Stirling Moss looks quite well having fallen three floors down a lift shaft. When I told my Missus about this story, straight away she asked if he was pissed.
Don’t most people insure their dogs anyway, at least those that have ever taken them to a vet!!
The idea is actual quite sensible even if, as usual the Excess is just pulling random numbers out of the thin air for the ‘cost’.
Sorry for being an anorak here, but you will find that most household insurance policies already cover animal liability. (I work in the insurance industry.) but how the hell did they come up with a premium of £600? Is it tabloid maths? Think of a number, multiply it by the number of words in the story? After all most motor liability insurance premiums are less than £600 and a car can cause greater risk of death or injury than a dog.
Just had a look at the article (Ugh! Eyebleach!) They are quoting from the premium petplan scheme which principally covers veterinary care as opposed to the liability cover which the government is proposing. Mind you it is amazing how many Express readers cannot understand the difference by the comments. Also it is fun to see how many are saying that it is another way for the government to steal money from them (I did not know that insurance companies were paying backhanders to the government)
Surely there are far more important things for the government to do than to lecture dog owners on how not to allow their pets to attack other people. Thankfully, this law will not see the light of day because the Conservatives will be in office this summer.
Yes there are Neville, but Government is so clever that it can do several things at once. Which rather undermines the argument that “We shouldn’t do anything about X until Y is completely eradicated”.
Insert your choices of X and Y for an amusing parlour game.
Stirling Moss looks quite well having fallen three floors down a lift shaft. When I told my Missus about this story, straight away she asked if he was pissed.
‘new Labour plans to tackle so-called “devil dogs”‘
The return of the “So called”.
Refresh my memory please, which esteemed profession invented the “devil dog” term.
Another NOW story, which isn’t actually NOW but COULD be in the future.
Don’t most people insure their dogs anyway, at least those that have ever taken them to a vet!!
The idea is actual quite sensible even if, as usual the Excess is just pulling random numbers out of the thin air for the ‘cost’.
I wonder how many Express readers reacted with outrage in response to the “NOW” before realising there may be the makings of a sensible idea here.
Sorry for being an anorak here, but you will find that most household insurance policies already cover animal liability. (I work in the insurance industry.) but how the hell did they come up with a premium of £600? Is it tabloid maths? Think of a number, multiply it by the number of words in the story? After all most motor liability insurance premiums are less than £600 and a car can cause greater risk of death or injury than a dog.
Just had a look at the article (Ugh! Eyebleach!) They are quoting from the premium petplan scheme which principally covers veterinary care as opposed to the liability cover which the government is proposing. Mind you it is amazing how many Express readers cannot understand the difference by the comments. Also it is fun to see how many are saying that it is another way for the government to steal money from them (I did not know that insurance companies were paying backhanders to the government)
In Express-land EVERYTHING is a government plot to get more of their (and just theirs, not anyone else’s) money.
Paul United Kingdom:
Great job, thanks for the insight. Who’d have thought that the DE might report the story inaccurately?
Not just ‘cost every owner’: it will cost YOU. Come on, Express, get it right.
will the insurance cover again’st shiting in the street?
Surely there are far more important things for the government to do than to lecture dog owners on how not to allow their pets to attack other people. Thankfully, this law will not see the light of day because the Conservatives will be in office this summer.
Yes there are Neville, but Government is so clever that it can do several things at once. Which rather undermines the argument that “We shouldn’t do anything about X until Y is completely eradicated”.
Insert your choices of X and Y for an amusing parlour game.
Dave C what’s that apostrophe doing in against?