We have talked about the stunning price increases in pet foods during our discussions about food price overall. However, a remarkable study by Veterinarians Org gives some context to just how much the Joe Biden inflation has driven up the cost of pet foods. [ARTICLE HERE]
Mostly driven by Biden’s created inflation hitting raw farm materials, energy prices, manufacturing and transportation costs, the prices for the most popular wet and dry dog foods have skyrocketed.
One in four pet owners have even contemplated giving their animal up for adoption because they can no longer afford them. This is terribly sad.
(Veterinarian Org) – […] The largest percentage increase compared to 2020 prices is for a wet dog food product by PEDIGREE, which has increased by 207% compared to its 2020 price.
The largest dollar amount increase compared to 2020 prices is for a dry dog food product by Royal Canin, which is currently $43.99 more expensive per bag than it was in 2020.
In a recent Veterinarians.org survey of 1,000 U.S. pet owners, 50% of respondents indicated having to shop for cheaper alternatives to pet food as a result of rising costs. Pet owners also found themselves shopping for cheaper alternatives to pet treats (41%), pet toys (34%), and pet health supplements (28%).
55% of surveyed pet owners indicated having to cancel pet food subscriptions on Chewy.com, Amazon.com, or through a raw food/pre-cooked meal service as a result of rising costs.
22% of pet owners indicated having applied to special services in their state that help pet owners pay for pet-related costs, while 73% of pet owners felt a food pantry for pets would be helpful to them.
24% of pet owners indicated considering rehoming their pet or surrendering their pet to a shelter as a result of rising pet food/pet supply costs.
According to the American Pet Products Association, Americans spent $50 billion on pet food and snacks in 2021. (read more)
I can confirm my wet/dry dog food (Nutro) has gone way up since 2020 from Chewy. I broke down went to Petco and to get a 30 lb bag for $75 versus two 12 lb bags from Chewy. Saved me approx $13.
The price goes up every 2 months. Jan 2023 it was $31 for a 12 lb bag, now for my next shipment they want $36.
In 2021, I paid $21 for the same size bag.
Pet food seems to be going up steadily and higher rate than people food.
I’ve had pet chinchillas for over twenty years. One little girl remaining now.
The ‘small animal’ sections of pet stores are tiny. And the different animal products are just thrown together. I noticed a day ago that Walmart where I am discontinued that section entirely. Not that we ever shop for pet stuff there other than an occasional bag of hay.
In the regular pet stores the prices have been increasing steeply in the last few months. Pellets, hay, treats, chewing materials and so on. Bags of treats that were $5.00 are now around $8.00. We ended up spending over $30. for a few small bags of things when it used to be closer to $20. not that long ago. Online they aren’t much different. We used to get good, healthy things from the breeder where we adopted a couple of boys some years back. But she isn’t around any more.
Just another brick in the wall of programmed inflation. I feel we’re already on a Soviet style five year plan, with disastrous consequences as part of the agenda.
My dog’s food went from $45 to $60 seemingly overnight for a 24# bag at Walmart where I’ve bought it for years.
Why has the cost risen so much? Veterinarians.org gets to the bitter nib straight away.
“One of the main reasons for the increasing cost of dog food is the rising cost of ingredients. The cost of raw materials such as meat, grains, and vegetables has gone up due to factors such as droughts, floods, and other climate-related events.”
So there you have it, you election denying, self centered suburbanites. /sarc
HAH! Not a single word about high inflation of energy costs resulting in higher corresponding transportation and machinery-based processing costs.
Veterinarians best get educated about Biden’s Day 1 (Jan. 21, 2021) total destruction of highly successful US-sourced energy policies and his deliberate forced relapse of energy policy back to OPEC sourced oil.
Since Biden day 1 the energy policy has been “shrill baby shrill”.
We are under attack from all directions. With the puppet in the White House, the radical Left is busy applying it’s extremist agenda everywhere all the time non-stop.
War Against the Normies – The American Mind
i feed 2 community cat colonies and Purina Complete 20lbs 1yr ago was $17.99, today it’s $24 to $40. Friskies wet per can 1yr ago was 50 cents, today it’s .78 to $1.00…. the Cloward Piven Plan is the great destroyer and beijing biden’s handlers love it.
Paying for Friskies cans what I use to pay for Fancy Feast. So far HEB has kept the pet food inflation in Texas to 25% overall. yay…
Interesting.
This is the second time in 2 weeks where someone has mentioned the C-P plan.
Not once in 3 years, in fact not since clinton was prez.
That, IMO, is the entire plan, everything else is distractions.
The cost of food, and an illegal invasion will see the US saying master in Mandarin in 5 years or less if we don’t do something now.
24 will be to late, the fix is already in.
