Linda Sullivan is quick to tell friends, family members, and even people she’s just met about Healthy Paws. “It has made the biggest difference. I did tremendous research and I found out Healthy Paws was the number one pet insurance company, and now I will tell anybody who will listen. We learned a hard lesson from… Read More

Cruising through google search results for “Labradors eat everything,” a reader can see the absurdly funny (and almost desperate) cries of “Do Labradors eat everything all of their lives?” to the headline, “Couple forced to spend £25,000 on a new dog-proof kitchen.” Traci Pence’s English Labrador, Samson, was no exception to this rule; she recalls… Read More

Imagine all the trouble your four-legged family members could get into if they had thumbs. There’s a whole day devoted to pondering this hypothetical: March 3rd, If Pets Had Thumbs Day. Even without opposable digits, dogs and cats can get into plenty of shenanigans—often with disastrous consequences. If your pet has a penchant for poking… Read More

Senior dogs are some of the most needy animals in shelters. Already abandoned once because of their age, these lovable pups are passed over for younger, more energetic dogs time and time again. Many pet parents are deterred from adoption because of medical conditions – current or future – that aging dogs develop, like arthritis… Read More

When Samantha Garrido and her partner decided to adopt a dog, they went searching for the perfect puppy. “Ironically, his birthday was the same as my partner’s previous dog and his generated name was Jonah, which was always a name I wanted to name my son,” says Samantha. “It was fate…” After a tearful week… Read More

We love our dogs, but sometimes they eat the dumbest, most dangerous things…. Read More

The Healthy Paws team sees many cases of a “foreign object” being ingested by a dog or cat. Tennis balls, rocks, sewing needles, you name it. But when we saw this story of a Great Dane eating 43 socks, even we were amazed. Mostly we were curious why the pet parents didn’t notice all those… Read More

Meet Atlas. They don’t call him a “Dober-Goat” for nothing. He tries to eat just about anything. Foreign body ingestion is part of stomach issues – the  number one type of claim that Healthy Paws pet parents file. Learn how Healthy Paws has helped Atlas, and what his parents have done to prevent further need for… Read More