[Closed] Pet Insurance - for us, not them

Ah yes, the dog appetite of random weird shit...

Small dog cost me 3.5k when he was a puppy (insured thank gods) after eating two stones and a flip flop. Roll forward six months and he cost another 3k when his bowel twisted and he needed another op to take that out.

Big dog (no longer me, miss you boy) had a 3k-ish op after eating, whole, a crab apple that lodged in his stomach. He got super ill and I slept downstairs with him for two days because of it.

That’s not including the sock, trousers or broadband dongles both of them have destroyed, or paying for the stomach pump because Red had eaten a quarter kilo of liquorice!

Cracker here likes to chew cables. So far, we're numerous USB chargers and cables down, several ethernet cables, three plantronics usb headsets, a baby monitor, and a (thankfully needed replacing anyway) desktop pc (chewed a usb cable, it shorted, burnt out part of the motherboard).

Such a good cat.

Thinking about it, one of primary reasons for moving house is to get further from a road so cracker doesn't kill himself. That's quite expensive lol.

Must be lucky, Fin is 7 years old and so far nothing apart from lawn seed as she turns the lawn into a bit of a mess every winter rounding up her tube or next doors dog

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However I did feel guilty when she caught the rear rotor

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I moved house because one of my cats got run over on the main road.

I've now moved again and the priority list on the new house number 1....

Is it near a fast road.

Dont get me started on how much my dog gets pampered

How about a lurcher that ate the interior off a landrover. All of it that wasn't metal. Totally trashed.

scruffy brown dog when younger chewed the corner off a newly plastered and decorated interior wall. I have to admit at the time I thought we were in for a lifetime of random destruction but I think it was just teething, as that's the only thing she's destroyed. Apart from.....

any toy we get her. Particularly indestructable ones (it's a challenge, right?) - Christmas indestructable ball on a rope was shreds of festive coloured threads in under 30 minutes.

and;

my socks. We have hard floors in the ground floor of the house and I hate slippers so my footwear of choice is my cricket socks from years back....best part of a tenner a pair and she goes for them when the mood takes her, either from the bottom of a laundry basket or when my feet are still in them.

@Ewan my sister's rabbits used to do that. I gave her all the left over cable protectors from my van conversion and now they can't.

Sparks flying out of the springers mouth the day he bite through an Xbox cable at the end of the bed as I watching something was interesting.

I don’t think you can’t put a price on the indignity of having your jogger bottoms pulled down unexpectedly by the dog thou playfully jumping at you back 🙂

£800 the other day in weight loss surgery.

Beech the black lab is now a svelte 19.2kg down from 20.7kg after having to remove a huge tumour of the spleen.

Lucky i love her so much.

I like Google Pixel phones, but the lack of waterproofing is lame

I like Google Pixel phones, but the lack of waterproofing is lame

Pixel 2 had a rating of IP67
Pixel 3-present have a rating of IP68

They should easily withstand a bath interface moment.

Pixel 2 had a rating of IP67
Pixel 3-present have a rating of IP68

They should easily withstand a bath interface moment.

It's a 3A.
I thought it had withstood it initially as the screen still came on, but I rapidly turned it off in case, patted it down and gave it a blast for a bit with a slightly warm hairdryer.

Last night I put it in the bed with us so it could be gently warm all night.
Turned it on this morning and it seemed ok for 5 minutes. Then the screen kept jumping, apps kept randomly opening rapidly and closing and screens swiping left and right. I turned it off again.

It seems like when you get rain on the screen and it makes the touch response go crazy.

I'm going to just leave it off for a couple of days I think.

One of our cats got run over, so the next cat was a rescue with cat flu. We built him a cat run down the side of the garden, for him and two pedigree kittens that were due to arrive. The run has been extended across the rear of the garden, and a new extension 3x2x2 was built over the fence. Oh the cat runs are full of ledges and platforms for them to climb. Since got nother pedigree.

My daughter lost a few iphone headphones when the kats were kittens.

Oh and they wreck furniture. The dining roo chairs were a fau leather - MrsF has had to recover them in material that doesn't show cat claw marks.

In 7 years so far I don’t think our Cocker has cost us anything bar a couple of sausages he’s snuck at a BBQ and a lump of Stilton.

I think we’ve got quite lucky.

i did hear about putting the phone into a bag containing dry uncooked rice which then draws the moisture out, you could even get some dessicant sachets off Amazon tomorrow with Prime. Put that into the airing cupboard - worth a try

@Ewan my sister’s rabbits used to do that. I gave her all the left over cable protectors from my van conversion and now they can’t.

Yep, strangely, I've also converted a van and using the same stuff to prevent it. Invariably, it'll be a cable i've forgotten about or one that isn't practical to cover.

We also have a cat that likes to chew cables, or anything thin like curtain and blind cords. Giving him sisal or cotton string to play with is a good distraction. I don't know if swallowing synthetic string would do much harm but we keep that away from him.