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Cats owned: 2 moggie boys; 1 grey 1 red striped
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27-04-2009, 04:26 PM   #21

Re: to insure or not to insure... that is the question...


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Originally Posted by angieh
Tina and Mousie are perhaps the best advertisement for insurance (and for PetPlan) that I can think of. I think I will be renewing Kizzy's policy when the four weeks is up.
Yes - hopefully it will just be a little additional monthly expense for the next 20 years but - but but but but - should she come off worse in a quarrel with a car etc etc (oh I do hope she doesn't) then you know that any worries you might have will be medical rather than financial.

I nearly nearly phoned the insurers to cancel Chester's policy, or at least discuss whether they would be happy to continue to receive premiums for a 'ghost cat'. I decided I'd leave it until after the holiday and probably until the annual renewal (July I think). So glad I left it. Imagine - he could have come home hurt or with some ongoing problem.



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Cats owned: domestic short hair (2)
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Location: Norwich, UK
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27-04-2009, 10:58 PM   #22

Re: to insure or not to insure... that is the question...


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Tina and Mousie are perhaps the best advertisement for insurance (and for PetPlan) that I can think of. I think I will be renewing Kizzy's policy when the four weeks is up.
Wonder if they'd pay us for the advertising?



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27-04-2009, 11:35 PM   #23

Re: to insure or not to insure... that is the question...


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Wonder if they'd pay us for the advertising?
You could ask!



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Cats owned: 2 moggies = DLH and DMH
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28-04-2009, 01:15 AM   #24

Re: to insure or not to insure... that is the question...


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Originally Posted by dinahsmum
I nearly nearly phoned the insurers to cancel Chester's policy, or at least discuss whether they would be happy to continue to receive premiums for a 'ghost cat'. I decided I'd leave it until after the holiday and probably until the annual renewal (July I think). So glad I left it. Imagine - he could have come home hurt or with some ongoing problem.
A very valid point here DM... at what point do you actually cancel when you baby goes AWOL..too soon and you could find yourself ninsured at a time when you could very well need to be...

I have to wonder if there have been a few people that situation here in the last few weeks... with the bad bushfires that we had here in Feb this year lots of pets were lost or went missing... just in the last couple of weeks there have been stories in the media about cats wandering out of the bush after being given up for dead!



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28-04-2009, 07:36 AM   #25

Re: to insure or not to insure... that is the question...


You would think that they could in circumstances like that beable to put your insurance contract on hold for a period of time as a good will gesture.



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Cats owned: Leia: blue torbie
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28-04-2009, 04:15 PM   #26

Re: to insure or not to insure... that is the question...


That would indeed be nice, but unlikely; insurance firms aren't particularly noted for compassion .........



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