Re: [Felvtalk] Fwd: The Price of Cat Food
Thanks. Gift cards look like an interesting way to save some money. I guess you can buy and sell almost anything these days. Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty neighbors too! From: Kathryn Hargreaves khargrea...@gmail.com To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 12:10 AM Subject: [Felvtalk] Fwd: The Price of Cat Food Sending again. Gmail makes it difficult to trim posts, as it doesn't show everything. -- Forwarded message -- From: Kathryn Hargreaves khargrea...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:07 PM Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] The Price of Cat Food To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org These were the links she gave: ``For the past year I've been planning ahead and buying discounted PetSmart gift cards through http://www.giftcardbin.com/ and http://www.cardpool.com/ They also have petco cards but nothing for Costco.'' On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Lee Evans moonsiste...@yahoo.com wrote: Hey Susan, where do you get PetsMart discounted gift cards. I have never seen them. Is this one of those online places or eBay or where? Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty neighbors too! From: Susan Hoffman susan_hoff...@yahoo.com To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 2:22 PM Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] The Price of Cat Food I spend about $1000 a month with a population that ranges from 25-40, depending on adoptions and new intake. We feed primarily canned but with dry (mostly Kirkland Premium and the no-grain in the orange bag). It's a big chunk of money every month but the cats are happy and healthy. For the past year I've been planning ahead and buying discounted PetSmart gift cards through http://www.giftcardbin.com/ and http://www.cardpool.com/ They also have petco cards but nothing for Costco. Take a look. It really has helped my budget. (I recently combined gift cards discounted by 18% with the PetSmart Friends Family sale discount of 15%, and used a few random coupons. For awhile there I had a lot of cases of friskies stacked up in the living room!) Go Get a Life---Go Get a Shelter Animal! If you can't adopt, then foster bottle baby shelter animal, to save their life. Contact your local pound for information. If you can't bottle feed, foster an older animal, to save their life, and to free up cage space. Ask your local animal pound to start saving over 90% of their intake by implementing the No Kill Equation: http://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/shelter-reform/no-kill-equation/ Here's the current growing list of true No Kill communities: http://www.nokillhouston.org/no-kill-shelters-in-north-america/ Legislate better animal pound conditions: http://www.rescue50.org More fun reading: http://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/shelter-reform/guides/ More fun watching: http://vimeo.com/nokill/videos especially http://vimeo.com/48445902 Local feral cat crisis? See Alley Cat Allies' for how to respond: http://www.alleycat.org/page.aspx?pid=537 ___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
Re: [Felvtalk] The Price of Cat Food
Hi - can you tell me what Kirkland is? Is it a brand of food? Where do you buy it? From: dlg...@windstream.net dlg...@windstream.net To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012 4:09 PM Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] The Price of Cat Food i TRIED RABBIT FROM A NEIGHBOR WHO RAISES HIS ORGANIC FOR HIS OWN FOOD. THEY LOOKED AT IT LIKE IT WAS ALIEN, WOULD NOT EVEN TOUCH IT. I ONLY HAVE 7, BUT KEEPING ENOUGH MEAT FOR THEM WOULD BE A PROBLEM. i HAVE A SIDE BY SIDE AND THE FREEZER IS NOT THAT LARGE. AND GETTING IT OUT IN TIME TO THAW WOULD BE A PROBLEM WITH MY MEMORY. Lee Evans moonsiste...@yahoo.com wrote: It would be nice if I could do that but I'm feeding around 35 cats right now. Feeding raw would cost me around $9 a day with turns into around $250 a month. On top of which, I would be a little nervous to feed raw chicken to the cats. Some of them probably wouldn't even understand what it was while others might throw it up at first. Cooked chicken would add about 3 hours work to my day. My freezer would be full of frozen chicken, not defrosted in time for their dinner and I would go insane. The dry food costs me about $100 - $150 a month. With the price of Kirkland going up it would cost me about equal to that because they eat less of the Kirkland due to fat content. Seems to fill them up better. I used to buy Friskies regular type, and Purina Cat Chow (no one wanted to eat that). Then I bought HEB brand Hill Country Fair and all the cats began throwing up in unison. Stopped buying that also. They seem to be able to digest Paws and Claws, the Tractor Supply brand that cost $20 for 36 pounds but the older ones lose weight when they eat it. One of my cats, Isadora lost most of her fur (long hair) and had scabs and sores on her skin. I began feeding Kirkland about 3 months ago and the other day I realized that Isadora had no more scabs and had grown back her fur. The fat content did her a whole lot of good. She looks like she has gained a pound or two and is much more active. Mr. Buttons (Big Butt-tons) also gained weight on Kirkland. I need to widen the doorway for him. I will probably have to keep buying the Kirkland and just work harder. Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty neighbors too! From: Kathryn Hargreaves khargrea...@gmail.com To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 1:28 PM Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] The Price of Cat Food I'm curious as to how much you are spending per day per cat feeding dry. I am able to feed raw for 70 cents/day per cat. If you didn't buy the chicken from Whole Foods, which charges about twice as much as do, say local ethnic butchers, then you could roll in for around half that. I've heard they have to eat more dry than raw, as it isn't as high-octane of food. Also, cats don't drink enough water to compensate for dry food, grain/starch-free or not, and stand a very good chance of ending up with CRF. On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Lee Evans moonsiste...