I spend about $1000 a month with a population that ranges from 25-40, depending
on adoptions and new intake. We feed primarily canned but with dry (mostly
Kirkland Premium and the no-grain in the orange bag). It's a big chunk of
money every month but the cats are happy and healthy.
For the past year I've been planning ahead and buying discounted PetSmart gift
cards through http://www.giftcardbin.com/ and http://www.cardpool.com/ They
also have petco cards but nothing for Costco. Take a look. It really has
helped my budget. (I recently combined gift cards discounted by 18% with the
PetSmart Friends & Family sale discount of 15%, and used a few random coupons.
For awhile there I had a lot of cases of friskies stacked up in the living
room!)
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From: "dlg...@windstream.net" <dlg...@windstream.net>
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] The Price of Cat Food
Since Homey and Nitnoy, I feed half canned and dry. I also have water
fountains and that makes a diffrence in how much they drink. I have to fill up
the 2 fountains every morning and afternoon. Each takes 64 ounces. Course
Casey spills some. She likes to bat at the water before she drinks. I never
thought about how much per day per cat, just feed them. I usually give about
1/4 cup in morning, afternoon and evening of the dry Blue Buffalo and 1 can
divided by 7. I mix the can with 2 cans of hot water. The heat makes it smell
more and they always drink the liquid and later on eat the meat.
---- Kathryn Hargreaves <khargrea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm curious as to how much you are spending per day per cat feeding dry. I
> am able to feed raw for 70 cents/day per cat. If you didn't buy the
> chicken from Whole Foods, which charges about twice as much as do, say
> local ethnic butchers, then you could roll in for around half that.
>
> I've heard they have to eat more dry than raw, as it isn't as high-octane
> of food. Also, cats don't drink enough water to compensate for dry food,
> grain/starch-free or not, and stand a very good chance of ending up with
> CRF.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Lee Evans <moonsiste...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Oh, @#$%!!!. The price of Kirkland Adult Maintenance cat food used to be
> > $16.99. Then it went up a year later to $17.59. Well, I bought two 20 lb.
> > bags a week and a half ago. This Tuesday, I went back to Costco because my
> > cats ate most of the Kirkland and the price had gone up to $18.99!!! It
> > went up $1.49 in about a week. This is robbery. I'm so depressed. The
> > crap I buy at the feed store doesn't have a high fat content and doesn't
> > have actual chicken like Kirkland and is $20 for a 36 pound bag. Well,
> > kitties, you're going to be back on a diet of crap and corn meal unless
> > Mommy can get another job online. Sigh.
> >
> >
> > Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty
> > neighbors too!
> >
> >
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> ----------------------------
> Go Get a Life---Go Get a Shelter Animal!
>
> If you can't adopt, then foster "bottle baby" shelter animal, to save their
> life. Contact your local pound for information.
> <http://www.laanimalservices.com/volunteer_fostercare.htm>
>
> If you can't bottle feed, foster an older animal, to save their life, and
> to free up cage space.
>
>
> Ask your local animal pound to start saving over 90% of their intake by
> implementing the No Kill Equation:
> http://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/shelter-reform/no-kill-equation/<http://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/>
>
> Here's the current growing list of true No Kill communities:
> http://www.nokillhouston.org/no-kill-shelters-in-north-america/
>
> Legislate better animal pound conditions: http://www.rescue50.org
>
> More fun reading: http://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/shelter-reform/guides/
>
> More fun watching: http://vimeo.com/nokill/videos especially
> http://vimeo.com/48445902
>
>
>
> Local feral cat crisis? See Alley Cat Allies' for how to respond:
> http://www.alleycat.org/page.aspx?pid=537
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