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Pet Health Insurance Coverage

A decrease in students applying to and getting accepted into veterinary colleges, expensive state-of-the-art equipment, liability insurance, expensive prescription drugs and the cost of maintaining a veterinary clinic/office has inflated pet owner’s veterinary bills to previously unimagined prices. When the beloved family pet suddenly falls ill, or is injured in a freak accident many pet owners find themselves forced to put the animal to sleep. This occurrence is so common that it even has a name - economic euthanasia. Many family pets could have been saved from economic euthanasia if their owners had only thought to purchase pet health insurance coverage when the animal was healthy.

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Posted by Pet Life on April 2nd, 2008 | in Pet Insurance | 1 Comment

Pet Health Insurance

Recent breakthroughs in scientific research have now provided pet owners with the means to save their beloved family pets from injuries and diseases, which previously would have caused the pet to be euthanized in the not so distant past.

The sad fact is that when the unthinkable happens and a pet life hangs in the balance, many pet owners find that they are unable to afford the often staggering price of the available treatments. These treatment costs can typically range anywhere from $3000 to $10,000 and in some cases even more, leaving the owner with no viable financial option other than to have their pet put down. It is in these instances that pet owners wish they had possessed the foresight to purchase a pet health insurance policy.

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Posted by Pet Life on March 16th, 2008 | in Pet Insurance | 1 Comment