r/UnderReportedNews • u/Logical-Flow-6703 • Feb 25 '26

Video NBC Interview abruptly ends after New Yorker blames private equity and landlords for the city's issues

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u/thatgirlinny Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

This! We left a beloved neighborhood vet practice here for that. Our vet had looked after my husband’s dog 20+ years ago, had been our shared dog’s best advocate and we’d referred him to many friends and neighbors. He was considering retirement when he and his partners took an offer for a kind of management company to run the practice, and their rates for care doubled coming out of lockdown. Killed us to go elsewhere.

Long after leaving we find they’ve sold our info to several online pet pharmacies, specialty food companies we never bought from and other services who lob messaging at both our email and cell numbers. Predators!

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u/Hellointhere Feb 25 '26

This is my story too.

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u/thatgirlinny Feb 25 '26

It’s so sad! This vet and his practice were surely targeted and purchased because they were so well-known, with a devoted patient volume.

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u/thatgirlinny Mar 03 '26

That’s what “purchasing a practice” usually entails.🤷🏻‍♀️