BY TOBY BLUE
JUL 20, 2017
We’re a dog family. Ever since I was five years old I recall having a dog in my home. Granted there were a few years while living in an apartment where we couldn’t have one, but the second we moved into a house another dog joined the family. I carried on this tradition when I married my husband twenty years ago. One dog, a Dalmatian had cost us close to $15,000 in “emergency veterinarian” care over the course of his life. And this is going back ten years, so I can only imagine what that would amount to now. After him I vowed that never again would a dog come into our home without pet insurance. Not for the day in day out costs of owning a dog, but for the inevitable, without a doubt unforeseen health issues that come with being a four-legged kid parent.
Our vet suggested we look into different pet insurance package to find one is the most suitable coverage for our family. And I can assure you, we found one trusted, and ten years later, almost to the day of bringing our two boxer brothers home, he couldn’t have been more right.
Thanks to our pet insurance we were able to afford the care that was needed, from a very young age for our boy Micai. He presented health issues at the age of four months, and rather than send him back to the breeder, or euthanize him at the age of three when he had his first run in with cancer we were able to provide him with the health care that he needed without draining our bank account. Our pet insurance was always there for us, providing us with the support we needed to be able to care for him in a way that gave him dignity throughout his entire life. He was an incredibly sick dog, but he was always wonderfully loving, spunky and thankful. If it weren't for the insurance there would have come a time, much earlier than March 2th, 2016 at the ripe old age of eleven (which was eight years more than we were told he would get) where we would have had to stop assisting him in his quest to have as many Malibu sunset beach walks as possible these last three years.
I am glad to have pet insurance as partners in the health care of our two remaining four legged boys; I wouldn’t dream of having a pet without it.
