No question who rules our household, the pets! I walk out of our bedroom eary in the morning only to be greeted by Miss Kitty! She sits on our banister and begins my day with a commanding…i won’t even say meow…it is more like a shriek.
Face It..Pets have needs and the expenses are real
This is my reminder that it is time she gets her dollop of wet cat food. As she stalks me to the kitchen, I dare not put on a cup of coffee until I have retrieved her can of tuna, chicken, or whatever. When I set it down, she gently nudges my hand toward the silverware drawer.
She purrs as I carefully spoon her wet food on top of her dry food. Once this ritual is complete, she will disappear until my wife awakens and she will try to coax her into the same routine. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. But Miss Kitty is gonna try!
Then it’s time to clean the litter box. Which means pouring in more kitty littter product after cleaning. I have not even had my coffee and already spent about $2 on the cat. Kitty litter and soft food is not cheap these days with inflation!
One bag of food at the local discount store goes about 22-24 dollars every 3 weeks. The cat we can get by with about $11.00 a month on dry food and maybe 10 dollars minimum of wet food per month. The kitty litter is $9 a month. Lets do the Math here! Fortunately the cat is younger, aslo a rescue cat so she has little health maintenance other than about $100 a year for shots.
I am not even gonna talk about Mayzee, our 14-year-old rescue dog. Cute as she is, her maintenance with vet bills and food average … let me do a conservative guestimate. One month it is a bad tooth, next month it’s her arthritis and and her knees are going out. At the very least with annual shots and routine maintenance for her stomach and arthritis., I am looking at 300-500-a year in vet and medicine bills More if she needs x-rays. Plus food.
If we have good year, we can get by with about 1300-1700 dollars a year on the pets….the dog will probably not live more than a couple of years max so her vet bills keep climbing as we nurture her…in the next 2 years I estimate we will spend at least 4000 dollars for simple maintenance excluding major illness or death.
Depending on health needs, easily we spend about 150 per month on the pets alone not counting the dozens of trips to the storeand toys, bones grooming products, etc. That’s quite a chunk, especially on a fixed income. But No way are we gonna sacrifice the well-being of either…they are a hoot. We enjoy them.
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