Thinking I’d prefer the S-P plan.
Jim Quinn from WYSL used to talk about Cloward Piven a bunch when he and Rose were broadcasting out of Pittsburgh (2005?). Must have been over target as Al Gore’s group bought the stations and nixed their format.
Get rid of families, churches, marriage, children, and any relationship more than casual hook-ups. Get rid of pets because owning a pet is comforting to people who are stressed or lonely.
Give them THC, fentanyl, tranqs, anti-psychotic drugs, alcohol, and legalized drugs.
End of civilization.
😢 my heart breaks for this world. Too many lost, lonely, fearful and ripe for abuse by people who seem to have no soul. Sickness abounds.
People seemed a bit more upbeat and kinder when I was out and about today. Maybe our prayers are breaking through. Keep the faith. God is good.
A dog or cat can enable some to get off high blood pressure medicine, so blame Big Pharm, lol.
If we don’t stop them in 2024, we will end up like some countries, EATING all of our pets and zoo animals,..
Given that dog/cat food especially, and animal feeds generally are highly PROCESSED, and Sundances explantion that the more processed, the more inflation, it makes sense animal feeds would go up a lot.
Big pharma is deadly. They can easily be stopped. Ban them from advertising on tv. Only 2 countries in the world allow it. In every other country they’re not allowed to advertise on tv. Only the US and New Zealand let them. They use the massive ad buys to control the corporate media. And through them, to control you.
Yes, remember the days of appliance and car advertisements? They still have cars but rarely ever see appliances and the like.
No really…it’s entertainment reading all the adverse effects if one takes the meds they’re selling.
My purring cats when held on my chest help my pain in the thoracic region immensely.
AI relationships are on the horizon. Even pets. Terrible. Mike Bloomberg wants us to euthanize our pets (that need meat) and eat lentils. No pets in the NWO.. The Great Reset.. Agendas 21/30. Choose between death and slavery to these monstrous elites.
I don’t know if anyone did a study on this, but I would bet that those elderly people who had pets during the Covid lockdowns fared a lot better mentally than did those without pets.
Welcome to Beijing. Remember the hi-rise lockdown howling from loneliness and frustration. That’s coming soon.
Well said
They want THC pushed to the masses while it remains Federally illegal in order get people onto Welfare. The plant is legal in more than half the States. That is a huge swath of the population technically unable to be employed, as the States make big money of taxing and licensing grow operations. Hence Myorkass saying employers are desperate for foreign workers..
Many of the small local growers have been threatened and taken over by the Mexican cartels, especially in CO. They waited for years for legalization, then had to sell/surrender their growing operations under pressure from the bad guys.
All part of the plan Agenda21/30.
Who aged better?
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Make your own.
I get a rotisserie chicken (or chopped meat) a bag of frozen mixed vegetables (Costco) and 4 (or more) hard boiled eggs.
Steam the veggies while you’re chopping the chicken and eggs. Add the veggies in and mix.
I separate them into sandwich baggies, freeze some and keep some in the frig.
BJ’s has their own hard food brand at ~$30 for a $20lb bag.
Pets art’s online price for a 15.5lb bag is $52.
I betcha the nutritional difference is negligible.
Of course commie Joe along with some obvious price gouging is a disaster.
We make our own, too. Much cheaper.
I’ve been making my dog’s food for years, chicken, turkey, rice and cheese with fresh apples, blueberries and baby carrots.
The nutritional difference is far from negligible, favoring the food you prepare
How soon until we turn to eating our pets and zoo animals for protein like Venezuela?
Then whose country do we invade? Like the Venezuelans are invading ours? Our new Venezuelan-Americans will soon be voting for a Fascist-communist Presidente’ as they did before the collapse of their (formerly wealthy) country.
All the Venezuelans I’ve met in FL are strongly anti-communist.
I raise chickens for eggs and meat. Where there’s chickens there’s likely to be rats, AKA Venezuelan Venison. I have not eaten any V.V. but you never know.
That’s for the cats to take of.
No worries. Everything tastes better when it’s homemade.
My pets are family! I’ll eat trespassers long before family!
We continue to feed our 3 dogs and 3 cats before we eat ourselves. Fortunately, the cats only eat hard food and are great mousers. The dogs eat mostly dry with leftovers from we had.
my kind of neighbor!
Not only has the price risen by a lot but the availability has decreased. Where I buy my dog food, the brand and size isn’t always there. Now when I buy it, I buy 2 large bags at a time and when the second bag is down to about 1/3 left, I go shopping again. If I have to switch brands, I slowly introduce the new stuff by mixing it in with the old with a greater percentage of the new feed with each serving.
