Gentrifying of Pet Adoption. Notice the couple that adpoted the dog "oh I work from home".
How lucky and privileged.
Why won’t shelters and rescues let people adopt dogs?
Millions of dogs need homes. Why is it sometimes hard to adopt one?
Gentrifying of Pet Adoption. Notice the couple that adpoted the dog "oh I work from home".
How lucky and privileged.
Why won’t shelters and rescues let people adopt dogs?
Millions of dogs need homes. Why is it sometimes hard to adopt one?
One disturbing thing I’m seeing in recent years is the financialization of veterinary care. Pet insurance is starting to be an almost required component of owning a pet and costs are predictably skyrocketing. You take your pet for a checkup and it’s a couple hundred bucks. Sixty dollars for a nail trim.
Then you have the ticks of private equity starting to burrow in to the system (https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/pe-deals-veterinary-clinics-pet-care) and now we can see a replication of the for-profit model of American healthcare starting to take shape for pets
We love our pets and are willing to go to great lengths to keep them healthy and happy, a tendency that financial vampires are salivating to exploit. And unlike human health care we are lacking even the most gossamer of consumer protections.
The one ghoul they interview hints at this when he says pet ownership is becoming more expensive so “the bottom of the market will be priced out”
“Pricing out” in this case is animals going to shelters, and when they are full, the nitrogen chamber.
It’s almost a perfect parallel to homelessness in people, but they can’t gas the homeless… yet
Cyberpunk 2077 had lots of little elevator newsbreaks but the one that sticks with me is the city flooding the sewers with nerve gas to take care of the mutant rat/homeless people population, which are considered to be in the same category of problem to solve