Posit:- You are cruising through Spain. Van is insured, You are insured, Pet is passported...............& then you are taken seriously ill.
Wife is too distraught to drive, --- which is what your Recovery service is insisting must happen, until the foreign doctor writes a letter saying she must fly home with you.
(Yes, they expect her to drive 1200 miles whilst you are air lifted to a UK hospital!---'cos she is on the policy)
So now the Recovery service (the one with 3 letters to its name, & I expect they all have the same policy?) is sending a driver for your motorhome. You happen to mention the dog. "No, sorry, we don't do dogs" is the reply.
That's right, they don't. & you can understand why. The beast could be a distraction to the driver at best, + the Pet Passport delays. So what do you do?
In the case that I am thinking of, the dog & camper are at our home in Portugal as we are friends of the couple..........but what would they have done otherwise? Pay for the dog to be freighted back I guess.... but they were in no state to arrange for that.
The dog is insured against vet bills, but I doubt if it's insured for recovery from a foreign land.
Sobering isn't it?... & the couple are sensible, cautious & always try to cover all situations, & thought they had.
Have they missed something that other pet owners know about?
Hedge (on a public pc in the sun, contemplating an unscheduled long drive to the UK)
Wife is too distraught to drive, --- which is what your Recovery service is insisting must happen, until the foreign doctor writes a letter saying she must fly home with you.
(Yes, they expect her to drive 1200 miles whilst you are air lifted to a UK hospital!---'cos she is on the policy)
So now the Recovery service (the one with 3 letters to its name, & I expect they all have the same policy?) is sending a driver for your motorhome. You happen to mention the dog. "No, sorry, we don't do dogs" is the reply.
That's right, they don't. & you can understand why. The beast could be a distraction to the driver at best, + the Pet Passport delays. So what do you do?
In the case that I am thinking of, the dog & camper are at our home in Portugal as we are friends of the couple..........but what would they have done otherwise? Pay for the dog to be freighted back I guess.... but they were in no state to arrange for that.
The dog is insured against vet bills, but I doubt if it's insured for recovery from a foreign land.
Sobering isn't it?... & the couple are sensible, cautious & always try to cover all situations, & thought they had.
Have they missed something that other pet owners know about?
Hedge (on a public pc in the sun, contemplating an unscheduled long drive to the UK)