Choice: Pet Insurance Policies to Avoid

[Boronia]

This article popped up in an email from Choice

https://www.choice.com.au/money/insurance/pet/articles/pet-insurance-policies-to-avoid

[Mairead]

Last time I saw a Choice article on pet insurance, they didn't recommend any, and the entire concept may have even won a Shonky Award. Maybe they copped some flak for that. 

 

My local library has issues of Choice magazine to borrow. Each magazine has an index of the last couple of years of which issue has reviews of particular products. 

Edited Friday at 02:00 AM by Mairead

[minxy]

Interesting. I hadn't even heard of Kogan pet cover. That certainly wouldn't be my first choice either! We're with Bow Wow Meow now for Ollie but he's only 11 months so we haven't had to use it before. When we had our Akita 15 years ago we were with Medibank pet insurance at the time and they were brilliant. He ended up having multiple surgeries and it was such an easy process to use. Was definitely worth it for him.

 

I cancelled the pet insurance for Dash and Bonnie last year as they were both 7 and never claimed on either of them and the premiums just jumped up really high due to their age so I figured we'd be better off keeping that money in our bank accounts, and then as luck would have it, Dash got a paralysis tick 6 weeks later which cost us over $2k 

[Mairead]

Minxy, that's known as Sod's Law. 

Have you since saved the equivalent by not having insurance?

I never used pet insurance because my breed never developed anything particularly expensive until their teenage years, so not worth the cost. 

I recently read of a man who pays to have a lot of stuff in storage.He recently needed some water tumblers and knew he had some in storage. He called them the $40,000 glasses.