Vet P.O.V. Veterinary pet insurance issues: Part 1

Ever thought about getting pet insurance? If you’re typical of Dolittler’s readers, I’m sure you have. After all, you’re likely to spend more on your pets and worry more about their healthcare than most. And I love you for it.

But is pet insurance really worth it? Does it make any sense when the premiums you’ve researched sound so high and the payouts seem so potentially inadequate?

Maybe you...

April 23rd, 2007 7 Comments

Vetcetera Doggie yoga: a health-kick gimmick?…who cares—if it works

Since last week’s diatribe on exercising with your pet, I’ve read a couple of articles on the emerging trend of “doggie yoga.”  Before seeing these national pieces I had thought it another quirky South Beach phenomenon and not a bona-fide national trend.

Silly as it sounds (at least to me), people across the US actually practice yoga with their dogs in incomprehensibly large groups. And—if the...

April 23rd, 2007 3 Comments