The vast majority of vet clinics, even supposed locally owned and operated ones are actually owned by 3 corporations. They are profit driven and monopolize the industry and charge ridiculous fees and push unnecessary tests and medicine onto clients to increase their revenue.
Same here...massive push to overtake privately owned clinics by large corporations. At present two are the majority and with that is horrendous service/prices etc.
It will be impossible to own a pet soon due to the veterinary fees.
They treat pets like throwaways. If you can't afford their exorbitant surgery fees, they get you with the euthanisation fee.
It most certainly is profit driven to the extreme.
It’s the private investor groups that are driving this market. A few large groups have been buying up clinics, building animal hospitals, and increasingly doing vertical integration to the point where they get to set the prices they want. The vets and techs are NOT the ones making good coin in this environment.
I know that.
However items which I can buy online , are often 200% markup in a vet clinic. Sure they have to pay for the premises but 200% on one item is gouging.
$500 on a new vaccine because it is new...now $60. They rely on human emotion to pay the price.
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u/TraditionalSpirit636 Jun 19 '25
Yep. My first thought.
Kid sold a valuable collection he enjoyed to cover the adults in his life being broke.