How much does your (single) cat cost in food per month?

[SlopesOff]

Medium sized cat with a good appetite, mostly wet food.

I have worked out that I have been feeding approx. 5 pouches per day plus a bit of dry as a treat. Never counted with previous ones and am wondering what the average cost is.

It depends on the size and age of your cat. According to the box, 2 pouches and some dry biscuits is plenty for my cat. I often end up emptying her bowl because she doesn’t finish it all.

Mine gets a couple of handfuls of Go-cat dry food when he deigns to come in and jump on my lap, then another handful in bed at night, and..erm...one more first thing in the morning, then 3 packs of Dreamies a week, and 3 packs of Tesco cat treats a week too. He used to have 2 pouches of wet food a day but he won't eat them now - has a couple of mouthfuls and walks away. He probably costs us about €10 a week, maybe a bit more?

I swapped from pouches to tins and it's lots cheaper

I share a saunsburys 2kg dry cat food - the princes and Princess prefer this above all.others - between 3 cats and it lasts about a week. Scoop full in each bowl morning and evening and then some cat treats sticks a few times a week. So say £6 a week roughly between 3 cats

One of mine always had a mix of cooked fish and a pouch per meal, made is hard to work out.
One would eat anything.
One wasn't too well, and was quite small so could work it out.
One reliably got through several pouches per meal so could work that one out.

It only gives me two to compare so was looking for a more comprehensive selection.

I was thinking of how people don't work out the cost of taking on a pet and realised I had never actually done any sums.

I think about £12 a month. Similar to the above, a mix of dry food and pouches. She's 15 and eats a little less than she used to. Is partial to the odd scrap of cheese and chicken too.

£10 per week per cat.

Thanks everyone.

Two pouches per day, which come in a box of 12 at £3 - Felix in gravy. We buy big sacks of Iams biscuits, and she gets a measured amount of those a day too, plus the odd treat. So about £5? She does get occasional bits of ham, cheese, and chicken if they are on our menu, but sadly for her DP won’t eat fish so we only ever have it if he’s away.

She doesn’t tend to use the litter tray unless the weather is really awful, although we always have two in separate places, so litter tends to be one big bag every six months or so.

@sunshinesheila

I swapped from pouches to tins and it's lots cheaper

Also a lot more environmentally friendly! Five pouches a day is a heck of a lot of unrecyclable material.

Depends entirely on what you feed... cheapest rubbish quality dry food is of course much cheaper than premium quality high protein wet food.

Mine cost a lot more than others on this thread... probably about £3 per day or something like that.

About £5 per week, per cat.

3 cats , at least 2 pouches each and dry food too, daily trying to find a tinned food that they will eat instead of leaving, anyone any ideas? so expensive on the pouches

Our cat would have 1/3 tin per meal, 2-3 meals per day (should have been 2 based on her weight, but she was greedy and loud so often got an extra bit of supper) so round up to 1 tin per day. Dry food was also always available, but she bearly touched it so a 3kg bag lasted about a month.

12x tins in tesco for £4.75 = 40p/day
3kg bag of dry for £3 = 10p/day

Total 50p per day or £3.50 a week

Had actually budget more but weirdly the Tesco own cat food (only the one in gravy) was the only one she would eat.

Our cat is around 5kg. She has a cheap Whiskers pouch in the morning, a tin/pouch of Encore in the evening, and some grain-free dry food before bedtime. It works out about £35/month.

3 cats here. They share 3-4 pouches of Felix basic in jelly (£9 for 40 from amazon) and 2 bowls of Royal Canin neutered young female biscuits (the 2 females aren’t young any more and the slightly younger one is a boy, but they like it )

Anyway total daily cost between the 3 of them is under £2 - say 65p per cat. If I bought the biscuits from the vet, and the Felix in boxes of 12 from the supermarket, it would cost at least half as much again.

I tried them with the tins of Felix in jelly, but the flavours and texture were different, and they left most of it.
I’ve also tried a variety of the foreign proper meat foods from zooplus, like Bozita, but they weren’t keen on that either.
And they don’t care about boycotting Nestle either, the buggers.
So it’s Felix pouches or starvation.

About £3 a week per cat
They eat whiskas fish in jelly tins or Waitrose same
Dry food like Tesco own kitten and kit e kat kitten biscuits

Not sure I want to work it out wild freedom tin + another small tin or pouch and free flow of royal canin Persian kitten food, and treats easily over £2 per cat per day