What does it cost you to feed your dog a raw diet?

[Saphire]

This may be an old question that has been covered before but I keep reading post after post in different topics about the cost of feeding raw is just too high for many.

My current puppy "Gus" is the recipient of many years of raw fed dogs. After losing my last GSD just shy of 7 years, I found Carmen. She explained raw feeding, the benefits and just how simple it really is.

My cost is much much hear than feeding a high quality Kibble such as Orijen.

So here goes.....this is what I feed and the cost.

2 small chicken frames daily. Alternating with turkey necks.

1-1.5lbs ground turkey/bone or ground chicken/bone or ground beef/liver/heart or beef shank or venison shank daily.

Feedsentials and Sh-Emp oil supplement.

My cost is about $55 a month for the meat. Being my breeder is the creator of Essentials and Sh-Temp oil, my first bottles came home with Gus free so I have not calculated future cost of supplements but it is minimal.

I know Orijen would cost $80+ monthly here in Ontario.

Cathy

[Josie/Zeus]

My cost is anywhere from 80-120/monthly, but my cat is included in that cost since he shares Kodas food.

[TrickyShepherd]

I'd like to know how people keep the price as low as that.....

I currently pay about $75 each per month for 2 of my dogs and about $60 per month for the 3rd.

This is for a bag of kibble each per month (approx 30lb each).

I also supplement with Feed Sentials, pumpkin, and yogurt.... and the pup gets feed sentials mixed with those two here and there and wet food (same brand and flavor of her kibble).

All in all I spend around 30-50 per month in supplements.

From what I've always researched..... Raw has always been MUCH more expensive. I don't have the freezer space, time, or stomach to do raw right now.... but, I am curious to how this all turns out cheaper then kibble for some members on here.

[BowWowMeow]

I feed the 10 lb. Bravo chubs so that's a little more expensive. It comes to about $78/month, including tax.

I also feed my cats the Bravo raw and that costs about $25/month for two cats. That is much less expensive than feeding grain free canned food!

[Jax08]

I don't generally pay more than $1/lb for food. Jax eats about a lb a day so her food is about $30/mth. Then she gets bully sticks and dried tracheas. The tracheas are $1.50 each and the bully sticks (12") are $3. She gets Dasuquin daily. Fish oil. I would say I spend about $50-60 month.

So for all the animals, it's probably about $200/mth to feed them.

[bellagriff]

The last time I did the math, we were spending about the same on raw as it would be to feed the recommended amounts of orijen dog food. I don't know if this is still true, but our Bella is almost 11 months old and weighs around 65lb. We expect her to get to around 70lb based on her parents. We feed about 1.75lb of raw per day, with about $1.5/lb of meat average. This average should go down once we buy a house and can have a large freezer to buy in bulk!! I'm guessing the average will drop below $1.25/lb of meat.

We spend about $75/month, but really that is on the high end because we always buy sales. Also, this includes getting some exotic meats from MPC (tripe, muskrat, rabbit, duck, etc.). I don't include the supplement we add, but that is maybe an extra $10/month if that (never really thought about it). I don't include the supplement, because we would likely still feed it if we fed kibble.

[Cheyanna]

I was spending $30 a week on raw. I don't have a freezer, so I couldn't buy in bulk. I have 2 and 3/4 bags of Avoderm kibble to get thru then I am buying a freezer and switching to raw. I am hoping to learn to fish.


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[Mrs.P]

$60-$80 a month for one pup which is the same as what we were paying on kibble. Unfortunately we are going to be moving soon so I haven't been buying in bulk -where the real savings come from.

[Saphire]

The cheapest I can find Orijen here is....
Large Breed Puppy 13.5kg $75.50+tax
Adult 13.5kg $72.99+tx
6-Fish 13.5 kg $79.99+tax
Regional Red 13.5kg $86.99+tax

So those prices are for 30lb bags plus 13% tax not included. How does that compare to the U.S?

[llombardo]

Originally Posted by BowWowMeow

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I also feed my cats the Bravo raw and that costs about $25/month for two cats. That is much less expensive than feeding grain free canned food!

I feed 5 cats for $35.00 a month..Blue Buffalo limited ingredient fish and potato...we have allergies to chicken/duck/turkey in the house. I don't feed any canned food, so I'm not sure how much that would be for 5 cats.