Injured cat

[Timwith2noses]

My 1 year old cat came home this evening with an injured back leg. He can’t walk on it. Have just whipped him to emergency vets and they are sedating him to do X-rays. Waiting on call back. We can’t understand what happened as he was playing in the garden just an hour before with the children and had no injury.

Had to pay a £1000 deposit and was really taken aback. We have insurance but it’s limited at £2000 per claim so now I’m worried that is FAR too low. I had no idea.

So I am wondering if he’s broken a leg what is my likely bill (ballpark)? And what do others insure their cats for? I thought I had him well covered but now I think I was naive about vet fees!

I don’t know, but what choice did you have if it’s a break?

Absolutely no choice. It’s a break and he will need surgery this week. The OOH visit with sedation and X-rays has cost £1107.50.

the surgery who knows how much. I need to up his cover at renewal, I know that!

It's scary how quickly the costs mount up. I think we have ours set to £7k per claim.

If you can CLAIM £2k, then you'll be OK for a vet bill of a bit more than that, as there's the excess to consider (I think our excess is set to £150, so that would mean a bill of £7,150 would be covered), but £150 doesn't go far in the context of vet fees...

Fingers crossed it's straightforward (and that his surgery is soon, so you don't have too many nights bed and board to cover).