How much do you spend on your dog per month?

[embarrassedabout]

Hello

I realise this will vary a lot depending on breed, health, food etc...

Just wondering on average what people spend on their dogs per month (including insurance, food, toys, treatments, poop bags, things you have to replace etc).

Thanks

[Hovverry]

Small young dog. £19 insurance, £30 food, flea stuff £3.
Toys from charity shops, occasional new collar, only been to vet for vaccinations.

[rottiemum88]

Our two dogs cost us £500 per month, broken down as:

Food £100
Insurance £120
Dog walker £200
Treats & toys £40
Vet cover (to pay for flea & worming & vaccinations £40

[Stellaris22]

And gravy bones and dentastix, so another £10/month for those. And we use nappy sacks as poo bags and I'm still using the pack of 300 I got when we first got her.

[Stellaris22]

One year old basset hound:
Food £20-30/month (we buy dry food in bulk which lasts 3-4 months and the butchers deal of 2 for £18 boxes at pets at home)
Insurance £35/month
Pet plan £15/month

I love my dog and we've tried raw food, butternut box, but she's happy and healthy with the food she gets now

No toys as it's a waste of money as she would t play with them

[PrincessHoneysuckle]

Oh and 10 pound per month on insurance

[PrincessHoneysuckle]

Around 6 pound per month,v good quality dry food but our tiny dog eats less than the average

[Neron]

Forgot his yumove - £20

[Neron]

For 1 staffie who is 11:

Food £80 (he has allergies)
Treats etc £10
Insurance £108
Vet plan for flea/worming £18
Pain relief £35
Vets depends on what's going on. 3 monthly blood tests at £90, consultations £36 each, he's had 2 surgeries totalling £6000 this year and that's without the after care and medication etc

[clearingaspaceforthecat]

One giant breed:
Insurance £124
food £80
probably another £30 on flea/worming

We were thinking of getting another...might hold off for now!

[missbattenburg]

@Mydogsnotfat, not sure which one gingerfox uses but wormcount.com/ do a dog test. They send you a kit and you post back the poo sample for results.

[Mydogsnotfat]

@GingerFoxInAT0phat can you tell me. About the worm screening please. It's how we do our horses but my own vet was a bit cagey when I enquirer. I won't worm monthly and don't flea either. He wears a seresto collar instead.

[feelingsinister]

Two dogs
Insurance- £180
Food £60
Vet plans £30 covers vaccinations, flea/worming treatment and health checks
£10 for skin stuff
We groom them ourselves and don't have dog walkers/day care. Maybe once a year we have a dog sitter which is usually around £150-200

[TheHodgeoftheHedge]

clocksareticking why don't you apply that logic to your own life and your children, or house, or car. FFS.

[Sooverthemill]

@Dinosauraddict same here. I don't see another human every day ( apart from my DD) so my animals are my company and my joy

[Dinosauraddict]

I thought this was really interesting so I've just worked it out. I have 3 Ddogs but they're all pretty small (3.5kg, 4.5kg, 11.5kg). In total for: food, insurance, grooming, treats, monthly vet pet club (covers things like flea/worming treatments and check ups) they cost me £350 per month for all 3 of them. This goes up on months where we go on holiday as we then pay for a dog walker (they stay with my DM), or on months they have a birthday/Christmas, but I budget for that out of my usual family Christmas budgeting... Basically, my Ddogs cost a lot, but I wouldn't ever change them. They bring more to my life than most humans.

[imclaustrophobicdarren]

Chihuahua
Ins £50
Food £12
Treats £4

[CherryPavlova]

£52 insurance
£24 Pet plan
£68 food approximately
Usually about five days daycare £120 occasionally more and overnights
Tough balls at £5 each about 15 total in replacements
Treats/ toys etc. Maybe £20 plus additional fuel for car for days out to beach etc

[yetwig]

Two dogs
£27 vet plan
£49 insurance
£100 food, ones on raw the other a kibble
Dog walker 2 or 3 days a week £150
Toys, treats £20
So about £350 a month. Didn't realise it was that much!! But wouldn't be without them 🙂

[GeneHuntLover]

£60 pet insurance
£52 for 12kg bag of food
£20 for wet food
£30 ish for Yumove
£20 ish for flea/wormer
£30 for bath & brush

[Floralnomad]

clocksareticking would keel over at what gets spent on our pony , she makes the dog look cheap !

[missbattenburg]

That's the only post by clocksareticking

I smell a rat.

[BiteyShark]

Ah there is always someone like clocksareticking who have a bizarre entitled notion of telling others how to spend their money.

I hope you give all of yours to charity and don't spend anything else on anything that isn't essential.

[pumpkinpie01]

£8 a month on food and probably a fiver on some treats. Super cheap dog

[Amelia910]

Monthly I spend around £130 for a 7 year old black lab with no behavioural or health issues

Breakdown:
Food-£35
Insurance -£75 (is lifetime insurance and goes up every year, started @ £30 when she was a pup 😫)
Vet Pet club £10 (yearly vaccs, nail clippings, worm and flea tablets)
Replacement of toys/leads/poo bags etc works out at about £10 a month

🐾

[Sohololopopo]

£84-£100 food
£40-50 treats
£20- 50 toys (this month we’re at 39)
£2 poo bags
£25 insurance
£20 supplements
£4 shampoo

Yes she’s fuxking expensive. I haven’t over exaggerated either which makes me really sad.