My wife must have bought dog food the last couple times but I was surprised today at the price. I buy Diamond Naturals and last time I bought a bag it was around $32.99 for a 40 lb bag. A year ago you could get a sale price around $29.99.
Today it was $43.99. That is an increase of about 34%. Wow.
Yep.
If you have a friend that works for a vet, they can get big discounts.
I was paying like $55 for a 30lb bag so my niece orders for me when she gets hers. $38 dollars and a 45 lb bag.
And I like how the size of the bags decreased but the price stayed about the same so you paid much more for much less food.
Same as everything else right now and it started a while ago.
I know we are all dealing with inflation, but I guess I hadn’t looked at dog food specifically in a few months. I don’t see how any of this is sustainable.
The dog food I normally buy has increased from $43/bag to $55/bag at Target. It’s still $43 at other places though. If Target wants my business they will need to price match.
If it keeps increasing Ill be looking into making my own. My research indicates its a lot cheaper but its work. We already supplement sometimes with leftover vegetable and some meats.
They are talking about pet food shortages due to lack of raw material.
That would not be good. Poaching biz would pick up dramatically.
Yeah I’ve never been a fan of feeding table scraps, but may have to rethink that. Recently started saving meat scraps, fat, etc for the dog.
My Pro Plan 47lb bag was $60 it’s now $82. Sad part is I feed lamb and rice and can’t get it anywhere.
Used to get it auto shipped from Chewy.
Nowhere to be found at retail store or online now.
Ouch, and we have 8 to feed. My pallet pricing went up $75. Remember when rendering trucks payed to pick up dead farm critters used in animal feed? Most won’t spend the $ to have them picked up now.
My Pro Plan 47lb bag was $60 it’s now $82. Sad part is I feed lamb and rice and can’t get it anywhere.
Used to get it auto shipped from Chewy.
Nowhere to be found at retail store or online now.
Our Royal Canin was $50 something. It’s now around $90. Upside we are down to one lab. We had 2 or 3 for the last 30 years. After Chewy was bought out. They have been less than dependable. Wife has had much better luck with Amazon.
Yeah I’ve never been a fan of feeding table scraps, but may have to rethink that. Recently started saving meat scraps, fat, etc for the dog.
Have a buddy that lives an hour south of St Louis. Had a dog with a grain allergy. Vet put it on an all-meat diet. He drove an hour each way to and from work through serious Missouri deer country. During the rut he would pick up roadkill deer and strap them to the roof of his VW wagon. Take them home and bone them out and put the meat in 2 old chest freezers. He also had a buddy get out-of-date chickens from the meat dept. After a while he put his other dog on the diet. He said they were healthier. Their coats never looked better.
I’d imagine folks will sacrifice their recreational hobbies before their pets diets, but both in the end are just luxury items.
Let the pitchforks come forth 
I’d imagine folks will sacrifice their recreational hobbies before their pets diets, but both in the end are just luxury items.
Let the pitchforks come forth
Neither have to be sacrificed. But the dogs are not luxury items, they are family. Another kid in my house, a protector and a friend. But not a show off luxury item
There is noting we can do. I am doing the same as last year with bills, gas, groceries, ect… Sat down and compared everything. I am shelling out an extra $640 a month or $7,680 a year. Fun! 
Maybe there is a strategic pet food stash that the government can bleed dry as well??
Seems like every supplier at the vet clinic has been sending letters about price increases and fuel surcharges that are now being added to the invoices. Supposedly they will “drop” them once conditions improve, but I’m not sure we’ll see conditions improve anytime soon…
Maybe there is a strategic pet food stash that the government can bleed dry as well??
They already gave it to China or was that the Ukraine?
Supposedly they will “drop” them once conditions improve, but I’m not sure we’ll see conditions improve anytime soon…
NOt going to happen. Once the prices jump they will stay there. The airline industry started charging for bags and increased flight costs years ago when gas prices soared and they never came back down when fuel dropped. Its only going to get worse.
Just checked. Mine has jumped over $10 since June. Insane.
Feel like this fits the thread title, but I just bought 2 sausage breakfast burritos and a sausage egg McMuffin at McD’s for $9.20.
Feel like this fits the thread title, but I just bought 2 sausage breakfast burritos and a sausage egg McMuffin at McD’s for $9.20.
I once went through the McDonald’s drive thru with my shorthair sitting in the front seat of the car. The gal handed me the bag of food and said “you better watch out or he’ll get it”. I said “I wouldnt feed this poop to my dog.”
Ours has gone up about 30% and changed from 44lb to 40lb since 2016 when I started buying it. A 40lb bag lasts two dogs about a month though so it would still have to be a hell of a lot more expensive before I’d consider it worth the effort of preparing food myself.
NOt going to happen. Once the prices jump they will stay there. The airline industry started charging for bags and increased flight costs years ago when gas prices soared and they never came back down when fuel dropped. Its only going to get worse.
I agree with this and I feel like it doesn’t get talked about enough, and like Cpt. Musky I always use the airlines and baggage fees as examples. Fuel prices were going up and travel was down after 9/11 and those poor airlines just had to start charging for bags. Well as fuel has ebbed and flowed (and definitely gone down a lot at times) and travel has broken records, the baggage fees have remained.
While sometimes it’s applicable, blaming one political party or the other is often a scapegoat, and businesses probably love to see that. We’ve seen rising fuel prices and COVID blamed for rising costs, and it’s understandable that businesses, who need to make a profit and pay their bills, pass rising costs onto consumers. But while influential byproducts and costs like fuel and COVID/supply lines fluctuate, the prices charged by businesses don’t seem to. Lots of places will be quick to point to rising gas costs as the reason they absolutely had to raise their prices. But do you see them going down? Big oil, as well as a lot of the travel industry, has been receiving some record profits in the past year, but most of the consumers are simply paying more with inflation while their wages/salaries are not going up at that level.
Dog food is a fraction of the cost a vet bill is so as long as the dog is healthy and not going to the vet all the time, it doesn’t bother me so much. Could be a whole lot worse.
Feel like this fits the thread title, but I just bought 2 sausage breakfast burritos and a sausage egg McMuffin at McD’s for $9.20.
McDonalds breakfast is about the only fast food breakfast i will get. I recently wrote it off for good cause its just way too expensive. Side note, if you dont already do so, use their app. saves a ton of money both in rewards points and daily deals they offer.
PS-I just went to Petsmart and they had my dogfood $8 cheaper than Chewy.
PS-I just went to Petsmart and they had my dogfood $8 cheaper than Chewy.
Yep I checked Target initially for mine and it was 12 bucks higher than Amazon and Cub Foods. The price increases may not all be across the board (yet?) so it pays to look around a little. Plus a lot of places price match so you might just have to play a little hard ball with them.
PS-I just went to Petsmart and they had my dogfood $8 cheaper than Chewy.
Yeah, I had thought that Chewy was always cheaper, but theyre not. There is the convenience factor however of just having the giant box dropped off at the door and not having to go into town plus you can schedule deliveries based on how much your hounds go through except my wife had been doing this and also had toys/tennis balls in the order so every damn month we were getting a dozen tennis balls. Grr.
plus you can schedule deliveries based on how much your hounds go through
Autoships can also be ordered on-demand anytime and with the chewy phone app (don’t see it on website) you can skip individual items on an autoship order. I just have mine set to 6 months (even though I order about monthly) with food, treats, cat litter, etc. Whenever dog food is getting low I just skip whatever I don’t need and click order now. The skipped items go back on the list for next time so I don’t have to search for them again. This way you always get the 5% discount on everything.
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