The price of dog food?

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We buy NatureDiet

Pets @ Home - NatureDiet - 93p per pack

DownTown - NatureDiet - 89p per pack (was 83p)

Chandlers - NatureDiet - between 70-80p last time I went (few months ago)

Asked Pets @ Home if the could do a price match (the small pet shop does but they don't sell NatureDiet) as they are the closest to me... Apparently they can't nor do they care that theirs costs the most.

How big a difference is there between dog food brands in different retailers and do they do price matches?
 
Saw it today in a big chain near me for 81p and buy 6, get 7th free. I was tempted, but I've been using Wainwrights, Pets at Home own brand trays since I got a few blown trays from Nature Diet. Not much difference in nutrition, but only 63p each or thereabouts, only use them for breakfast sometimes cos dogs are fed raw.
 
You would imagine the bigger chains would be cheaper with their buying power but it certainly isn't always the case. When a little animal feed/farm shop opened at the end of our road I was prepared to pay a bit more for convenience, but actually they are cheaper than Tescos on a lot of things, and I get Skinners from there for £3 less than I was paying at Countrywide. The big boys are just greedy sometimes.
 
The big chains work on the assumption that most customers will assume they are offering the best price for things. The vast majority of people will not look or consider the price of what they are buying - they just buy it because its convenient etc

As the old adage says 'Look after the pennies and the pounds wil look after themselves' :)
 
I stocked up on Nature:Diet yesterday, it has gone from 72p to 80p since I last bought 10 days ago.

Puppy treats have gone from £1.00 to £1.35 in the same time, that's a 35% price hike, I was :eek: amazed!!

Big dogs are on Skinners maintenance, which is £16.99 and the cheaper of their range, this is permanently sold out at one store I go to. It makes me wonder if people have changed to it as it's a cheaper option in these straitened times :(.
 
I buy the Wainrights too, good stuff. I find pets at home OK for large bag dog food but extortionate for cats. Can buy all cheaper online with delivery but that means being organised:)
 
I have just stocked up on naturediet and i paid approx 0.85p for each tray from Jollyes in devon. I am all for feeding the best to my dogs but after spending around £65 per month on two whippets im thinking of finding a cheaper alternative..:mad:
 
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http://www.berriewoodwholesale.co.uk/

Have good online deals at the moment on Naturediet, obviously the more boxes you buy the cheaper but it starts at 4 case of 18 trays with free delivery to work out at about 71p per tray. Maybe you can club together with someone who also feeds it a buy the larger quantity of 8 or more boxes and bring the cost dowon even more?
 
I'm intrigued by this post as I have no knowledge of the pet foods mentioned, and I wondered what you all consider it costs you per week to feed your dogs (exclusive of any treats).

Our cost, for two large dogs, is about £5 each per week. (They are fed on the Co-op's own Complete dog biscuit. Then our butcher minces up all his trimmings, bit and pieces and sells them at .60p per lb. I slow cook that up into a broth and slurp it over the biscuit for their dinner. Their breakfast is a very small amount of biscuit with milk). They, and our other dogs, have been fed this way for about 10 years and have all done well on it. they always get A1 rating from the vet.

Is this a reasonable sum per week or are the foods mentioned on this post much cheaper?
 
MurphysMinder said:
You would imagine the bigger chains would be cheaper with their buying power but it certainly isn't always the case. When a little animal feed/farm shop opened at the end of our road I was prepared to pay a bit more for convenience, but actually they are cheaper than Tescos on a lot of things, and I get Skinners from there for £3 less than I was paying at Countrywide. The big boys are just greedy sometimes.
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Sorry, haven't read all the posts yet...but this caught my eye.

Yes, generally large chains tend to have more buying power as they buy in such vast quantities that they can get cheaper, and therefore sell cheaper too. Some of the sales, however as advertised tend to be loss leaders.

I was astonished once to read that American supermarkets tend to profit about .01 on the dollar! :eek: Hardly seems worth it til you know they how much they can turn over in a day. But still, any less than that seems ridiculous.

My distributor of LOHP food has written to me to say that the raw material costs has drastically risen, therefore the prices have also gone up to me, the retailer. Was surprised tho to see that it didn't put off buyers tooooo much. ;)
 
We stocked up on some Naturediet yesterday, think it was around 90p per tray.

One tray is 2 meals for B so it doesnt work out too expensive.

We are currently trying her on other kibbles. She was on JWB (The one with taty not rice) for a long time but she really wasn't keen on it. We tried her on 'fishmongers' from PAH and she loved it, but i think it made her a little bit more itchy.

We are now trying applaws. Bl*ody expensive.

I wish I could find somewhere that stocked skinners.
 
I get £12 packs of tripe for about a tenner every fortnight, feed one pack a day split into two.
Two packs of chicken wings for £4 out of Asda every fortnight.
Still using the same bag of Skinners for £21 from April.
Big dog gets a sack of £34 Wainwrights every month or so.
Then other bits and bobs chucked in.
 
