The Need For Pet Insurance

Cancer does not just affect human beings, cats can also be prone to the ill affects of this deadly disease. Our family has a number of animals one of which is a beautiful cat called Pip. In the following few paragraphs I will be writing about how Pip managed to overcome Cancer with some help from our wonderful local vets.

Pip is a beautiful and loving cat and is very much part of our family. She is ninety-five percent white in colour, the other five percent is black. My experience with animals has made me very much aware of the increased possibility that white furred cats have of contracting cancer in comparison to other coloured furred cats.

I regularly check Pip over when I am stroking her etc. On one particular morning I noticed something rather out of the ordinary – she had what I can only describe as small black spots in and around her ears. These spots had not been there the last time I had checked her over and therefore I decided to take her to the vets. I felt confident that everything would be fine but just wanted to make sure. I had pet insurance in place in any case.

The vet examined Pip and looked quite worried. He told us that Pip had a form of pre-cancer and that the only way that she would survive, in his opinion, would be to have her ears amputated.

This was very sad but we realised that in a way we had no choice. This all happened four years ago and Pip is still going strong today, unaware of how close she was to losing her life. The vet has stated that if I had not checked her out and brought her in to be examined that the cancer would have spread and that Pip would have only lived for around three to six months.

Steve Hill is an SEO consultant from the UK who also runs a DVD authoring company here in the UK