Pet Travel Insurance is becoming a very popular concept and pet owners don’t have to undergo the headache of canceling their planned travel trip for the sake of taking care of their beloved pet. Travel pet insurance provides a comprehensive coverage and ensures that you don’t have to be worried about spending money in the process and at the same time your pet is given due care.
General Coverage
Travel insurance for Pets covers your pets travel and stay in other places. Not all hotels will allow yur pets to saty with you and there are only selected hotels that will give you this facility and if they do they will charge you heavily for the privilege. Remember not all tourist sites will allow your pets in. Insurance companies will reimburse you for the expenses undertaken.
Advantages to Insuring Your Pet
If your pet is not allowed into the place, whether its hotel or tourist site then you won’t have any other option other than hiring a pet sitter for the time being or keeping the pet in the room or the lodge where you stay. In the first instance the pet insurance company may reimburse you for costs involved to find the Pet sitter and Pay his charges, whereas in the scond instance you will be required to compensate for damages done by the pet in your absence to the hotelier and so the insurance company will make good for the money you have paid.
Pets are not allowed to stay with the owner in most airlines, we all got off the plane and aited for our baggage to find it damaged, likewise with your pet travel carrier is also covered by the insurance company. However this will be applicable only if you prove that you have exercised reasonable care to prevent damages to pet travel carrier.
Pet Sitter and Other Factors
There are many reasons to insure a pet, depending on the reason why you decided to get a pet and possibly opt for a pet medical insurance in the first place.
Pet Passport and Pet Health Insurance
With the introduction of Pet passports that have encouraged the growth of travel pet insurance industry. Formerly Pets would have to undergo many tests in the country where they are supposed to travel. The tests were taken to confirm they dont have fatal diseases like rabies and that they have taken all the required vaccinations. This was a said to be a difficult proposition because it took a long time for the tests to be over. However after the introduction of Pet passports this problem has lost relevance as the pet passport is deemed to be an authenticate evidence and documentary proof certifying the pet’s health.