Great. I feed my cat Royal Canin food for Maine Coon Kittens … and fresh chicken thighs (with bone – cheap) that I de-bone and partially cook. Pretty expensive regimen I guess. But my kitten (7mos.) is thriving
chicken thighs are often on sale in my area for under $2 lb – not the 69cents # they used to be but better and cheaper than processed.
I just bought two: buy one get one free GIANT tray of 8 thighs/tray for $11.00 … I didn’t bother to calculate the price per lb … but it had to be under $2.00
My Welsh Terrier eats anything; she is not the least bit picky. I feed her kibble, with a tablespoon of coconut oil.
At one time I fed her The Farmer’s Dog, but then had to return to kibble to try and save money.
Occasionally I feed her beef liver (pan cooked, but hardly); she loves it, but it messes up her poop schedule and stool consistency.
Since the prices have seemingly doubled, I really don’t know what to buy. I end up buying the mid-priced brands from a local pet store. What bothers me is I’m so unsure of the quality. Does anyone have a suggestion of good quality kibble that is reasonably priced?
I do the beef liver, too but limit the amount as it will mess up a pet’s gut. I give mine less than 2 oz per day cut up in small treat size
This is a comprehensive site for dog food reviews:
https://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/
When I’m looking for a different brand, I pick 2 0r 3 of their suggestions and read reviews on Chewy for more info.
Thank you, BuckeyeMom.
I feed my outdoor cats Costco Kirkland brand cat food, as it has actual chicken in it.
You might try their brand of dog food.
I am up 1/3 more for the price of dog food
My opinion is they want to minimize pets so they will make it too expensive. A lot more difficult than getting rid of cows. I think we could have a lot less pollution if we could rid ourselves of left wing politicians. Let the WEF start with them when eliminating the population. Talk about worthless eaters.
start messing with my family, and my dogs are family, and this new acronym will be appropriate – FAFO
I figure anyone who insists that there are too many people on this planet ought to put up or shut up and lead by example.
Let them be the first to go, then I will believe they are sincere.
I’m at the low end of the food chain on a fixed low SS income and I did note, and can easily track, the increases in cat dry and wet food due to the excellent price monitors I use on Amazon.
dForex, 24 cans of wet food that sold for about 13.00 two years ago now sell for about 18.50. 7 lbs of dry food was about 13.50 two years ago and the last bag I bought was 18.70. I buy in relatively small quantity, about a month supply at a time, due to limited funds.
Fortunately I get a small monthly SNAP benefit which pays for about half the human food costs and I eat on about five dollars a day. The cat eats on about 1.30 a day if tax on the food is included. No rationing yet but I don’t take wild kill away from the cat if she grabs something out in the field, something she’s done most of her life. I’ll also treat her to a bit of human food once in awhile, like canned tuna or beef jerky. Found her in the wild, nursed her to health as a kitten and she’s been healthy since.
Pet food price increases are annoying but I won’t give up a valued companion to save a few bucks, preferring to sacrifice elsewhere. Main problem is making sure she’s taken care of when I go out on missions against the Communists. That’s a concern. Part of life though. Take the bad with the good.
How do you set price monitors on Amazon. Because anything that I buy on Amazon for a second time … the price automatically goes UP
I don’t know how to set monitors but my order history goes all the way back to day one so I just pull up order details and sigh…
Personally I use the wish list comments areas and treat it like a spreadsheet. That’s also how I find price errors. I love Amazon price errors, like getting a case of cans for the price of one can. 🙂
The wish list will not indicate automatically when prices go up but will show a decrease. Lately there have been a lot of decreases in my basic basket, but not in pet food. Also, I’m seeing a lot more coupons that essentially match the price up with my tracked historical prices; the coupon ‘buys’ the price down.
As another member noted, order history is also an excellent price monitor. Target searches can bring up product trends in seconds.
I do most of my shopping in the middle of the night. That’s when I catch the most errors.
I also can bring those wish lists up on my phone at the store and compare live while in person shopping. Feeding a pet and eating on a bit over six bucks a day can be a challenge.
I raise chickens and have a garden, both of which helps me to keep down food costs.
However,I love salads but lettuce in the grocery store has gone through the roof. I can raise it in the garden, but summers in Montana are pretty short. Which means no salad for 9 months of the year.
So I am going to try raising my own all year round indoors. Saw a how-to video on the Provident Prepper channel on YouTube.
Same for raising peppers and even bush beans. Having fresh, healthy food year-round need not be expensive.
I probably won’t be able to go on missions but would gladly care for your baby.
Mine are royalty in my
home.
They eat before I do.
I feed a bunch of local community cats plus the last remnants of a once feral community at my place. I buy one 24 pound bag of cat food per week plus 2 bags a month of dog food. The dog food cost me just a few dollars under $100. each.
