I've been considering a dog for ages but have been trying to adjust my lifestyle first so I can care properly for one. Nearly there.. anyway.

How much does your dog cost you per year? Food, vets bills/insurance...think of anything else?

Would be useful if you stated which breed to.

Thanks!

Having 12 of em its something I try not to think of

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As to how much a dog costs. Insurance is about £10 per month. Innoculations, initial ones about £45 then around £30 a year (or every 3 years as recommended by my vet). Add collar, leads, bed etc. Feeding depends on what you choose to feed so could be as little as a fiver a week, up to £20 depending on what you feed and the size of the dog. Apart from the cost is the time you have to spend with it and the amount of coat care, exersize etc you can give.
Asking how much it costs to keep a dog is a bit like asking how long is a bit of string.

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i have a staff £12p/m insurance food £10p/m and toys and things whatever i want to spend cos he is spoilt i would say approx £220-£250 a year??

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I have 2 and it costs me £20 a month to feed them and then about erm £21 a year to worm them and thats all they need.

I do however lavish them with a chew stick once a week. Puppies are expensive you need to think about vaccinations and neutering but after that unless your unlucky enought o end up with a dog with a medical condition its all very cheap.

Marina

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Ha! You obvously didn't see the recent newspaper article that stated the average chihuahua costs £75grand over the course of it's life! Labs were quite cheap - I belive it was only £33 grand!

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Oh, and while puppies need vaccinations, so do adults - leptospira and kennel cough at least should be boosted yearly as they have not been proved to have lasting immunity.

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1.0. Veiled Chameleon - Dave
2.4.4 Bearded pygmy chams.
1.1. Fire salamanders - Antony and Cleopatra
0.0.1 Moorish gecko - Hobnob!
1 tropical fish tank
1 marine fish tank
3.0 Burmese cats - Xander, Chaos and Mayhem
0.1 Moggy - Simone

I dont booster my adults. I cannot see the necessity of it. My dogs do not have a lot of contact with other dogs so are at very little risk of catching anything nasty.

Marina

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Our dog costs £43 every two months to feed,plus wormers,flea treatment and £31 for her booster every year...something we would never let her go without no matter how little contact with other dogs she might have,she's a family dog and i pretty much spent my teenage years growing up around her(she's getting on now) and if anything took her away that we could have prevented we'd be devastated so for that little amount each year why take the risk?

Not being confrontational, but dogs dont need to come into contact with other dogs to catch nasties.
If they go out for walks where other dogs have been, thats enough.

Ive found that the older a dog gets, the more they seem to cost in vets bills so insurance is a good idea.
General cost of a dog,
Purchase price, vaccinations, worming, insurance, food, collars/leads/toys, beds, neautering it can add up.
I have recently had a £1000 bill for an operation on my oldest dog for a tumour.