How much do you spend on your cats?

[BluueVelvett]

I've seen quite a few people say they only spend a little bit of money on their cats and that will last the whole month etc, so I was just wondering where everyone buys their litter?

I have two cats and end up getting through one bag of litter a week (£6.45) and then I get a 40 x Felix cat food a week for £13, so about £20 a week, plus £2 a week for biscuits and treats. They eat two wet meals a day and have biscuits out in a bowl to graze on throughout the day.

But I've seen people say they spend this a month and I'd be interested to know where abouts you get your food from as I'd like to know how to get it cheaper? Where's good to order from/shop in?

Quite a lot monthly. Two cats, both middle aged (9/10).
£45 to insure
£25 on litter
Around £40 on food
£25 on vet health club (covers regular treatments - flea, worming, boosters)

Actually I think it’s more than that on food. I buy big 29kg bags of biscuits for £60 that last around 2/3 months, then wet food around £1.50 per day.

Our three cost about £60 total per month - food (felix good-as-it-looks, science plan crunchies), litter, flea drops monthly, wormers every three). We bulk buy the food online, 15kg sacks are way cheaper than littler ones.

No insurance, we've paid about £1200 out of pocket total over four years so we're well ahead of the game currently (would be about £50/month for the three = £2400!).

How is my insurance so much more than everyone else’s?! No claims on either of them although they are getting old and I did claim for my other cat who died last year. Bloody Petplan!

I think insurance depends on the level. We have per condition for lifetime. Some plans cap the condition by time or cost. Or there is an annual limit for claims. I did think about going for a cheaper policy but was advised by a friend who had a dog with what ended up being a lifetime condition so followed her advice.

Also the age of the cat will increase the premium.

My cat won't eat wet food so dried food is around £9 a month. She doesn't use a litter tray, but I get her flea treatment posted to me for £4 a month. I'm currently looking at getting pet insurance for her at approx £6 a month as she's just past 8 yrs old now .

Three cats (so three trays because they won’t share - we use oko by cat’s best. No smell and so easy to clean. So little waste so full change is only about monthly if that. It’s about £14 for a 20L bag which still lasts us a good 2 months.
Food, only one of them reliably eats wet food so he gets a whiskas or felix pouch each evening alongside biscuits, that’s about £6 on wet a month.
Dry food they all have purina one. A 6kg bag will feed all three happily for a month. That’s usually around £17.
Insurance when I last checked was £25-something a month.
Boosters yearly, we paid out for Vac4Life cover so their routine checks, vaccinations and worming for life are already paid. It was about £80 each but that may have changed as was a few years ago.
Toys - the kids usually get them little catnip bananas and stuff like that with pocket money, told them they didn’t have to but it has certainly earned them some trust

2 cats. I don't do insurance as it doesn't seem worth it to me. They go to the vet once a year for all their injections and check up. I was paying about £110 each or so for this, but will be switching to a lower cost clinic this year and it should be 1/2 that.

As for the rest, I buy one large dry food bag which total £20 and last the month. I buy one wet can for each week, really good quality wet food, so these come to £10. As for litter, we scoop morning and night and change the litter fully twice a month. Litter is £5 a time, so total £10.

Monthly totals
20 + 10 + 10 = £40 + £10 month toward annual vet trip = £50 a month for 2 cats. They are both getting up there in age. Will be interesting to see how vet bills change.

As for the dog, no litter costs and so far no vet costs (included in her rescue fees). We buy her two very high quality bags of food a month which come to £35 and she goes to have her nails cut as the sweetest dog in the world turns into a vicious beast. Worth the £7 fees. So total £42. A few pounds on liver treats too.

So three pets, just shy of £100 a month.

These are US prices so it may be a little different. I've got 2 indoor adult cats.

Litter- about $7 every 2 weeks. I have 2 litter trays and 1 box of litter does both + tops ups.

Food- $50/month (£40). This is for special dry food. One of my cats has gastro issues and the other is picky and this is the only food I've found that they both tolerate.

Vets- if all goes to plan, it's about $120/year/cat (£95) for an annual check-up. The cat with gastro issues usually has an extra visit + medications once a year if he has a flare-up which generally adds about $250 ish when you include medication and prescription food. Amazingly that still doesn't make insurance worth it here!

That works out at about $110/month (£85).

I have a thing with the vet - I pay £11 pm per cat so they get their jabs included in that and claw clipping whenever I need it.

Food comes from Zooplus, though I am far less enamoured of the UK site than the Belgian one; I never got messages saying my order would be delayed in Belgium..I've placed orders twice here, and both times I've got the delayed message. Unimpressed.

Litter is from the pet shop - Pettex, which clumps well.

I bought a shedload of supplements and meds before I came back to UK just in case, and I am spending some on Pronefra.

