What to do with them?

[k9krazee]

I still think its horrible that the cute, little inside dog has a better quality food than the big outside dog

I feed my five Nutro and a 44lb bag lasts us 3 weeks, so I'm sure it would last you much longer.

[Chilli]

First off, I'll say this. I'm not saying this stuff to bash you, I'm just awfully confussed.
You say your mum spends $40 a month? Thats insane. Right now, we're feeding four dogs. Skylar eats like crazy, and he is a big dog (probably bigger than Roxy). He's over 50 lbs and growing. We buy our dogfood from a wholesale store, and we only spend around $30. That lasts us over a month. With your dogs, it should last around two months (seeing as you have 2 dogs and we have 4.)
Maybe go to a store that sells stuff in bulk, and buy enough to last you longer. Usually if you buy it in bigger packages, you save money in the long run.
And I agree with whats been said. I know you want to "help" the bettas in need, but they'll get homes. Just because you don't "save" them doesn't automatically mean they'll die a slow horrible death. I know I don't have too much room to talk, since I've taken in bettas in need, but lets keep in mind that I have enough money to pay for food for every single one of my rodents and the cats. Hey, you're just one year younger than me, I believe, so you can make enough money also. If you have to, have a yard sale or something. I'm sure you have alot of junk laying around that you don't need anymore (we all do!).

Part of being a pet owner is having to sacrifice. I say stop buying most anything for yourself unless you absolutely need it (and that includes bettas). Save your money. If you don't have enough money to feed your dogs good food, then that means you wouldn't have enough money to pay vet bills if your dog got some kind of life-threatening illness.
Anyway...
Good luck with your dogs^^!

[Roxyluvsme13]

Well, I'm sorry I'm not as perfect as some of you . I'm sorry I "waste" my money on animals in need, when I could have saved it to buy some stupid dog food Roxy probably wouldn't eat. I'm almost 14. I do the best I can for my dogs at the moment. YEAH I could switch them to a higher food, but I don't have 100% control over my dogs. I had them on Raw, they were loving it, then all of a sudden one of them stopped eating it. I TRIED. It was cheaper for us, it was great, but Roxy stopped eating it. We're broke. My mom's been out of work for the past 3 months due to something that's NONE of your business. We've done the best we can feeding ourselves. I've had to give alot up for myself, and I spent my own allowance on Raw. Then, I find some extra money and want to get another 3 bettas. My own reward to myself, and I can't even be happy about it, because my dogs aren't perfect like the rest of your dogs. Roxy's eating, and Lily's eating, and at the moment I don't frapping give a care of the kibble is a piece of CRAP! They had the choice to eat better, but they wouldn't. I'm tired of every single thread I post asking for a bit of advice turning into something like this.

Edit: Jadapit, yes I have a Petsmart.

[Kfamr]

Well, I'm sorry I'm not as perfect as some of you . I'm sorry I "waste" my money on animals in need, when I could have saved it to buy some stupid dog food Roxy probably wouldn't eat. I'm almost 14. I do the best I can for my dogs at the moment. YEAH I could switch them to a higher food, but I don't have 100% control over my dogs. I had them on Raw, they were loving it, then all of a sudden one of them stopped eating it. I TRIED. It was cheaper for us, it was great, but Roxy stopped eating it. We're broke. My mom's been out of work for the past 3 months due to something that's NONE of your business. We've done the best we can feeding ourselves. I've had to give alot up for myself, and I spent my own allowance on Raw. Then, I find some extra money and want to get another 3 bettas. My own reward to myself, and I can't even be happy about it, because my dogs aren't perfect like the rest of your dogs. Roxy's eating, and Lily's eating, and at the moment I don't frapping give a care of the kibble is a piece of CRAP! They had the choice to eat better, but they wouldn't. I'm tired of every single thread I post asking for a bit of advice turning into something like this.

Edit: Jadapit, yes I have a Petsmart.

Kid, you're the one who turns it into "something like this."

Every single person here has given you well intentioned advice BUT YOU DON'T LISTEN. That's why I rolled my eyes when I saw yet another one of your threads. It's just like a record playing over, over, over and over again.

We give you advice.... and 99.9% of the time it goes in one ear and right out the other. If you don't care then why is this thread here?!

[Vela]

Fine, no problem, but if you don't care, please stop coming here and bit*hing about it and asking us what you can do differently. People tell you what you can do differently when you ask and you get all defensive and start yelling at people for the choices YOU make. Also, nobody asked you about income or why your mother isn't working or aything else so I don't konw why you are getting mad at anyone about that. You come and ask for advice, don't like it, so turn around and act extremely rudely to anyone who gave you advice.

I also want to mention that comment about the dogs "could have eaten better but chose not to" is just simply silly. They are dogs, they have no idea about money or anything else like that and they can't make choices like, "oh I know this is better for me so I'm not going to eat it". You also said you couldn't afford it anyway, which is fine, but I don't know why you are blaming the dog when you wouldn't have been feeding it anyway right now.

I'm sorry you are having a hard time but you bring a lot of this on yourself as well with the choices you make. You could buy their food yoruself if you have extra money and used your own money to buy the other stuff. I do hope your mom get a new job soon and I don't really want to know the details of why she is or isn't working and never asked. Good luck to you.

I agree with Kay as well.

