If people don’t have the money for medical expense’s,don’t own a pet.
Real simple.
People can afford routine care for their pets.
Not many people can afford catastrophic pet health care bills.
I mean it comes down to what is best for the animal in the end.
You can’t always foresee what is going to happen down the road.
People do lose jobs and economic circumstances change over the life of a pet. This from a family who had to sell their daughter’s horse when she was 14 due to job loss. You simply would not believe how devastating that was for all of us.
That is my logic in refusing to get a dog; money is tight, and once people are attached to a dog they’ll bankrupt themselves paying for medical treatment for it. They are handy for security or emergency rations, but the costs wouldn’t justify keeping one (and we are probably all too lazy to walk it the way we should).
People often don’t think about that when they get a pet.
Nearly all of our pets have been rescues. If they happen to get really sick and need medical treatment that is prohibitively expensive, you can at least have some comfort that you gave them many years of love and attention.
Unfortunately, I’m usually the one that ends up taking them to the vet for the last goodbye.