What are your monthly cat expenses?

[pearce1974]

It seems like every week I am buying the 40-pound Fresh Step container from Sam's and since we got Baby Birple, his little appetite is just a growing.

I can't believe an estimated $200.00 per month for food [2-13 oz cans of friskies turkey and giblets and one 5.5 ounce can of friskes shredded chicken an gravy per day], frontline for four per month, kitty litter, large bag of purina one dry food at 25.00...wow!!

I had no idea!!!! Not to mention cute toys, vet visits, etc. Owning a pet is really expensive. Oh well, it's not like I can give them back, they are my children, thank goodness for the stimulus check! Too bad we can no longer claim fur babies on taxes. I guess I really won't have human kids, afterall, unless the stork surprises me. Too bad he couldn't wear hand me downs. :lol

What are your expenses per month?

[materialsgirl]

Hmmmm... good question. Probably on the order of $100-$120 a month for my 3 cats, between food, litter, annual vet visits, Theodore's monthly allergy shot, and miscellaneous expenses (toys and catnip ).

[mistressotdark]

for the 2 cats..easily over $100/month...
but they are my babies

[fifi1puss]

I try not to think about it

2 bags of dry nutro, i usual get a sale and coupons so about $10-12 for both.

Meow mix pouches. Can you believe they eat so little that they can share a pouch! I use two a day. So thats about $30 a month. and I usually get some more expensive foods like wellness or merrick....probably about $15 a month.

One thing of litter (25lbs.) last me a month @ $12, and i get the litter lockers refill - 3 each @ $8= $24.

Toys, catnip etc. $10-$20 (i like to keep the kids happy.)

So grand total is (drumroll please!) $120....around what I expected.

Wanna see who else is spending what

[save_adopt]

luckly who i foster through supplies everything. the only thing we had to buy was a small bag of litter when we didnt have time to grab a new one from the HS.

no kitties of my own right now

[white cat lover]

I figure about $500ish a month. Between feeding this many, Revolution, litter, it adds up rapidly.

[sharky]

I figure about 90 per fur kid .... per month ... lol.. but then there are ER visits and multiple vet visits this week it is more like 120 each a month

[Callista]

Surprisingly little. I get help from the shelter for one of them, since I'm fostering; and since that includes litter they can all use, it saves me a bit. And they're indoor, so no flea worries; they're young and healthy; they eat decent-quality (i.e., mostly meat) dry food, so they don't have digestive problems... Biggest problem I've had so far was allergies, easily solved by food-switching away from corn.

[AmberThe Bobcat]

I would say close to $300 per month, just for food. I haven't included vet costs. I just got 2 months of revolution and that was close to $200. Carmelo was just at the vet, didn't see that bill yet. Yes, our fur kids can be really costly can't they

[CC12]

Around 500 a month.

[JellyBella]

It varies, I would guess about $150 a month, but last month Stan had dental work ($252) and we discovered that he needed chicken-free food, so I'm now spending ~$2 a can for instinct rabbit & venison or $1 for venison & green pea...

It's expensive, but worth it

[Jack31]

Wow!

We dont' spend nearly that much. In the 6 months we've had Jack we have only bought one bag of food (nutro) all the other bags were free (everyone I know got the free bag coupons from Nutro and gave them to me--which means all I paid was tax 65 cents for a 4 lb bag.)

A 40 lb bucket of Tidy Cats lasts about 6 weeks ($12)

He is only interested in toys he can carry--he plays fetch--so our options are limited. He isn't interested in catnip.

Indoor only so no fleas.

1st year checkup will be in July. Should run us about $50

Leslie