If you were feeding just canned it seems about right...but with dry in there, it's kind of heavy. What brands are you feeding? How much are you feeding and what do your cats weigh? Seems like you could be overfeeding.

On the other hand...5 cats on BB for less than what you're paying...I think that person has their head in the sand and doesn't really want to know how much they're spending.

 

I tried out Dave's cat food, but they don't seem to like it.....so....next I'm going to get a couple cans of Evo and see if they like that. Dave's and Evo's prices are comparable. I really haven't found a cat food cheaper than Dave's or Evo.......there's Evanger's but reviews aren't too good so I don't want to waste money ordering it and have the cats hate it.

I try making a 13 oz can last 2 days between them and free feed dry at the moment. They like the crunch.

Honestly I am not sure of their weight but it's average. I have a 6 month female and a 1 year old male.

 

Two cats and I spend....
I spend between 90 and 120 a month on JUST food.
Litter is about 20
Feliway about 18

So I spend between 128 and 158 per month for two cats.

 

Okay well now I don't feel as bad :wiggle What food do you buy?

 

I spend about 80-90 dollars for canned food
20 dollars on litter
+ toys or treats

...monthly for my two cats.

So it sounds normal to me!

 

123 bucks a month.

 

Well, I'm not sure what I spend on my cat as the dogs and cat share the raw and canned foods, but I spent 120 on food and 10 on litter. The litter'll last a month, the food, a couple of weeks. I have 2 10 lb dogs, a 35lb dog and a 10lb cat.

 

I spend between $120 and $150, most of it is in food. I feed them mostly canned food, Avoderm and ProPlan, and Avoderm dry food. The rest of the money goes to litter, toys, etc.

 

Guess I'm not spending as much as I thought I was!

 

$80 food, $30 litter - divide by two cats

I have health add-ins, Lysine and Tumil-K, that add another $5/mo or so (if I did the math right in my head).

 

I made a food rotation list to make sure I don't over do on food expenditures for Jasper. I probably am not following it that closely since I'm not feeding the foods in the order I wrote down and some foods take longer than three days for Jasper to eat a 13 oz tin since he clearly would rather eat kibble all day long... but in general I'd worked it out to about 25 dollars a month on wet food, if I was to only feed larger tins on the setup I have. I'm totally not doing that though so he's ending up with quite a few meals of ~2.00 a day food mixed in every month. There's also supplemental kibble but it'll last a long long time so no idea on how to factor a 23 dollar 5.5 pound bag into all that.

Blacky gets Friskies for the most part along with various tins I've bought for Jasper when there's no Friskies. She probably costs about 20 dollars a month, on wet food only. She does not eat kibble at all.

A bag of 40 lb litter lasts a few months and only costs about 8 dollars. Blacky goes out doors so that only leaves Jasper... and I don't replace litter, only top it up.

Sooo, ~60 dollars a month for two cats?

 

The amount I spend fluctuates from month to month depending on the number of fosters and ferals I'm caring for and what I need to buy, but I spend quite a lot. It's not at all unusual for me to spend upwards of $250 a month. Eeep! Food for my 5 probably works out to about $150. People who have told you that they feed 5 cats on Blue Buffalo for the price of your 2 are obviously not doing a very good job of tracking their spending.

 

For a while last year I actually kept a ledger for what I spend on my Claudia. I'd save reciepts for every purchase related to the cat and would enter everything I spent in a spreadsheet. I even had graphs and a running total to show how much money she cost me per day. Sounds totally crazy, I know, but it was part of my budget system at the time.

Ironically I stopped keeping up with it after I lost my job. You'd assume I would have gotten MORE picky about recording everything? But I was on such a tight budget that I didn't want to know anymore, if that makes sense. My cat also had a bunch of medical expenses around the same time I became unemployed. I just got too stressed out and depressed when I looked at all those expenses in the cold hard light of math... so I stopped looking at them. Claudia was costing me over $30 per day at one point. It was way too depressing to face that. Instead I threw my reciepts away. :\

I'm working again so I might go back to the spreadsheet, but it kinda sucks that I've lost so many months of data now. I could have an accurate lifetime record.

 

$30 a day? Oh my lord. Why did it cost that much?

 

Just a lot happened within the first few months of adopting her. She used to be a stray, so she was in rough shape when I took her in. There were all the first time costs, basic cat supplies, a physical exam and vaccines and general health tests. Then to actually get her into good health, she needed some expensive surgery, deworming and several months of flea treatments because she came with fleas too. Back to the vet a few times for more minor health issues. As well as monthly food and litter, etc., and I moved and had to pay a pet deposit on the new apartment.

Individually everything was a routine expense. Maybe not the surgeries so much, but that's not really unusual for a former stray either. Spread out over a whole year it becomes unremarkable. The $30/day peak sounds so bad because so many of those high expenses occured within the first four months. So at the time I would look at that figure and feel horrified, but it was a running average of everything I'd spent and it naturally evens out over time. Looking only at the costs of food and litter, her daily expenses drop to a couple of dollars per day.