[Husky_mom]

not intending to sound rude, Bri, could it be posible to tell your mom to take the 40 she spends monthly on food and go buy the biggest bag of better food you can with it, then you can serve both dogs from same bag and it would be cheaper since they´ll need less food as with other less quality food, and you would be saving more than buying two different brand bags, the bigger the cheaper it turns..........i´m sure it´ll last them longer

[Roxyluvsme13]

not intending to sound rude, Bri, could it be posible to tell your mom to take the 40 she spends monthly on food and go buy the biggest bag of better food you can with it, then you can serve both dogs from same bag and it would be cheaper since they´ll need less food as with other less quality food, and you would be saving more than buying two different brand bags, the bigger the cheaper it turns..........i´m sure it´ll last them longer

But Roxy and Lily eat different formulas of food.. Lily has to have smaller bites than Roxy, and I prefer to feed her small breed formulas. Roxy, large or medium breed formulas.

[lv4dogs]

This is the thanks for all the good we do huh?

[Roxyluvsme13]

This is the thanks for all the good we do huh?

I wasn't trying to sound rude, and I wasn't trying to not accept the advice, but I just seriously can't buy their food myself. It's a long story, and I guess it doesn't matter, because it would be considered an "excuse".

[dogzr#1]

Didn't you say you were going to buy a new Canon Powershot S2IS? Those are $400 or so. That money can go to your dogs. I don't get an allowence, but the money I do have, I spend on my dogs. If you save your allowence, then you can buy them better food. Just a thought...

Edit: Nevermind, just saw your post.

[K9soul]

You said:

Is there anything you recommend feeding them that's not going to be too expensive? I'm really worried about them, and afraid they aren't eating enough .

Then when people got alarmed, you claimed they are both eating fine. Then when people gave suggestions on a better kibble that really isn't too expensive...

Then, I find some extra money and want to get another 3 bettas. My own reward to myself, and I can't even be happy about it, because my dogs aren't perfect like the rest of your dogs. Roxy's eating, and Lily's eating, and at the moment I don't frapping give a care of the kibble is a piece of CRAP! They had the choice to eat better, but they wouldn't.

It seems like you don't want advice then, if it has to do with people asking YOU to take any responsibility. Raw chicken for a week is not "going raw" IMO.

If you start these threads worried about how bad your dogs are doing, then get mad when people are concerned and scream at them that your dogs are just fine, I don't know what exactly your goal is here.

I'd suggest anyone else save their breath on giving advice. Of all the advice I've seen given, every single bit of it is shot down for one reason or another. (And by the way, large and small breed dogs do not need separate formulas.. The only time I see this as possibly necessary is with a large breed growing puppy, but I'm sure this bit of info will be ignored and shot down as well.)

[Roxyluvsme13]

It seems like you don't want advice then, if it has to do with people asking YOU to take any responsibility. Raw chicken for a week is not "going raw" IMO.

If you start these threads worried about how bad your dogs are doing, then get mad when people are concerned and scream at them that your dogs are just fine, I don't know what exactly your goal is here.

I'd suggest anyone else save their breath on giving advice. Of all the advice I've seen given, every single bit of it is shot down for one reason or another. (And by the way, large and small breed dogs do not need separate formulas.. The only time I see this as possibly necessary is with a large breed growing puppy, but I'm sure this bit of info will be ignored and shot down as well.)

I screamed because I'm tired of getting acused of not listening. I do listen. I do read, and I do care. Yeah, they're eating, but I don't want to feed them kibble in the first place. It sucks, it's not healthy for them, and my mom's not going to buy any higher quality kibble. As I already said I listen to every single piece of advice.

[Husky_mom]

But Roxy and Lily eat different formulas of food.. Lily has to have smaller bites than Roxy, and I prefer to feed her small breed formulas. Roxy, large or medium breed formulas.

you can get Lilys formula in small bites and Roxy wouldnt mind at all that way you can buy a biog bag for cheaper instead of a small bag of small bites and a medium bag medium bites, so its a big bag small bites and you save a lot!!

just tell your mom Roxy wont mind the smaller bites and she´ll get better food adn Lily wont get anything changed, except the size of the bag

[CagneyDog]

You don't need betta's, You don't need a nintendo, a photoshop program, a hamster. YOU need to be responsible. You're dog is living on a chain eating food that is basically the equivalent to dirt and you are treating yourself to four betta's, a photoshop program, a new canon camera! Look, as Kay said, when you get older you will hope have the maturity to relize what you are doing right now is wrong.

I screamed because I'm tired of getting acused of not listening. I do listen. I do read, and I do care. Yeah, they're eating, but I don't want to feed them kibble in the first place. It sucks, it's not healthy for them, and my mom's not going to buy any higher quality kibble. As I already said I listen to every single piece of advice.

Reading advice and ACTING on it or two very different things.

[Roxyluvsme13]

You don't need betta's, You don't need a nintendo, a photoshop program, a hamster. YOU need to be responsible. You're dog is living on a chain eating food that is basically the equivalent to dirt and you are treating yourself to four betta's, a photoshop program, a new canon camera! Look, as Kay said, when you get older you will hope have the maturity to relize what you are doing right now is wrong.

A) You dont know my situation. It's not wrong of me to want more bettas.
B) I never said I was getting a Nintendo anytime soon. I said in the FUTURE.
C) I never said I bought photoshop.
D) It's my birthday in 25 days. I want a new camera.
You don't even know me, you don't know my dogs, and for all you know I could be lying about what she eats and how many pets I have, and whatever. (I'm not but just making a point.) I don't see how it can be wrong when I have happy dogs, happy cat, and the rest of my pets are pretty damn happy, too.