u/FlappyKillmore — reddlx

I’m getting an AKC Standard Poodle on Monday. He’s a cream boy named Todd.

I’m considering Pets Best insurance for $29 a month with a $1000 deductible and 90% coverage to start.

My question, since I’ve never had pet insurance is…. Is it really worth it? They’ll cover chronic issues, but they increase premiums annually. So if he comes down with a chronic issue they could just increase my premium to cover that amount?

Let me know if that’s not how it works, because then I think it would be worth getting maybe.

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The reason I’m considering it:

We lost our German Sheperd in April of last year after a major scare at 6 years old. He had a tumor the size of a softball on the outside of his rib, and it was double the size on the inside per our vet. He said he couldn’t operate and instead we gave him pain meds…. He had a miraculous recovery, did a complete 180, the mass went away? He was normal overnight. Then a couple years later had a seizure on a Saturday, another seizure the night so we brought him in for the cluster. Then within a month the medicine couldn’t stop it. He ended up passing at 8 after seizures from a brain tumor. My regret is, would money have mattered if he had pet insurance or could I have gone to specialists and paid $20,000 for a surgery I’d only pay $2,000 of?

Fault Code 18 / Check drain pump filter & rerun cycle.

Alright to save you some time. We had a drainage issue where our GE washer dryer combo stopped draining completely, and lord. If you don’t have the base water goes everywhere like a firehouse and you can’t fit anything under it to catch it all! The third trial and error test we ended up using a shopvac to suck the water up as it came out.

We tried the usuals people recommended online like clean the filter there wasn’t much in the filter. Then somewhere said to blow on the drainage hose so I did that too.

It came down to removing the filter, then on the right side of the tube about halfway in there’s a small hole. These pliers from Harbor Freight I had worked great to grab this giant clump of hairball/lint build up.