I’ve started supplementing the dog food with various meats on sale and eggs etc. I think it’s probably better for them too.
Yes it’s all gone up I’d rather eat cheaper myself than deny the animals. Also go through 120 lbs. of bird seed a month.
We fed my cats with organs, meat etc.. we got from the local butcher at very very low price. Cooked it and they loved it.
I have always had the impression that there is a higher-than-average percentage of pet owners amongst the Treeper community, because pet owners are good-hearted people.
Animals make a home.
I love animals more than any leftist Ive ever met.
True story.
Visit the CTH Daily Open Thread every day and you will see expressions of strong faith, genuine compassion for others, and genuine love & respect for pets / all animals that is in abundance across all the Treepers in that thread… Thursdays (“Cursday”) and Saturdays (“Caturday”) are especially good for animal posts & pictures…
Then – things got so bad people were eating cat food.
Now – things are so bad, people can’t afford to eat cat food.
That was always a myth as for when the leftists said Republican policies were forcing seniors to eat dog food … a can of Alpo cost far more than a can of chili
This is partially off-topic, but…
Joe Biden looks absolutely demonic, especially when he smiles and chuckles. He seems to enjoy inflicting misery upon the populous.
This morning at breakfast, Lucifer said, “I’m not looking forward to that Evil Biden arriving here and trying to takeover!”
While he poops his pants.
They all do. The evil rots from within – permeates the skin.
I found an old picture of former Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot and she, years ago, was actually a pretty woman. Look at her now. Beetlejuice! Evil shows on these demons.
The reality is pets are great resource for human therapy. They are happy, keep us busy walking them and give us great entertainment. The agenda don’t want us to have pets and we must eat grass burgers. Pets are bad for the same reason beef is.
I imagine the WEF considers pets just another category of useless eaters.
agenda … pfffttt
Last year I lost my cat friend of 24 years
old.
She was doing fine could climb and get around. She liked her cat food and it was easy to find.
Then the shortages kicked in and we could not find it anywhere.
Being elderly and vulnerable, she refused to eat anything else and she went downhill from there.
Joe Xiden and his evil policies created (still happening) the shortages.
My condolences. I’ve got two buried by the oak tree out in the field and man that was tough. Sucks that government manipulation has damaged so many lives and killed so many, not only humans, but pets.
Thank you for that and I offer condolences to you as well.
She was a sweet cat and I miss her.
That is so sad. I can feel your pain.
That is heartbreaking. I am so sorry for your loss. FJB!!
Suspicious cat is…well, you might guess…
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I know what she eats …
Good kitty !! That’s a good kitty !
If you can shop at Costco, their pet food is very reasonable. If you are not a member shop for Diamond pet foods. Very high quality at reasonable prices. Diamond makes Costco’s pet foods. Tractor Supply carries Diamond. So do the large pet chains.
I can attest to the rise in dog fud prices. Baby El and his big brother eat about 1000 lbs per year.
40lb bag of Proplan Glutton Breed was $45, now $63.
This is nothing compared to the increase in veterinary care costs.
agree with all the posters of
the opinion that the dog food industry saw an opening, and took it.
veterinary costs seem to have followed suit and taken an opportunity to institute exorbitant price hikes.
our factual story:
otherwise strong and very healthy, but older, dog had a medical emergency (prolonged fever >104 F), became recumbent and unresponsive in the middle of the night.
off to veterinary emergency medical center, which i had previously held in high regard due to impressive staff of boarded veterinary specialists.
after standard emergency care (fluids, cbc&full serum panel, etc.), progressed to critical diagnostics (aspirates, radiographs, multiple u/s studies, etc.), then on to advanced diagnostics (blasto, and more).
after 4&1/2 days of iv a/b’s and supportive care, had to pull him out as the bill was in excess of $15,000.00 which i paid, resulting in financial disaster.
combing thru the bill later i was shocked at what was being CHARGED for what was done (not what was done.)
were they gouging?
i believe so, fully aware that they have you over a barrel.
for example, i turned down the advised comprehensive tick panel (it’s the gold standard of tick borne disease screening by the premier specialist in that field) at $980.00,
since the history and previous negative tick panels as recently as 90 days before admission did not support that diagnosis.
i called the lab where that panel is sent (know it well) and asked them the cost of that panel.
$120.00 to the customer, private or commercial.
so, a $120.00 panel is being billed at $980.00 to the client.
even given a respectable profit margin, outrageous overhead, and inflated salaries, that $860 mark up seems more than excessive.
are none of these businesses aware they are pricing themselves out of the market?
do they understand that because they chose to pursue certain credentials,
it is not the clients’ responsibility to get them out of debt OVERNIGHT?
most disheartening of all, and like the medical field, they no longer even pretend to care about the patient, just your ability to pay.
