Pet Insurance
LV= launches pet insurance for cats and dogs
LV= is launching two new pet insurance policies, Essential and Premier, both available for cats and dogs from aged eight weeks, with no upper age limit. Prices start from around £5 per month for cats and £7 per month for dogs.
A dog is for life – and will cost you more than £13,000
Keeping a dog is an expensive business; most of the costs – food, kennels, injections – are entirely predictable, but others, such as unexpected visits to the vet, are not. Almost half of all households in the UK (47 per cent) own a pet, and 5.2 million of them have at least one dog.
Pet insurance is for life, not just for Christmas
For those who found a puppy or a kitten under the tree this Christmas, it is important to remember that pets are for life, not just for Christmas, and getting pet insurance could ensure that the new member of the family gets the care it needs, urges Fair Investment Company.
Provider churn could disrupt pet insurance market
In its new report into the Pet Insurance Market, Defaqto raises the concern that the rate of provider churn could have a detrimental effect on the market unless adequate arrangements are put in place to protect existing policyholders.
Don’t buy a pet without insurance
Anyone tempted to buy a pet or who received one for Christmas should not forget that a key part of having a cat or dog is making sure it can be properly looked after when it is ill, says Defaqto in its most recent report, Pet Insurance in the UK 2007.
Owners guilty of turning pets into a pudding at Christmas
Slimming clubs and doctors’ surgeries experience some of their longest queues after the excesses of Christmas and New Year, but new research suggests that Britain’s surgeries are also feeling the strain as the nation’s podgy pets pig out on a range of festive foods.
Dog owners’ nightmare: Death by chocolate
Chocolate ornaments dangling on a Christmas tree are a naughty lure to humans but for any nosy pooch it could be a fatal temptation. Large quantities can bring on epileptic seizures and in the worst cases death.
M&S Money adds extra benefits to pet insurance
M&S Money is making changes to its pet insurance to provide customers with more choice and a wider range of services.
Barking mad! Don’t break the seven deadly Christmas sins
As Christmas approaches, rural insurer NFU Mutual, is offering a timely reminder that pets should be remembered over the festive period too.
Pet owners warned not to be caught short on insurance
Sainsbury’s urges consumers to check their pet insurance polices carefully to ensure that they have adequate cover for the treatment of conditions lasting longer than 12 months.
Sainsbury’s offers 30-days free pet insurance cover
Sainsbury’s is offering 30-days free Pet Insurance cover to those applying before 27th November 2007. In addition to this, those applying online before 29th December 2007 will receive a 10% discount.
Loud fireworks are bang out of order
UK pet insurance provider has produced a free guide which will help the nation’s pet owners reduce the injuries, distress and long term behavioural problems caused by loud fireworks to their terrified pets.
S.A.D cats and dogs can be protected
Recent news that dogs suffer depression in winter months may have been a surprise to non pet owners, but to domestic animal lovers it might not seem so out of the ordinary.
Protect man's best friend from Guy Fawkes fireworks
In the run up to this year’s fireworks extravaganza, moneysupermarket.com warns pet owners to consider their animals’ welfare.
Dog owners raid savings to pay vet bills
One in five dog owners who have taken their dog to a vet have raided their savings to meet the rising costs of vet fees, according to research from Direct Line Pet Insurance.