apart from price of dog how much are you looking at for puppy?

[cheesesarnie]

how much at first and then yearly?

How long is a piece of string?

Varies depending on breed, area of country etc but I reckon:

jabs (first set) £50
annual boosters £35
food - £7 / week
wormers, frontline etc - say £3 /month
castration or spaying £150 - £500(?) - boys cheaper, big dogs more expensive
insurance - £5 - £40 month (pedigrees more expensive)
toys, lead, bowl etc - allow maybe £50 initially

Have probably forgotten loads of things but does that help?

Kennels if you have to use them--about £15-£18 a night.

lol bedlam. So true, so true

Costs of my spaniel:

£16 per month pet insurance (might be slightly less for a puppy)
£20 per month on food
£20 per year boosters
£50 initial jabs plus microchipping
£9 per quarter worming
£2 per year flea treatment
£10-80 for bed, depending on what you get
£10 per day at kennels

££££ on sofas, carpets, bed linen, etc, that gets wrecked if they have free reign of the house
Estate car
Dog guard
Dog cage for car

I have a 9 week old bichon frise x mini schnauzer.

Initial outlay- £40 for toys, brushes, collar, lead, tags, puppy wee pads,

Injections- are £40 for both,

neutered- is £25,

micro chipping -is free (the council run events where you take your pet along),

Food - at the minute about £7 a month as he is a small dog and eats only tiny amounts, may well go up.

wormer - pancur paste £5 gets a tube big enough to do him twice at his adult weight

Bed - he has a olf fleecy blanket in a cat box! WHen he grows out of that i'll get him a bigger crate which will be about £30.

Grooming - apart from the brushes i bought he will need grooming which as a puppy is £12 and an adult £18 (bath and clip) that will be every 3 mths.

Insurance - £7 a month (havent sorted this yet )

Cant think of anything else!

thanks all very helpful!

loving the honesty too!

My puppy developed severe allergies.

All the below + £2000 (ish) per year in specialists and injections and drugs.

blimey-not so good

Oh but he's lovely and SO worth it

thats nice to hear.what type of dog?

Arguably if we include the cost of fencing the garden, dogproofing the rooms, arranging holiday cover etc, operations and insurance and food etc, probably cost £15k for a 12 yr lifetime of our Bernese. Not a cheap hobby.

I agree Amber

Plus when we moved house to london we had to get a garden... that cost.... plus we needed a bigger car to transports DC's + dog, without Dog we could have kept our old car... they re a bloody fortune, actually, and it's not food, it's 'hidden' costs.

Cheesesarnie I have a cocker spaniel.

Mad as a box of frogs but very loving and GREAT with kids/other dogs. Don't fancy your chances as a cat though