"Cheri" wrote in message news
"Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
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> On Sun 09 Jul 2017 09:11:16a, Ophelia told us...
>
>> "Wayne Boatwright" wrote in message
>> 9.44...
>>
>> On Sun 09 Jul 2017 06:09:16a, Ophelia told us...
>>
>>> "jmcquown" wrote in message news
>>>
>>> On 7/8/2017 10:18 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>> I'd love to get another dog, but it would not be fair to the dog
>>>> to bring one into the house right now. My grandson though, took
>>>> in two dogs that would have been abandoned but he cannot afford
>>>> to take proper care with vet and food. So, I have two "foster
>>>> dogs" that come to visit. They get plenty of love and
>>>> attention.
>>>
>>> I'm sure they get plenty of love and attention, Ed. It's easy
>>> enough to say "just adopt" but pets are expensive.
>>>
>>> In the case of my cat Persia, she kept getting bladder
>>> infections. Turned out she had a (thankfully benign) tumor. I
>>> paid for the surgery and the biopsy. After that she had to eat
>>> prescription food. That's not cheap. Later she was diagnosed as
>>> hyperthyroid.
>>> Turned out she was allergic to the medication. So, radioactive
>>> isotope therapy. More money, and a trip to a special clinic near
>>> Charleston, where she had to be boarded and isolated for two
>>> weeks. She was literally radioactive. LOL
>>>
>>> It's a wonderful thing to want to adopt a pet. But there's a lot
>>> more to it than a few cans or bags of food.
>>>
>>> Jill
>>>
>>> ==
>>>
>>> We always have Pet Insurance with ours. Our last dog was ill
>>> when we got her and she got worse and worse. In the end our vet
>>> directed us to the Vet's Hospital in Glasgow where they tried to
>>> help her but she died. That would have cost us a few thousand
>>> £s.
>>
>> I don't know what pet insurance is like in the UK, but the
>> insurance plans I've investigate here are not worth much except
>> for annual checkups, vaccinations, and other minor procedures.
>> The premiums for 4 cats is also expensive. When Peanut was having
>> serious digestive issues and eye problems, we spents thousands on
>> him and the insurance we could have had would not havae covered
>> the cost of what the vets did.
>>
>>
>> Wayne Boatwright
>> ==
>>
>>
>> Perhaps I didn't make it clear, our Insurers paid the money to the
>> Vet's Hospital!
>>
>> I was making the point that it would have cost US that much had we
>> not had been insured.
>>
>> OK just checked, Our insurers paid the Vet's Hospital over
>> £2,000.00 for Bonnie.
>>
>> We mainly have it in case they get serious problems like Bonnie
>> did!
>>
>> We have an excess of £25 after which the Insurance pays the rest.
>>
>> That doesn't sound like your insurance is worth a lot
>>
>>
>
> You made it very clear. We had insurance on all 5 cats some years
> ago. Initially we took all 5 for an annual exam and any vacinatons
> they needed. For there was a copay of $50 per cat. About a year
> later we took Millie (now deceased) to determine what was causing her
> kidney problems. Xrays revealed that she had kidney stones, and also
> that her kidneys were beginning to fail. She had surgery to remove
> the kidney stones and total bill was $1800, with no discount. She
> later began treatment for her kidneys and each monthly visit visit
> was $125 plus the solution that we had to inject once a day. As soon
> as our contract expired we did not renew it. Pet insurance in the US
> is a complete ripoff.
We ran into the same thing with our last dog Sophie, the insurance was
around $35.00 per month and didn't really cover anything that she needed,
never bought it again after the first year.
Cheri
===
That is dreadful
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