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Post by mistymum on Mar 16, 2009 22:08:40 GMT
During a programme tonight on ITV it said that it cost on average £40 a week to keep a dog. I spend £1 on an ox liver for mine each week and that is it. He must be sooo deprived. What am I supposed to spend the other £39 on?  |
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Post by Milliesmum on Mar 16, 2009 22:20:48 GMT
They add in things like a years insurance, average vet bills for things like worming, fleaing, innoculations, grooming, stuff like that. But I don't spend anywhere near that, probably struggle to make it add up to a tenner a week, but then mine does have to go for grooming about every six weeks as she doesn't shed any hair, and that costs £20 a time.
Don't forget 'normal' type folk go on a couple of foreign holidays a year and send rover to the boarding kennels, that probably costs a bit!
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Post by gtr121 on Mar 17, 2009 22:31:58 GMT
Think my pooch must consider he is very neglected. He is not insured, doesn't know what a vet is after 8 years of life, has never been wormed, never had fleas or an innoculation and would resent being sent to a beauty parlour as he likes to maintain his hard man image. As for going boarding there is no chance he will ever get a paid holiday. And he is fed on kitchen scraps so he costs nothing. Poor lad is feeling quite deprived !!!
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Post by Milliesmum on Mar 17, 2009 22:39:39 GMT
LOL, my dog isn't insured either but does have her own bank account!! We put £15 a month in there on a direct debit, to cover vet bills etc, and if it's not needed then it's earning interest. I just like to know that if a big vet bill came along I'd be able to pay it.
He's very lucky not to get fleas, but I do think he ought to be wormed. Jabs are a matter for debate but I'd never forgive myself if she caught something that could have been prevented. But then I'm a bit of a softie.
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Post by chelle29 on Mar 19, 2009 9:42:27 GMT
i have two fairly large girls, ones a doderman and the other is half rotti, quarter dobi and quater alsation, they cost about £30 a MONTH to feed, never go for grooming, if i ever go away for a weekend they get fostered out to family, have claws cut approx every 3 months at £4 each, not insured, are wormed and frontlined for fleas[ through the summer] .
so they probably feel neglected not having that much weekly spent on them lol
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