(p.s.: for those wondering, doggie is home and hanging in there as of this writing.)
So glad to know your doggie is home with you all.
Love never fails.
“$120.00 panel is being billed at $980.00 to the client.”
WOW!!!😖😮
Pet food is definitely off the charts but wow, so right about veterinary costs. I just returned from vet. Took my little dog in who isn’t feeling well. $473 for lab work, antibiotics, probiotics! That’s crazy! Hope she starts feeling better.
Try living where I do … just took my cat in to get spayed and it cost $ 850.00
The wife asked why I didn’t take her to the Pound for the procedure? I’m kicking myself that I didn’t.
Wow, that’s highway robbery.
I still wonder out loud who would abandon a purebred spayed female kitten in the forest, the one that’s laying on my bed as I type this. I couldn’t believe it at the time but the surgical scar is there and she never got pregnant and she’s a colorpoint shorthair sure as the day is long.
I’ve managed to avoid vets in my many decades of mostly cat ownership. My only contact with vets has been installing equipment in their surgical rooms. Thank goodness.
Holy! 1k lb./yr. !!! Big boys
Newfies. 150lb each. An absolute joy to walk during squirrel season.
So snuggly and cuddly big boys 😃. I had a beautiful Bernese Mtn. dog with such a sweet personality … and I’d take her to the local schoolyard (yes, I cleaned up after her) where neighborhood dogs gathered. There was a Newfie who was a regular … and I joked that I’d like to swap dogs … cause he was so sweet too.
You and I know what it’s like to clean up long dark fur from every corner of our home, eh? _ _ _ _ Doodles are for sissies.
I’ve got 2, one landseer, almost 11, the other a plain old black newf, who just turned 9. Best dogs in the world, my opinion of course! Both on the smaller newf side, each under 120 lbs, which at this time I’m grateful for. But to add to the discussion, I’ve begun looking for more holistic remedies whenever something springs up, which with older newfies, can happen quick. It’s amazing to me how these simple remedies instead of vet visits are so much better for my wallet, and also for my dogs! Both are doing great the less modern medicine intervenes. Seems common sense is free, if you can find it!
Enjoy your walks. A favorite time of the day when I’m with mine.
Recently all across the Southeast people’s hens stopped laying eggs. Word about the problem got around on the poultry forums, and people looked into it. Seems two of the large regional manufacturers of chicken food had tried cutting costs by using ingredients with lower protein content. Who knows what the hens were being fed –we might never know the whole story.
I have small animals as well as fish and cats, and my pet food bill has easily tripled in 3 years. And that’s when I can FIND the items I need, both online and off. Apparently small animals and cats are less important to retailers than dogs; Even Sam’s club still retains an entire aisle dedicated to dogs, while cats get one pallet space behind laundry soaps! And our Walmarts have doubled fish care and foods prices, discontinued small animal treats, and greatly reduced food and care items choices for all types of animals but dogs. I’ve complained to management & corporate, to no avail. They really just don’t care!
A small can of in-store catfood has gone from around $.50 cents at start of covid, almost disappeared from the shelves, and is now fully stocked at $1.00 per can.
As an owner of two, very spoiled Siamese cats, I can attest, cat food inflation has exceeded my 8.8% social security adjustment.
You need a Siamese SS adjustment if you please, if you please … 17.6% … if you please, if you please
I hear ya. I’ve only owned Siamese permutations and man do they get big. My current one is a musclebound 20lbs easy last I weighed her.
She was gaining weight like crazy on Purina, eating like a dog, so I switched her to Iams and can now get a month out of 7lbs, plus a can of wet day.
I’m also on SS, actually the minimum for my age, and yeah it isn’t easy, but I’d rather be free of supporting the Communist machine to get ahead. Instead I’ll use their resources and scrimp and arm for the coming war. Who knows, it might be over pets. Stranger things.
Timely article!
I was at petsmart yesterday to pick up treats for my dog.
Dramatic price increases.
I took advantage of the buy 2 and 3rd half price.
I will probably go again soon after reading this article and stock up even more!
I can definitely confirm that Purina Pro has went up in price!
I do supplement her kibble and canned food with different types “people food” depending on what I am cooking or have on hand. Green beans and carrots, tablespoon rice or pasta, egg now and then, tablespoon yogurt or sour cream, and especially liverwurst! It’s 3.50 a roll and will sometimes last 2 weeks – a little goes a long way!
She gets many compliments on how shiny her coat is! I see a lot of overweight dogs nowadays….I have the opposite…. I have to find ways to keep weight on her☺️sighthound.
“Purina Pro has gone up in price” Fixed it for you.
