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Universal Veterinary Care

By Charles Innes

  The outbreak of avian flu in Asia and Canada should serve as a wake up call to everyone about the need for universal veterinary care.  Domestic livestock and family pets are receiving the lion’s share of veterinary services, leaving scant resources for the world’s wild creatures.  Now, with the looming outbreak of avian influenza, millions of waterfowl and other birds are in grave peril.  Surely this great nation’s resources could be mobilized to meet and prevent this potential holocaust. Rich, pampered family pets get preferential treatment at emergency animal hospitals; this inequality should end now before another outbreak threatens the entire animal kingdom. 

  Dogs, cats and other family pets are rushed to emergency rooms at animal hospitals, while countless uninsured and uncared for squirrels, opossums, skunks, armadillos, pigeons and other creatures are left suffering on the roadsides after beings struck by uncaring motorists.  It’s not fair that wild animals are not benefiting from the affluence of pampered rich family pets.  Greedy humans and their pampered pets are using over 90 percent of the world’s medical resources, leaving most of the other wild inhabitants of this planet with no healthcare resources at all.  This unfairness must end; the answer is universal veterinary care for every creature. 

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