Q4 2025 Insights

The CPI for Veterinary Services continues its steep climb. This creates a growing financial dilemma for pet owners, leading to a massive increase in demand for pet insurance and emergency financing options.

Social pet forums are rife with discussions about euthanasia due to cost, highlighting the severe ethical burden placed on low and middle-income pet owners. This qualitative crisis point creates a public mandate for more accessible, subsidized veterinary care models, which could become a political and social flashpoint in Q4. Workers in veterinary services are demoralized and often face financial issues when operating emergency veterinary clinics that service metropolitan areas.

Workers and volunteers within animal welfare are losing jobs and worried about the security of their organizations due to Federal spending cuts and freezes.