Dr. Liz Walker

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Australian Finance Podcast · Real cost of pet ownership in Australia · 31 Jan 2022 podcast

And you know that if you've ever seen your private hospital bills and what have you, that goes into the thousands of dollars very, very quickly.

So you can rapidly get a very large veterinary bill.

You won't get out of an emergency centre overnight for probably under $1,500 because of that cost of the consult, bloods, x-rays, IV fluids, all those sorts of things that they're going to be doing.

If your animal, and things happen, you know, the animal, your animal gets in and eats half a kilogram of chocolate.

You've got to, you can't, you don't have the luxury of waiting until tomorrow to go to, you know, your local, but you've got to go now.

You've got to get that, you've got to make your dog vomit and get it checked.

If your animal gets hit by a car, that's less common now because people are more responsible, but snake bites, you can't mess around with those either.

And antivenin...

uh, can cost thousands, just the anti-venom before you can get you the treatment.

So, um, there's a lot of things that can happen, broken bones.

And of course, veterinary medicine, um, has followed, um, human medicine and we can do so much more now, you know, we can cat scan our animals and often even do MRIs on animals and really complex surgery and, uh, um,

complex cancer treatments as well.

And they come with a price tag and with some really good results oftentimes.

But that's why pet insurance is important.

And the other key thing about pet insurance, Owen, is that get in early because you don't want to have pre-existing, you want to avoid the pre-existing diseases.

So yeah, that can be a trap if you leave it for too late.

And pet insurance is still relatively immature in this country.

There's only about 7% of pet owners who have got it.

I'll come back to you and you can add it in later in another podcast because I think it is predominantly cats and dogs.

Yeah.

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