# Pet Insurance

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-insurance/469105>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 22, 2008, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-insurance/469105 "2008-10-22T19:27:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-insurance/469105/21 "2008-10-24T15:13:38Z")

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> [@vetbridge](#):
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> Check out results of two searches:
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> [Banfield + Petsmart+ insurance](http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1B2GGFB_enUS233&hl=en&q=banfield+petsmart+insurance&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=) vs [vpi + pet + insurance](http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1B2GGFB_enUS233&hl=en&q=vpi+pet+insurance&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=)
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> Also, note that I am _ **very** _ careful in what I say pertaining to Banfield.

I haven’t gotten through much, but very interesting reading so far!

I haven’t had any of the issues I read about at all, fortunately, but it’s something to keep in mind if something does come up.

And if I ever leave there, I’m taking my vet with me 😃

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**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-insurance/469105/22 "2008-10-24T17:17:46Z")

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> [@vetbridge](#):
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> PetSmart (Banfield) insurance would only cover services obtained at a Banfield location.
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> IME, veterinarians take a job with PetSmart only if they can get nothing better. Their turnover is notoriously high. I’ll stop there.

Yeah, it’s enough to know that they wouldn’t cover my current vet, as I have no intention of leaving her practice. She not only saved my cat’s life a couple years back, but she submitted me and got me accepted for charity consideration (the practice has a “Poor Pets Fund”), and gave me some considerable emotional and practical support, given that I was in the middle of chemo myself, and my cat got sick and I lost my job all in the same weekend (fired for being sick, and yes bossman knew that I was). That was an extremely unpleasant few months, all told, and she did a hell of a lot to make things a bit better.

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