Pet insurance

Advantages: Peace of mind
Disadvantages: none so far

...the best thing to do was have him castrated at the vets. After spending money on his injections when he was younger and worming tablets and his regular check ups at the vets, she decided to buy pet insurance. I have a car policy with Endsleigh and have been happy with them for a few years so we checked out the pet insurance with them. It?s a costly thing to have a dog as vet fees are not cheap. The castration of a dog costs £180 at our local vets, add this to the worming tablets, regular check ups of weight and health when they are growing up and their injections and your looking at more than £ 400. This is without including any ailments that they might have in their life to come. We bought a policy from Endsleigh for £112.09 a year. You may think this sounds a lot but it is broken down into monthly payments which can be paid by...

Sunnysmiles 18.06.2009 (10.07.2009) · Read review
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Review of Endsleigh Pet Insurance

The Portable Pet

Advantages: Useful if you really need one
Disadvantages: Do you really need one?

...built in power supply. Over a year ago this portable DVD seemed pretty good value for the money at just over £200 from the Amazon website. Unusually it comes in a tablet-like design as opposed to the more usual note book style models. One drawback with this though, is that the screen is more prone to damage and scratching because there is no cover. The PET830 comes with a car head-rest mounting kit and I suppose is aimed at keeping younger passengers occupied during long trips. Philips claims that this will fit any make of car except a Volvo. Apart from standard DVD playback, the PET830 also supports DivX, MPEG 4, MP3, and WMA formats. You can play compressed video files from a DVD or even a USB stick(either DiVX or mobile phone clips). Unlike many DVD players, the Philips has a wider viewing angle and has a sharp 8.5in screen. The screen...

Zmugzy 24.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of Philips Philips PET830

Little pet - big trouble!

Advantages: small price for interactive toy
Disadvantages: too overengineered

...It's party season again, and once again presents in the universally agreed £5ish bracket in our area are entering our happy home. Which is how we acquired this Digital Pet. I hope the purchaser of this present paid £5 anyway, it seems to be fairly widely available at that price but I have also seen it for sale at Tesco for £9.97, which is a little too much to pay in my opinion. At £5 this makes a very respectable stocking filler or party present. What you get: This "pet" arrives in a blister pack with some instructions, and batteries are included. Basically it is a tamagotchi style pet, with a twist. It has a belt clip to attach to a bag or yourself, and is about 6cm, so fairly portable. The screen, as you would expect at this price, is black and white and displays a picture of the pet featured, in this case a panda...

azana 21.10.2009 (25.10.2009) · Read review
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Review of Hasbro Littlest Pet Shop Digital Pet - Panda

Pet Sematary Review

Advantages: Creepy, atmospheric
Disadvantages: Ghost character didn't bring much to the story

...Pet Sematary is a film based on the novel by Stephen King. He also wrote the screenplay and cameos as a minister. The film centres around the Creeds, who have just moved to a new house in the countryside, a house that hasn't had anyone living in it for a long time. Their neighbor, Jud, tells them to be careful on the road as they are constantly being used by semis. He also shows them the Pet Sematary, where all the kids bury their pets after they got run over. When the Creeds' cat suffers the same fate, Jud shows them a deserted hill with some bizarre markings on it past the Pet Sematary and tells the husband, Louis, to bury the cat there. Soon after the cat returns from the beyond, but he seems different: he's more aggressive and vicious than before. Soon, with the help of Jud, Louis realizes what happens. What he doesn't know...

Walter_Kovacs 11.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of Pet Sematary (DVD)

Pet Sematary

Advantages: Herman Monster
Disadvantages: The wife of the family was annoying

...The plot revolves around the Creed family just moving into their new home beside a very busy road. Their neighbour meets and greets them. (He is played by the guy who played Herman Monster in the old tv series The Monsters.) He then takes them on a walk to Pet Sematary which is a Pet graveyard behind their house. The plot moves on and the father in the family is a doctor and tries to help a guy who has been hit by a car. The guy dies then suddenly jumps up as a ghost thing and warns father creed about danger to come. The Mother and teh rest of teh family go away for a while leaving the father alone in the house. During which time the cat gets hit by a car. He is upset about what his daughter is going to say when she comes home but Herman has an idea and takes father creed to bury the cat in an old Indian graveyard behind Pet Sematary. It...

Phelthew 09.02.2008 (10.02.2008) · Read review
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Review of Pet Sematary (DVD)

The house-owning dolls acquire some pets!

