Just as motorcycles – which are still affordable and some of them still simple, owner-fixable things – have been a kind of end-run around what’s been done to cars, so also vets in relation to doctors.
They (vets) have – for the most part – been fee-for-service and so (mostly) affordable on a pay-as-you-go basis for routine checkups and so on.
But they have also become extortionists enmeshed with the government, much the same as the human “health care” apparat has. If you have a dog or a cat and have been to a vet recently, you probably already know all about it.
We have a young dog that we brought to the vet when he was about six months old to get him “fixed” – the strange euphemism for eliminating his capability to reproduce by having the relevant organs removed.
It is interesting – psychologically/emotionally speaking – that humans never use this word when referring to the same procedure done to themselves.
Anyhow, we took the dog in to get that done. A few months later, he got fleas. So we stopped by the vet to get some flea meds – which we’d done for years, for all our other animals. We discovered we could no longer do just that. The lady at the desk – vets now have a host of fraus, just like doctors have – told us we had to bring the dog in for a “wellness exam” before they would allow us to buy the flea meds.
The “wellness exam” would cost $80. On top of the cost of the flea stuff.
I told the frau that the dog was perfectly well – and reminded her that the vet had seen him just a few months prior and that he was only about a year old. He needed a “wellness exam” as much as a healthy human teenager needs one to use zit cream. Of course it is not a “wellness exam” – except as performance theater. It is rent-seeking, which is the use of coercion to collect “rent” – i.e., to make a buck off someone. The vet knows we need the flea meds – because having a flea-ridden dog or cat in the house is intolerable for the humans – and thus the pressure to hand over the $80 for the “wellness exam” to get the meds.
The vet says they’re not allowed to dispense prescription meds without the “wellness exam,” giving the vet both the excuse and the absolution. Somehow, the flea meds that work – as opposed to the ones you can buy at Wal Mart that don’t – are now prescription-only. And – no surprise – you can only get the prescription if you have your pet inspected; i.e., the “wellness exam.”
What a racket.
Then there’s this one:
We recently got a couple of kittens – and they need “fixing,” too. All of our cats are completely indoor cats. They never go outside. Ergo, as the Romans used to say, the chances of them catching rabies are essentially nil. On par with a human catching “COVID” as a result of taking a walk by himself in the woods without wearing a “mask.”
Well, wouldn’t you know it – if you take a kitten in to get fixed or for anything at all, the vet will only treat the animal if it has been “vaccinated.” More finely, if you submit to having the animal “vaccinated” as a condition of treatment.
Now, there are many rational reasons for not wanting to have an animal “vaccinated.” Including – in our case – the fact that the animal in question is a cat that has lived and will live its life entirely inside the house where there is no rabies to catch. On that basis alone it is absurd – because unjustified – to “vaccinate” an animal against something it stands almost no chance of ever being exposed to. It is like “vaccinating” someone (a human) who lives in Oklahoma against a disease that is almost impossible to catch unless you go to Africa.
And there is another, even-more-justifiable reason to be “hesitant” about having a beloved animal “vaccinated.” It is that God-only-knows-what is in the “vaccines” they shoot into animals. We know – we have come to know – how little in the way of precautions and full disclosure of the risks associated with the taking of them applies to the “vaccines” that millions of humans have been injected with. Many of them against their better judgment, under duress. How many of those millions would have refused if they’d known these “vaccines” were not “safe” – or “effective”?
And the only reason we do know now is because humans can talk. Animals can’t. When an animal “dies suddenly,” it is just an animal. No autopsy is done. When an animal develops a weird – perhaps fatal – condition – who is responsible? How would you be able to prove it?
The standards in place to assure the safety of human “vaccines” are deplorably – criminally – lax. There is no meaningful way to hold the peddlers of human “vaccines” accountable for the harms they cause. It is nonexistent when it comes to the peddlers – and pushers – of “vaccines” for animals.
In the past, you could just say no – as Nancy Reagan used to say about the street drugs that were, ironically enough, never pushed on anyone. Now the vets push these drugs on you by refusing to treat your pet unless you submit – so they can profit.
I think the time is approaching – if it is not already here – when dealing with doctors and vets will need to be done on the down low. Because it is the only way to transact such business without the government being involved – and without being taken to the cleaners by doctors and vets who have become mercenary extortionists and adjuncts of the government.
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I like the idea of having a dog but don’t want the responsibility of it. If they’re insisting on forced visits for simple stuff, then I’ll pass.
