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Pets and Pet Care Sticky
Hi all! Here are some interesting Forum discussions: * Welcome to the MSE Pets and Pet Care Board 👋 * Pet Insurance Guide Discussion area 🗣 Pages you may find useful from MoneySavingExpert.com: * Cheap Pet Insurance 🐾 * MoneySaving for Dog Owners 🐶 * 'I Fostered Cats for a Few Months... Here's How You Can Care for Dogs,…
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Public liability insurance for dogs
Hello, I’m currently volunteer as a dog fosterer for a rescue kennel and have the qualification I need to get a dog boarding license. This year I’m home boarding a dog for two people so I can decide if I want to start a home boarding business. My earnings will be under £1000 so don’t require a license as yet and I think I…
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Neighbour mistreating cat
Long story short. We'd feed a cat in our garden that looked v close to death - wouldn't come in the house. Found out who owned it and got a message to them. They could not be bothered and had many opportunities to come and get the poor cat and take it to vets. In the end we called RSPCA. They still didn't so RSPCA pretty…
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Dog Insurance - does pet insurance follow the person OR the individual dog?
Hello, Sorry if silly question!! If there has been pet insurance claims on Dog No:1 and then in the future I get another Dog No:2 (puppy e.g Cocker Spaniel). Would my premium for Dog No:2 be more expensive due to Dog No:1? Any help appreciated!
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Dog ownership
My daughter has just bought a dog of a woman an recently there was a post on social media for lost stolen an found asking if any 1 knows the were abouts of this dog but this post is from the original owner the breeder not the person she bought it from my daughter has contacted the original owner to let her know she has…
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Cat - third party insurance
My Mum (84yo) has recently purchased a Macarthy Stone retirement flat. She does not rent the apartment - she paid market value for it. However the Manager on site is insisting she has third party insurance for her cat - a flat cat who doesn’t go outside of the apartment. The only insurance I can find for cats is health and…
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Pet Insurance
In times of soaring costs in energy etc, why do pet insurance companies get away with the huge hikes in their premiums? I have just had my renewal policy for my 7 year old dog through which has increased by 50%! I did suggest that this was perhaps a typo, but alas no. The reasons I was given for this thievery (as I call…
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Diabetes
Can anyone tell me the cheapest monitors for my dogs suger level as we have just been told she as diabetes
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Dog with allergies....
Hi All Our Labrador suffers with seasonal allergies & has to take Apoquel tablets daily for 6 months of the year at an eye watering cost! If he doesn't take them he scratches himself red raw. Does anyone have any alternatives to this medication that they know works? Also has anyone had their dog tested at their vets for…
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Pet Protect Renewing Policy Early
Hi there I wanted to flag this as it may be something that the company is doing to catch people out of they're less switch-savvy. Pet Protect renewed my policy 2 weeks earlier than they stated in the renewal letter, feels dodgy when they've put the price up 48% this year! I received my renewal letter dated 4th March…
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Unsure about adopting another cat
I love cats and have had cats most of my life. But lost my last one to liver disease last year. I have been thinking of adopting another one but the shortage of vets and in my case taxi drivers have made me have second thoughts. Currently it looks as if registering with a vet might not be possible as several have closed…
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Friends taken to court over dog fouling
Hi, this is a question on behalf of a friend. They walked their dog last year, after their dog fouled on a bit of grass next to the pavement, they picked it all up and left to go home. A few days later a man knocked on their door to say their dog fouled outside someone's house and they didn't pick it up, they recon it's on…
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Filter for canine atopic dermatitis
I'm trying to prevent the accumulation of dust and mites because my dog is allergic to mites. Could anyone recommend an effective, good value, HEPA filter? I think most of the cost for some is the frequent replacement of the filters.
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I think my vet has been negligent. Any advice? (dog given Nexguard flea treatment)
I have a 2 year old whippet and all his life he has been having episodes of nausea, vomiting (bile normally), loss of appetite, diarrhoea. Also other odd symptoms his behaviour has changed lately, now becoming a bit dominant around other dogs, also he itches and sometimes trembles when lying on the sofa. The episodes last…
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Sainsbury's Cat Litter
Does anybody else have problems with getting this delivered? Up until near the end of last year we added a couple of bags every so often to be delivered with our weekly shop. However,for the last six (I think) times we have tried the product has been available to order but when we got the email confirmation of what has…
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Vessel for Cats ashes
Unfortunately recently I had to have my beloved cat put to sleep. After discussing it with my daughter, she wanted him individually cremated and his ashes back. I have them here, but in a scatter tub (the smallest one), I didn't want to be rushed into choosing something at the Vets. I am trying to find an urn that will fit…
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Pet freebies & offers
Hello all! As we've just rescued a puppy (our first puppy instead of grown up dogs), it has prompted me to check for pet related money saving and freebies. I can't seem to find an active thread on here or the freebies pages but could be wrong! So I'll start one here and see what happens 😄 I'll add permanent offers to this…
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Are my pet insurers being sneaky?
Hi, please excuse this long question ... I have a cat who is insured on a lifetime policy where any claims are per condition, not yearly spend. Sadly she has recently been diagnosed with a brain tumour and needs an operation asap. The thing is, but not my main query, that I have used the allotted amount for this years…
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Insurer insists I continue to pay premiums for a deceased dog!
Have other pet owners come across this? We had to put our beloved old boy to sleep. Went to cancel the insurance policy and was told that because we'd already made a claim in the policy year (for something unrelated to the cause of his death) we have to continue paying his monthly insurance premiums until the end of the…
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Lifetime Pet Cover (Insurer)
We have had used this insurer for one of our dogs for a number of years. They didn't "auto-renew" so we were effectively uninsured for a long period. I know I should have checked my bank statement but their email said - no need to worry you have selected to auto renew you don't need to do anything etc. I had seen the…
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Are comparison site Quotes a Con?
We've been with Animal Friendly for 3 years for our Dog, but they keep hiking up the prices. Going on the usual comparison sites we can get double the insurance for about half the cost, but when I ask for a quote directly on a site (e.g MoreThan) then the quotes are much more expensive. So is it the case that either these…