What should I look for in dog insurance?
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Get a decent level of cover per injury / event as well.
We burnt to the claim limit incredibly quickly - the insurance pretty much just paid for the diagnosis, which then left us having to fork out for the treatment. Vets bills are scary.
If you learn this the hard way (ho hum) then if you want to up your level of cover you have to sacrifice the "for life" element, which is far from ideal!
We burnt to the claim limit incredibly quickly - the insurance pretty much just paid for the diagnosis, which then left us having to fork out for the treatment. Vets bills are scary.
If you learn this the hard way (ho hum) then if you want to up your level of cover you have to sacrifice the "for life" element, which is far from ideal!
One of your dogs is with Sainsbury's for £12.45 per month and I cannot reccommend them highly enough. When she nearly snuffed it after swallowing the knuckle end of an "indestructable" rubber bone, was operated on to remove and then got peritonitus the bills ran away rapidly.
They coughed up to the limit (£3K) without a murmour and we had to pay the other two grand, but that was our fault for not realising how much the bills could get.
The dog recovered and is fine by the way.
They coughed up to the limit (£3K) without a murmour and we had to pay the other two grand, but that was our fault for not realising how much the bills could get.
The dog recovered and is fine by the way.
Xtriple129 said:
One of your dogs is with Sainsbury's for £12.45 per month and I cannot reccommend them highly enough. When she nearly snuffed it after swallowing the knuckle end of an "indestructable" rubber bone, was operated on to remove and then got peritonitus the bills ran away rapidly.
They coughed up to the limit (£3K) without a murmour and we had to pay the other two grand, but that was our fault for not realising how much the bills could get.
The dog recovered and is fine by the way.
I had a similar case to this where the manufacturers of the toy paid the difference. Just saying like...They coughed up to the limit (£3K) without a murmour and we had to pay the other two grand, but that was our fault for not realising how much the bills could get.
The dog recovered and is fine by the way.
Full life means that the insurer will pay for the same condition more than once, without it if you're dog develops say epilepsy the insurer will pay once and then exclude the condition so no cover on an ongoing basis.
We have £4k's worth of cover and have maxed it two out of four years so I'd go higher to start with (once your dog has preexisting conditions you will be stuck on that policy as we discovered)
We have £4k's worth of cover and have maxed it two out of four years so I'd go higher to start with (once your dog has preexisting conditions you will be stuck on that policy as we discovered)
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