Poisoning Incidents Cost Pet Owners Millions Each Year: Pet owners often joke about pets being like vacuum cleaners literally eating anything put in front of them. Unfortunately, that lack of dietary discretion too often results in pets ingesting toxic substances, emergency visits to the veterinarian, and large medical bills. Veterinary Pet Insurance Co (VPI), a US based provider of pet health insurance, has analyzed its database of more than 485,000 insured pets to find the sources behind the hundreds of poisoning claims submitted to VPI every month. Following is a ranking of the nearly 20,000 pet poisoning claims VPI received between 2005 and 2009:

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There are at least 101 reasons why insuring a dog should never be looked upon as optional luxury. Tales of dogs burning down houses, shooting people, covering themselves in industrial waste and eating weird and wonderful objects such as bicycle handlebars are no doubt y the extreme but they HAVE happened. (more…)