12/24/08

Have you ever been bit by pet health insurance?
Melissa Kowalchuk

Have you ever felt taken advantage of by pet insurance? While pet insurance has been around for many years in the US and Canada, it’s still a fairly new concept to the average pet owner. Less than 1% of North American pets have insurance. We feel that this may be in part due to the fact that people are uninformed on how pet insurance works, but more in part due to companies that over promised and under delivered.

In my research on pet insurance I’ve found that some people feel they’ve been taken advantage of by pet insurance companies by inserting a list of exclusions that the average pet owner wouldn’t understand. tucktongue.jpgAll the while the marketing team puts on a show about how “this is the best plan out there” or “this is the plan you need”, etc. Popular consumer pet insurance review sites show most companies at ratings of 5 out of 10. Well it’s no wonder pet insurance hasn’t fully caught on yet! We want to hear your experiences with pet insurance, but more specifically how you feel you were promised one thing and got another. Did you think those hereditary conditions would be covered? Were you expecting to get 90% of the vet bill back but only actually got 50%?