Great Feed, House and Keep Your Pets Hunt

carolbee

I use zooplus as well, and go through the rpoints website.

I have had lots of freebies, cat bowls, fleeces etc, you can sign up I think for a newsletter. I also spent over £75 last time to get the discount. Very reliable, takes about a week for delivery (from Germany), so don't leave it until the last minute - like me!

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bulchy wrote:

Not for everyone, I know, but we feed our dogs BARF (Bones and raw food diet) Very cheap, and feeding a more natural diet has cut down on vet fees, one of my dogs constantly had upset stomachs when he was fed commercial dog food, but hes never had a problem since changing his diet. I wont bore you with the details, but if anyone wants to look into this, I'm no expert but I can point you in the right direction regarding websites,books etc.
Sue

Please beware Bones either cooked or Raw are not good for dogs and many pet insurance policies are void if they are fed to the animal also chocolate and garlic and onion all 3, dogs love but are highly toxic to there digestive systems

Check with your vet better to " Be safe than Sorry " with regard to insurance policies A Life policy is the only advisable one to use as many so called " Cheap Alternative's " are for that year only and any long term illness or injury will not be covered after the anniversary of its onset.

Pet Plan is the safest policy as advised by vets a little more per month but covered for all eventualities for the life of the animal

Our Jack Russells policy is appx £15 per month with " pet plan " I researched all of the available alternatives ( many of which where half this ammount ) and none included Life of the animal even for illnesses such as Cancer or Arthritus at best they offered a " Max Cost " per illness or at worst a 12 month anniversary cut off date

At the end of the day its your choice but please beware of the cheapies offered by supermarkets , Big insurance company's and saga they are of vertualy no use when you read what they cover and how much you have to pay before the policy kicks in usualy the first £80 to £100 is not covered of any vetenary fee's

nixie_2

tigs78 wrote:

If your pet needs regular medication and is not insured you can get a prescription from your vet (he/she cannot charge for this) and then order from a pet pharmacy website.

I have found the best to be https://www.vetuk.co.uk I literally pay half the price that my vet charges, the service is excellent and I normally get my cats' tablets within 48 hours of ordering - it's free delivery on non food items too.

I've also used https://www.bestpetpharmacy.co.uk and they were excellent too, vetuk beat them on price for the particular tablets that my cat needs.

You can also get flea and worm treatments that aren't available in pet shops or supermarkets and are normally bought at extortionate prices from the vets. Frontline no longer requires a prescription, some others do but remember your vet can no longer charge for issuing one.

Wow! I had no idea you could do this. I have to buy tablets for my cat, along with special food every month and its costing me a fortune. I'll find out how much I get charged for the tablets and look into getting them from one these sites instead!! Thanks for the great tip!!

rita-rabbit

Pets at Home is not cheap for cat food (unless you have over 4 cats) - only cheaper for bulk purchase of litter (even with vouchers).

Your local petshop or supermarket is cheaper & online is cheapest!

MissMoneypenny

Fleago wrote:

If you have annual boosters for your dogs, you may not be aware that you have up to a month after the year is up in which you can still have the booster done without having to do the entire vaccination course again. B][/B]

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but your vet should be offering you the chance to give your dog the 3 YEAR booster vaccination. I found that some vets don't seem to be telling their clients about this! My dogs have the 3 year booster but they still need the lepto (rats) booster every year.

ALSO
PRESCRIPTION CHARGES/DRUGS/WORMERS
The law changed on 31 October 2005 so that the monopoly vets and drugs companies had on the price of your pets drugs has now been changed.
http://www.hyperdrug.com/products.asp?dept=174

I just bought some frontline (deflea) from the above company at less than half the price my vet wanted to charge me. I chose this company to buy from as they have a stall at Crufts/my friends buy from them/they are one of the cheapest I found.

Dog food - I've got a warehouse card. Most dog clubs will be able to get these and sacks of top brands of food are about 1/3 cheaper this way. I also go the supermarkets when they about to close and pick up cheap veggies and meat for my dogs.

lil_me

gavinroach wrote:

We also sell the manufactors food which retails at £24.00 for 7.5Kg where as the 'working dog food' costs £21.00 for 15Kg
Happy Saving:money:
Gavin

I must get it very cheap then as I pay £6 for the same amount :money:

Been looking back through this thread with interest as to insurance policies etc, thanks for the info on meds, that will come in very handy :T

Gaia

One thing I forgot to mention re M&S insurance. We chose a higher excess and pay a lower premium.

dytham

Garden centre and pet shops seem to charge a fortune for fish food.

I get mine from a fishing bait shop - Kings Langley Bait and Tackle.

They trade as kingslangleybaitntackle on ebay.

Example: Floating pond sticks Koi Carp, Gold fish food 5kg for £7.99.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Floating-pond-sticks-Koi-Carp-Gold-fish-food-5kg_W0QQitemZ330029238411QQihZ014QQcategoryZ20759QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

They also do winter pond pellets and wild bird food.

I have no connection with this shop, except for being a very satisfied customer.

Chas.

vizcacha

flis21 wrote:

I have a house rabbit and he just loves cardboard boxes. Used to buy him expensive toys to chew, now he just gets the boxes from any deliveries we get. He loves hopping in and out of them and chewing them to bits and I don't care how quickly he chews them as I am not worried about how much they cost.

I agree - my housebunny loves cardboard boxes , too! Anything you can get them to chew has to be good thing

I also order her hay in bulk from a willow farm in wales which lasts her nearly a year for a big box. It's far better quality that the pet shop plastic bag stuff (no pesticides etc) and doesn't work out any more expensive in bulk

The other moneysaving thing I would mention with a houserabbit is make sure your house is well rabbit-proofed. Keep all wires off the floor and/or hide.

I have a big piece of card behind my computer in front of the wires to protect them so that none are exposed. You can also get plastic tubing from DIY shops which slip over the wires and protect them when they can't be hidden.

Don't put clothes or bags on the floor - or plants!:eek:

It can be very expensive to keep replacing chewed things (I'm now on my 5th phone !)
not even taking into account the risks to the bunny

Basically anything on the floor belongs to them as far as they're concerned.

My bunny loves tipping over cups of tea if I put them on the floor just to remind me of that !

Choccyholic

Our tortoise loves the FREE dandilion leaves and flowers that grow in an abundance around here.

He also gets the cauliflower greenery and the outer leaves of our cabbages. He also gets the cucumber and lettuce if there's any left at the end of the week. (NB lettuce is tortoise junk food as it's not got a great deal of nutritional benefit).