Pet Insurance more expensive as vets improve

As veterinary medicine has improved over the last forty years, the cost of insuring a pet has risen.

The British Veterinary Association (BVA) has said that with better medicine available for treating cats, dogs and other animals with diseases such as cancer, so accordingly the insurance is more costly.

John Bower, practising vet and past president of the BVA has said that there has been a noticeable improvement in diagnosing animals and this has also contributed to a rise in insurance costs.

He explained: “As veterinary medicine has improved and particularly diagnosis, there are far more tests available these days to find out what is wrong with the animal, as more is able to be done in the way of diagnosis and treatment, obviously costs have gone up a lot over the last 30 or 40 years.

“Therefore it makes sense to pay £100 or £200 a year for this very valuable medicine to make sure that if something really bad goes wrong, you are able to afford it.”

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