The Credit Crunch and your Pet

Published Sunday 17 May 2009 by Ian Millar BVMS, CertVOphthal, MRCVS

Just how important is pet insurance during these troubling times?

There was an interesting set of statistics generated by a company working on behalf of a Dental Insurance firm. They said, "when and if the going gets tough financially, of all the medical orientated covers, most people would give up their dental cover followed by their medical insurance". The least likely insurance that would be dropped is their Pet Insurance. I would wonder if that is because the National Health Service would pick up the slack of the other human insurances, but in the world of pets there is no NHS.

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