The real cost of having pets

trolleyrun

Right, here goes:

Dog food: £8/month (roughly)
Treats: £2/month
Yearly vet check (incl any needed boosters): £50
Worming tablets & flea treatment: £50/year
Insurance: £11/month

These are rough estimates. I'm gradually introducing a new food which is even cheaper and as long as mutt is happy and healthy on it, I'll stick with the new food. It'll then be around £2.50/month for food. Yes, really!

The treats I use are gravy bones, marrowbones and training treats. She also get a small charcoal biscuit every other night (otherwise she gets quite windy )

Tiglath

gettingready wrote: »

I was feeding my lot 2 tins of classic per day between all 6 of them but with Animonda they only get 1 tin per day between them - they also eat dry food.

Can not see dry food listed with yours?

No our vet told us not to give dried food as one of our old boys had a blocked bladder from it and nearly died. Occasionally we give them Dreamies because we can control who gets what then; we can't if we just put bowls of crunchies down.

Tiglath

scaredy_cat wrote: »

8 tins a day?!! my Giz has about 1/2 tin of Butchers Classic and some biscuits and he is a big cat.

Even for 9 cats that is rather a lot of tin food.

We recently took them up from 6 to 8, but we'll probably drop down again come the summer. We wormed them as well. There's never any left and none of them is overweight; it's possible we have 'visitors.' That's how a couple of them came to us in the first place.

Tygermoth

We have three cats one dog and 5 chickens.

I can tell you exactly how much they cost us last year. 3k

The OH religiously notes every household expenditure on a spreadsheet and we have just had the year end review.

That is food, drugs, flea/worming, one admission to hospital for one of the cats. getting the dog, rspca donation, all his start up jabs, training classes, crate, harness lead, dishes, toys and so on.

In the winds the roof blew the roof off the chicken house and damaged it irreparably. That's the first big cost of this year so we are not off to a great start!

It all adds up. :eek:

gettingready

Tygermoth wrote: »

they cost us last year. 3k

... drugs,

Sorry, could not help myself

Tygermoth

Lol

Tell you what i needed some when told the year total.

The pets cost more than running our cars last year - including repairs, mots, insurance and loan payments! (not petrol though, that's another eye watering amount)

krlyr

trolleyrun wrote: »

Right, here goes:

Dog food: £8/month (roughly)
Treats: £2/month
Yearly vet check (incl any needed boosters): £50
Worming tablets & flea treatment: £50/year
Insurance: £11/month

These are rough estimates. I'm gradually introducing a new food which is even cheaper and as long as mutt is happy and healthy on it, I'll stick with the new food. It'll then be around £2.50/month for food. Yes, really!

The treats I use are gravy bones, marrowbones and training treats. She also get a small charcoal biscuit every other night (otherwise she gets quite windy )

If she's getting windy, I would wonder of her food (or treats) are quite suiting her. A bit of wind now and then is normal, but if it were a person with constant wind, you'd probably change your diet or have it checked out. My two get bad wind in lamb so I tend to avoid it - I think wind is the body's way of saying the food doesn't really agree with them, and I do worry about the potential pain of trapped wind.

Merry_Wanderer

£22 dry food (skinners duck & rice)
£25 insurance
£10 vet plan (worm/flea/jabs/checkups)
£8 toothpaste (logic gel)

So the basic minimum is about £65 per month (Greyhound)

Then there is extra stuff that comes out of our food budget here and there such as sardines, reduced meat for treats, etc. (Also bedding/coats/collar as and when.)

~Chameleon~

Only one elderly cat left now so:

Wet food (Applaws - 2 x small tins/pots per day) = £36 per month
Dry food (Proplan Housecat) = £12 per month
Cat litter (Oko Olus) = £4 per month

Total = £52 per month

lemontart

I do hope purchased for the furrys are done online via cashback sites such as topcashback ...........you will bank a bit of cash that way that will at least cover thier xmas pressys