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01-21-2017, 09:38 AM | #1 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jan 2017 Location: Christiansburg, VA, USA
Posts: 34
| Choosing an insurance plan We're getting our two male Yorkie puppies in a few weeks and want to go ahead and set up an insurance plan. We've been comparing Healthy Paws and Turpanion, and both appear to offer decent coverage. [Neither one offers any help with wellness checks, dental care, flea/tick/heartworm prevention, vaccinations, etc., which would be nice since these are everyone's standard expenses; but that's insurance companies for ya.] Apparently Turpanion is a per condition plan, while Healthy Paws offers a flat annual deductible. We're looking for insight - what are the pro's and con's of each? Has anyone had any particularly good or bad experiences with either one? |
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01-21-2017, 10:23 AM | #2 |
Senior Yorkie Talker | We have our fur babies on Healthy Paws and used it for the very first time last month... the claim process easy, convenient...fast! Customer service excellent all from the phone app mostly.... no experience with trupanion although I did look into them as well as Embrace pet insurance.... No complaints... pleasant, pain free experience! Hope this helps!!!
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01-21-2017, 11:00 AM | #3 |
Yorkie mom of 4 Donating YT Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: LaPlata, Md
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| I have healthy paws and have been happy with it so far. The app makes things easy and luckily we really haven't needed it but I haven't had it for a year yet. My first yorkie had 3 leg surgeries, hypothyroidism, and bad allergies so I wanted to make sure the new pup was covered if any of the issues popped up.
__________________ Taylor My babies Joey, Penny ,Ollie & Dixie Callie Mae, you will forever be in my heart! |
01-21-2017, 12:13 PM | #4 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jan 2017 Location: Christiansburg, VA, USA
Posts: 34
| Great news, chasingbella and Lovetodream88, thank you! We'll keep our eyes peeled for further input for a few days! Healthy Paws 2, Turpanion 0 |
01-21-2017, 12:15 PM | #5 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jan 2017 Location: Christiansburg, VA, USA
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| Wait- what? Did you say THREE leg surgeries???? OMG, that must have been so horrendous! What happened? |
01-21-2017, 02:40 PM | #6 |
Yorkie mom of 4 Donating YT Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: LaPlata, Md
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| Well Callie has LP on both back legs pretty bad. She started having really bad pain in one of them and they went to do surgery and found her ACL was partially torn so they fixed the LP and and ACL. Then 4 years later her other knee was really bothering her so we opted to go ahead and have the LP surgery, then a year later the ACL tore completely in the leg we had just gotten the LP fixed in. We are almost at year since the ACL surgery and she is doing well. It was very expensive though so I had wished they had pet insurance when I got her as a pup.
__________________ Taylor My babies Joey, Penny ,Ollie & Dixie Callie Mae, you will forever be in my heart! |
01-21-2017, 02:51 PM | #7 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jan 2017 Location: Christiansburg, VA, USA
Posts: 34
| Oh, Lovetodream88, what a nightmare - I'm glad Callie is doing well now. It's inconceivable that these tiny little creatures can make it through such terrors. Yet they do, and they prove over and again just how "big" they truly are! |
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