Sorta on topic, there’s a YouTube channel called “Sitting with Dogs”. It’s exactly what it sounds like –he goes to shelters and finds the dogs that are shutdown from fear and coaxes ’em back into being what they were meant to be. He gets gazillions of views so the dogs he features usually (but not always) get adopted.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/@rockykanaka/videos
It’s a total scam. Nowadays doctors and vets don’t get paid by us anymore so they can charge higher fees. They can charge $150 for a 5 minute office visit because they get paid by the insurance company. Their office staff works with and negotiates with them not us. Imagine if there was no insurance like it used to he. You didn’t need insurance to pay for a hospital visit. Now you have no idea how much it costs.
Similarly colleges and universities can charge higher tuition because of increased government subsidized student loans. Or companies who pay insane bonus payments to their CEO’s. This extreme level of salaries wasn’t common in the past. Maybe an Elon Musk or a Steve Jobs might justify that kind of salary, but a Mary Barra? These companies can hire people like that all day long.
After hearing Bill Gates giving that Ted Talk years ago asking if vaccines could be made to reduce the global human population (because cliiiiiiiiimate change), Is Bill Gates even trying to reduce the pet population through vaccines? The billionaire sociopaths even want to ban ownership of pets, citing “Cliiiiiiiiimate change”.
I also heard of hospitals giving human babies a Hepatitis B vaccine right after they’re born, even if the baby’s parents specifically asked the hospital NOT to give their child such a vaccine. The reply from the hospital is likely something like “It’s recommended by the CDC”. However, over the past few decades after passage of that law saying vaccine manufacturers CAN’T be sued for injuries or death caused by their jabs, the childhood vaccination schedule concocted by the CDC exploded from a handful of vaccines for children 0-18 to close to 80 different doses of vaccines. Why, IIRC, California even wanted to make it MANDATORY for high school students in the state to take an HPV vaccine until public pushback resulted in the state dropping that.
‘natural flea and tick treatment for dogs and cats from the homestead’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUIYZSFbPEo
We feed our Poms a barf diet.
No fleas no tics no vets. No Injections.
Natural diet keeps dogs strong happy and healthy. kibble type so called ‘foods’ make them sick with many issues. Your best friend suffers.. and you pay through the nose for it.
Biologically accurate raw food. B.A.R.F.
In fairness to the vet, he cannot know for certain that the cat never has been outside and never will be. People will lie about that or simply be mistaken. And the vet has no way of knowing if the indoor cat has ever been exposed to another animal that has been outdoors and/or has rabies.
I am not opposed too proven vaccines like the rabies vaccine and the polio vaccine based on science that has been around for 200 years since Jenner’s cowpox vaccine.
I AM opposed to unscientific bullshit that is mandatory, like the covid “vaccine” that is not an actual vaccine, does not confer immunity, and was mandated against a virus that was no worse then the common flu for 99% of the population. And I oppose unscientific mandatory masking that cannot and does not prevent the spread of a virus.
I think it’s important to make these kinds of distinctions.
Is the rabies vaccine really as “proven” as you say?
‘The Germ Hypothesis Part 1’
“To say that he proved his hypothesis that a specific microbe could cause the rabies disease and that his vaccine prevented the disease from occurring is nothing but pseudoscientific fiction.” …
https://mikestone.substack.com/p/the-germ-hypothesis-part-1?utm_campaign=email-post&r=1t085u&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Is the polio vaccine really as “proven” as you say?
‘Dissolving Illusions About Vaccine Safety’
“Based on the available science, Humphries is convinced that one of the reasons the polio vaccine doesn’t work is because polio isn’t caused by an infectious virus. It’s caused by toxins.”…
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/02/joseph-mercola/dissolving-illusions-about-vaccine-safety/
I think it’s Govco that requires the rabies vax for kitties, our vet practice was great because they didn’t push it because like yours, our cats were strictly indoors only. Sadly my last visit to the vet was to say goodbye to our 19 year old kitty when her back legs stopped working, she was in a lot of pain but I still miss her every day. The vets do a great job for a difficult time, I sometimes wonder how it must affect them having to do it on a regular basis.
Don’t use those flea drugs. They cause neurological damage strokes and cancer. Use a flea comb instead
A combing twice a day will work. Plus vacuuming any carpets once a day.
Let’s not forget that starting a couple years ago animal antibiotics now require you to get a prescription, the same thing also for fish antibiotics. Whether this is due to grifting or poor people self treating with animal medication I leave for you to decide. How many people self medicated with “pony” past during the plaque years?
Luckily there are mail order companies that will ship here but I have heard of orders being seized by the post office.
I haven’t had my cats at to the vet in a year or so; every time I go there, I feel violated, like I’m being taken advantage of. My cats are both house cats who have no desire to go outside (one was a street cat, the other a rescue), and they’re both quite healthy. They were healthy enough to pull the dust cover HALFWAY OFF my motorcycle! They do zoomies regularly too; they were doing zoomies last night between 10 and 11, and they were doing them this morning.
I have to think that veterinarians have to carry malpractice insurance, just like MDs. Not because they’re incompetent, but because the expectation of care is so high. When pets get old they start having problems. Sometimes those problems are fatal. But pet owners don’t see death the way it used to be, the end of life. Now it has to be prevented, and if death occurs, justice must prevail.
A pet having a bad reaction to a shot should be a bad day. But now it’s cause for a lawsuit by some ambulance chaser. “Make it go away” howls the vet, and the insurance company pays out a settlement. And increases his premiums. So now, every pet needs to have a wellness check prior to any procedure. Because people no longer know how to grieve.
Back when I needed one, I had a very good vet, actually several operating out of the same office. They pushed NOTHING. They recommended. Regarding their recommendations, some I followed, others I did not.
Stay away from the “Poodle doctors”, who insist you treat your pet like a sickly child.
‘A few months later, he got fleas.’ — eric
Had this conversation last night at a dinner party, with a woman whose small dog got fleas. A fatal case of heartworm (carried by the fleas) ensued, she said, when the fleas were treated too late.
Nearly every kind of ‘prescription’ med, other than opiates, can be ordered from overseas — although 2-3 weeks for shipping might be excessive in the case of fleas. [NASPER, the gov-mandated prescription spying system, has no record for me.]
Then talk turned to pet health insurance for her kittens. As for humans, it’s age-rated: triple the cost for her older cat, compared to the younger one. So she ditched the pet ‘coverage.’
‘Damn,’ I replied. ‘What a racket! I need a business like that. Also, a mail-order vet degree, so I can dispense pet meds to everyone in town.’
Monkey-wrench the system. When grifting is institutionalized, cheating isn’t wrong — it’s a moral obligation. Just ordered some contact lenses from Canada, to sidestep the annual eye doctor exam grift imposed by Clowngress in 1995. I see what y’all did there.
Why does the flea medication require a prescription? Ridiculous. I order mine online from Australia w/o a prescription. Ever notice the special food in the vet offices that also requires a prescription? Can’t buy it anywhere else. They have special food to help prevent UTIs in cats. What they won’t tell you is that to keep your male cat from having a UTI – stop feeding him crappy dry food. He needs wet food that’s all meat, and water.
I tried to board my cat at one place. Denied – he hadn’t had his yearly wellness exam from them, even though he had one elsewhere. They would admit him IF I had him examined there during boarding.
The vets acts as though they have the best interests of our pets in mind. Often they do not. It’s a money making operation.
Hi Howard,
You beat me to it! We did order the flea meds from Australia. But that’s a measure of just how screwed up this country is. You have to get meds from a country on the other side of the world because the vet down the street won’t sell them to you with a prescription – and an examination.
Great! When I needed to update my cat’s rabies vaccination (even though he really doesn’t need one as he’s an indoor kitty and old, so he’s had plenty of rabies jabs for permanent immunity), a “wellness exam” was required. I warned the vet – he doesn’t like to be handled. “Oh we have to make sure he’s not sick before we jab him”. They tried to look at his teeth, and after a loud growl, the exam was over, they jabbed him and put him back in his carrier.
Howard,
Just so you know, you could also have a pet sitter care for your cat at home while you’re away. They don’t require vaccination and all that stuff like a boarding place does. The cats like it, because they get to stay in their familiar surroundings. Plus, by having a pet sitter come in, they get the mail, turn the lights on and off, etc.; there is regular human activity at your house, so any burglars casing the place will go elsewhere.
Luckily our cat is treated by a rather loose band of vets that see our pet as a cat, not a cash cow.
As far as the “drug pusher” term. Again, GovCo and its willing lackies, use that term for individuals that are sought out to purchase various banned substances. Unlike the Pharma Industrial Complex that bombards you with ads for their various potions that speak of the necessity to buy to “improve” your life and orders you to “ask your doctor”. It’s the typical inversion of reality that GovCo thrives on.
Make sure you keep track of their retirement dates. When they decide to sell the practice to someone else you might not get the same level of service.
Back in the day, men commonly referred to their testicles as the “family jewels.” Now, we commonly see, and hear, the same equipment referred to as “junk.” Thanks, “feminists.”
According to Wackypedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testicle#:~:text=An%20average%20adult%20testicle%20measures,greater%20than%2020%20cm3.
>An average adult testicle measures up to 5 cm × 2 cm × 3 cm (2 in × 3⁄4 in × 1+1⁄4 in).
Matter of fact, my right one measures 3 x2. Inches, not centimeters, and I do not consider either of mine to be “junk,” although they are untested as to their intended purpose.
“Balls!” said the Queen. If I had two, I’d be King.