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Pet health insurance

Pet health insurance essentials infographic

I felt that an infographic would be a great way to present the essentials of pet health insurance. I sometimes also feel that the insurance companies deliberately make things complicated to entice customers to sign up to the kind of policy terms and conditions that are best for the insurer! Cat owners should also note …

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Cat health insurance

Cost of pet insurance in UK can be the same as the cost of car insurance (2023)

The Which? website lists the most expensive breeds of cats and dogs to insure but the information is confused except in one way: it’s expensive and in certain instances the equivalent of insuring your car. The average cost of car insurance in the UK is around £400 depending upon the type of insurance you take …

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Note left by a cat owner with her seven cats when she dumped them at a veterinary clinic in Australia

Cat owner’s desperate note to vet shows how Australia’s cost-of-living crisis affects cat welfare: ‘Sorry to have to do this’

NEWS AND OPINION– AUSTRALIA: Inflation in America 2023 is around 6%. In Australia it is around 8% and, in the UK, it is around 10%. Inflation hurts dog and cat ownership. Therefore, it hurts the animals and it probably leads to an increase in shelter animals being killed. There is a really uncomfortable report from …

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Cost of cat food chart

Expensive cat food can be 25 times more expensive than the cheapest. Is it worth it?

The experts at the Clinical Nutrition Service say that “The yearly costs ranged from $86 to over $2,100” when assessing the price range of wet and dry cat foods in the United States. The infographic below shows the range. It is entirely based on their assessment. The cheapest dry food costs 23 cents a day …

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Dogs Trust rescue dog

42,000 people asked the Dogs Trust to rehome their pets (UK 2022)

NEWS AND COMMENT: Apparently, British owners can no longer feed their dogs because they are giving them up to shelters at a record rate. According to research for the ITV programme Tonight, as reported in The Times newspaper, about 42,000 people asked the Dogs Trust to rehome their pets this year as they can no …

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Cost of cat caregiving in the USA

How much does it cost to look after a cat per year USA (2022)?

I’m getting mixed messages about the cost of looking after a cat in the USA. I’m not even sure that it is worthwhile trying to work out an average because everybody’s different. Everybody has their own budget and how much they would like to spend on their cat. Obviously, it depends upon disposable income which …

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Cat ownership

UK “cost-of-living crisis” may undermine cat and dog ownership

NEWS AND COMMENT-UK: There is a lot of media attention in the UK on the so-called “cost-of-living crisis”. I believe that the word “crisis” is the wrong one because I don’t think that it is a crisis. There are price rises but the impact of those rises can be counteracted through sensible living. And one …

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Aramis who was euthanised as his owner could not afford the vet treatment

Avoid the necessity to put down your cat because you can’t afford the $5,000 surgery

Currently, there is a guy on social media who says that he has to put down his pet cat because he can’t afford the $5,000 surgery as he is already “swimming in debt”. He has said goodbye to his cat, Aramis, “one of the goofiest cats that ever lived”. It’s a tragic little vignette of …

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Black panther cub - melanistic leopard cub - makes a cute roar in the basement of a home in the Donbass region of Ukraine during Putin's invasion

Black panther cub – cute roar – only it’s in Ukraine during the war

For a reason which remains unexplained, Dr. Bandi Giri Kumar lives in an apartment in the Donbass region of Ukraine during the invasion by Putin’s forces. The problem is that he has a couple of unsuitable pets namely a full-grown leopard and a young black panther a.k.a. melanistic leopard. The melanistic leopard is very cute …

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