One of the things I spend much too much time doing every day is browsing my RSS blog reader (I use Sharpreader if anyone cares). I tend to graze through the 100+ blogs I subscribe to, picking up themes, memes, and goodies along the way. I love the contrast that the different perspectives throw up at me.
Take for example Simply Recipes and Future Memes (two blogs I discovered from Blogher 2007) - one is eye candy for a foodie (along with very good recipes and chit chat to go with it - the total drool package) and the other is an intellectual exploration of futuristic themes. They are right next to each other and they make my brain spin (in a good way).
In my pet category, I have just as much diversity with Invisible Voices at one end (written by a vegan) and Terrier Man (a blog about working terriers). As you can imagine, they don't quite go together as is demonstrated by the following excerpt from one of these blogs (guess which one!):
...An office mate found this clip on YouTube, and apparently it was shot just up the road in Sterling, Virginia. The groundhog appears to have been caught above ground in a trash pile by a pretty well-fed and not too experienced Jack Russell who is having a lot of fun. Music by Offspring. For those who find this gruesome, my best advice is to get over it. This is how groundhogs die when caught by coyotes, and how rabbits die when caught by a fox. What, you mean fox and coyote eat . . . meat? I though they were vegans! As for groundhogs, they are an agricultural pest, and are around in such huge numbers that it is open season, unlimited take in this state.
Diversity rules!
But I digress... I encourage you to go over to Terrierman's blog post about pet insurance:
Pet Insurance:
With insurance, the big print always seems to provide coverage, but the little print always seems to limit that coverage or void it altogether. Now consider pet insurance. When a pet insurance company denies your claim or pays out only fragmentary coverage, your only option is to hire a $10,000 lawyer in order to litigate a $2,000 claim. Not likely. So what do you do? You pay the vet, walk away bruised, and the Pet Insurance company pockets your premums and laughs all the way to the bank. Don't believe that's what happens most of the time? Then read what people with pet insurance have to say. Has anyone ever had a good experience with pet insurance? If so, tell us in the comments section (and sign it!).
So please do go comment on Terrierman's blog about your experiences with pet insurance - good and bad (and sign it!). I'm sure there will be a number of horror stories but there are pet insurance companies that pay out what they promised and there are happy policyholders (check out www.petinsurancereview.com to find a few).
After all, why would over 600,000 (and growing) cats and dogs be insured in the US? Are their pet parents just masochists? Oblivous? What do you think?
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