To the editor: Sixty-seven thousand {dollars} annual tuition for a veterinary college (“America has a scarcity of veterinarians, placing college students in excessive demand,” Could 20)! Tuition at UC Davis medical college for the remedy of people is barely about $47,000 for out-of-state college students, and even elite Harvard College med is about $73,000. Between such prices and company takeovers of veterinary clinics, no marvel veterinary care is unaffordable. Veterinarians advocate cleansing cat tooth yearly. Current quotes for my cat from three veterinarians ranged from $1,600 to $3,600. God forbid you have got two or three cats.
A number of lawsuits have alleged unfair and misleading practices by pet meals firms to inflate costs, with no less than one settlement within the hundreds of thousands of {dollars}. Few households can afford such prices, which ends up in animal abandonment and diminished care. The veterinary and pet care industries are in dire want of investigation to find out why prices are skyrocketing.
Darrel Miller, Santa Monica
