Learn how Trupanion Helped Me With My Dog Dilbert

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, 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 (again), 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