If I donated to Best Friends’ spay and neuter voucher program, would I be feeding the private equity machine and making everything worse in the long run?
I work for a charity that is interested in helping stray cats and dogs, specifically with spay and neuter. I know a lot of people in my area rely on the voucher program from Best Friends. The one in the big city near me has had to pause it because they didn’t have enough funding. I brought this issue to my boss as something to maybe donate to, but we have found that Best Friends is owned by private equity.
Obviously we want to help get as many animals fixed and adopted as possible, and if Best Friends is the only/main way to do that, then so be it, but I'm sure many of you are aware of the issue of private equity buying up so many vet practices and raising the prices significantly.
Are there independent vets that offer similar services? If we donate to Best Friends, are we feeding the private equity machine and making things worse for everyone in the long run? Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.
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For reference, I am in Utah, the charity I work for is based in central California.