Tesco Pet Insurance - there is a disadvantage

Advantages: Sometimes cheaper than other pet insurers
Disadvantages: Only pays for 12 months on any condition

...When I bought my first Cavalier King Charles Spaniel I decided that I should buy pet insurance. I tried various insurers and finally bought the insurance from Tesco because, at that time, they were the cheapest and not knowing anything about pet insurance, didn't know any better! When my CKCS took ill I put in a claim. Tesco were very good and paid out the claim promptly. Then my dog had "dry eyes" and, again, Tesco paid out the claim each time I submitted it. It was only in the later stages that I realised they would only pay out on the claim for 12 months. Consequently, when the 12 months were up, they would not cover the "dry eye" condition and I have to pay £39 per tube of treatmentplus £18 vet consultation fee. When I bought my second CKCS I shopped around for insurance and eventually went with Saga Pet Insurance which...

Wearsidelass 18.08.2003 · Read review
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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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Tesco Pet Insurance - cheapest so far

Advantages: Very cheap compared to other providers
Disadvantages: None I've encountered so far

...and Tesco only covered 'reactive' care rather than preventative. Petcare also allowed for 'prescription feed' whereas the Tesco policy would consider that food rather than treatment. The vet was quite pushy regarding the Petcare policy, however when you consider the premium is £50.00 per month, you have to balance the risk that you pet may at some point need prescriptive food and for how long against the extra monthly premiums, as well as the cost of annual boosters. I considered these risks and felt that the extra premium was not worth it in our instance, although other people may consider it necessary. Cover between Tesco and Pet Plan was very comparable with no significant differences. When I contacted Tesco, I was impressed with the way that they viewed us as a 'unit' rather than 2 separate pets. The usual rate would have been...

shaunandlisa 07.02.2003 · Read review
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tesco pet insurance

Advantages: cheap and easy
Disadvantages: none so far

...ive never realy bothered with pet insurance , im not sure why. i spose i thought that they just take money off you every month and you get nothing back. a few weeks ago we brought a st bernard ,i dont know if any of you know just how big these dogs are but they are more than huge so to speake a friend of mine owns a rottweiller and advised me that the bigger the dog the bigger the vet bill .he didnt realy say much about tesco pet insurance just that he had it and it was cheap . i looked up a list of companys and got a few quotes from them online.the kennel club wanted thirty five pounds a month .Barclays bank wanted thirty pounds a month and then finaly petplan who were so far the cheapest wanted twenty eight pounds all of these wanted all kinds of information about me and my dog like where did i get him from , what kind of place...

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I Beg of you..insure you're pets.

Advantages: cheap, fast service, great customer service, easy to understand policy
Disadvantages: personally none that I've encountered...yet

...owners on pet insurance. And so...that is how my story into the world of pet insurance began, I certainly couldn't afford to have a tradegy like that happen and leave me struggling with vets bills. As a result I shopped around on the internet for good quotes, at the time only having one cat. I came across Tesco's pet insurance early on. I put in my cats details and got an amazing quote. I seriously didn't think it was this cheap...£3.60 a month (for one cat (18mths old at the time) this included me offering £80 excess, something I was willing to offer). I couldn't find any cheaper quotes and looking at the policy details was very impressed. I liked the fact that as soon I clicked the confirm button on the website having inputted all my details my cat was covered immediately. Other pet insurances didn't do this, there is a few days, maybe...

i_is_fi 19.01.2006 · Read review
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thank god for pet insurance

Advantages: very quick at payin vets valie for money
Disadvantages: would go for the £4000 policy

...well the only reason I ended up getting pet insurance was because my brother stood on my cat and she got cystitis because of it and it was a pain trailing an hour on the bus to take her so I looked and found Tesco was the best offer at the time well I was so glad I took insurance out as 5 week ago she got run over outside my house while we were out and was taken to the local emergency vets and it turned out she had broke her pelvis. She was in the vets for nearly a week had to have a metal plate put in her pelvis and part of her leg removed at the top but he was so worried she would not start weeing but she did but if I did not have the insurance I don't know what I would have done. I was only covered on my insurance to £2500 and I took her back on Wednesday and used the last of the insurance up so from now I have just got to pay...

pinkrulz 13.12.2007 (14.12.2007) · Read review
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  Working for Tesco

Advantages: Good pay, great benefits package
Disadvantages: Crap uniform, crap managers

...Ok, first of all, I'd just like to mention, this is a looooooooooooong review, so if you're not actually interested in reading about Tesco as an employer, then I'd suggest you don't bother as it will take some patience to get through! When I left school at the age of 18, and having decided I couldn't be bothered with university, I suddenly had to face the big bad world and go and find myself a job. I wasn't really fussy about what job I did - I've never been ambitious, and simply wanted a job where I could go to work, do my job, come home and not have to think about it. As our local Tesco is just 5 minutes away, I decided to apply there. I wrote a letter requesting an application form, and a few days later received a lovely letter and the form I had asked for. I read through the form and thought, wow, I don't know how to answer...

tia_bailey 09.06.2006 (26.06.2006) · Read review
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Tesco trains

Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: As good as original brands

...Santa bought my four year old the lovely mountain train set made by tesco. He desperately wanted a train set and when we were in Toysrus we would look at the brio sets and then look around the other toys. It was not unitl near to Christmas that I actually decided to look at the price. I was horrified to discover how expensive brio train sets were. I looked in several other shops ELC etc but they too were too expensive. I found a cheap set in ASDA but it did not seem to be compatabile with brio or even near to the quality, so I decided not to buy the train set from there either. When we were shopping in Tescos my son pointed out the train sets and took a real interest in a lovely mpuntain train set which had had a wooden train set, a little bridge, wooden animals, trees, tunnels, trains, carriages,sign and mountains all for £24...

classicmum 16.02.2006 · Read review
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Tescos

Advantages: Great Value
Disadvantages: Puts local businesses under stress

...Tescos is King of all supermarkets and I think that they are best for value in the long term or in the big shop as well. As a student I have found that the tesco down the road from me is my new home, as opposed to the Centre up the road that can be so expensive some times in comparison. Tescos sells your average grocerys as well as dvd's and electricals, clothes, office supplies, tobacco and confectionary, alcohol, cards for special occassions and toys. Everything you need seems to almost be in one store, there is also a tesco value line that provides Tescos own products at a cheaper price. The staff in Tescos are always friendly where I come from in Cookstown, they always help you find something if your not quite sure where it is and always strike up a pleasant conversation at the help desk, though I understand that some...

lorrainek90 23.07.2009 · Read review
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Puzzling pets

Advantages: good puzzles
Disadvantages: None

...Orchard toys make many good toys and puzzles we have several of them at work. One of the toys we have is the box of 6, 2 piece puzzles of pets. These puzzles are suitable for children aged 18 months and over. I use them with older special needs pupils. Although the pictures of the pets are cute and big eyed they are not over babyish. Included in this set of 6 puzzles is a budgie, a dog, a cat, a goldfish, a hamster and rabbit all animals that children may be familiar with. They are good realistic colours. These puzzles are made of a thick durable recycled board. The surface is a wipe clean one. These individual 2 piece puzzles are shaped around the outline of the pictured animal no straight edges. Each one cut in approximate half. The way you fit the two pieces of each animal together is by the cojoining male and female...

mumsymary 05.12.2009 · Read review
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