Archive for January, 2011

Older Pet Insurance Great If You Can Find It – Here’s Where to Look First

Older pet insurance is a tremendous cost saver – if you can find a company willing to insure your older pet. Like human insurance, not all companies are willing to cover geriatric animals. They tend to have more and more health problems, which causes the insurance company’s profits to go down, so don’t be surprised if you have trouble finding an insurance company willing to help you right away. This doesn’t mean, however, that your pet is uninsurable. Older dogs and cats (and even exotics) can be covered very affordably if you can find the right insurance company and if your pet doesn’t have any serious health problems at the time you take out insurance.

Some insurance companies make it a point to offer fewer options for owners of older pets as opposed to older ones. This should come as no surprise; older animals are more likely to come down with diseases, ailments, tumors, infections, and cancer, not to mention various injuries and accidents. Insurance companies generally classify a pet as old when they reach 8 years of age.However, the better insurance plans compensate for this by offering coverage options tailored to suit the needs of an older pet.

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Kids and Snakes

We have many pets in our home – some are furry, some are scaly and some are wet. They amount to 35 animals of 7 different species. That’s a lot! We decided to make a business out of it, and here is how my first job went.

It was our son’s new primary school teacher who suggested it to us, we had not thought of it. As we were having his nursery school interview, he mentioned the animals, and we told her about them all. You should take them around schools, she said, We pay £350 for a visit from the animal man!

Well we love animals, and we love sharing our animals, especially with children. Kids just love critters! So being the enterprising person I am, and having a love for the subject, and needing to make money to support my family – as I am still signed off sick with health problems – I set to work straight away. I enquired about the viability, I looked at other websites selling the service and realised we had the capability between us to do this successfully.

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