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| Puppy farms - and avoiding them? on 18:53 - Aug 13 with 1059 views | saint68 |
Dolly-Babe would upset a few. | |
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| Puppy farms - and avoiding them? (n/t) on 19:14 - Aug 14 with 1015 views | DellHero |
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| Puppy farms - and avoiding them? on 19:20 - Aug 14 with 1011 views | dune |
Gizmo or Lilly, airing towards the latter as it's easier to shout. [Post edited 14 Aug 2017 20:06]
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| Puppy farms - and avoiding them? on 20:45 - Aug 14 with 992 views | franniesTache |
Absolutely no way we could do it without insurance, ours is an ex racer in a breed that's prone to injury anyway. So far we've have bills in the region of about a grand due to stupid mishaps (their skin tears really easily and needs stitches, so that combined with their ability to fall off anything they sit on isn't a good combination!)
To be honest though the most expensive thing has been the dog walker during the day, i'm not sure what it's like in Southampton but in London it's about £30-£35 a day!
Fortunately i work from home a couple of days a week which helps but if i'm away with work like i am when i have to go to our offices in Manchester or Liverpool it gets pricey quickly. | | | |
| Puppy farms - and avoiding them? on 20:48 - Aug 14 with 990 views | dune |
I will take out insurance, not looked into it yet but probably go with the one the vet recommends. Might work out more expensive but if they work in tandem with my vet it might save on hassle should a claim arise. | |
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| Puppy farms - and avoiding them? on 20:51 - Aug 14 with 985 views | franniesTache |
Worth asking your vet who their partner is, we went with petplan as the partner with our vet, so instead of paying upfront and claiming back we just pay the excess and the vet/petplan work out the rest.
Did you go pedigree in the end? If you did that makes it more expensive. Also keep an eye on the amount you can spend in a year, probably not an issue for a pup but as they get older you don't want it capped to a number of treatments because if they get something chronic you'll have a very difficult choice to make between money and well... | | | |
| Puppy farms - and avoiding them? on 20:54 - Aug 14 with 979 views | dune |
I think my vet use petplan. It's supposed to be pedigree, but not KC registered, to be honest I'd actually be glad if it does have a bit of cross breed. Not sure what I put down. | |
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| Puppy farms - and avoiding them? on 20:55 - Aug 14 with 978 views | franniesTache |
Ask the vet, they'll be able to tell you if it's pedigree. I assume you're taking it in to be microchipped and given jabs? If you are then they'll be able to assess the breed then. | | | |
| Puppy farms - and avoiding them? (n/t) on 20:55 - Aug 14 with 978 views | DellHero |
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| Puppy farms - and avoiding them? on 20:58 - Aug 14 with 972 views | franniesTache |
petplan have been fantastic for us so far, but i can't imagine they can refuse to insure against stupidity so i think we'll be ok for now.
Am a bit more worried going forward as we don't know his racing history and there's ever chance he'll develop an issue as a result. | | | |
| Puppy farms - and avoiding them? on 21:06 - Aug 14 with 968 views | dune |
Classic cover works out at £26-£30/month 😕
Think I might not bother. If it gets extremely ill I think I'd sooner put it down than let it go for lots of complex operations anyway. | |
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| Puppy farms - and avoiding them? on 21:10 - Aug 14 with 965 views | franniesTache |
Have a search around for others, i'm sure you can find cheaper. Also check the excess as it's probably not worth doing if the excess is high (unless you have a breed prone to issues anyway). | | | |
| Puppy farms - and avoiding them? on 21:14 - Aug 14 with 963 views | dune |
It is prone to issues unfortunately. During ww2 people were encouraged not to have pets and in 1945 only 6 remained. All today's King Charles descend for that 6. | |
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| Puppy farms - and avoiding them? on 07:35 - Aug 15 with 914 views | ChopChop |
All puppies should be microchipped by the age of eight weeks and you should never take a puppy away from its mum before eight weeks so it's the breeders responsibility to microchip the pup. Vets charge between thirty and forty quid but in reality the chips only cost a couple of ponds each.
Pups get their first jabs at seven weeks and then it's the owners responsibility to get them jabbed again at about eleven weeks. | |
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| Puppy farms - and avoiding them? on 07:39 - Aug 15 with 911 views | ChopChop |
I'm guessing it is a pedigree but the breeders either can't or won't register it. Dams can only have four litters registered with the KC in their lifetime and if she has already exceeded that or is too old to have pups registered (there's an upper age limit) then quite often breeders sell them a bit cheaper but without any papers. | |
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| Puppy farms - and avoiding them? on 08:18 - Aug 15 with 903 views | Buggalugs |
Ditto on insurance. Our boxer swallowed the head of a silicone barbeque basting brush when she was just 6 months old, £3k later she was fully recovered and back to normal. As the breed is susceptible to problems later in life, our Petplan policy certainly isn't cheap at £50ish a month, but that covers her for life and up to £15k's worth of treatment a year. Would much rather the peace of mind of that than having to make difficult decisions regarding expensive treatments.
Dog walking in Southampton/New Forest area is usually around the £20 mark, but we put her into daycare once or twice a week, where they'll pick her up around 9.00am, take her for walks in the forest and plenty of socialising with other dogs, before dropping her back about 4.00pm. She absolutely loves it and is so knackered, she'll sleep the whole of the next day. Strangely enough, that only costs us £20 a pop too, so we've never bothered with a day-time dog walker.
It certainly isn't cheap having dogs, that's for sure. | |
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| Puppy farms - and avoiding them? on 14:43 - Sep 3 with 825 views | dune |
Got the puppy, it's had it's initial jabs, has been chipped and I've registered my details. Found a good pet insurer. It's called BOUGHTBYMANY pet insurance (underwritten by MoreThan). It's a social media insurance group. Not cheap at £320 per anum, and single conditions are capped at 7k, but the big bonus is that renewals are fixed so every year it'll be £320 whereas all the other policies bump up their renewal costs as the dog gets older as the vet bills start becoming more likely. £69 excess. They also pay direct to the vets. Also they have brilliant reviews.
https://ww2.feefo.com/en-GB/reviews/bought-by-many?displayFeedbackType=BOTH&time
Might be worth you looking into if PetPlan start fleecing you. To take advantage of the fixed renewal scheme the dog must be under 2 though so not sure you'd qualify. | |
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