How much do you spend on dog for per month.

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I have just had a quote from honeys, for a raw food diet for Huntley (4month old labradoodle), and it was approx £120 per month.
Initially I thought blimey that's a lot, but when I worked out how much it would be for James welbelove wet pouches, and some dry food mixed in, it is actually not that expensive.
Just wondering what other people feed, and how much it costs per month,
Thanks in advance for advice
 
I bought a bag of Autarky salmon dinner for £24 about three weeks ago. I supplement that with raw chicken which I can pick up for £5 a bag from a greyhound man or forage out of the bargain bin at the supermarket and he would also get leftovers like pasta or fish or whatever.

I do think that is expensive for one dog. Ready made raw is convenient but you pay for it. If you can resign yourself to one day a month of putting on some plastic gloves and schelpping wibbly bits out of a bag and into old ice cream cartons and popping them in the freezer you'll save yourself a lot of money.
 
Natures menu is expensive to me as it comes in prepared packs but starts from £8.50 for 12 300g packs - so about £45 a month. The dearer option can be a third as much again but still less than half of what you were quoted by honeys.
That is the most I would pay as raw food can be sourced much more cheaply if you mix it up yourself.
 
Haha, not squeamish with wibbly bits, what exactly do you mean? I thought it sounded a lot, but the James welbelove say he should be getting something like 13 pouches a day, at 75p each, even if I half this because I am feeding dry food as well, it seems a lot?
 
Blimey! £120 a month, I don't spend that on my horse!
We buy a bag of complete food for about £40 and that lasts the two dogs about 8 weeks with a lot of scraps and reduced stuff from work (I work in a supermarket).
 
By wibbly bits, I mean chicken carcasses, whole minced chicken with bone in, raw green tripe, kidney, lung, heart, whatever the chap has in. Although I'm never doing cow tongues again!!
 
The worst I ever had was horse meat, we used to get it by the bucket when I had a foxhound bitch here to whelp. It stunk and there was so much blood. Gross! I had to mince it for the pups and used to gag like a good 'un.
Or bibles... I'm really no good at raw.
 
siennamiller said:
I have just had a quote from honeys, for a raw food diet for Huntley (4month old labradoodle), and it was approx £120 per month.
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:eek3: just..... :eek3:
Can I come and live with you?? :D I don't think I pay that much for my own food! :D

I never knew raw food was a 'thing' before coming on here.
Ours have CSJ which costs £12 a bag and lasts a month for 2 dogs, mixed with seasonal 'delights.'

They've had lots of pheasant/duck/various game guts since shooting began, and at the moment they're living on a lot of sheep placentas (which they LOVE and must be full of nutrients?) and the odd dead lamb as we're lambing (not that we have that many that die, but there'll always be a few, poor things :().

Neighbours killed a pig last week too so they're having a lot of pig atm.

Summer they don't get so much but then they don't seem to want as much when it's warm.

Are there companies then that just supply raw food?? What type of stuff is it?
 
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Fed my labradoodle nature diet for the first year of her life. Fab food. Got her onto Arden grange lamb and rice which is what my terriers have been having for years and she's fine on it. Should go back to the nature diet really as it's so good, just takes a lot more storage.
 
I use a lot of Natures Menu frozen blocks (minced meat and bone, not the ones with rice and veg) so purely on pre-prepared raw I could feed them for about £1 per dog per day. I bulk buy supermarket chicken when it's on offer as well which again works out to about £1 a day.

In reality it's a lot more mixed than that, I get cheap offal and carcasses from the butcher, free pheasants and bunnies at this time of year, other branded tins/pouches when on offer but still fairly £££, odd bowls of Skinners or similar kibble, joint supplements and fish oils. Still not £120 a month even for two dogs!
 
I spend between £200 and £250 a month feeding 5 border collies raw.

I get from various sources inc manifold valley meats and nutriment - i love nutriment’s tripe, it’s the best quality ive found.
 
I use Nutriment which is a pre-prepped raw diet (not enough freezer space for "proper" raw atm, though I may swap back when there is) and it costs me about £54 a month. It would be cheaper if I bought the chubs rather than tubs but I love the convenience and they stack better in our meagre freezer.
 
Mine are raw fed. 2 x 16kgs lurchers who eat somewhere between 4 and 8% of their bodyweight which is ridiculous! Most dogs are fine on 2 to 3%. I can do it on £30 ish a month, but I like feeding a half minced, half whole food diet and love buying them things like whole fish and mini chickens, so it costs me £50 ish a month. Before I moved I could have fed them pretty much for free on freebies from butchers etc but since I moved I havent made the effort to chat up local butchers and I really should!
 
Well, thank f@*k for that, was worried about the cost, but having worked out the amount for nature diet, it is much more realistic. How can other foods that are not as good be more expensive? Just doesn't make sense!!
 
About £120 for 8 dogs, complete food and go through roughly 1 and a half sacks a week, obs a bit more when I have rescues in. I do get the food wholesale so pay £19.21 a bag and its usually about £25.
 
I get the majority of my food from MVM and then treats/bones etc from a friend who has her own raw food treat business. Only got the 1 dog, JR x Fox Terrier who has the full 3% of his bodyweight as he's a competing dog. Costs me abot £30 a month...
 
feed one (30kg) dog on raw for approx £20 a month - depends how nice I am- as in if he gets venison mince and rabbit- or cheapo economy mince and carcass
 
I get scraps from the butchers for my lad which cost me nothing, plenty of bones/offal/meat/fatty bits :) He gets scraps from my plate and I give him a general vit/min supplement as well. Total cost for the month is about £35 which includes his insurance.
 
I feed the natures menu minces - they range from about 85p to 95p for a 400 gram pouch.

I supplement that with some chicken wings, lambs hearts or sardines or sometimes the natures menu beef chunks with a raw egg although pup doesnt like them as much.

Have read good things about MVM and their prices are good so might order some from them as there is a bit more choice than the NM at Pets at Home.
 
OMG!
*whispers* - I feed my 4 dogs on the local feed stores own brand complete dog food.
I have a Springer Spaniel, 2 Labradoodles & a JRT. I get through 2 sacks a month at the grand cost of £26
I could not in a million years afford £120 to feed 1 dog :eek3:
 
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