Pet Plan

Probably the best plan around? I have kept dogs for years and yes the first time I took insurance I got stung with my dog having a life long condition that was only covered for 12 months! The vet then advised me to take out cover with pet plan and it has been the best thing I ever did. The cover lasted for the life of my dogs - everything from a thorn in the foot, to a suspected poisoning and then, horror of horrors, a terrible few months with my beautiful rescue dog from Greece. He had almost everything imaginable caught from a sand fly bite: Pet Plan covered all the tests, the vet hospital isolation ward, the injections and myriad of tablets prescribed to slow down ...

27th October 2004. Ashford horse sales. Why I went that day I will never know! but... I had no money on me, I had no transport and I certainly had no plans to buy a horse. Walking amongst the stalls I ooh'd and ahh'd at a few of the ponies but nothing managed to pique my interest. Until I got to the last few stalls. There I saw two ponies that quite literally were skin and bone. Had the RSPCA been in attendance that day they would never have been allowed to enter the sale. One of the ponies, an iron grey welsh mountain pony, advertised as being 6 months old was quite clearly ill. I fell in love. To cut a long story short, after a lot of hair pulling, ...

In the past I have had some hefty bills from the vets after animals have been in fights or had accidents. Only on one occasion did we opt for putting the animal down and that was because he had been hit by a car and the injuries were too much to fix. Even then we were faced with a large bill to pay. I love my animals and I couldn't imagine living without them so when we visited our cats at the shelter before they came home with us I looked into pet insurance. Most insurers were saying about £5-£10 a month and all kind of cover but the down side was that once they got to 8 years and over their cover would end. What was I supposed to do at that point? ...