(But yeah, definitely worth trying to fix. I know El-Jay doesn't let you add pics from your phone (or anything on your phone) to posts, but I imagine there has to be some kind of app that does.)
Please tell me you have insurance for puppy? Our old mutt had to have a bunch of scans and, once the vets had worked out what was wrong with him, heart surgery; throughout all of this we could just say "do what you need to do, he has insurance" without worrying about the cost. We subsequently met someone whose dog needed £10K worth of treatment, and that was without insurance - ouch!
Nope. No insurance. We ate those bills and they ate our entire vacation fund and spare moneys, but the company whose medication caused the problem chipped in for part of the bill and that was nice.
For what little it's worth, I did the math: If we'd insured all our pets, all the time, forever, that still would have cost more than this did. We simply have the luxury of absorbing this kind of sudden cost.
And if we'd known in advance how much the total would have been, we would have had to look VERY closely at the money versus the odds of survival, and I'm not sure we would have taken that gamble. As it was, we were always "out of pocket X, it's only X+small" at every stage, and I'm EXTREMELY glad we did. She's a lovely puppy.
FWIW, for the four dogs we've had (all with insurance), two of them so far have "earned back" their money (and the other two haven't had any health problems yet). Our fairly young (5 years old, I think?) alsation / malamute cross needed emergency surgery on his spleen for hemangiosarcoma and died soon afterwards; our 13-year old mutt has just ended about a year of scans for what was originally thought to be cancer, and ended up being a leaky heart valve and scar tissue on his pericardium, which surgeons cut a hole in to reduce the pressure on his heart.
Obviously the plural of anecdote isn't data, but insurance has worked out excellently for us so far. And in a sense pet insurance is like a pension, savings that you can't tap for something else and so will always be there when your animal needs treatment.
It really is. I take her down to the yarn store sometimes and it's all "Piper! You're so good! You're so pretty! You're so clever to be looking so much better than you were a year ago! Good dog. Goood dog!" and she looks so positively pleased with herself. :D
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(But yeah, definitely worth trying to fix. I know El-Jay doesn't let you add pics from your phone (or anything on your phone) to posts, but I imagine there has to be some kind of app that does.)
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For what little it's worth, I did the math: If we'd insured all our pets, all the time, forever, that still would have cost more than this did. We simply have the luxury of absorbing this kind of sudden cost.
And if we'd known in advance how much the total would have been, we would have had to look VERY closely at the money versus the odds of survival, and I'm not sure we would have taken that gamble. As it was, we were always "out of pocket X, it's only X+small" at every stage, and I'm EXTREMELY glad we did. She's a lovely puppy.
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Obviously the plural of anecdote isn't data, but insurance has worked out excellently for us so far. And in a sense pet insurance is like a pension, savings that you can't tap for something else and so will always be there when your animal needs treatment.
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(Am very glad the LYS manager approves of her.)
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