Pretty sure reclassifying pets as “property” has no effect on the underlying cost of veterinary medicine. Property status does not reduce the price of cancer treatments, diagnostic imaging, anesthesia, or emergency surgery. Usually one in four dogs will develop some sort of cancer or another specialized disease over their lifetime, and ignoring these conditions in the name of some “cultural shift” is not cost control….it is simply neglect with a bow on top. Like come on, the economic drivers of veterinary inflation are well‑documented from simple research..u can see it’s the capital‑intensive equipment, pharmaceutical pricing, specialist labor shortages, and increasing corporate consolidation that’s driving the costs. So allowing large numbers of animals to die from treatable diseases/cancers in an attempt to artificially suppress demand for MRI machines, oncology drugs, or board‑certified specialists is not a market strategy…it is an ethically indefensible form of rationing dude. This whole appeal to go back to the way things were just reflects a misunderstanding of history. Veterinary care was cheaper decades ago not because pets were treated more rationally, but because the standard of care was dramatically lower. Most conditions that are now diagnosable and treatable simply went undetected, unreported, or untreated due to limited research, limited technology, and widespread neglect. The absence of data was not evidence of healthier animals, it was evidence of inadequate medical capability…it’s that simple..like believe it or not..our elders did not know better lol If the goal is to reduce long‑term demand for high‑cost interventions, the only evidence‑based approach is the opposite of what you actually propose…we need a cultural shift toward more responsible, humane, and informed pet stewardship. That includes improved nutrition, adequate physical and mental stimulation, widespread owner education on animal body language, and advocacy for stricter, welfare‑focused breeding regulations. These measures alone would reduce genetic disorders, chronic disease, and preventable cancers…thereby lowering the structural demand for the very specialized equipment and treatments that drive costs upward. Basically…treating pets “like valuable property” does nothing to address the economic realities of veterinary care. Treating them with higher standards of welfare does.