Pet insurance - Shes been fixed :D

Post by **maff** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 1:11 pm

Our little hound recently began to get wobbly on her legs and after a couple of vet trips it was found she had a compression of the spine caused by calcification of the area around the discs, a fairly common thing for long dogs. Friday night the poor little bugger had spinal surgery to relieve the pressure and is beginning her recovery, so far so good...

The reason I mention it is I've seen a lot of peeps on here with animals and god knows we'd do just about anything for them, our bill is going to be getting on for

nickhasl · Post by **nickhasl** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 1:51 pm

no you need to have pet insurance imo, as i lost a boxer a few year back and he had cancer they gave him only 3 months with out the op and 6 with it so as we had pet insurance we went a head. turned out he lived for another 3 1/2 years with treatment and the bill was over

Gerry H · Post by **Gerry H** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:02 pm

Good for you :thumb:

I have pet insurance for precisely that reason, to take the sting out of a big vet's bill. My premium is about

nickhasl · Post by **nickhasl** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:04 pm

i think my dog chairle (boxer) is about

Gerry H · Post by **Gerry H** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:08 pm

Beats me how vets can charge such high prices. Maybe like garages they load up the costs for insurance work.

nickhasl · Post by **nickhasl** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:10 pm

i just think they are over priced full stop i would think because people will pay anything for there pets and like you say most people are insured so it don't matter to much.

Post by **maff** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:30 pm

Cheers guys

I must say the Veterinary surgeon and the nurses and the care shes got has been great, had me thinking "I wonder if private health care for people is this good". When my 3 year old daughter had breathing difficulties we had to keep pushing pushing pushing to get the NHS to do something push again to get her referred, wait for appointments push again.
With the dog within 2 hours of seeing our vet we had a referral to a specialist drove to Fakenham with her that evening and by midnight they'd operated.

nickhasl · Post by **nickhasl** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:48 pm

i strongly believe we should lose NHS and go private

Post by **maff** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 1:41 pm

Just had a call from the vets we can go pick her up tomorrow, shes regained full bladder control and is making an amazing recovery already started to try and walk.

She was looking very sorry for herself with her whole back shaved and a about 20 stitches down her spine, but she was so happy to see us when we visited and the outlook is good.

Gerry H · Post by **Gerry H** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 1:44 pm

Amazing how quickly animals recover from even the most invasive surgery.

Glad she's doing alright and on the mend. :thumb: