At times I feel a little like I live in a zoo, what with my moggie, a German Shepard and a nutty chocolate lab. My first dog, a family pet, we had before the invention of the now so popular pet insurance and luckily was healthy throughout her whole life. When I got my own zoo, it was a difficult choce whether to py quite costly insurance premiums for each of my three animals or to take the chance, in the hope that they neve get unwell. We wentvforvthe costly option and now all three of my loveable pets are covered with pet plan! There is a variety of cover that you can choose from. We opted for the top end scale covered for life. This means unlike many ...  Read the complete review

Pet Plan Steer Clear unless you have money to burn and time to waste. Had my puppy taken to vets for first check up and was told he had a mild heart murmer nothing to worry about quite common in black lab puppies would more than likely grow out of it. They recomended pet plan for insurance and provided us with 28 days free cover from them which we continued to a full policy. 6 months later my dog is diagnosed with a terminal heart condition and the vets do all sorts of checks and scans and medication telling us its coverd so we just pay the £75 excess there and then and they fill all the paper work out. 2 Months of treatment and medication later we get a letter ...  Read the complete review

After the death of my much-loved cat, my insurer - Marks & Spencer Money - deducted the remainder of the premiums for the year from the cheque they sent to cover the euthanasia and cremation expenses. That's something I really didn't expect from Marks & Spencer. It seems so insensitive. Surely there's no more risk to cover from a dead animal? The wording of the letter says: "you agreed to pay the full annual premium by monthly instalments." The point is: the cat didn't last the year, so the rest of the cover is unnecessary. No-one ever seems to mention this about pet insurance. Is this normal to enforce an ongoing liability for the ...  Read the complete review

So you find yourself with a non-human friend and after the first rush of love, reality sets in and you realise that Aneurin Bevan was only referring to the two-legged variety when he created the NHS with healthcare free, at the point of delivery, for all. You already know how much the vaccinations cost so you're under no illusion that the vet fees for any illnesses or accidents are going to cost you an arm and a leg. You want to keep all of your limbs so you venture into the murky (oh yes, very murky but more of that later) world of pet insurance. Your experience of insurance is limited to car and home insurance. You get annual quotes for these, so you ...  Read the complete review

As a dog owner I had never considered pet insurance until a friend of mine found out the hard way, that if your dog is injured the costs can be huge. Her extremely bouncy spaniel, caught his foot down a rabbit hole whilst out walking, breaking his leg in 2 places. After the first basic tests then more intensive testing the dog needed surgery with has to be everyone's nightmare. 4 hours and lots of heartache later the leg was fixed and the dog on his way to recovery. This is where the real pain and suffering raised its ugly head. With all the tests and then the operation the bill almost totalled £3000. If the dog had been insured all that would have been paid ...  Read the complete review