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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • I strongly disagree with the people who say pet insurance is prohibitively expensive.

    We pay around 120 per month for both of our cats and it has paid for itself several times over. When we had 4 cats, it was under $200 per month.

    One emergency surgery can be over $5,000.

    Dental issues can be extremely costly.

    We had a cat with chronic allergies. Insurance covered his ongoing immunotherapy treatments which were over $100 per month.

    We had a cat with cancer who had over $10k in treatments and surgeries covered in less than a year.

    I strongly, strongly recommend you get quotes from a couple reputable providers. We have been very happy with trupanion.

    Then, call your vet and ask how much surgery for an abscess, tooth extraction, cancer treatment, or broken leg is. Then ask how much an ultrasound is.

    We have saved thousands of dollars over the years with pet insurance.





  • The human brain has a lot of cognitive biases that we have collectively decided to legislate against.

    This is one of the easiest to move on from. It takes significantly more effort to justify and carry out judicial murder than it does to ban it.

    We banned dueling to the death over honor centuries ago, and that’s a very similar cognitive bias. Arguably a lot less impactful on society at large too, since a duel requires 2 willing participants and by definition has no collateral consequences, but it was still deemed wrong ages ago. There is no clear argument killing someone for their alleged crimes.