Prize Choice blocks are a bit cheaper, I think 80p for all except the fish one? Nature Diet went through Dax like grass through a goose, I think it's the rice content, Prize Choice is all meat.

I've just added it up and mine is £8 to £10 per week per dog. I could do it a lot cheaper if I had a big freezer, could bulk order and take packs of carcasses from the butcher but I don't think it an unreasonable amount anyway. :)

That's including Fish4Dogs kibble (two 15kg bags per year), F4D salmon mousse (purchased when half price, again twice a year), value bags of frozen chicken portions from Sainsburys, chicken wings, chicken carcasses, pork ribs, hearts, liver, lungs all from the butcher, bags of frozen tripe, Prize Choice blocks, dried tripe sticks, pig's ears, tinned fish in oil, salmon oil.
 
My two get:

2 trays of Naturediet a day (£1.86 a day) for 3-4 days (£7.44). Big dog should be on more than 3/4 of a tray per meal but he does get treats as well and doesn't seem too skinny.

JWB complete biscuits (£7.99 per bag) for 3-4 days a week 1 - 2.5 Kg bag lasts 3ish weeks.

So I think around £10ish a week... Doesn't seem that way when I'm at P@H with 20 trays of Naturediet and a bag of JWB though :o
 
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Zoisrus said:
http://www.berriewoodwholesale.co.uk/

Have good online deals at the moment on Naturediet, obviously the more boxes you buy the cheaper but it starts at 4 case of 18 trays with free delivery to work out at about 71p per tray. Maybe you can club together with someone who also feeds it a buy the larger quantity of 8 or more boxes and bring the cost dowon even more?
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I think I might just buy some from there :D
 
I collect five or six tripe from the abattoir every other week. I also get pig heads and trotters, liver, lamb bones at the same time all for £10.

We often get deer killed on the roads so I collect that and butcher it. Rabbits are free (well, the cost of the shot)
\Now I have the hound pups I collect flesh from the hunt so they get calf meat, horse and mutton.

Not bad when I am feeding 17 dogs every day. £20 a month works out with petrol at about £2 per dog a month.
 
With Pets at Home if you sign up for thier email newsletter it tells you of thier current offers. Terrier is on JWB and wainrights trays and bought the JWB on BOGOF last time so only cost just over £4 a bag. Delivery is free if you spend over £29 which is not hard when you are bulk buying.

Also fish4dogs if you pay a £1 for thier puppy pack (you get trial samples of it all so worth it) you get a discount card to use (shame my boy just wouldnt eat it at all!) but he did love the fish skin thingys.
 
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Foxhunter49 said:
Not bad when I am feeding 17 dogs every day. £20 a month works out with petrol at about £2 per dog a month.
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17 dogs are you mad lol






I spent about 35-40 a month on three.

Mainly about £30-35 from Landywoods

I get free pork (everything trotters to tails to joints to heads)

Venison in culling season

Rabbit over winter

and as my house keeps getting full of flys I have started doing skinners three/four days a week and then raw for four days a week. Just gives my utility room a break from smells/ flys over summer. Wont be feeding Skinners in winter have meat left right and centre.

And then maybe about £5 on fish, bones and chicken carcass.

So far a £20 bag of skinners has last me two months.
 
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My boy is on the local horse feed merchant's own brand working dog food. It costs about £10 for 15kg and then I buy a couple of tins of chappie and he gets a spoonful of that on top of his biscuit with water added to make a 'gravy'. Costs me about £15 a month to feed.
 
Foxhunter49 said:
I collect five or six tripe from the abattoir every other week. I also get pig heads and trotters, liver, lamb bones at the same time all for £10.

We often get deer killed on the roads so I collect that and butcher it. Rabbits are free (well, the cost of the shot)
\Now I have the hound pups I collect flesh from the hunt so they get calf meat, horse and mutton.

Not bad when I am feeding 17 dogs every day. £20 a month works out with petrol at about £2 per dog a month.
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Foxhunter you must have one helluva strong stomach!!!
 
brightmount said:
Foxhunter you must have one helluva strong stomach!!!
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LOL It doesn't bother me in the slightest.
When fresh, and these cattle were standing about an hour before I collect, it doesn't really smell.

As for the road kill I only pick it up if it was a fresh kill.

As for insanity having 17 dogs - you are correct!

Most are some form of rescue or another. Four belong to a girl who works here and the hound pups are temporary.
 
My daughter and I have six dogs (NOT including my hubby's two DISGUSTING poodles!!!) and five of our six are fed on raw but one Springer has a dodgy tum and she's fed on Haringtons plus NatureDiet which I buy from our local dairy at just under £14 for a box of 18 trays.
 
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