Advantages: Great small gift
Disadvantages: The dog is too big for his kennel!

...This is a set from John Crane and the Pintoy brand for use with the Malborough dolls' house (which I have reivewed elsewhere on this site) or any 1:12 scale dolls' house, such as those made by ELC and Toysrus. What you get in the box The set, priced at a reasonable £6.99 at most of the online and high street retailers I can find (amazon £6.36),contains a cat, a dog and their accessories. There is a kennel for the dog, a basket and blanket for the cat and a generous 3 little bowls. The whole set is made of wood with felt touches to the cat and dog who have ears and tails made of cream felt. The cat is sitting up and has a strange bow tie painted on him and the dog is of the daschund variety. The kennel has a red roof identical to the Malborough house. Play value Most children like the idea of pets...

azana 07.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of Pintoy Pets Accessories

Wonder pets, Wonder pets, we're on our way!

Advantages: Full of lessons, imagination and fun
Disadvantages: Only on Nick Junior

...It's official, my children watch entirely too much TV, my 3 year old greets people by saying "hola amigo" and my one year old can say "Diego" Programmes like Dora and Diego are popular but none so much as the Wonder pets. This show is enough to drag them away from any toy or game and they'll happily sit and watch it singing along to the theme tune and jingles. The Wonderpets- Wonder pets is a preschooler show currently featured on Nick junior. Created by photo puppetry, a method where photographs of the animals are manipulated to make them move around, and in the style of an operetta Wonder pets has become a huge hit since its debut show in 2006. The shows main characters are 3 class room pets who turn into superheroes at the end of a school day and help animals in need, with the aid of the "flyboat" a magical flying mechanno style...

piggypine 14.09.2007 · Read review
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Review of The Wonder Pets

A Platypus for a Pet? Or a Komodo Dragon?

Advantages: Numeracy practice, flaps to lift, lots of animals
Disadvantages: The rat ate the corner of the page...

...Any children's book by Mick Inkpen, of Kipper fame, is likely to be a delight, and The Great Pet Sale is no exception. The cover shows a koala bear and an anteater looking very forlorn, but don't miss the cheeky little rat standing on one leg in the bottom right-hand corner. (This is a different cover from the one in Ciao's illustration.) We learn at the start of the story that everything in the pet shop is a bargain, even a little rat with half his whiskers missing, whose price tag is a mere 1p. A little boy with large spectacles is visiting the shop to see what he might buy as a pet, but the rat tries to waylay him and insist on being the best bet. Turning the page, we find the prices gradually increasing: a tiny terrapin for 2p, a turtle for 3p and a great big tortoise at 4p. In each case, attention is drawn to the numbers which...

denella 26.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of The Great Pet Sale - Mick Inkpen

Pet's, Vet's and Saving Money !!

Advantages: Cheap and Save's a Fortune
Disadvantages: Have to Pay Out Initially.

...fault really maybe I should have seen how thing's were in the morning but even then just for a consultation it's £30. We had taken out 12 day's previously Tesco pet Insurance on all three of our Cats but unfortunately because the 14 day cooling period was not finished I could not claim for the visit. I did ring Tesco and got a very polite reply but a negative reply all the same so had to stomach the loss and rest in the fact that they would be covered in two day's time. Today I had to take the same kitten Becks to the Vet again this time fighting with her sister she had received a nasty bite to the pad of her front paw and it had swollen and she could not walk on it. The Vet informed me that this happens a lot with Cats and the swelling should go down but I need to keep an eye out for any sign of infection. The bill then came in at £55...

bazzaoleary77 13.02.2007 · Read review
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Review of Tesco Pet Insurance

A brilliant pet carrier at a great price!

Advantages: Decent size, good price, great for Mew, looks good
Disadvantages: None for us

...For those of you who have enjoyed stories about our cat Mew you're in luck because here he is again! As some of you know he was a stray who adopted us in May of this year and has given us lots of laughs and lots of fun. In turn we have looked after him well, feeding, grooming, worming and keeping the fleas away. We decided that our next step had to be getting him electronically chipped. We needed to be certain that, if anything ever happened to him when he was out exploring and hunting, we could be contacted. To get this done we made an appointment with the vet and then needed to purchase a pet carrier. We started by looking in Pets at Home where the ones we wanted were between £20 and £25 so we thought that we would take a look in the Argos book and found an even better carrier for a much cheaper price! We chose the Blue Pet...

SusanLesley 07.02.2009 · Read review
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