The feline overlords like different food, so I have to buy different brands, and I feed them the odd tin of tuna and free range chicken if I'm roasting one for us. Might try them on the pheasant lurking in the freezer.

I don't know what I spend, but it's cheaper than manicures, pedicures and having my hair highlighted every six weeks to hide the grey.

We have two cats.

£38/month for lifetime insurance for both
Before Xmas I bulk ordered dry food from Zooplus £80 for 6 months worth.
Tigerino clumping litter, scoop and rarely change. I think spent £50 for 6 months worth
Wet food and treats around £5-10/month
Don’t buy toys etc very often

So maybe £70/month for both cats.

I shop on amazon for cat biscuits they get through just over a bag a month so around £25

One cat here (well, still a kitten technically, he's 7 months old)
I buy a bag of Cat's Best litter from Pets at Home every month to six weeks - it's £10 for a big bag. It's a clumping litter so I just scoop it, I only do a full litter change monthly, sometimes six-weekly.
Food wise, as he's still young he's only on 2 pouches a day. Plus dry food overnight. I buy Tiger food (Asdas own brand) which is £2.20 for a box of 12 pouches, and 95p for the dry food. I buy treats from Aldi, they're about 50p a bag.
Other than that: £6 a month for his insurance, occasionally a toy or something, but no other expenses.
So I reckon that comes to around £20-30 a month??

Insurance_ £28
Vet VIP club which includes vaccine and flea and worm treatment £17
Food, he is on a raw diet due to him having a sensitive stomach and his breed approximately £64
This is 4 weekly
My other movies are not insured
VIP vets club approx £17 each
On a dry complete diet and also the local rats! £20

Sorry bloody autocorrect! Cat 1 is a Maine-coon and kept indoors, cat 2 and 3 are farm moggies

I also forgot car 1 litter approximate £16 on wood pellets, £300 when needed on a specialist cat tree to hold his mighty weight!

I used to use Catsan but I was still going through a bag a week and it was costing a fortune. Tesco’s own make is £1.55 and honestly the best cheap litter out there.

Apart from that my Tom cats too fussy. He will only eat iams crunchies and lots of them and cries every few hours for a whiskas pouch but never ever eats the meat, only the jelly.

So around £50-£60 a month

We have four cats, they dont really use the litter tray much anymore so I spend about £6 a month on litter, £50 for healthy pet club, £22 pet insurance and £80 on food so about £160 a month.

What kind of litter do you use for £6.45 a week?

I have 2 cats, one very elderly with lymphoma.

Before my wee old man was ill I spent £50 every 6 months on a huge sack of Royal Canin urinary diet, about £9 to £12 a month on a big pack of Felix sachets depending on where I bought them and around £7 for some Sheba trays. I would also buy a huge sack of wood litter from B and M every month for around £8 meaning a total of around £40 a month.

Now my boy costs £30 for vet plan allowing unlimited visits, £30 for steroids and medicine to stop him being sick and around £5 a week in applaws to get extra calories in him.

His steroids make him pee constantly so I have swapped over to Catsan smart packs at a cost of around £7 a week.

Now that I have totted that up I feel quite queasy to find I probably spend £140 a month on my cats right now.

I've always been a fan of the wood pellets but have just got Breeder Celect (sic) paper pellets, not least because it can go down the loo. So far so good...

I stopped using Go-cat after my cat developed a horrendous urinary tract infection. My vet urged me to switch ( not to a vet product but to anything other than .. it appeared that Go-cat is urinary tract unfriendly)

Exactly the same thing happened with mine, within a couple of weeks of feeding Go Cat he had a bad infection.

Buying the veterinary diet from the vet costs a small fortune but is a lot cheaper online, around £2.50 a week for 2 cats.

Another one for worlds best.. seems expensive but lasts for ages.. also we get Felix on Amazon by bulk, works out cheaper in the long run!

I would have thought with 2 cats and 2 wet meals a day you would save money with tins rather than pouches - you would use one tin a day.
I used to use tins but with only one cat and one wet meal a day they lasted 4 days and cat was fussy about them cold from the fridge so I have gone back to pouches.

I pay about £6 per kilo for premium dry food (I buy big 6 kg bags at a time) and £3.05 for 12 Felix pouches, and I feed one pouch and 50g dry food each day - one wet and one dry meal.
That's about 30p on dry and 25p on wet daily, so £3.85 per week.

Too much! About £300 a month to include prescription food, meds, the regular vet checks they need and cat litter. I have two and they're 17 and 18 and not in the best of health. It's a massive chunk out of our household budget and a bit of an issue between me and DH who never wanted them in the first place, but what choice do I have? I so regret not insuring them when they were of an age I could. We probably would've paid a similar amount over the course of their lives but this is becoming ridiculous.