[Misc] Official NSC Dog Bore Thread

[Grizz]

Has anyone got any advice/experience with long term medication for dogs and how it works with insurance and costs etc.?

Ours seems to have developed a long term allergy to something and her belly gets quite badly inflamed. Used to happen late summer now seem year long. Apoquel works very well, but its bloody expensive, I think its working out at ~£100/month, which she has been on for 3-months now. We have insurance but haven't claimed yet, but might need to though if this continues, but her insurance is ~£45/month, i.e. £55 less. What happens if we want/need to claim for this long term?

Our Rosie was on Apoquel for years and you're right, it's chuffing expensive. Unfortunately this is where the insurance companies have you over a barrel. You have to pay your excess to claim, then it becomes a known medical issue, so in the vast majority of cases, if you swap insurers then they'll not cover you for it, so you stick with the insurer you're with and they hike up the cost of your insurance beyond what you'd claim back. We just sucked it up each month, cut out going out to a restaurant once a month to pay for it.

 

[pb21]

Our Rosie was on Apoquel for years and you're right, it's chuffing expensive. Unfortunately this is where the insurance companies have you over a barrel. You have to pay your excess to claim, then it becomes a known medical issue, so in the vast majority of cases, if you swap insurers then they'll not cover you for it, so you stick with the insurer you're with and they hike up the cost of your insurance beyond what you'd claim back. We just sucked it up each month, cut out going out to a restaurant once a month to pay for it.

Thanks for this, useful to know.

I am currentlty gving her half the dose to see if that works. Been a week now and I think OK, fingers crossed. If she is still OK in a couple of weeks will stop all together and see how she goes...

Does seem that pet insurance isnt really for long term chronic issues then, they will just ramp the cost up to cover, which on the one hand makes sense, on the other quite fustrating!

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Swansea docks, Brewer and Griff

 

[Guinness Boy]

Swansea docks, Brewer and Griff

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Mine would already have pinched that ball in the hope that one of then would chase him for it.

 

[Questions]

My Pumpkin walking along the edge of a sheet of plasterboard to get to her punctured football. She is obsessed with chasing balls. Ive hidden them in the tops of bigger hedges but she climbs up the inside.

 

[Grizz]

Thanks for this, useful to know.

I am currentlty gving her half the dose to see if that works. Been a week now and I think OK, fingers crossed. If she is still OK in a couple of weeks will stop all together and see how she goes...

Does seem that pet insurance isnt really for long term chronic issues then, they will just ramp the cost up to cover, which on the one hand makes sense, on the other quite fustrating!

Yeah long term problems, insurance becomes a rip off, but we kept it until Rosie was about 10/11 years old, just because of that 'just in case' way of thinking. It just became daft money after that, so we figured we'd just put the insurance money into an account and use it if we ever needed to.

We also adjusted her Apoquel to see what the best dose was. She had it for grass pollen/seed allergies, which apparently is really common in white haired dogs. Every Spring she'd start gnawing her paws off. The vet said a tablet a day, we started off with half and then worked up to three quarters which seemed to work and saved a few bob over the years

 

[Algernon]

He's so lovely.
His name is Frank
You can buy your very own Frank in the link above.
Sure he costs but you'll never have to bag up Frank's poo and throw it into the branches of a tree ever again.

A robo-Rover, Rover replacement.
Action video in the link above.
Crazy.

 

[Zeberdi]

The alternative to food banks?

Labradors' Leintwardine supermarket bread theft seen on CCTV

The mischievous duo are safely reunited with their owners after the chase.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[atfc village]

5 years today Diamond of the sea or Tresco as he was better known left us

 

[Winker]

Need any help around the house? - Give Luna a shout, no job can't be reduced to mayhem!

 

[atfc village]

Need any help around the house? - Give Luna a shout, no job can't be reduced to mayhem!

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What a beautiful Lab

 

[Seagull on the Hill]

Bluebell enjoying the sun on her first birthday.

 

[wehatepalace]

Two of my boys training down at Seven Sisters

 

[Zeberdi]

I vote the World’s Ugliest Dog competition is discriminatory and should be banned

Seriously, how can anyone think these brave and beautiful dogs with health related disabilities are “ugly”?

World's ugliest dog contest won by Wild Thang

The Pekingese took out the spot, relegating a one-eyed pug in a wheelchair to second place.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Seagull on the Hill]

Bluebell with her favourite toy!

 

[Guinness Boy]

Bluebell with her favourite toy!

She must get so dizzy.

Mine does that when he’s just about to take a poo!

 

[Zeberdi]

Bluebell with her favourite toy!

She’s gorgeous but the video should come with a warning - I fell over when I stopped watching her spin round

 

[Bozza]

Polling station pics please!

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Here's a picture of mine and our friends dog we are looking after at the Polling Station today. Nelly and Lottie got in early and voted on the morning walk.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Another thread dragged into the cess pit