I'm just about to engage with my insurance company after the vet prompted me to say they still have not paid for the root canal work - £4,000!
It's a long story but after Ruby's tragic loss last January, we eventually took on 2 more rescue Vizslas from Vizsla Rescue, a 6-year old mother and a 3-year old daughter from her first litter. Both are well trained on feather and the mother has won field trials. However, the day after collection, the mother's face was swollen. Into the vets on the Monday and a GA and oral inspection planned for Wednesday - £400. Come Wednesday that turned into "we really" need to extract 2 (monitor a 3rd broken tooth) but on second thoughts, we could try root canal work on the second. Given these are the primary molars, I said leave the second extraction and I will talk to the rescue organization and my insurance company; the 6-week "rehoming" insurance having already declined to pay any costs. So in summary, we are currently £1k down and staring at a decision to deprive a 6-yr old dog of its primary crunching molar for the rest of its hopefully 10 years or more or to find £4k. All this landing in our first week of "ownership" of these our 3rd and 4th rescue Vizslas.
Long story even shorter, this was an unusual rehoming and I actually collected the dogs from the previous owner. Turned out that she had used the same insurance company as I did for our dogs and so there was no effective break in insurance. So i took this to the insurance company - we'll get back to you. A week later, I chased it up - the lady I had spoke to had left the company and it had not been followed up. This time, more progress was achieved and I was put through the the underwriters who agreed that there was pre-existing and continuous cover and that "they would" honour the claim".
So to today and I'm about to phone then again at out vet's request. I fear we will not be getting our claim paid and now need to find £4k.
Apologies for the thread hijack but I've learnt a lot about dogs dental issues over the last few weeks - the cause of the eldest dogs teeth issues was hard (load-bearing bones) given by the previous owner. These are as bad as antlers for causing dog microfractures in the primary molars which is why I rail whenever I see antlers offered as dog chews
Back to the thread - a standalone extraction is £400 here - one GA and 4 extractions, I reckon £
800 (discount for bulk buying).............................
Whilst having the younger 3-yr old spayed last month (condition of rehoming) we had her teeth inspected - 3 are cracked. We are monitoring these at present
I’m wrong for your pocket
my pup had an incident with a sock a little while ago and I'm extremely thankful I got insurance otherwise it would have been £3.2k...
