Learn how Trupanion Helped Me With My Dog Dilbert
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I initially started Trupanion as a benefit from my employer in 2017. Now I will never own animals without Trupanion.
Dilbert originally came to me in 2012 as an emaciated and abandoned boy. He has been a medical train wreck since day one with, let’s call it, overindulgence.
Trupanion helped with his most recent predicament.

Dilbert couldn’t sleep one night and went on a scavenger hunt where he found an entire bottle of Rimadyl, a doggy non-steroidal anti-inflammatory. At the time I didn’t know if Darla, my other “angel,” helped with this game or if Dilbert acted alone. Both pets had to be hospitalized for the potential ingestion of a lethal dose of the medication. After days of intravenous fluid therapy, monitoring bloodwork, countless medications, and a hospital full of worried friends, Darla was checked off as being stable. Dilbert, however, had a few more days to go, but eventually pulled through!
All together Trupanion saved me just under $2,000 in eight days.
This isn’t the first time Trupanion helped me either!
I was in the process of moving to a new home and had my kitchen torn apart so I could pack my boxes up. Dilbert decided to help himself to a five-pound bag of sugar that was pushed to the very back of the counter. By the time I had made my way back into the kitchen, he had already ingested around two pounds of pure sugar.
I took him to the emergency clinic to check for bloat. Luckily, he was fine, but a few days later, he got himself into a pre-diabetic state (from all the sugar) and contracted a urinary tract infection.
Moral of the story, Dilbert needs Trupanion’s help to stay alive. There is no way I would be able to afford all of his adventures.
Thank you, Trupanion!
-Emily M

Dilbert
- St. Petersburg, Florida
- Date enrolled: October 2017
- Condition: Toxic ingestion of Rimadyl
- The Trupanion policy paid: $2,055.94