How much do you spend on your dog per month?

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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

We have 2 cocker spaniels aged 6 &1. For both of them we pay:
Insurance is £30
vets payment plan (for flea and worming and jabs etc) £25
Food approx £15
We groom them ourselves at home so no cost there

@itsasausage working dog mix, bought in bulk.

Please NEVER scrimp on pet insurance. Vets bills can be huge and crippling if you’re not insured

Probably about £120 a month
£30 on food
£30 insurance
£40 dog walker once a week
£20 flea/toys/bags

We have a whippet, our monthly costs are

£22 insurance
£20 food
£5 nails
£5 treats

I have three dogs. Raw fed which costs me about £120 a month. Insurance is now £60 per month which is down from £160 per month last year! Youngest dog had two lots of anticipated surgery hence the high coverage. I pay £10 a day for someone to walk them 3 days a week so £120 for that. No grooming costs. So around £300 a month approx.

1x medium sized young dog:

£36 pm on food
£32 pm on insurance
£10 pm on additional chews and toys
£15 pm probably on vets - worming etc.
£80 pm on training/classes/activities
£248 pm on dog walker for every day
£8 pm for dog grooming - we have a very nice neighbour who grooms her for free so we buy her a bottle of wine as a thank you

So £429 per month but that doesn’t include the £300 in emergency vet bills she cost us the other week and it wasn’t worth claiming on insurance!

Ridiculous what a waste of money! Ever thought of donating to charity? There are many many people in this world, young and old, starving and in extreme poverty. You should feel ashamed of yourselves spending so much money on a pet!

clocksareticking, I am fortunate to be both able to care for my dog, and donate extensively to charity. I do both.

Do you?

what an odd statement, as if spending money looking after a pet would somehow prevent you from giving to charity

Probably about £55 a month. 6 month old Cockapoo. Insurance is £28, food about £8 a month and then a couple of treats on top. She’s been for 3 grooms so far at £25 each.

I have a 1 year old lab and I probably spend around £80 a month on everything, I dont need day care or walkers as I'm home all day and when I'm at work on a night my dh is at home.

£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.

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

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

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.

That's the only post by clocksareticking

I smell a rat.

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

£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

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 🙂

£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

Chihuahua
Ins £50
Food £12
Treats £4

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.

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

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