| Author |
Topic:
Pet Insurance: Does anyone have it? Any experience?
[Locked] |
Onslaught.
Title: I've always wanted a title.
Posts: 1,377
Registered: 2001-2-13 13:46:37
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Pet Insurance: Does anyone have it? Any experience?
|
Natoli posted:
Honestly, you're better off putting whatever you'd spend on a premium and putting it into a savings account that you earmark only for vet emergencies. Yeah, it won't help if the animal gets in trouble next week, but you figure at $50 a month, you've got $600 in a year. Add any extra that you can. The thing with insurance policies is that they're only good for the one pet. If your pet dies never needing the insurance, you're out a ton of money. If you put it in a savings account, your next pet can benefit from that money.
As to all of you saying that it's easier just to put an animal down, you've obviously never had one that was like family...
This is true for car insurance, medical insurance and life insurance... *shrug*
-----signature-----
"Mmmmrmmrrrmrrmrmrrrrmrmrrmrmrmrrmrr"
-GinsuWife
|
Natoli
Posts: 148
Registered: 2002-2-1 11:53:08
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Pet Insurance: Does anyone have it? Any experience?
|
Onslaught. posted:
Natoli posted:
Honestly, you're better off putting whatever you'd spend on a premium and putting it into a savings account that you earmark only for vet emergencies. Yeah, it won't help if the animal gets in trouble next week, but you figure at $50 a month, you've got $600 in a year. Add any extra that you can. The thing with insurance policies is that they're only good for the one pet. If your pet dies never needing the insurance, you're out a ton of money. If you put it in a savings account, your next pet can benefit from that money.
As to all of you saying that it's easier just to put an animal down, you've obviously never had one that was like family...
This is true for car insurance, medical insurance and life insurance... *shrug*
True, but most of those things will cost you MORE than a pet, in terms of medical bills, or repairs after a crash.
-----signature-----
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not abscence of fear."
~Mark Twain
The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
"In my dreams, I was drowning my sorrows, but my sorrows they learned to swim" U2
|
FineYoungCannibals
Title: Top of the food chain
Posts: 1,620
Registered: 2003-7-14 19:17:12
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Pet Insurance: Does anyone have it? Any experience?
|
Sith_Mauler posted:
I grew up on a farm I remember seeing my dad shoot my first dog that I remember having when I was 6 or 7 because the bastard wouldn't stop killing chickens.
I learned that chicken killing dogs dont live long in the country.
lol
-----signature-----
 FYC
|
Fozzie_Bear
Posts: 2,490
Registered: 2001-12-20 01:43:43
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Pet Insurance: Does anyone have it? Any experience?
|
I have a CARE credit card for the pets
-----signature-----
The Oatmeal Butterscotch paired with a Snickerdoodle
turned my cynical penis into a happy vagina
Then after an Oatmeal Cranberry and Double Chocolate,
it made my new vagina spontaneously sing the Trolololo Song in an elevator.
---AkagiyamaMissile
|
Cuttlery
Title: Wanna see what you missed?
Posts: 2,631
Registered: 2001-1-9 19:31:21
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Pet Insurance: Does anyone have it? Any experience?
|
Natoli posted:
Honestly, you're better off putting whatever you'd spend on a premium and putting it into a savings account that you earmark only for vet emergencies. Yeah, it won't help if the animal gets in trouble next week, but you figure at $50 a month, you've got $600 in a year. Add any extra that you can. The thing with insurance policies is that they're only good for the one pet. If your pet dies never needing the insurance, you're out a ton of money. If you put it in a savings account, your next pet can benefit from that money.
As to all of you saying that it's easier just to put an animal down, you've obviously never had one that was like family...
This, Pet insurance is a massive waste of money. There is tons of fine print in those policies as well
-----signature-----
0.o
Bored and Useless
|
deadcactus
Posts: 669
Registered: 2001-12-27 09:17:08
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Pet Insurance: Does anyone have it? Any experience?
|
Onslaught. posted:
This is true for car insurance, medical insurance and life insurance... *shrug*
The difference is that the average person is unlikely to be able to withstand the financial hit if a catastrophe occurs to their car, home, health, etc before they've had a chance to build up that savings. Most people can tolerate a few grand for a pet or the $50 to put a pet down...
-----signature-----
'member dat?
True dat.
|
jonus156
Posts: 906
Registered: 2005-10-12 11:53:45
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Pet Insurance: Does anyone have it? Any experience?
|
Sith_Mauler posted:
People think I am wrong for this but I have no issues with putting down a pet.
Same here. i dont mind a few hundred to take care of minor stuff but more than that its an animal if i can buy a car for what it would take to "fix" the health issue ill pay to put the dog to sleep and go adopt a new one for the shelter. ( and the only money id spend on a cat is the cost of a bullet)
-----signature-----
This thread begs the question: do the "women" of ACF use a funnel to get that much sand in their vagina or do they just slide around the beach like an angry Roomba? -deadcactus-
"I could go for some cock"--cute_but_stupid
|
Varece
Posts: 1,096
Registered: 2002-1-7 21:48:11
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Pet Insurance: Does anyone have it? Any experience?
|
My daughter has Banfields pet insurance on all the dogs, not sure about the cats.
Like any insurance, you may or may not need it. 
-----signature-----
I am no longer young enough to know everything
Knowledge is Free  America's Libraries
" ou embrace that which defines you"
"If you tell the truth, you don't need a good memory"
We're not perfect...we're parents
|
Sith_Mauler
Posts: 1,851
Registered: 2002-12-21 13:40:03
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Pet Insurance: Does anyone have it? Any experience?
|
jonus156 posted:
Sith_Mauler posted:
People think I am wrong for this but I have no issues with putting down a pet.
Same here. i dont mind a few hundred to take care of minor stuff but more than that its an animal if i can buy a car for what it would take to "fix" the health issue ill pay to put the dog to sleep and go adopt a new one for the shelter. ( and the only money id spend on a cat is the cost of a bullet)
Trust me I feel bad after putting down a pet, especially dogs.
I wont even look a dog in the eyes anymore before I put them down. I made that mistake once and the look of that dog looking up to me still loyal to the end still haunts me.
-----signature-----
Well I ain't first class
But I ain't white trash
I'm wild and a little crazy too
I have seen a lot of things in my life time.
That is why I walk the line I walk.
|
jonus156
Posts: 906
Registered: 2005-10-12 11:53:45
|
Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Pet Insurance: Does anyone have it? Any experience?
|
Sith_Mauler posted:
jonus156 posted:
Sith_Mauler posted:
People think I am wrong for this but I have no issues with putting down a pet.
Same here. i dont mind a few hundred to take care of minor stuff but more than that its an animal if i can buy a car for what it would take to "fix" the health issue ill pay to put the dog to sleep and go adopt a new one for the shelter. ( and the only money id spend on a cat is the cost of a bullet)
Trust me I feel bad after putting down a pet, especially dogs.
I wont even look a dog in the eyes anymore before I put them down. I made that mistake once and the look of that dog looking up to me still loyal to the end still haunts me.
Oh it wrecks me emotionally for dogs. but I still do it. And im not sure why i hate cats so much i just know i hate them to the point of almost being a sociopath about wanting them all to die.
-----signature-----
This thread begs the question: do the "women" of ACF use a funnel to get that much sand in their vagina or do they just slide around the beach like an angry Roomba? -deadcactus-
"I could go for some cock"--cute_but_stupid
|
