I just gotta rant about exploitation of poor people and their pets

[Ms. Toad]

15. I take it you haven't spent much time talking with vets.

Ours is always overwhelmed by putting animals to sleep. Many times it is the only option - other times treatment costs too much, or the animal has become inconvenient. It is a tremendous drain on her. We allowed one of ours to die at home, because in the week we would have put her to sleep, the vet had put at least 2 animals to sleep a day already. Our cat was not suffering - so on balance it seemed to be a kindness not to put the vet through one more euthanasia.

The next one, the vet came to our house with her assistant to avoid making our cat's last hours miserable.

At the same time, independent vets are barely scraping by - since more and more people are getting pets from rescue operations that spay and neuter them in infancy. That loss of business cuts into vets' profits - not to mention that when times are hard, people don't take their animals in for regular shots and check-ups.

So - if you were a vet trying to make ends meet (and emotionally wrung out from a fairly common and very unpleasant part of your job anyway), who would you get to pay for your rent, food, health insurance etc. so you can "do the right thing."