 

Wow I'm getting off easy. I have five permanent kitties and it probably costs me $70 or so per month total just for those guys in food/litter/extras. But I buy litter at Costco, break up my frontline from the large dog size (so $15 for all 5, instead of $20 each), free feed Kirkland brand dry food, and only give wet as an occasional treat.

Right now though, with fosters (9 of whom are kittens and get wet food daily), I'm up to 16 cats and probably going through closer to $100-120 per month, even with the shelter giving me some crunchies and litter for the fosters.


Ugh, I don't want to think about how much I'm spending on them.

We went xmas shopping at petsmart a couple years ago and JUST in treats/toys/extras for the 5 cats and 1 dog, with a 20% discount, we spent over $120.

 

I spend about $30 per cat per month, but I do a lot of coupon clipping and buying things on sale. I'd be paying more if I got everything full price. What you're spending sounds reasonable.

 

I need to find vet coupons.

 

Man, I wish!

Sometimes there are small ways to save money at the vet, though. For example, my vet gives a 5% discount if you bring in two pets at once and they share one appointment slot.

 

I've got 3 cats and spend what is equivalent to $61.00 per mo. per cat

That includes:
wet food
dry food
treats
cat litter (indoor/outdoor litter costs are minimal)
flea drops
worming (once a quarter adjusted for monthly tally)
pet insurance
annual shots and check up

I shop online and at the local pet store for foods and litter.
I am a hawk when it comes to coupons and discounts, I RARELY pay full price! lol
and the litter I buy a 40L bag for equivalent to $30.00 (on sale lol) so it lasts a year, easily.

This does not include costs for toys or cat furniture lol

 

I spend about $130-150 on food alone, for three cats, (not counting the fancy feast I feed my feral 2x a day), probably $40 a month on litter (3 litter boxes - two of them are breeze which I think makes it cheaper than regular litter), I don't apply Advantage monthly, more like every few months, but I do order it at Pet Supermarket online, WAY cheaper than in the stores. I probably spend another $60-80 on my dogs food too. No wonder we are always broke But I wouldn't have it any other way, only the best for my babies. Everyone eats wet food, btw, with dry given as a snack a few kibbles at a time.

 

You are not spending as much as you think it should be! I have 5 indoor cats and I spend over $200 a month just for food and litter. Don't ask me about surgeries, eye drops, thyroid meds and follow up visit costs. DH and I look at it this way: we love our cats, consider them family and would rather be with them than do just about anything else. They have given us SO much in return. We don't do cruises, rarely go anywhere for more than 2-3 days, we don't do vices - no smoking, no fast food, no gambling; no Starbucks or equivalent. (Notice I didn't say no wine!) We spend $$$ on the cats because it makes us happy....but that's just us. I think what you are spending is reasonable and if you consider her a part of the family it's easier to accept!

I stopped worrying about the cost of them a long time ago. I used to fret, but don't any more. I buy what I need using coupons and sales and the cost is just what it is. I can't make it go lower unless I scrimp on quality or quantity and I'm just not going to do that.

If someone is spending less than $90 on 5 cats they are either lying or feeding garbage. Period.

 

My cats are on prescription food, so it is pretty expensive. I also spend more on litter than I would like.

My monthly expenses for two cats:

Dry food $35 a month.
Moist food/treats $15
Litter $25
Veterinary care $20 a month (they are both healthy)

 

I spend AT MOST 40$ a month for my one cat.
Used to be less but im switching him to a high quality food.
About 25$ for food
His litter is $14 but probably lasts more than one month
And then toys/collars/cleaning wipes

Things that can save you money: dont free feed. Scheduled feeding times/amounts will not only keep your cat slim but also make your food last longer! Also scheduled eating means you will know what time they will use the bathroom so you can scoop it out!
ALSO scoop the box everyday! This will save on litter. If you keep it clean every day, then you will not need to change the whole thing as often.
AND always buy in bulk!!

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I spend about $13 dollars a month in dry food for Mia. About $10 a month for litter. And $3 a month for treats which she only gets a little of when I wake in the morning.
So around $26 a month.

 

I spend roughly on average £7 per cat per week. So roughly say about £20 a week on my cats that includes cat litter and cat food. In reality I've spent a heck of a lot more the past couple of months as two of them are kittens and it's been all vaccines and spay and neutering. That aside I'd say about £80 a month for me and my lot! Crumbs just did a quick calc and that means roughly $124!!!

(I have 3 cats)

 

I spend about $40 a month on her food, and about $8 for her litter, and then for various treats and such, about $10, plus her little carbon deoderizer probably $10, so about $70 a month. She gets Fancy Feast 1.5 cans a day, and Special Kitty 28lb cat litter.

 

I spend about $100 for 2 cats between their food, treats/supplements and litter. Also set aside some fund for the health. I justify it by not buying junk food like cookies, chips, soda and coffees. I lose weight and cats get good food.