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Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Purina Sinks Its Teeth Into Pet Insurance
By Ford Holland @ 6:30 PM :: 151 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Pet Insurance

Nestle Purina announced today that it is getting into the pet insurance business -- at least, in Canada.

The launch of PurinaCare(tm) Pet Health Insurance (underwritten by SecuriCan General Insurance Company) is the first such move by a mass-market pet company in Canada.

Can a U.S. PurinaCare be far behind? Stay tuned...

Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Pet Insurance Making Believers Out of Skeptics
By Ford Holland @ 10:19 PM :: 139 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Pet Insurance

Just read a great article by a dog columnist for a New England newspaper.

This woman is a columnist on pets (specializing in dogs) for the Sun Chronicle up in Massachsetts. She comments that she typically wouldn't "give a second smell" to such a "preposterous" idea as pet insurance.

Then she heard about a dog lover who was spending $500 per month in cancer medication for her 17 year old pit bull.

Taking a closer look at her own new puppy and aging (11-year-old) dog, she realized how much she was spending on vet bills, and the ways she could better spend that money on her pets.

The piece covers some of the gotchas and limitations of pet insurance policies -- it always pays to do your homework -- and at the end, she opted for a new policy covering both pooches.

Good for her!