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My advice is to ask your vet - they can't recommend an insurer, but they can tell you who they insure their own dogs with. Dollars-to-doughnuts, that's going to be an insurer who will deal directly with the vet for you.
Also, make sure you get life cover, not annual cover. If any condition arises which requires medication for life (as can sometimes be the case with spaying, for example - it can result in poor bladder control, which requires a harmless drug for life to correct), then annual cover will only pay for the first year and then you're on your own. For us, when our Coco had exactly the aforementioned problem, it paid for itself almost immediately - the insurance is less than the medication would be.
Basically, we decided that if we're at the point where we're forced to take one of the girls to the vet, we're going to be stressed enough already that we really don't want to be thinking about money. This way, everything's paid for already and the money doesn't even come into the decision.
There's usually about £4-500 in there, and if it gets past £600 then we tell the vet to take a couple of hundred and use it for a rescue's treatment or use it to help somebody who's struggling to pay their bill.
We pay £80 a month for a giant breed.
Your floof-ball should be a bit cheaper.
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Is there a different excess on the dental procedures? I only ask, because most of the dental stuff we've had done with our dogs has been fairly small, like double the excess, to the point where it wasn't worth the hassle of bringing the insurers into the picture. We did check after the fact, though, and it would've been covered by our PetPlan insurance (that was quite some time ago, mind).
Imagine the cost of equivalent medical interventions, without NHS or BUPA etc. & you'd soon be considering those insurance expenses reasonable. Yes they are big numbers, but if you hit a bad accident or long term specialist care...
https://www.pets4homes.co.uk/pet-advice/the-real-cost-of-vet-care-for-dogs-and-cats.html#
https://www.tescobank.com/pet-insurance/guides/average-treatment-costs/
@digitalscream I've just checked and no, it's a flat £99 excess on anything. There was the option of adding an additional excess of a fixed percentage of any claims as well, but I didn't go for that.