Had Bramble's with Argos, started at £22, climbed up a bit then jumped to £80 when he was 7, then they wanted £125 a month a year later, so he's not insured now. Don't use Argos.
I got my insurance through Bought by Many, supplied by More Than. Around 13quid a month for a 4 year old. Full cover including non emergency dental, which is not normally offered. Never had to claim though... not even really sure how it works.
I can tell by his eyes if he's carried something home from the park that he shouldn't have, he keeps glancing up to see if he's been rumbled. A potato, an apple core, a corn on the cob husk, etc.
I don't think I told the (suspected) rat poison story from a few months ago. As ever, apologies if I did:
We were walking out from a section on my road that leads to a stream, and just before the road he tucked his head behind a fence for no more than a split second. I had headphones on, which may be why I missed the sound of him scoffing something, but when I told him to sit as we crossed the road he guiltily dropped a good handful of brown pellets. I wasn't sure what I was looking at, so I took them home. Usually rat poison is brightly coloured, but I guess not always as the first hit when I did a Google image search for 'brown rat poison' was pretty much precisely what I was holding in my hand. I couldn't be sure whether he'd chugged a load down or not. I left him indoors while my wife rang the vet for advice, and went door knocking with the pellets as a visual aid to find out if anyone near the pile had been feeding ducks/chucked away a load of rabbit food etc - or trying to kill rats coming up from the river. I quickly realised that I was coming across as lord of the pikies, as people were backing away/immediately shutting the door on me as I was trying to explain. "My dog ate these" (where's the dog then, was presumably everyone's initial reaction). So I'm stressing, and getting increasingly annoyed that everyone - quite understandably - thinks I'm doing some sort of door to door scam complete with prop. It turns out insisting you're not on the rob, even if you're not, is a tricky one - it's not even information worth offering. Never got to the bottom of it, was touch and go whether to take him in for something to make him sick, but a) the vet advised just keeping an eye on him, and b) it was out of hours £250 minimum.
Luckily we made the right decision, either that or he didn't eat any, because he was absolutely fine. I gave him a load of charcoal as a sort of homebrew remedy after a bit of online research. I also chucked the (pretty big) pellet pile away by the river and stuck a note up explaining how this sort of thing could cause confusion, but that's about it for the story.