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About 25 years ago, I had a Russian woman (a teacher) visit my home one evening. She was going to give a speech to our local women’s club and we had an hour to spend together before the event. I brought her to my home for tea and in that 1 hour, I learned more about the average life in Russia than I ever could have imagined. She was amazed that we had 3 dogs and wondered how we kept them all fed. I showed her our bags of dog food and she was mesmerized. She told me that in Russia there is no pet food and that the people have to make their own pet food out of anything edible they can find. She shared that she had recently boiled chicken feet and used the broth to make her pet food. I was aghast and silently thanked God that I lived in America. Little did I know that just years later, her life could now become mine.
My mom fed our dogs.
There was always a big “dogfood pot” on our kitchen stove’s left back burner.
In the dogfood pot, (used for nothing else), Mom mixed dry dogfood with beef or chicken stock, and heated the mixture until it turned into a thick mush. When cooled, that was the dogs’ daily main meal.
For snacks, our dogs got crunchy dog biscuits and meaty bones to chew.
Many dog owners keep their dogs ravenous, which disturbs me deeply.
We have 6 dogs–Great Dane, Great Pyr, Bassetthound, small dox, Pom and Yorkie. 5 cats–only 2 are outside cats and do hunt but they also come in the shop every night. 4 goats and 43 chickens (only 2 roosters). I can vouch for the fact that all animal feed products are costly! Every week there is an increase.
Wow, God is sure making a lot of mistakes lately. A planet that is going to be destroyed by having free will. Increasing numbers of humans that have been put into the wrong body. Now pets are a bad creation.
“Increasing numbers of humans that have been put into the wrong body”
Witty comment, thanks 👍😁
My lab lived beyond her 15th birthday. For many years we gave her people food leftovers or chopped chicken and rice and green beans.
Our present dog is very healthy and also eats people food. We give her a little dog food but stretch it with cottage cheese(a vet told us to give her that) and leftovers. We don’t give her anything with spices and watch the salt.
I figure 100 years ago there was no packaged dog food. Besides doesn’t it all come from China so there is no telling what’s in it. The rest is just advertising and the “conventional wisdom” or narrative that you’ve got to give them expensive dog food.
My pups love a bit of leftovers mixed in with their food. Keep in mind, its single ingredient cooked food.
Seems hash browns are their favorite, followed by shepherd’s pie.
Have to agree with the 100yrs ago philosophy. Food is good – and good food can be shared by dog and person alike.
“We don’t give her anything with spices and watch the salt.”
Our dogs loved my mom’s meatballs and spaghetti sauce, which they got for treats whenever she made it. They all lived to ripe old ages.
Good and services for horses has gone thru the roof.. I struggle with this every month…
Out where I historically lived, horses were workers and the cowboys would generally opine that horses eat money and shyte work. Invaluable for working cattle though.
Animal husbandry in general has gone through hell the last few years. I saw an odd sight a couple days ago, my neighbor’s squeeze rumbled by the house with a stack of hay in its jaws, something I’d never seen before going down the road. Turned out he was headed to the neighbor behind me who has horses and goats. Bet they bartered a deal.
Hay is crazy expensive and I’ve noted they’re not hauling much of it this year. Usually they have a half dozen trucks and the squeeze running from 4am to sunset. Not now.
I have to wonder if this is one of the reasons several good brands have sold out to companies like MARS. Even though the brands mentioned in the article may not be what many feed their dogs, it is nonetheless distressing as many people cannot afford the better dog foods.
This really breaks my heart, especially since many shelters, like those in my area, are at capacity with the animals they are taking in, and they are always asking for food donations, among other supplies.
I make my own pet food. For a few of you, why might be informative and helpful. Skip now if it doesn’t apply to you, as this may get long.
I had to prepare homemade food to nurse a beagle back to health after a gall bladder blockage that did severe liver damage. The vet’s involved had never seen a dog with such bad liver numbers survive. The dog did very well, although she went blind as a result of the illness and surgeries. I followed the book “Hope for Healing Liver Disease in Your Dog” , yes I know books are to be underlined, that can still be found on Amazon and elsewhere. I was able to get the dog’s liver numbers back to normal, which no vet thought would ever happen. She lived 7 more years, half her life, afterwards.
Fast forward a few years and I was rescued by a huge retired racing greyhound. These dogs were never feed commercial food before retirement, and a few can not adjust to the store bought diet. We were having problems with the dog devouring inappropriate things, including an entire inventory of Halloween candy it opened a refrigerator to get too, an entire jar of unopened coffee on New Years weekend, which required the presence of a cardiologist overnight, and an a amazing feat of opening and devouring a 2 quart glass White House apple sauce jar, previously unopened. No trace left of apple sauce. Eventually, I wised up to the idea that the dog was starving. Having the prior experience with the beagle, I decided to make his food. The guys have huge metabolic rates. This fellow at over 90 lbs needed according to my calculations, 1750 calories a day, more than I do.
