Pet Insurance Cost Cutting System/MoneySavingExpert.com Discussion

Otago

I learned the hard way- after my bill came to over £600 last year when my cat badly damaged his leg, probably from being run over. I now have insurance for only £24 a year!!!!!!! which gives me £1000 of vet cover, from healthy pets.

wigginsmum

Always worth getting pet insurance - we have all 7 cats insured with Direct Line at £46/month, and have had to claim around £4k worth of vet treatment over the past few years. Currently have a cat with a broken leg that would have cost £2.5k so far to sort out.

cattie

Check out Marks & Spencer's pet insurance. It's quite reasonable & the terms & conditions are more favorable than some other insurances.

Bob63

IMHO the best value pet insurance is with http://www.animalfriends.co.uk

Mike

tuffkat

Otago wrote:

I learned the hard way- after my bill came to over £600 last year when my cat badly damaged his leg, probably from being run over. I now have insurance for only £24 a year!!!!!!! which gives me £1000 of vet cover, from healthy pets.

That sounds like a great deal!! Can you tell us who you are insured with?

InHell

well for £15 a month (£60 excess) for our 10 year old dog (we insured her with them when we was 10 as well- many insurance companies won't insure a dog after 8 years old) with M&S we get cover for life, £7K worth of vets fees, £750 for complimentary therapies,£2M third party liability, £1500 acidental death, £1000 advertising costs, £500 reward costs, £750 emergency kennel/cattery fees, £2500 holiday cancellation costs, free helplines and free pet travel cover and it is £14.62 a month for our greyhound with NO EXCESS!

It is only £5.45 for our 4 year old cat to have the same level of cover with NO EXCESS

plus you save 5% if you buyonline and 10% for every additional animal insured.

ArchieB_2

M&S the way to go. One of the best policies, great price and we have claimed and they were excelent.

Miss_Penny_Pincher_2

InHell wrote:

well for £15 a month (£60 excess) for our 10 year old dog (we insured her with them when we was 10 as well- many insurance companies won't insure a dog after 8 years old) with M&S we get cover for life, £7K worth of vets fees, £750 for complimentary therapies,£2M third party liability, £1500 acidental death, £1000 advertising costs, £500 reward costs, £750 emergency kennel/cattery fees, £2500 holiday cancellation costs, free helplines and free pet travel cover and it is £14.62 a month for our greyhound with NO EXCESS!

I just got a quote online from M&S for our 11 year old dog and with £50 excess it would be £18.97 per month! Want to cover her but my main worries are that she has a bit of arthritis in her leg and looks like her hip could be going. I'm wondering if any insurers would cover these as they will see them as pre-existing conditions? The Animal Friends was cheaper but only says after the excess I would still be expected to pay 35% of the vets fees!!

jojolady

What has happened to moneysupermarket?!?!?!? It use to be a site you could rely on for it's accuracy, I went on there the other day to insure my dog nearly every quote I double checked was incorrect! Has anyone else experienced this recently?? :mad:

Astaroth

There have been a fair number of high profile press releases recently about the inaccuracies of the aggregator websites like moneysupermarket.