My girls, Snap (7) and Grommet (5) currently eat 1/2 cup Hills Science Indoor dry a day and they each get 1/2 can of Blue Buffalo Freedom either chicken or fish. The wet food equals 62 cents a day to feed them, and I think the Hills should last them about 3 months so....like 38 cents a day for that (It's a new food for them so I'm not quite sure.)
Whenever the dry food runs out in a few months, I'm considering feeding them mostly wet. I want to continue to feed them a tiny bit of dry so that I don't get a paw to the eye at 4 am demanding noms, and I can continue using their automatic feeder. The problem I'm running into in planning this is how expensive wet food is! I totally understand why - it's better ingredients (generally), better quality (usually) - it's just the idea of feeding my girls something like Tiki Cat After Dark would go up to $3 a day. I had always been taught Friskies or Fancy Feast was terrible cat food. (Although my vet did recommend Fancy Feasts or Friskies at one point to keep up their moisture levels. Said you didn't have to go fancy - just make sure it was a pate.) But then I look at the Cat Food Nutritional Composition chart on Cat Info.org and some of Friskies has more protein/less fat/fewer carbs than the Blue Freedom I'm feeding them now?
How do y'all afford all wet? I love my girls as my own children and I want the best for them. But I also want to be realistic about what I can afford. Any suggestions?
Whenever the dry food runs out in a few months, I'm considering feeding them mostly wet. I want to continue to feed them a tiny bit of dry so that I don't get a paw to the eye at 4 am demanding noms, and I can continue using their automatic feeder. The problem I'm running into in planning this is how expensive wet food is! I totally understand why - it's better ingredients (generally), better quality (usually) - it's just the idea of feeding my girls something like Tiki Cat After Dark would go up to $3 a day. I had always been taught Friskies or Fancy Feast was terrible cat food. (Although my vet did recommend Fancy Feasts or Friskies at one point to keep up their moisture levels. Said you didn't have to go fancy - just make sure it was a pate.) But then I look at the Cat Food Nutritional Composition chart on Cat Info.org and some of Friskies has more protein/less fat/fewer carbs than the Blue Freedom I'm feeding them now?
How do y'all afford all wet? I love my girls as my own children and I want the best for them. But I also want to be realistic about what I can afford. Any suggestions?