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Does anyone have pet insurance? Is it expensive and is it worthwhile compared to budgeting and putting money aside for large vet bills?
I would appreciate any information and experiences with pet insurance.


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  • The excess is why I don’t bother.


  • No! its so expensive.


  • I found it expensive then theres the excess. but its good if you have a $2000 vet bill. I guess if you can afford it.


  • It’s one of things, isn’t it, if you have it you won’t need it and vice versa. I think you need to look at your pet breed, some are susceptible to certain things that require a lot of vet care. If you have one of these breeds, I would invest. Our old boy just had nearly a $1000 worth of treatment, made us wish we had insurance :/


  • We had it but when my dog got an infection it didn’t cover it so we got rid of it


  • Yes pet medical insurance can certainly be worth it.
    especially when you look at the costs of surgeries with specialists, a cruciate ligament repair $4500 a ct myleogram $3500 . Spinal surgery $8k+
    it’s not just little vet bills that they cover.


  • We looked into it for our dog, but because she is already getting old and is deaf (since birth) the cost was high and so many exclusions and fine print. Shop around.


  • I find there are a lot of exclusions with pet insurance. If it’s common with the bread – excluded, if it’s been diagnosed before (existing condition) – excluded, after 10 years old – excluded. So maybe if you get in early then it might be worth looking at.


  • Used to have but it turned out to be more expensive than car insurance. Even for a relatively young dog (and healthy) the list of exclusions etc was a mile long. Not worth it. If odds are against me and things do go wrong I’ll just have to pay. Even so, it will still be cheaper over the long run without insurance.


  • we went to get our little fella vetted,and found he had a heart murmer,insurance wouldn’t touch him,if you read the fine print,unless you are going to show/breed,theres not a lot going for it


  • An interesting point about the ages of pets and I believe pre-existing conditions are not covered. It seems quite similar to health cover for human beings.


  • It depends who you insure with and when. Once your pet hits 10 no-one will really insure them for much at all. But if you get in before they hit the magic number it can be good. My old insurance was really good and covered a lot and was only a minimal addition to our existing policy. But then we changed insurance agencies and the new cover doesn’t really cover anything. and when i looked around at insurance elsewhere as they were older no-one would give us any cover than just basic which doesn’t really seem worth it. – My advice – insure them before they are too old on a good cover policy then don’t change it. It really isn’t that much a month compared to a $900+ vet bill.


  • hope we are being a little helpful but as with anything, it is up to you and your financial situation.


  • check the policy to see what exactly it covers as operations are very expensive.


  • I’m having a doubt. Maybe with RSPCA it wasn’t the sterilization for free, but the micro-chipping. A big amount of money anyway.


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