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

[Cal Carpenter]

18. Actually, I have

and as I indicated above, I am fully aware that not all vets can/will work with people on financial problems.

Whether or not there are logical/valid reasons for taking a hard line in cases like this, it doesn't make it any easier to take on an emotional/human level. I know I am lucky with the vet I use -- we are in a pet-filled small city and he has gone out of his way to build a medium sized practice that remains affordable and flexible and incredibly compassionate.

I'm not sure I understand, though, how rescue operations 'cut into vets profits' with spay/neuter requirements -- most of the rescues I am aware of (including the one where I got my dog and the one on whose board I served) use vets at clinics to do that spaying and neutering. If anything, I would imagine that their commitment to spay/neuter would ultimately *increase* business overall for veterinarians. Even bigger shelters like the humane society who require spay/neuter use vets to do the work, along with all the other veterinary care. So I don't understand your point about that, fwiw.