SPCA Offers Free Pet Insurance With Adoption

By Rebecca Aldous - North Shore Outlook

 

As of last week, any pet adopted from B.C. SPCAs will come with six weeks of complimentary pet insurance.

Petsecure Pet Health Insurance has partnered with the 37 SPCA branches to offer up to $500 of insurance to new pet owners. The company is also donating more than $140,000 to aid the SPCA’s work with homeless, abused, injured and neglected animals.

So far about half of the people who adopted animals from West Vancouver’s SPCA branch took the free insurance, branch employee Ashley Lane said. Insurance is a good idea because animals can become stressed during their transition into a new home, she said. It is also beneficial in case they escape their new surroundings, which could lead to accidents, Lane noted.