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Your Pet Is Itchy, Weird, and Acting Suspicious—Handle It Online Minus the Trauma (Yours and Theirs)

When your pet’s ‘fine… but not fine,’ do this.

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This is sponsored content. It was created for our partner, Dutch.com.

Your dog treats car rides like a crime scene. Your cat goes full exorcist the second the carrier appears. And somehow, a “quick” vet visit still turns into a $300 bill. There’s a very specific kind of dread that sets in when your pet is acting slightly off. Not dying. Not urgent. Just… off enough that you know you should probably do something about it. But doing something about it means booking an appointment, rearranging your day, wrestling a sentient loaf of fur into a carrier, and then paying a bill that feels personally insulting.

So instead, you seek medical advice from ChatGPT. You spiral. You convince yourself your pet has something rare and medieval. 

Or, you can skip all of that and use Dutch.com, which is essentially a licensed veterinarian living inside an app.

Use code VICE32 for 32% off to bring down the membership fee to about $8 per month. Which, when you remember that a basic vet visit can easily run $200, starts to feel less like a subscription and more like a financial life hack.

The Case of Roosevelt’s Perpetually Gross Eye

Enter: Roosevelt, my cat, my problem child, my tiny, adorable medical mystery. 

For as long as I can remember, Roosevelt has had this gunky eye situation. Not dramatic. Not painful. Just… there. A little crust, a little discharge, enough to make me go, “Should I be doing something about this?” every time I look at her face.

But was it worth an in-person vet visit? Absolutely not. Was I going to ignore it forever? Also no. This is exactly the kind of in-between problem that makes pet ownership weirdly stressful.

So I tried Dutch.com for this story, hoping for a solve.

Signing up only took a couple of minutes, and almost immediately, I could book an appointment. I scrolled through available times expecting slim pickings and instead saw options as soon as the next day. I picked one, closed my laptop, and felt like I had accomplished something wildly........

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