Get VPI For All Your Pets
Written: Nov 14 '00
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Pros: Great customer service and pays claims fast
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| R_Bricker's Full Review: Veterinary Pet Insurance |
My husband and I rescue dogs in the streets. Some we find homes for, some adopt our home. Sometimes we also find the dogs' owners. About a year ago, I found this little dog in the street and took him in. He didn't have any tags and even after posting signs, publishing ads and alerting shelters, no one claimed him. Turns out he was around 10 years old and had some medical problems. In a matter of days, he became a special pooch to us.
We had Veterinary Pet Insurance on our two others dogs and had always been happy with the company and how great their customer service department is. Claims got paid really fast and that meant a lot to me because I didn't always have the cash when emergencies occurred.
About 7 months after I found Alley, he stopped eating. This wasn't like him since he just loved to eat even though he was a little guy. He ended up in the hospital for 5 days with kidney problems. We were able to bring him home and even thought he might be okay for a few more years. Maybe we were deluding ourselves - but about 7 weeks later, it all happened again and we had to rush him back to the emergency hospital. He was there for about a week when he had to decide if it was time.
We cried and cried and cried ... but his vital signs were going down and we didn't want him to suffer. At least we didn't have to make our decision based on money. The insurance made it so we just thought about our Alley and not if we could afford the treatments. We tried some things that really didn't help but at least when the time came and we had to say good-bye to the little guy who stole our hearts, we didn't feel guilty.
A few days later we buried Alley with our other dogs at a local pet cemetery. So, we had all these medical expenses from his second hospitalization and the cemetery was about $500 all together. A few days later VPI sent us our reimbursement check and between the two emergency hospitalizations we got back over 70%. I was astounded and that's when I started to tell everyone I know with pets to get Veterinary Pet Insurance.
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