There are now chains of for-profit full service pet hospitals, expanding into a business that not long ago was served by a few not-for-profit centers. For insta

There are now chains of for-profit full service pet hospitals, expanding into a business that not long ago was served by a few not-for-profit centers. For instance, locally, if I needed a service my local vet couldn't provide, I went to Angell Memorial in Boston. I adopted all of my cats there. Now there's a couple of Blue Pearl hospitals here too. This isn't entirely a bad thing. But one presumes that increasing use of pet insurance and the commericialization of the vet business will mean rising costs. And my local vet has had some staff turnover of late.