Employers offer pet insurance as perk
Photo credit: AP | MGM Grand poker dealer Dar Reike holds Alexia, the dog she and husband Rick Reike got at a company adoption fair. Though the couple opted against it, they could have gotten pet insurance through MGM Resorts International for $25 to $35 a month. (Dec. 11, 2012)
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Melissa Yoakam jokingly calls her dog Shadow her "car payment" because she pays $250 a month for the 12-year-old's cancer treatments.
She'd pay far less if she had pet insurance, but she didn't take advantage of it when Shadow was younger and when he got cancer it was too late. She uses her experience to convince colleagues not to make the same mistake.
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