Pet Debt

As someone who is still paying-down a 5-figure debt to treat my dog’s cancer, this story from The New York Times’ The Daily hits close to home. The nugget of the story:

So, as we know, prices for all kinds of things are going up, because we’ve seen inflation over the last couple of years, but that pet care prices have risen much faster than the overall rate of inflation. My colleagues and I actually ran the numbers, and in the last decade, the price of [other] services has risen about 30 percent, and in that same period, veterinary care has gone up by more than 60 percent.

My dog (pictured above) is still healthy and doing great.

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