Lulu Loves Pacifiers
12 Jan 2009
You might be one of those pet owners who aren’t so keen on renewing your pet’s insurance this year. Think again. Take the case of an English bulldog owner in St. Louis, Jennifer Zwart, who was glad when she got her Lulu, her dog, insurance.
It took six months for Zwart to eventually know where her daughter’s lost pacifiers. Lulu managed to find the 15 pacifiers herself but unfortunately decided to eat them. Zwart believed that the missing pacifiers where either kicked under couches or possibly dropped from a moving stroller. Lulu found her knack of swallowing these dropped pacifiers. This love for pacifiers came to an end when Zwart herself found the pacifier gone in an instant right after she scolded Lulu for licking a dropped pacifier. Lulu was then taken to a veterinarian and had an x-ray examination. The X-ray confirmed the lost pacifier. The vets decided to perform surgery to remove the ingested pacifier. However, midway through the surgery, it surprisingly revealed not just one pacifier but 15 of them along with a bottle cap and a piece of a basketball. Lulu handled the surgery well despite failing to exhibit any signs or symptoms from eating non-edible things.
Zwart’s claim for Lulu’s case is just one of more than 75,000 claims received in one month of December 2008 by Veterinary Pet Insurance (VPI). The pet insurance saved Zwart an estimate of $600 off the $800 cost of surgery. Apart from that, Lulu is now entered in VPI’s search for the strangest animal surgeries of the year.
Save yourself financial worries next time your pet needs to be rushed over to an animal hospital or vet. The last thing you want to do is thinking what it is going to cost you. Pet insurance proved to be a good plan for Lulu and thousands of other pets perhaps not exactly the same case with the unfortunate pacifiers.
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