It doesn’t help your pet, but they’re making veterinary medicine as bureaucratic and costly as human medicine. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
Our dog needs flea meds – so I went to the vet yesterday to get them. The vet would not sell me the flea meds he used to sell me unless I first brought our dog in for an “exam,” which is akin to the way (in most states) you’re effectively forced to bring in your car for an “exam” – styled “safety inspection” – before the government will continue to allow you to (legally) drive it.
Our dog is fine. He needs an “exam” like our cars need an “inspection.” All being in good working order. What the vet – and the government – need is money. The “exam” – and “inspection” – being the pretext for coercing us to pay it.
The formal name for this in academic economic parlance is rent seeking.
What’s happened is the interested parties lobbied for laws requiring “exams” and “inspections.” In the case of vets – who are transitioning into mercenary quacks, as doctors already have – for a new law (in my state) that prohibits the dispensing of meds – even flea meds – without a prescription that’s predicated on an “exam.”
So now, instead of buying the flea meds I’ve been buying for decades over-the-counter I am obliged to haul our 100 pound dog to the vet for an “exam” he does not need in order to be allowed to buy the flea meds he does need.
The “exam” – like the “inspection” isn’t free. Which tells you a lot about why they claim such things are necessary. No conflict of interest there. Never mind the money being made on these “exams” – and “inspections.”
STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC 
A bud spent thousands on robocat that needed some work on paws and legs.
The FEW don’t want you have pets.
Let them eat shit.
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My calico “Moggy” will be 18 this June. She hasn’t seen a vet since I brought her home from the shelter. She goes outside for about 6 months of the year with a fabric collar that has a blend of essential oils against fleas, ticks, biting insects, etc. She has never had fleas or ticks. She once seemed to be having a urinary problem whereupon I gave her a dose of homeopathic Staphysagria. Five mintes later she was fine.
https://animalwellnessmagazine.com/vaccinosis/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7149318/
My sister-in-law’s Dalmatian was exhiting rabies vaccinosis (chronic, sub-acute symptoms of aggression, biting, the “thousand yard stare” fixating on someone, fearfulness, etc.) after repeated annual vaccinations. I gave him homeopathic Lyssin (rabies) 1M potency, three doses over a three week period. He was a changed dog after – calm, content, happy, playful with all aggressive symptoms gone.
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