Inflation spurring pet abandonment: SPCA
The SPCA is seeing a lot more pet abandonments this year than last, and is blaming the trend on inflation.
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dhomas 17:54 on 2023-04-24 Permalink
My cat’s cat food (Hill’s Science Diet) is literally double the price it was 2 years ago. I have to make sure I stock up when it goes on sale, but I realize not everyone has the space to store it. I think lots of people also got pets during the pandemic for company (I also know at least one person who got a dog for the express purpose of circumventing the 2020 curfew), and who are now struggling to keep up with the associated costs.
Kate 18:00 on 2023-04-24 Permalink
I know. I buy primo cat food for Madame, and it’s also become much more expensive.
jeather 10:18 on 2023-04-25 Permalink
I’m super glad my cats are on a diet now (regular food, less of it), because I’ve been tracking the food costs and yikes. I buy not the most expensive food but higher end stuff as well.
Kate 10:22 on 2023-04-25 Permalink
jeather, my cat needs to slim down a bit too, but I haven’t yet figured out how to do it, since I work from home and she’s noisy when she’s hungry, and greedy for my food too sometimes (even when I’m making something like a tomato sandwich which would be of no interest to her).
jeather 11:29 on 2023-04-25 Permalink
Mine were pretty good at switching from free feed to limited. They do start coming well before breakfast time (I pretty consistently feed them 7:30-8 on weekdays and . . . not on weekends) to see if maybe I’d be into feeding them already, but also they’re generally not talkative. I give them people food on occasion, if I’m cooking with raw meat, though one of them doesn’t understand it. She follows the others, who absolutely get the concept of raw chicken, but doesn’t try to eat it. (She is similar with cat treats. Perhaps not coincidentally, she’s the only one at a healthy weight.)
I’m told that an auto feeder can help. I switched down their food from 1 scant cup 2x/day to 3/4 generous cup 2x/day and so far, so good. (I occasionally give them wet also.)
Blork 16:12 on 2023-04-25 Permalink
My cats are extremely fussy eaters. One of them will barely tolerate dry food and insists on wet. We give her a mix of both. The wet food is just “Whiskas” from the grocery store. Last year a box of 12 sold for about $11. Last week it was $18!