’ ” it was n’t a day harder than most , but he ’d had to put a little girl ’s cat to sleep while she sobbed in the reception area .
this deal will add vca ’s nearly 800 hospitals ?
the clinics , conveniently connected to petsmart stores , sell their wellness plans as something that is n’t quite health insurance , but that spreads a pet ’s medical costs throughout the year .
hospital employees have told consumers that they can “ cancel at any time , ” leaving owners on the hook for another year of payments when they do n’t want to continue the plans .
mars inc. bought the banfield chain in 2007 .
we took care of his cremation , that ’s enough ’ ” eight years ago is also when he made what he thought of even then as a deal with a pending merger will put a number of the nation ’s biggest veterinary care chains — vca inc. , banfield pet hospital , and bluepearl veterinary partners — under the ownership umbrella of candy and packaged foods giant mars inc.
later , exam rooms got backed up while robb investigated why another feline was vomiting .
pet owners are often shocked to learn that they have to keep paying for the plan for the rest of the year after their pet dies , since the plans sound like health insurance to the average consumer .
since 2008 , we ’ ve shared consumers ’ problems with these plans .