{"id":16932,"date":"2016-06-18T13:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T06:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/pet-insurers-refusal-to-pay-to-remove-elastic-cat-ate-has-stretched-my-finances\/"},"modified":"2016-06-18T13:09:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T06:09:59","slug":"pet-insurers-refusal-to-pay-to-remove-elastic-cat-ate-has-stretched-my-finances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/pet-insurers-refusal-to-pay-to-remove-elastic-cat-ate-has-stretched-my-finances\/","title":{"rendered":"Pet insurer\u2019s refusal to pay to remove elastic cat ate has stretched my finances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nAnimal Friends declined to pay claim despite having given the go-ahead during a telephone inquiryI am locked in a row with Animal Friends pet insurance over the payment of a vet\u2019s bill of approximately \u00a3800 for our cat, Feste, after he had treatment for apparently eating a long length of elastic string, which was missing. Feste has form for eating string and he was off colour and distressed.The vet treated him as an emergency case in February as string tangled in the gut can prove fatal. He gave the cat an endoscopy and a vomiting drug. The string was never found either in the house or the cat. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2016\/jun\/18\/pet-insurer-animal-friends-refused-claim\" target=\"_blank\">Pet insurer\u2019s refusal to pay to remove elastic cat ate has stretched my finances<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Animal Friends declined to pay claim despite having given the go-ahead during a telephone inquiryI&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-4p6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40541,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hdbs-cat-ban-in-the-spotlight\/","url_meta":{"origin":16932,"position":0},"title":"HDB\u2019s cat ban in the spotlight","date":"January 13, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Animal welfare groups believe that removing the ban on pet cats in HDB flats will lead to fewer abandoned felines. 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