GADGET-COVER.COM
MOBILE PHONE & GADGET INSURANCE
PRESS RELEASE
May 22, 2012.
It’s official – Britain ’s most dangerous animals
are boxer dog puppies.
That’s the finding of www.gadget-cover.com, the UK ’s
longest-established mobile phone and electronic gadget insurance provider,
which says that the combined teeth and slobber content of a boxer chewing on a
mobile phone are fatal – to the phone.
“Puppies, generally, are the
animals most cited when claims are made for pet-inflicted damage to mobile
phones, iPods, satnavs and other electronic gadgets – but breeds such as
boxers, which slobber more than most, result in more moisture damage, which is
generally fatal for a phone,” said Carmi Korine of Gadget-Cover.
Puppies chewing on phones are the
most common claim, followed by cats chasing them around table tops before
knocking them on to hard floors. Wagging dog tails also do their fair share of
damage by launching gadgets across rooms from low surfaces, but some claims are
difficult to prove.
“We’ve had claims for people who
say their snake has swallowed a phone, while others have claimed their parrots
have cracked phone screens or peeled off covers, and we have had a claim that a
pet monkey stole a phone and in playing with it ended up dialling a number in
South America which stayed connected until the battery ran out, and ran up a
bill of hundreds of pounds.
“We were speculating that he was
phoning home.”
Of animal-related claims made in
the first four months of 2012, these were the most frequent:
- Puppies chewing phones or gadgets, 29%.
- Adult dogs fetching phones for owners, 22%.
- Dogs knocking phones onto hard surfaces or into liquid, 19%
- Cats knocking phones onto hard surfaces, 13%.
- Incidents involving horses, 9%.
- Incidents involving fish tanks, 6%.
- Other, 2%.
www.gadget-cover.com
is part of Supercover Insurance, the UK
Ends
Further information:
Iain Macauley
07788 978800
No comments:
Post a Comment