You can’t just feed a dog table scraps and have them thrive, at least not one of these guys. The websites for Nature’s Farmacy and DinoVite contain excellent guidance for how to plan the recipe and supplement regimen for a dog. The supplements are critical long term. I have used both companies products and vouch for their excellence. I prefer Nature’s Farmacy, Dinovite may be easier and is certainly effective.
I lost that big guy to Osteo Sarcoma at age 11. Last year he started limping, on April 19th the vet called with blood test results, that he had the best blood work he had ever seen. On May 12th, I lost him to a pathological fracture in the front leg, before we even determined he had cancer. He went horribly. I will never recover from what this poor guy suffered. This gets about a fourth of the racers, the AKC greys are rarely affected.
A few days later, I adopted another big grey that needed to be quickly placed in a new home, and I never considered buying a bag of food.
For my dogs, the diet starts with 10 pounds/ week of hamburger, plus sweet potatoes and 2 quarts yogurt. With the supplements, I’m at about $60/week. It would be a good idea to incorporate some herbs and other ingredients from the Liver Healing book, but I haven’t for the current grey. My guys stay in excellent health, and have blood work that vets find remarkable. They just don’t age, and they stay mobile.
Few people would need to spend anywhere near this to keep a pet fed and supplemented properly. If your a serial greyhound owner, you are a fanatic anyway probably, as I certainly am. My best advise, particularly with continual skin or digestive issues, scratching, smelling, et. al. , is to look into a homemade diet. The improvement in your dog’s health, and reduction in vet cost, may be well make this a great move. Even the best dog foods won’t come close. If you have a small dog, Merrick canned food, such as Cowboy Cookout, is equivalent to homemade. It is actual real food, but should still be supplemented. It’s $4/ can, and that doesn’t work for a big guy.
I would suggest a casual look into diets at the websites, and urge a good study of them if your dog has issues. The pet food companies are not nearly as interested in feeding your dog as in fleecing you.
Thanks for sharing that; definitely a good skill to have if/when the defecation hits the rotary oscillator when pet food becomes a wish and a prayer.
Adapting human food can also help me use government money to feed the cat, something not possible with pet-only food.
Thanks for the response. I am painfully aware that I am spending more feeding my dog than many people and children in my neighborhood can spend on themselves. I struggle with that.
The last few years have been lean for me too, the next few could get worse, perhaps much worse. The Affordable NonCare Act was step one. Swarms of officers eating away the sustainance of the people.
I believe we are heading towards famine. I think it’s the plan. We will know so if the ATF is increasingly involved in our lives first.
“My best advise, particularly with continual skin or digestive issues, scratching, smelling, et. al. , is to look into a homemade diet”
Exactly, we got our beloved American Cocker Spaniel when he was 12 weeks old. Poor guy was itching so badly, hot spots, loose stoks, constant scratching…
We took him out of comercial kibble ASAP. Put him on a diet of REAL FOOD, raw meat, bone and organs, plus little amounts of veggies, yogurt, eggs. It was a miracle!!!
But it took almost three months before all the skin problems went away completely and for good.
Thank You. It’s amazing how bad the commercial food actually is and stays on the market.
I buy dog food at Costco. $35 for a 30-35lb bag if you pick up in person. If you order any pet food online (Costco, Chewy, Amazon), it’s around $60-$75 for the same amount. It’s the transportation costs. I know I can feed my dogs raw off the farm if need be. All the animals can survive on what grows or is raised here if need be.
What’s so interesting to me, having been a city girl gone country, is that everyone where I live has a garden. As you drive through various neighborhoods, you can see that a section of the lawn was freshly plowed and the gardens are being planted. I recall living in a suburban HOA, where you would get dinged for not having the perfectly cut little lawn, with the perfect color of rock or tan bark, or if your garbage can was left out an extra day, or you hung a towel over the fence to dry, etc. Those people are out of their minds (trust me, I was one!). People need to grow food. The government is not coming to help.
I can tell you that in my neighborhood where our yards are small, EVERYONE has a garden (and a dog). Our neighborhood is post WW2 tract housing so there’s no HOA. Many of the gardens are on the sides of houses in the front yards where there used to be little bushes. Lots of libs here, but even so, people are trying their best to take care of themselves.
I cook for my pets and recently started making homemade dog biscuits. Boughten ones have sky rocketed in price and they are not made out of anything healthy. Much less expensive and better for my fur babies.
I heard that Joe’s dog Major died of fentanyl overdose.
One of our intrepid reporters either goes by or is in the press pool at the WH pretty much daily and come to think of it I haven’t seen Major in his recent videos. No idea why though. He used to be a common sight, generally with some guy exercising him.
