What your costs keeping a dog each year

bonkers

ok on insurance is it worth it for a dog aged about 5 with pre existing conditions likes broken clavicle, plenty skin issues because of allergies(just moved to raw dogfirst diet after returning to ireland(no kangaroo based foods here) - called petinsure and it seemed like it was just major accident that they will cover for?

boomerang

maggiepip wrote: »

They only wont cover if the dog gets one of the diseases the vaccinations protect against. Will still cover everything else though -

Nope, my dog had splenic hemangiosarcoma and there was still a quibble because she didn't have a full vaccination history with my current vet - had to get vaccination records from my previous vet, too. If I hadn't provided the vaccination paperwork specifically - no dice.

The two major pet insurers in the Irish market both have this requirement in the small print.

toadfly

Have been afraid to do this but here goes

Lexi - Staffy cross
Food 440 (Raw)
Insurance 216
Vacination 50
Kennels 300
Worm & Flea Treatment 85
Total 1091

Ozzie & Tilly - Yorkies
Food 200 (Barking Heads)
Insurance 456
Vacination 100
Worm & Flea Treatment 70
Total 826

Also got the two small ones teeth cleaned last month that cost 200. Ozzies was done when he was neutered three years ago too.
Neutering two small ones was 110(male) and 120 (female) Lexi was neutered through the rescue.

Sam Kade

TooManyDogs wrote: »

Thing is you'd go to the agriculture co-op to buy a bale of hay for €5 for a cow but you couldn't buy that amount of hay for a guinea pig and it still be in any way fresh so the pet shop charges €3 or something for a small bag

Is it haylage you're talking about? Hay will always stay fresh as it is dried grass