Vet Bills a Struggle? Go Online
A new Westborough business called PetChance.org is walking in new crowd funding territory.
A new Westborough business helping pet owners fund veterinary bills started because Peter Alberti listened to news talk radio in July. PetChance.org was inspired by callers to a talk show asking a veterinarian questions, the Northborough resident says. “The callers were saying, ‘My vet told me my pet needs this treatment, needs this surgery, needs this oncology, and I can’t afford that. What cheaper alternatives do I have than what my vet gave me?’ In some cases, they said, ‘Do I need to let the pet suffer? Give up the pet?’ In a couple of cases, they literally said, ‘Do I need to put the pet down?’,” Alberti says. Alberti says he called into the show to suggest pet owners consider crowd funding, which is “when a bunch of people come …
Priscilla Carbone
10:02 am on Tuesday, November 27, 2012
P.S. Donors from China, Sweden, the USA, and maybe (anonymously), Australia, Puerto Rico, the UK and New Zealand have been through http://petchance.org! Thanks ~ Priscilla & Little Devil xo more ›