\nBrody the French Bulldog. His owner, Page Ryland, is one of many American pet owners who are increasingly considering veterinary treatments across the border as a result of exorbitant costs in the US (Page Ryland)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
MexiVet Express has 15 full-time employees, with seven drivers shuttling dogs between San Diego and Tijuana. Transporting three to five animals at a time, the drivers make several trips per day, and they are nearly always fully booked.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf somebody wants to use a vet in Mexico or Tijuana they definitely need to do their research,\u201d Ginsky said. \u201cThe good thing is that we’ve done that work for you.\u201d<\/p>\n
With business booming, competing services have sprung up, including PetMex international \u2013 run by two former MexiVet employees, which offers \u201cwhite glove cross border home-to-clinic pet transportation.\u201d The company promises customers can save up to 90 percent off their \u201ctraditional vet bill.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ginsky says she has heard of other sole proprietors running similar businesses with just one vehicle. \u201cThey’ve heard about what we’re doing and they’ve thought \u2018oh, that’s a good way to earn some extra cash,\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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When Anna Ginsky\u2019s terrier mix Ellie needed a teeth-cleaning in 2014, she was quoted over $2,000 in out-of-pocket costs by her vet in San Diego, California. \u201cI had just happened to get my tax return, and I had gotten around that amount back,\u201d Ginsky, 42, who was then working as a barista, told The Independent. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7244,1579,11179,3206,11175,1362,11180,1239,629,8047,11176,10785,11168,11172,9500,313,11182,4942,1235,11177,377,239,6685,11181,968,11171,4885,67,2795,992,11170,66,11183,5707,1066,11178,1315,537,11169,11173,528,1460,11174,1884,582],"class_list":["post-7923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pets-news","tag-affordable","tag-american","tag-anna","tag-bills","tag-bills-climb","tag-border","tag-brody","tag-bulldog","tag-care","tag-climb","tag-climb-reach","tag-costs","tag-crossing","tag-crossing-tijuana","tag-dental","tag-diego","tag-ellie","tag-express","tag-french","tag-ginsky","tag-good","tag-medical","tag-mexico","tag-mexivet","tag-owners","tag-owners-crossing","tag-page","tag-pe-ts-fun","tag-percent","tag-pet","tag-pet-owners","tag-pets-news","tag-quoted","tag-reach","tag-research","tag-ryland","tag-services","tag-surgery","tag-tijuana","tag-tijuana-vet","tag-told","tag-vet","tag-vet-bills","tag-veterinary","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pe-ts.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pe-ts.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pe-ts.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pe-ts.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pe-ts.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pe-ts.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pe-ts.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pe-ts.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pe-ts.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pe-ts.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}