. Where I live, whether rabies titers are up to par or not pets are required an annual rabies vaccination. And, no sorry, rabies vaccines do not provide life long immunity. But obviously your google research trumps someone who worked for 8 long years to educate themselves on how to protect animals.
I would think twice about going to the clearance rack for medical care…Remember, in Veterinary care, you get what you pay for. Wow, I agree with above comments made. Seriously, you get what you pay for here! For the constuancy of people who think this is a good idea, think again! Would you put any trust in a Walmart type facility providing quality medical health care for your human loves ones?
Same comparison here. They simply care more for the animals than the wealth. They still do make money and they get more than enough business but an operation at a vet that told my mom for it cost her there and the dog is great now. Not all things that are cheap are shitty. So bcz I only paid 35 for my dog at a shelter she is shitty? For a full list of hospital locations, click here. By Role. Petco launches in-store low-cost veterinary hospital. October 18, Image courtesy of Petco.
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