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Hi all
Just wanted to see if anyone had any experience of pet insurance. I am trying to work out which company offers the best cover for a reasonable charge. Any advice would be gratefully received. Thanks in advance
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Hi all
Just wanted to see if anyone had any experience of pet insurance. I am trying to work out which company offers the best cover for a reasonable charge. Any advice would be gratefully received. Thanks in advance ![]() |
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Make sure you choose one that has lifetime cover and I would also advise that you choose a company whose main line of business is insurance. There were a few companies last year who withdrew from the pet insurance market, the latest one being Halifax, and that has resulted in lots of people being left up the creek.
I am £15 a month for a 7 year old dog with Axa - that gives £7000 cover a year (or per condition, I can't actually remember!) |
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Thanks very much for the info, after a while I lost the will to live!
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Has anyone discovered any companies that insure indoor cats as most of the ones I have looked at include all sorts of cover that I just wouldn't need.
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Has anyone discovered any companies that insure indoor cats as most of the ones I have looked at include all sorts of cover that I just wouldn't need.
I insured all my dogs except Mirabelle-the-Chihuahua with Directline and they have been pretty good so far (they've paid out for two eye ops, one cruciate ligament and two seperate cases of hypothyroidism) but they are a bit slow, luckily I have a patient vet! Mibs is insured with John Lewis ![]() And they also seem good, they paid up in reasonable (ish) time when Mibs had to have her tummy 'unzipped' as the vet thought she had eaten something stupid.I didn't insure my three cats as I couldn't afford it on top of the dogs, that sure bit me on the arse Betsy the streetwise Maine Coon ripped her tummy open on some barbed wire and just as I had finished paying that off Valentine (the great fat lazy indoor British Shorthair) fell off the dining room table and managed to get a spiral fracture of his leg. Just as I'd paid THAT off Moonlet (V's brother) decided to pretend to be dead with some mysterious lurgy that he had fully recovered from within 24 hours Now I just need to finish paying off the bill for colic and PTS for youngest Chipolata's horse He was too old to be insured for illness, though he was insured for everything else. You can't win
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And they also seem good, they paid up in reasonable (ish) time when Mibs had to have her tummy 'unzipped' as the vet thought she had eaten something stupid.
Betsy the streetwise Maine Coon ripped her tummy open on some barbed wire and just as I had finished paying that off Valentine (the great fat lazy indoor British Shorthair) fell off the dining room table and managed to get a spiral fracture of his leg. Just as I'd paid THAT off Moonlet (V's brother) decided to pretend to be dead with some mysterious lurgy that he had fully recovered from within 24 hours
Now I just need to finish paying off the bill for colic and PTS for youngest Chipolata's horse
He was too old to be insured for illness, though he was insured for everything else. You can't win