# Charity to leave money to? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 2, 2025, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charity-to-leave-money-to/1019120 "2025-06-02T20:55:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 58
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charity-to-leave-money-to/1019120/58 "2025-06-09T18:35:06Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > My partner is a vet tech at a “boutique” vet clinic (it’s more like a giant animal hospital, with radiology and cancer and ophthalmology and dermatology and water treadmills and a daycare and a pub…). She works at the very high end of veterinary medicine, the opposite of what she calls “shelter medicine”. At the shelters, the care they provide is both brutally barebones and assembly-line style, with each individual animal getting far less time and attention than at the nicer vet clinics Fwiw, my vet, most of whose cliental are beloved cats owned by wealthy people, also does work for local shelters. While I’m sure the shelters never opt for chemotherapy for cats dying of cancer, I’m pretty sure that the only difference in how he treats tame shelter cats and pet cats is that he gives the shelters a modest discount. The cats who are treated for ear mites, respiratory bugs, who get spayed and neutered, get exactly the same care as my pets. (He also spays and neuters feral cats for a trap/neuter/release program, run by the same shelters. Those cats have to be handled a little differently, as they can be dangerous.) I volunteer at a couple of local shelters, and all their veterinary care is purchased from ordinary local vets who mostly treat people’s pets. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charity-to-leave-money-to/1019120)._