@yahoo.com wrote: Oh, @#$%!!!. The price of Kirkland Adult Maintenance cat food used to be $16.99. Then it went up a year later to $17.59. Well, I bought two 20 lb. bags a week and a half ago. This Tuesday, I went back to Costco because my cats ate most of the Kirkland and the price had gone up to $18.99!!! It went up $1.49 in about a week. This is robbery. I'm so depressed. The crap I buy at the feed store doesn't have a high fat content and doesn't have actual chicken like Kirkland and is $20 for a 36 pound bag. Well, kitties, you're going to be back on a diet of crap and corn meal unless Mommy can get another job online. Sigh. Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty neighbors too! ___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org -- Go Get a Life---Go Get a Shelter Animal! If you can't adopt, then foster bottle baby shelter animal, to save their life. Contact your local pound for information. If you can't bottle feed, foster an older animal, to save their life, and to free up cage space. Ask your local animal pound to start saving over 90% of their intake by implementing the No Kill Equation: http://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/shelter-reform/no-kill-equation/ Here's the current growing list of true No Kill communities: http://www.nokillhouston.org/no-kill-shelters-in-north-america/ Legislate better animal pound conditions: http://www.rescue50.org More fun reading: http://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/shelter-reform/guides/ More fun watching: http://vimeo.com/nokill/videos especially http://vimeo.com/48445902 Local feral cat crisis? See Alley Cat Allies' for how to respond:
Re: [Felvtalk] The Price of Cat Food
Kirkland is Costco's store brand name. The Kirkland dry food in the purple bag is very high quality at a low price. (In California, where I am, the Kirkland dry in the purple bag is $18 for 25 pounds. First ingredient is chicken, the second is chicken meal. No byproducts or corn. Best deal out there. They also make a no-grain dry in an orange bag, I think they call it Nature's Domain, that is around $20 for an 18 pound bag. I'd pay for my Costco membership for access to the dry food alone. Do you have a Costco nearby? From: dot winkler venus7ora...@yahoo.com To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 5:02 PM Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] The Price of Cat Food Hi - can you tell me what Kirkland is? Is it a brand of food? Where do you buy it? From: dlg...@windstream.net dlg...@windstream.net To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012 4:09 PM Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] The Price of Cat Food i TRIED RABBIT FROM A NEIGHBOR WHO RAISES HIS ORGANIC FOR HIS OWN FOOD. THEY LOOKED AT IT LIKE IT WAS ALIEN, WOULD NOT EVEN TOUCH IT. I ONLY HAVE 7, BUT KEEPING ENOUGH MEAT FOR THEM WOULD BE A PROBLEM. i HAVE A SIDE BY SIDE AND THE FREEZER IS NOT THAT LARGE. AND GETTING IT OUT IN TIME TO THAW WOULD BE A PROBLEM WITH MY MEMORY. Lee Evans moonsiste...@yahoo.com wrote: It would be nice if I could do that but I'm feeding around 35 cats right now. Feeding raw would cost me around $9 a day with turns into around $250 a month. On top of which, I would be a little nervous to feed raw chicken to the cats. Some of them probably wouldn't even understand what it was while others might throw it up at first. Cooked chicken would add about 3 hours work to my day. My freezer would be full of frozen chicken, not defrosted in time for their dinner and I would go insane. The dry food costs me about $100 - $150 a month. With the price of Kirkland going up it would cost me about equal to that because they eat less of the Kirkland due to fat content. Seems to fill them up better. I used to buy Friskies regular type, and Purina Cat Chow (no one wanted to eat that). Then I bought HEB brand Hill Country Fair and all the cats began throwing up in unison. Stopped buying that also. They seem to be able to digest Paws and Claws, the Tractor Supply brand that cost $20 for 36 pounds but the older ones lose weight when they eat it. One of my cats, Isadora lost most of her fur (long hair) and had scabs and sores on her skin. I began feeding Kirkland about 3 months ago and the other day I realized that Isadora had no more scabs and had grown back her fur. The fat content did her a whole lot of good. She looks like she has gained a pound or two and is much more active. Mr. Buttons (Big Butt-tons) also gained weight on Kirkland. I need to widen the doorway for him. I will probably have to keep buying the Kirkland and just work harder. Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty neighbors too! From: Kathryn Hargreaves khargrea...@gmail.com To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 1:28 PM Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] The Price of Cat Food I'm curious as to how much you are spending per day per cat feeding dry. I am able to feed raw for 70 cents/day per cat. If you didn't buy the chicken from Whole Foods, which charges about twice as much as do, say local ethnic butchers, then you could roll in for around half that. I've heard they have to eat more dry than raw, as it isn't as high-octane of food. Also, cats don't drink enough water to compensate for dry food, grain/starch-free or not, and stand a very good chance of ending up with CRF. On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Lee Evans moonsiste...@yahoo.com wrote: Oh, @#$%!!!. The price of Kirkland Adult Maintenance cat food used to be $16.99. Then it went up a year later to $17.59. Well, I bought two 20 lb. bags a week and a half ago. This Tuesday, I went back to Costco because my cats ate most of the Kirkland and the price had gone up to $18.99!!! It went up $1.49 in about a week. This is robbery. I'm so depressed. The crap I buy at the feed store doesn't have a high fat content and doesn't have actual chicken like Kirkland and is $20 for a 36 pound bag. Well, kitties, you're going to be back on a diet of crap and corn meal unless Mommy can get another job online. Sigh. Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty neighbors too! ___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org -- Go Get a Life---Go Get a Shelter Animal! If you can't adopt, then foster bottle baby shelter animal, to save
