Not sure what your vet bills have to do with any of this, but... It's true: pets are expensive, particularly pet health care, at least in part because (as with

Not sure what your vet bills have to do with any of this, but... It's true: pets are expensive, particularly pet health care, at least in part because (as with human medicine, but perhaps more absurdly) we've allowed professional organizations to strangle supply for vets, both explicitly by limiting the number of schools/class sizes, and implicitly, by putting onerous requirements on getting into those schools and/or getting certified. I was interested in a second career in veterinary medicine, but learned that there's exactly one veterinary college in the entirety of Western Canada, located in the (lovely, but) cold and remote prairie city of Saskatoon, which accepts a total of something like 80 students per year. Absurd.