Anyone seen the First Kitty Willow? Been concerned for her and Major for some time……the biting dog was “rehomed”.
We buy a 12-pack of single servings for our small dogs. It jumped in price from $9.95 to $14.95–a 50% increase.
Nonsense ! The OFFICIAL inflation rate is 6.6% !! The Inflation Reduction Spending, err Act is working perfectly! Janet Yellen says so
My Siberian Huskie/Austr.Shep mix helps us with her food budget by eating any critter that steps in the back yard. This also helps preserve the vegetable garden harvest. Win/win.
Bonus if she keeps your feet warm at night.
One of our cats developed a urinary tract problem and had to be put on prescription food. 2 years ago an 8 pound bag was $58. The one I bought, same brand, this week was $72. Feed for all 3 cats, birdseed, suet blocks and grape jelly is now over $250 a month.
Who gets the grape jelly ?
Maybe look into d-Mannose? Not sure if it’s suitable for pets. But it’s perfect for humans. It’s the active ingredient in cranberries. My mom takes it to keep her chronic UTI’s away. It works like a charm. It cured my UTI and I recommended it to my mom who hasn’t had a UTI in two years now. You’d only need a miniscule amount for a cat.
No doubt. 130# Akita owner here. Have him on Blue Wilderness kibble. Can’t buy it in 24# bag anymore. 28# bag goes up about every third time I have to restock which is about 3 weeks. The canned food I mix in with his kibble has gone up as well. This is purposeful as well, on the part of Globalists. The proles aren’t allowed pets. Only the elite.
A pet is just like a family member and having to give up the pet because you can no longer afford Food is shameful.
I generally prefer pets to relatives.
I have 4 rescues-a mama dog and her three puppies-that were living in a ditch at our city’s Industrial Park. They are the best pets and eat very well. Their dry dog food, canned dog food, treats, and dental sticks are about $100 per week, and prices are increasing weekly. Walmart is the only place in our town where I can get them. I tried to order from Chewy but they seemed to be sold out during Covid. The puppies are now 12 years old and I want them to have the best food for the years they have left.
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We eat a lot of chicken. All skin, bones and scrape pieces are bioled for our cats. Plus, we buy freash, cheap chicken liver & cook it for the cats.
Be sure to get some hearts as well. It’s the only organ that has taurine, a necessity for cats, and they can’t make it themselves.
The Chewy Autoship system could never get it right. They would send us food when we didn’t need it all the time even after “tailoring” our order, repeatedly, until I told them to pound sand. This was 2 years ago. I question all the pet food quality, even the insanely priced high end stuff. I do know that feeding your pet cheaper processed food will have you and your loved one(s) down at the Vet more often.
The healthiest dogs I have ever seen were fed a diet of raw meats, fresh scraps and cartilage, certain vegetables and steamed white rice. These animals had me gobsmacked. I have kept my cats 2/3rds tame and they are all pretty spry so if push came to shove they have a multitude of game to live off of. They might could eat what they kill other than bringing it to me to bury. I have a small cemetery of unwary bunnies and birds. The frogs, lizards and snakes get tossed into the river.
Remember when they had melamine in the pet food a few years back, we learned it was all made in the same one factory in Canada somewhere. Lots of things are like that. When you buy a car battery, it’s all the same battery just with different stickers. What you’re buying is a longer warranty. Lawn mowers, same thing. Claim to be different grades homeowner, mid-level, commercial, strangely enough, all the parts are interchangeable. Everything. Engine, tires, transmission, blades, spindles, you name it. And in most cases, they’re the same parts for any brand of mower. They just paint them different colors, example green for John Deere
If you have a river nearby, why not use the frogs, lizards, etc. as bait and feed your pets fresh caught fish?
My uncle, age 92, lived in Eastern Europe and during the Hitler years. At that time Hitler pronounced that no one was allowed to feed pets because that took food away from the people. My uncle has other stories from that time, which is not to be printed here.
As a dog lover and one who had to put down our wonderful golden doodle ,Chauncy at 13 our house and hearts feel
very empty. A bigger concern of mine with all these increased animal feed costs is this 1 way to put more pressure on individual farmers to sell their land and to avoid going out of business? It seems there are anxious buyers (Gates, Chinese ,and others) that prosper at others woes. Pray and help others.
Good point. Get rid of the pets, the farm animals, the farm, the land. Dominoe affect. Not good.
Go to the pound. My house and life were empty after I had to put my best friend down. Damn the globalists and their nefarious actions.
The Netherlands is a case in point. Comrade Rutte is closing down Dutch farms!
Priceless reminders that tyranny can always rise again. We’re living a version of it right now. God bless.