[Ellie May]

And I agree. It seems expensive until time is put into really thinking about the massive amount of overhead that DVMs have and their huge student loan debt.

Honestly, most vets don't charge near what they could. They love animals, but that doesn't mean they should have to be poor. And really, the ones that usually suffer are the support staff. Most techs get paid miserably when in reality, they do a ton of work (even work that clients think the vet should do like cleaning teeth).

I have heard so many times about how vets should never turn suffering patients away. They should take payments or just do it for free if the owner can't afford it. Well, that's a good way to be taken advantage of. I think their only responsibility as far as that goes is to provide euthanasia at a reasonable cost. Vets would love to be able to treat animals for free, but it's unrealistic and completely unfair to them. It costs an extreme amount of money to practice medicine the right way and they can't go under guilt everytime an animal needs help and they can't offer to foot the bill and save it.