Health care for pets.

Health care for pets cannot develop satisfactorily without a proper structure. Support for practising veterinarians who provide second- and third-line care will continue to be inadequate unless a structure with built-in financial arrangements is introduced. If practising veterinarians do not pass on the costs of specialist help in full to the owners of pets, this form of service will decrease when the number of veterinarians rises to too high a level. Such a development would also threaten the advance of scientific research with regard to pets.