Joe Spector

And then in terms of veterinarians, just to give you an example, in human health care, the ratio of medical professionals to Americans is something like 1 to 20.

And in pet care, the ratio of veterinarians to pets is about 1 to 2,000.

So 1 to 2,000 versus 1 to 20, it's significantly different, significantly worse.

I think there's lots of kind of boring things like making sure you're getting flea and tick prevention and getting dental care.

Those are some common things of just getting basic daily care to make sure that your pet is set up for success in the long run.

Definitely healthy weight.

And then...

What we see is people are going to Dr. Google or they're going to Chad GPT or they're going on Reddit or they're going on Facebook to plead for someone to help them with a medical issue.

And that is prone for lots of mistakes.

And that's where telemedicine comes in because you're able to speak with an actual human veterinarian who actually knows what she's talking about.

Nutrition, I have found, is the third rail of politics.

It is very charged, polarized, and

It has to do with people's ability to what they can afford, to what fits into their lifestyle.

But on the one extreme end, you have raw food diets, and people want to treat their dogs like they were back in the day originally.

There's lots of vets who think that's quite a bad idea.

And then you have things like kibble versus fresh food.

There's a lot of things when it comes to pet care that it's called the gold standard, which is, you know, what is the best thing we can do for our pets?

but often the gold standard is not realistic when it comes to public health in terms of what people can actually do in terms of what they're able to do for their lifestyle.

And so I think we have to think of healthcare not as like what's the best, what's the gold standard, but what's the best that a pet owner can do for their pet given that pet owner's circumstances.

It came from a personal experience.