5
out of 5
POSTED: | BY: Jennifer
A must have!
I don't know what I would do without Trupanion. I always thought pet insurance was some sort of scam, until I adopted a cat a few years ago that came with a free month from the Rescue Group. We adopted this cat (Duke) on the same day we were left with no other choice but to euthanize our precious Nina, a beautiful Himalayan that we had only had for one year. We had never been faced with such a hard decision, making it was awful, living with the choice was awful but adopting Duke was wonderful, and so was the blessing of pet insurance! I have insurance on all 5 of my cats now and it's one of the smartest things I have ever done. I have one cat who had eye cancer, one who had gum disease and needed all of her teeth removed, one who had bladder tumors and needed to have surgery and be in ICU for 10 days, and my youngest/newest addition was just diagnosed as having heart disease and is in heart failure. These are just some of the big expenses that would have been over 20K in the past 4 years. There have been more instances that could have made it really hard to choose what to do, but then again, I always did what I had to to make sure my Dudley (Himalayan cat of 19 years) was taken care of and I didn't have any insurance for him. He has been gone since 2014 and I am still paying off credit cards for his care. So honestly, even if you've got a super healthy pet, that "one time" something goes wrong, I don't want to see you crying over your sick furball and crying over where the money will come from.