Thread: Pet Insurance

Thank you very much for your very helpful and interesting post. It definately seems a tad unfair that they would raise premiums like that if you've been loyal to the company for ten years or more! I think we need to find the 'right' deal whilst she is still young and no ailments transpire.. We slipped up big time with Tink, spent weeks researching insurance but we were also researching house insurance and we each thought that the other had made the final decision on which pet insurance company to use.. cue 12 months later when Tink became ill and we rang round every provider to see if they had us on their system and none did- the realisation of our stupidity hit us and we werent covered for Tinks many trips to the vet, chest drains, x rays, tests, antibiotics, painkillers, specialist consultations and referrels, repeat tests and eventual overnight stay and surgery at Langfords.. over the course of maybe only a month we clocked up vet bills of near to 5k. Devastatingly Tink didnt make it, and financially we were crippled also... I used every penny in my savings account to pay for her treatment at Langfords- money I had been saving since I was 16 (i'm on a fairly low wage and for the past few years literally dont have any money left at all after rent and bills.

ANYWAY, That shocker of an experience has made us vow not to let that happen again! I am thinking of getting our new coonie tested for hcm gene and as this affects a third of mc's I think that the results will help guide the level of cover we choose in the first instance.

I think i need to go online to independant review sites of each provider and see what people are saying about them..

Its a pity theres not something similar set up here? Maybe a poll or something... I think I would trust folks who have owned maine coons for many years!

I think that it would be really important to make sure that everything is insured just the way you want them to be. But there are some people who do not fancy the idea of having to insure everything saying that life has its ups and downs and whatever things you experience will help you build your true character, which also makes sense, quite frankly.